The actual title of this is "The Importance of Getting your Girls Out There Early". We are in a chapter right now that keeps us close to home. Even when we travel, we are going to familiar places and there, staying relatively close to home. There is naptime. We're packing lunches and wiping counters, pouring over 3rd grade math and fawning over fish paintings from preschool. We are swim team and swim lesson aficionados. We are Sunday dinner people. We are teaching our kids to play cards in the hopes of many fun nights ahead. We are small town life. It's beautiful and rich and we know we will look back on these simple days with a sweet tug in years to come. But. It IS small. Days are full of service and supremely unglamorous work. Days and weeks run together in what I call building block days (more on that another time). When I think about the long chapter we are in right now, I am incredibly grateful...