An Eye Opening Experience

Today has been a great day and a great experience.

The hubby and I went with other people from our church to the Salvation Army and served lunch to the people who come there and stay there.
People of all ages, from very little kids, to senior citizins. Watching all the people line up as soon as our pastor said it was time to eat and come back for seconds and thirds until almost all the food was gone was just amazing.
In every day life people take things (like meals) for granted, we (myself majorly included) don't take time to appreciate everything and everyone around us.
There are people that are financially stable who don't have to think about where their next meal is going to come from or if they will have a bed to sleep on that night.
There are people who rely on the state and other foundations to help them with the same needs, a roof over their head, food in their kitchen, clothes on their back and things for their kids, like toys and diapers and formula.
Then there are the people and families that aren't so lucky to have either.

I told my husband as we left, if it weren't for our families helping us so much and being so supportive we would have been in that lunch line today.
God has truly blessed us with WONDERFUL and UNDERSTANDING families and I know we take them for granted, this is my way of saying that we love everyone and we are VERY thankful to everyone for what they do for us on a daily basis, and I hope that someday we can repay that kindness.

Just wanted to share this, don't take anything for granted, large or small, look at everything as a blessing and cherish it because in a moment everything could be gone.
Peace!

I Love My Kids!

Well, Kendrick has been pottying for 4 days now and has only had 2 accidents! I am so totally proud of my son! Part of me is hoping that Bryton will follow suit and go ahead and start potty training, but as I learned with Kendrick I will not push him, I will let Bryton tell me when he is ready to potty like a big boy!

Earlier this evening the boys and I indulged in pizza and a movie (Puss in Boots) they were so amazed at the grown ups in costumes I can still hear Kendrick saying "look at the cat! Its a kitty cat!" too cute. Just as the movie was ending the boys decided to play "ring around the rosey" without the song of course lol. I was just sitting there watching them spin around and around and then laying themselves on the floor undoubtedly to watch the ceiling spin, and I couldn't help but think how blessed I am to have such wonderful children.
Kendrick is smart beyond his age and can take just about anything apart lol. He is a brilliant child. Bryton is so innocent and sweet and has the most georgous grin you have ever seen on a little boy!
Sadie is a princess, who--I've been told--is starting to look more like me. Yay!! I was beginning to think I got cheated out of the gene pool in all of my kids lol.

I have been thinking a lot about my role as a parent lately because of all these parents neglecting their children and leaving their kids in the car in the middle of summer so they can go and do whatever they want and killing their child in the process. I am sickened by the thought that any one person can be so selfish as to do something like that to their child(ren). I will never understand (nor am I meant to I guess) what could possibly go through a parents mind that justifies these actions.

My kids are my life. Granted they drive me up the wall on a daily basis, but when they are off visiting a grandparent or other family member, even just for an afternoon, I miss them like crazy! I wouldn't trade the crazyness for ANYTHING in this world! I love teaching them, and watching them teach themselves, and watching their creativeness and their imaginations. Bryton, for instance, loves to play dress up, he is teaching himself to dress himself and watching that learning process is soooo darn cute! Granted he likes to put shorts on his head and he loves to wear mommy and daddys clothes but it is still a fun thing to watch. Kendrick is teaching himself to potty. Kendrick is extremely smart (as I have mentioned a million times lol) and only needs tiny nudges in the right direction, otherwise he teaches himself. Homeschooling him would be a breeze! Unfortunetly right now homeschooling isn't really an option as I myself have to go to school and get a career to help support these wonderful smart kids!

I have been rambling about my kids long enough for this time. I shall go and attempt to get my little smarty pants to bed it is wayyyy past their bed time!
Peace!

One Proud Mama

I just have to say, I am so incredibley proud of Kendrick! I never would have thought two days ago that he would already be going potty during the day.
Yesterday I decided on a whim to put him in some underwear and let him potty. He spent all afternoon at grandmas and every time I called and checked on him he never had an accident! I  brought him home fed him dinner, put a diaper on him and sent him to bed (he hadn't had a nap yesterday) and this morning he got up, took his diaper off went potty and got his underwear and put it on. So we are on day two of pottying all day. I am so happy! Kendrick is such a smart little boy, I dunno WHERE he got being so smart from lol.

Right now Kendrick is standing in front of the tv wearing elmo undies and watching the animated Alice In Wonderland hehe. Bryton is sitting beside me with the evil grin on his face watching the movie too. Sadie is swinging away happily oblivious to anything around her. And I am trying to decide what to do around the house today. There is more laundry (surprise there huh?) that needs to be folded and put away, and my bed room is in a horrible need of orginization. So I don't know what I will do today. But I am off for now, going to watch Alice with the boys and enjoy the rest of the morning.
Peace!

To Be Or Not To Be

Okay, so I have been trying to keep myself busy today so I don't spend the whole day on my backside on this laptop. It is 2pm and I am desperately trying to get my kids to take a nap. Sadie has been asleep since 11 so I am expecting her to wake up at any moment. Kendrick and Bryton are fighting as usual over some kind of toy I am sure and I am trying my best to ignore the screams as I get my house in order.

Easier said than done.

So after putting away all the clean laundry and digging up all the dirty laundry to wash, I decided to clean out from under my couch, a task I have been scared to death to do but has needed to be done for a while--you never know what the kids will hide under the couch--I was pleasently surprised to find that there was nothing creepy crawly and no science projects were being administered under my couch.

After getting my couch cleaned out I had the hairbrained idea to rearrange my living room. In the process of moving my couch around trying to decide where I want it, I manage to get a HUGE scratch on my nice harwood floor. I start freaking out because we rent and my landlord is going to have a cow when he sees it! So if anyone has any advice on how to get a scratch out of hardwood PLEASE let me know! I am about half way done with my moving around and have to figure out where to fit everything else. I have a small bookshelf that stores diapers and wipes and such and the baby swing, which Sadie is sleeping in at the moment so I am not going to touch that right now.

After I finish with my living room, if I don't pass out because I feel a nap coming on, I am going to figure out a new storage system for all my husbands old VHS tapes, right now they are sitting in several boxes in my living room floor. Then after that I have no idea what I will do but I am sure I can find something. I need to have a yard sale, I have accumulated so many things in the year and a half we have been in this house that its one big storage building!
Who knows maybe I can convince my husband to do so.

Anyway, I must go for now, if I don't get up and start moving now I will fall asleep lol.
Peace!

Should Be Sleeping

Well, it is 12:17am and I should be in bed asleep because my kids will be up early, but for some strange reason I am wide awake. I am anxious about starting school in the fall. That is assuming I get to go. See, when I was 17 I went to college for a year, well kind of. I went to the classes when I felt like it and skipped out when I didn't feel like it. Now, because of my stupidity then, I have to go through a TON of red tape to be able to go back. I am waiting on the letter from the school after they consider my proposal for letting me go back. That one letter will determine my future. Its a scary thought, like "what if they don't let me go back?" I have attempted to go back a few times in the past, but when it came to the appeal I had to fill out I always found an excuse not to go to school right then and there. I was working or I was working and had kids to take care of, just crazy reasons to put off my education. Well I have decided this time that I can't afford NOT to go back to school. For a long time I could never decide what kind of career path to take, I am doing my favorite kind of career, I am a stay at home mom. But after lots of thinking and consideration I decided that I love kids and I want to help people and one of the best ways to do that is to be a Social Worker. So boom! That is what I am going to go to school for. So I am keeping my fingers crossed for the two weeks or so it takes them to consider my proposal in hopes that I can go to school this fall.
I have it all planned out. I will take morning classes, and the boys will go to a daycare and Sadie will go to grandmas. I want the boys to go to daycare so they will have a chance to interact with other kids their ages and be able to learn all at the same time. Sadie is too young to go to daycare so grandma and grandpa get to spoil her three-four days a week hehe.
I am especially proud of my husband for overcoming his fears and going to college this fall too. He is going for Criminal Justice in the Loss Provention field. He has been through a lot in his life and has never had the support that he has needed and craved to help him along and I have tried to convince him that he CAN do something with his life and that he needs to ignore all the negative things he had been told as a child/teen. I am very very proud of him for taking this step and I am excited to be going to school with him this fall! We are a couple of college kids with three kids lol.

Well I need to try and get some sleep, morning time comes awefully early with three little ones! Stay tuned to read about the saga of the letter from school.
Peace Out!

My Crazy Life

Well, this is my first blog ever. I don't know how well this will work out, or if I will be able to keep it up but it is worth a shot.

Right now my two little boys are spinning around in the chair in front of me in the living room. They are daredevils when they are together, always running around and getting into things. My little Sadie is asleep in her bed after sleeping all night as far as I know. Daddy stayed up late so if she woke up he got her and he let me sleep.

I am jumping off here, let me tell you a little about my crazy life.

My husband, he is 23, we have been married a year and a half, and we have had our shares of ups and downs. He is sarcastic and funny, he has a temper that is out of this world, and he has the most beautiful blue eyes you have ever seen.
He is a character, but no matter what I love him and will love him until the day I die.

Kendrick is the oldest child. Although not biologically my husbands, my husband has been daddy to him since he was 4 months old. Kendrick is 2 1/2 and has dirty blond hair and green eyes. He is the spitting image of his biological father, and has the cutest grin. He is well manored but at the same time he is full of energy and loves to get into things. We are battling the great potty training monster right now, and so far we are winning. He is a wonderful helper with his brother and sister, and is always wanting to take care of them.
He LOVES musicals, anything with music in it he absolutely loves. He likes Songebob and Elmo and the Muppets.

Bryton is my youngest son, he is 1 1/2. The boys are 14 months apart, and though I didn't plan for them to be so close in age, I am happy that they are, they are extremely close to each other and love each other very much. Bryton has fire red hair and his daddys blue eyes. He also has his daddys dimples and looks just like him. He is slowly starting to show off his temper which unfortunately is a mixture of mine and my husbands. Bryton loves Spongebob and Elmo. He likes to dress himself when he already has clothes on which is quite funny watching him walk around with two shirts on. I wouldn't trade my boys for anything in the world.

Sadie: Finally, my little girl! She is a little over a month old and is an angel. She has dark blue eyes (don't know if they will stay that way or not) and brownish/blondish hair right now. She is starting to sleep through the night already which is awesome, and she has so much personality already its amazing. She is a very happy baby and I am so thankful and blessed to have her.

Last but not least, mommy. I am 23, and I am the youngest of four children. Two boys and two girls. I look like my mom and have my dads stubborness, well, maybe my dads and my grannys. I have auburn hair, which is finally showing up because I have dyed it once a month since I was 11. I am sarcastic in my own way and I have an attitude. I have put myself through a lot and I am trying to pick up the pieces and get on the right track. I am hopefully going to school this fall and majoring in Human Services, to be a Social Worker. I don't know how I will do it with three kids but I just have to believe that I can do it and make myself do it. I have a tendancy of not finishing things that I start.

Well, I think that is enough for now, I have to go make my rugrats some lunch.
Thank you for reading and I will try to post as often as possible. With the crazyness that goes on here, I should have some pretty interesting stories.