Jeans

So this morning I start getting dressed and my jeans went on way too easy! I
immediately took them off and made sure they weren’t my husbands. Yes I have
done that before and Yes I really thought they were not mine because pants do
not just slide on me these days. In fact I rather wear skirts because they are
much more forgiving.

I’ve been told many times that I look good for having five kids. Of
course none of those people know I’ve never given birth to a single one of
them! I just say thanks and smile. Even if I’m thinking “Do I look good for
not having five kids? What is not looking good for having five kids?” Weight
has never been an easy thing for me. I’ve struggled since I can remember. And
now having five kids I just don’t have the energy to workout like I use to and
I don’t always have the time to think about what I shoved in my mouth on the
way out the door to get one of my kids. So its gotten worse.

Every week I say I’m going to try to eat better and then, well then I see
the cost of eating healthy and that goes right out the window. It’s not even
that I eat all that bad, although I know I should switch my sandwich for a
salad but if the salad isn’t made and I’m making sandwiches for everyone
else – of course its just easier to make me one too!

I know your asking then how did your jeans fit this morning? Well, I have
no idea! But isn’t it great that just a little thing like jeans fitting makes
me smile!? Who knows maybe it’ll happen again tomorrow if I never dry them
again!

To nap or not to nap

To nap or not to nap that is the question. I do believe every child is slightly different on the answer to this question but it still is a hard one for us parents to figure out. My “Mom” definition of nap is: a scheduled time everyday that I can do chores, talk on the phone, take a shower, and go to the bathroom without a littleone underfoot. Needless to say naps are an essential part of my day. And I like kids to nap until….well until first grade! Presently my three year old is making me question what I had figured out with the older three.

My three year old – well shes been a different cookie. She has recently decided she can negotiate her way out of a nap. She is my first child to not just stay in her room because I told her to. She may be my fourth child but she has done a lot of firsts! Well in my mind I was thinking maybe phasing her off a nap would be good. It would free up some time that I could run errands in the afternoon, I figured I could make it work. But on these lovely days that she refuses to nap is she fine and sleeping like a rock that night? NOPE she gets over tired cries at the drop of a hat WHINES at EVERYTHING is super sensitive. I’m sure you all have seen a child in such a state. It’s horrendous!

So I try to make her nap I try to have her play “quiet time” in hopes that she will fall asleep. NONE OF THIS IS WORKING! So as you can imagine by the end of the day it is her AND I that are whining… I know that this is just another phase I know in my logical brain that this wont last forever, right? She won’t be so irrational when she goes to high school right? Um we’ll maybe she will have grown out of this surely by college? 

Seriously

Seriously is a question I ask myself at least a hundred times a day. “Did my three year old Seriously just say that?” “Seriously does my fourteen year old not understand how to hang up her jacket!?” “Seriously, my six year old just tripped his sister and thought he wouldn’t get in trouble?” “Did my four year old SERIOUSLY just pee on the floor?” I digress…..

You get the picture. The world seriously is seriously overused in my head and my vocabulary. These “serious” questions tend to stress me out, though I don’t dwell on whatever question I just asked all the sarcastic or negative thinking really can tire a person out! At the end of the day when I think of all the “serious” questions I asked myself I ask myself one more “serious” question – whatever happened was it worth me getting frustrated over? Was it worth me showing my kids impatience? The answer is no. I hit this rock bottom realization when my cute little three year old, Bella, asked her brother in the most sarcastic tone “seriously” after he dropped and broke a pumpkin. Purely accidental on his part and instead of asking if he was all right or if he needed help. She asked him “Seriously?”

I realized my huge error! Where I thought I was someone being funny somewhat be “serious” one thing I was not being was a role model. It is amazing how our kids can teach us lessons that we should really already know. Now to challenge myself to try and get rid of this “serious” train of thought!