Motherhood- clean clothing optional

Ever had one of those days where you wake up and realize you've been wearing the same clothes for two days? So you think to yourself, as soon as i finish feeding the baby, i'll change my clothes. But by that time your other kids need breakfast so you decide to eat with them. Then of course you have to clean up. While you're washing dishes, you remember you were going to change. You decide as soon as you're done you'll change but before you're done cleaning up (because the dinner dishes from the night before are still is the sink) the baby cries. So you go entertain her. Finally she falls asleep and you remember the dishes you left. You finish those (but it's almost lunch time) and look down and discover, you still haven't changed. So you go to the closet to change BUT remember (lots of forgetting in this story) that you haven't done laundry in three (okay four) days and you have no clothes (well pre-preg clothes but who can fit into those), so you gather a load to wash and off to the washer you go. So on with your day. Hours later, oh yeah, where are my clean clothes....still in the washer. Into the dryer they go. On with the rest of the day...feedings, more dishes, dinner, bedtime.....wasn't there something I needed to do? Oh well, I guess it can wait til tomorrow. :) Motherhood- clean clothes optional.

Our Trip To The Zoo

We went to the zoo yesterday and boy was it a trip. First off, Kaiya hates her car seat. She screams everywhere we go. If you rock her car seat back and forth she is usually quiet but as soon as you stop she screams. Well you can't really do that safely and drive so she usually just screams on all our trips. So we start out every outing with a large amount of stress. So we are all packed up, put everyone in the car and cue Kaiya, "WWWWAAAAHHHHH." So for half the trip (it's a 30 minute drive) Kaiya is crying, Rayelle and Terhan are singing Twinkle, Twinkle at the top of their lungs because they think it's going to make the baby stop crying, I'm trying to navigate traffic and three people call me all at the same time. Yeah, fun times. We finally get to the zoo and I am excited because I just know the kids are going to love seeing all the animals. Wrong. "Hey look Terhan, there's a monkey!" He says, "Wow. Let's go see the lions." walk walk walk "Look Terhan there's a lion!" "Cool. Let's go see the tigers." walk walk walk "Look Terhan, there's a tiger." "Umm, let's go see the..." And on it goes. They weren't even excited. AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Then Terhan decides to throw a rock into the hippo pond with the hippos. At this point I want to scream. One good point though, we went to the zoo last year and took a picture on this huge metal alligator. Well this time we found the alligator and took another picture. I'm going to post them side by side. I am anxious to see how much they've grown in just a year. Time flies by and I'm trying to savor every minute even if it means mass chaos every time we try to go somewhere because I know one day I'll look in the backseat and it will be empty and I'll wonder where my screaming babies are. :)

My first blog!

Hey everyone. So this is my very first blog ever. I've never been too interested in blogs but lately I feel a whole bunch of stuff just begging to be written down and read by others. Some funny, some sad. I hope you enjoy it. If a certain blog sounds familiar to you (like you've been through it too) please write me a comment. I need to know someone else is going through the same stuff! I love you all and hope to share many things with you. Love, SM (SuperMom)