Hello my fellow followers. I'm slacking again. We moved, the doctor delivered child number 4, my parents left the country, and life has been chaotic for a while now. It's already November of 2012, but I'm not quite sure where the rest of the year went. Sometime in the beginning of the year we thought of looking at houses. We talked to an agent about listed our own home. Then we thought on it while looking at houses all the while I'm uncomfortable and pregnant. Long story short, we started dejunking our home maybe in April or May, emptied out quite a bit of it, walked through our new home the night before I was induced with our youngest, listed our home less than a week later, sold it in less than 2 weeks, offered on the new one, miracles happened all over the place and we moved in to the new home less than a month after selling ours.
In the meantime, not being available to help my parents dejunk as they prepared to leave for their mission to Dominican Republic.
Breathe... Now with 4 kids, trying to unpack as well as keep our new home clean. Kind of seems like an impossible task currently, but I'm trying to be patient with myself (not working too well) as I do a little at a time.
Zac's in Kindergarten, so I walk to school in the morning with the kids, drop off 2 of them. Walk home with the remaining two and try to keep infant from crying because it's long past nap time and I can't seem to find the binkie. Put him down for his nap and try to entertain Jacie after second breakfasts, but when can I get around to cleaning? So I sit her in front of the TV and let her watch a show or two (educational of course) and I attempt to clean the kitchen. Daunting task that is going to take way too long... wait I haven't had breakfast yet... Oh well, quick banana. Back to cleaning... Then Zac is done by noon (luckily I have a friend with whom I trade some "car pooling") so he comes home at 12: twenty something, and that went way too fast.. I didn't even get the kitchen done. Jacie had to go potty and Brigham woke up and needed to eat again and then he needed to be entertained....Anyhow, Zac is now home, so it's time for lunch which is a chore in and of itself... so after we attempt to get everyone something to eat, I try to get Jacie down for a nap. If I can get Jacie and Brigham down for a nap at the same time, then I get to help Zac with his homework. If not, then Raz on the PC gets to help Zac. Why is it that my Kindergartner has more homework than my second grader? At 3:00 we wake everyone up, get Brigham a bottle and walk back to the school around 3:15 to get Benji. Home by around 3:50, but time flies so fast it's 4:45 and I have no idea what to do for dinner. All the while I'm trying to keep infant fed, changed, sleeping, not screaming, and keep the two year old from having any accidents.... I don't even have time for entertaining. Thank you computer and tv for helping me out all too often.
Deep breath...
I think I'm a little stressed. I'm trying to let some things go, because if I didn't I don't think I'd have any hair left. :o) Kinda crazy right now, but I'm grateful to my lovey for putting up with the craziness and for trying to understand what kind of help I need or want from him.
Now this post is way to long for anyone to want to sit and read with no pictures... so I'll try to put some in to keep it interesting. Or I won't get around to it, because something will come up and interupt me. (I'll be lucky if this gets posted.) LOL
All for now.
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Miss! I TOTALLY understand the life you are in right now! That was me last year with Jaden as the baby and Amanda as the Kindergartener. Except we didn't throw a move in there to complicate things even more. :) Not that you are asking for advice, but here is my two cents (otherwise known as what I have learned from being there): 1. Remind yourself that it won't always be like this. When I would find myself serving hot dogs and tater tots or even cereal AGAIN for dinner, I would feel like I was failing in the "eating at least remotely healthy food" department. But the way you feed your kids (or whatever you are doing that you wouldn't normally do) for 6 months or a year doesn't equal the way you fed your kids their whole childhood. Four was REALLY hard for me, but I finally have some breathing room! So I am here to tell you, it will be okay! 2. Lower your expectations. This was the best advice I was given after number four. So for example, I started driving the car pool in my jammies, the kids didn't look perfect every day they left the house, the dishes only got done once a day (if that) and the kitchen got cleaned when things started sticking to the bottom of my feet or the food containers started sticking to the table. It's okay to let certain things go for a while. Decide what is really important and throw the rest out the window. Because, guess what? You'll catch them later because it won't always be like this. :) Hope this helps. Love you!
Shauntell
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