I confess...

Lucky Charms are awesome. With or without milk. I have not put out my Easter decorations.....um Easter is Sunday. Nevermind the decorations. Oh well. Maybe next year.....!! I forgot to return a phone call to my visting teaching partner....I never forget to return phone calls. What is my problem???!! The thought of planting, weeding, tending a garden makes me sooooo tired. What is my problem??? Ugh. I love aparagus. So does Addie, and Sasha. Seth doesn't. Not a shocker. Sasha wants a bird and I kinda do too. What is my problem? Casey has not been quite so naughty since we have made him sleep down the hall again. I don't "dislike" him as much as I used to. Although recently he did lift his leg in my bedroom because my wooden doll stand looks too much like a tree, apparently. Fire alarms are dumb. Dumb. Ours keep going off no matter what we do. Change the batteries. Done. Reset it. Done. And still........!!! Grrrrrr!!! I love the month of April. I love Easter. I love General Conference. :) Enough confessions for now. The fire alarm is going off in the craft room. I am serious. Where is our sledge hammer?????

Yesterday...

Thanks, Norah and Sarah for sharing your medical bill woes with me! It makes me feel better, for sure! I always feel like I need to pay those off fast and that does not always happen. It is nice to know it is ok to take a few years to get it done! So, thank you.

For the record, I ate carrots and raisins instead of cake and I went outside to sit in the sun while feeding Audrey instead of watching TV yesterday. I made spagetti for dinner, that my family (minus Seth) loved. I am tackling the laundry pile this morning and I am gonna win that battle!

I will mostly likely get the "all clear" to exercise again today from my ob....good thing since Addie told me the other day that my tummy was big. Nice. Does watching the informercial for P90X a dozen times count as exercising? I didn't think so.....

Today....

My house is a mess. The pile of laundry is huge. Dinner is waiting to be made. The kids are fighting, again. Audrey is crying, again. The medical bills are waiting to be paid.

Ever feel like you can't keep up? I feel like that today.

But, the sun is shining. My kids still have SOME clean clothes to wear in their drawers. Mac and cheese is totally fine to eat for dinner. My kids will kiss and make up. Audrey smells so good. The medical bills will get paid someday. I think I will go find some leftover cake to eat from Addie's birthday yesterday. Then I will go watch TV and feed my baby girl while I listen to my kids fight\play\fight outside on the swingset......

Gorgeous...precious....sweet!

Sorry to brag, but my kids are gorgeous. Simply beautiful. I love the one that is my blog background now. Look at their pretty eyes in that one. I could swim in Seth's eyes. He is gonna be such a heartbreaker. My girls are so lovely and so sweet. My friend Annie captured them all so perfectly. You NEED her to do your pictures right now. I love how precious the pictures turned out. Thanks, Annie. You are amazing.

Dahan, dahan

Audrey is 3 weeks old and things are going well for the most part. She is up most nights 3 times or more and I have enjoyed watching re-runs of the Olympics while I am up with her. Now they are over and I am bummed. I have been watching CNN and feel so informed! I tell Will each day what is going on in the world since I saw the same segments at least twice during the night-time party with little Ree-Ree.

She is proving to be a wee-bit fussy so that has been kinda challenging. Mostly because I homeschool and have an obligation to do school with my kids each day. I worry that I am not doing enough, or doing it well enough, and golly I am sure tired most days. I can't just veg out each day like with my other babies, so I have felt kinda stressed. Shocking, I know. Don't even mention my calling, that I have all but disappeared from. I hope the other leaders understand......

There was a saying in the Philippines, "dahan, dahan" and it means "slow down" or "take it easy". I have had to do a lot of self-talk and remind myself to slow down, and things will fall into place soon. I will get my groove back and be back at things full force. I have searched and found blogs from other homeschooling moms that have a newborn and have found some encouragement in their experiences. Being flexible is important, which I need to work on. Realizing that some days may not go as planned, due to a rough night, and that is ok. If I end up doing some school here and there this summer to "catch up" it is ok. Dahan, dahan. Well, Audrey is crying....again! LOL! Better go hold this little pink bundle........