Proud moments

I am many things but I am a mom first.

Sometimes, I am proud of that statement. Sometimes, I cringe at that statement. For example, When you have a fun thing planned for yourself and you get all dolled up (because you have not put any make up on or washed your hair in two weeks). You feel so great and excited and as you walk to the door to leave and someone throws up.

Sometimes, I feel like I have too many kids that I can't give any of them the right amount attention they need and I pledge to pay for their therapist when they grow up, if I am indeed the cause of their trials.

Sometimes, I feel like I am just flying by the seat of my pants on this roller coaster ride called motherhood. When I am making a decision that one of my kids does not like and I have stand my ground when they question me....and pretend that I am not already questioning myself.

Sometimes, I am just so proud of myself and my kids. It's been one of those weeks. Here's the pictures to prove it.

Happy 7th, my Beautiful Boo.

I was a little nervous to attempt this at home spin on build-a-bear with 8 little girls. I enlisted the help of grandma and our baby sitter to insure less burns from the glue guns. I bought bears at DI, washed them and laid out all sorts of fabric, and embellishments. I let the kids have at it. They made they cutest outfits and had a blast. It was a hit!

Okay some of them are not smiling in this pic but they did have great time. Promise.

History and Science fair...not far to the moms!

Bee never ceases to amaze me. I don't give her the credit she deserves. She is one of my proudest achievements. Among late nights and begging with her get her homework done, she always ends up exceeding my expectations. Here she is at Science Fair. The nice thing about her love for rocks is that it is a cheap hobby.

I don't have a picture of her there but she did a history report on the newsies strike. She won at the school level, a few months ago, and competed in the district level last Friday. It was in the performance category and she wrote a monologue of a mill girl telling the story from her point of view. She memorized it and performed it. I cried like a baby, I was so proud. She took third place.

Sometimes, I have these moments were I do feel like I'm a good mom after all.
Today anyway, after all, tomorrow is another day.

All better!

Yep, all better!

Ouch!

Have you ever locked a facet joint in your neck? I hope you never do. It is totally debilitating as well as painful! I can barely move my neck and left shoulder or arm. Between my chiropractor friend and my PA friend..I am recovering ...slowly.
Thanks to my painkiller friend and my muscle relaxer friend, I'm not crying anymore.

I think Hunter knows that I can't chase him because he has been extra trouble lately. He even went to the park all by himself the other day...Aaahhhh!
Thanks to all my friends who have driven me to and from the docs and who have watched my kids while I recover.

Why do I always feel so bad for my family when I am hurt or sick? I think the guilt is the worst part.Is there a pill for that?

Don't rain on my parade...or snow either!

We have an Irish dancer in our family. So as you can imagine March is a crazy dancing month for us. We always know that the Saturday before Patty's Day, we will be at the gateway waiting with excitement to see our sweet Lulu float by with her curly locks and kilt. Its a very long parade but that is usually fine by us becaue hey, it's a parades. I usually position the fam right at the end (in front of Bens cookies...although its not Bens cookies anymore). I like sitting her for 3 reason.
1. I can park underneath and not have a long way to walk.
2. I can grab Lily right off the float instead of chasing her down.
3. Those die hard Irish guys in the parade are always plastered by the end and make it so much more enjoyable to watch.
So this year I ship Lily off early to ride down with friends. I pack em' up, lunch- cause sometimes it runs pretty long, wagon- easier I can get 2 kids plus... in that thing, and because it looks a little nippy outside, I throw in blankets and umbrellas. Ryan has gotten out of the parade 2 year in a row. Not sure how, but he has. So I am all alone. Its okay because Mom and Dad are heading down and meeting me there. As I'm driving down I-15 I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. I don't feel like I want to pull out my hair, the kids are happy...hmmm...looks like rain clouds are settling in over SLC.
We get there, stake our claim. Side note... okay lady in the chair. I understand that you and Gramps want to see your grand kids in the parade too but I am a single mom (for the morning) lugging around 4 kids in the rain, who just want to sit in front of your chair. We end up standing behind her and listen to her whine about the crowd. She finally turns to the crowd and says ...fine...I just can't see what I want anyway and storms off. Her husband politely moves her chair and says.
"Do your kids want this spot?"
"Thank you sir."
Mom and Dad call and say "Its snowing up here, give Lily a kiss for us"
Rain
Rain
Rain
falling temps
crying
rain
crying
more rain
Where is Lily's float?
Mommy, I need to go potty. I beg the girls at Roxy to let me use the restroom. So nice of them!
crying (all 4 children now)
Everyone slowly high tails it out of there. At least we have great seats now.
Four kids soaked to the bone, blue lips, red fingers...
Is that snow?
2 hours later...Here comes Lily.
I turn on the camcorder to catch her famous beauty queen smile....
Oh, make that 5 kids crying and soaked to the bone.

I get her off the float and run to the parking garage. They are all soaking and sobbing. I should be crying too but realize insanity has hit because I am laughing my head off. I load them in the car. I don't even realize my fingers are numb until I need to close the umbrellas and take Lily's soaking wig off. I finally do it and we drive home. Hmmm....I can totally handle more kids!
Happy St. Patricks Day All!

Mothers for Haiti

Normally, I would post this on my other blog but I am trying to get the word out all over.I am organizing a fundraiser with a group of women who I have meet since the earthquake. We are calling ourseles "Mothers For Haiti". Our fundraiser will be held either the 10th or 24th of April. It will be at the Roi Hardy Park in Riverton from 10-3. We will have a yard sale, bake sale, live music, kids area and boutique with lots of cute stuff. We are also having a silent auction for business services and gift cert. Women who have been to haiti as adopting parents or nurses will be there to educate and talk about the needs they saw. It is going to be great. If you can donate anything That we can sale at one of these areas, or would like to just donate money please contact me. But please, more then anything, plan to come and enjoy the fun and help support these children in Haiti. All the money will go to get needed food and supplies to Foyer de Sion orphanage. Read the world according to aimee for more details.

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The snows are back!

So Ryan set up our family blog years ago when I did not have a clue how to blog. Now I love to blog and have other blogs for different areas of my life. The only problem is that I can never remember the password to the old blog so I just needed to start a new one that was all under my same account. So pass it on to other friends and family members. We are back! This is our new family blog site. If you want to see my photography, read about Festival of Trees or help me with my new found crusade for children in orphanages then visit the links to the side. Happy blogging.