Quilts

All of the quilts in the pictures of the children were made by my very dear friend, Michelle Huguley. Thank you Michelle for our wonderful blankets. Watch for a link to her web site later!

Children and remembering

I am so happy to be a mom. I love the energy that I watch in my children and pray that just half of the energy would kind of rub off on me as they are sitting on my lap or giving me a hug. I can watch Jared as he runs around the house at top speed without taking a minute to breathe and Jessica as she prances around like a little ballerina. Krystal, Bethany and Jessica love to put on plays or acts for me. One of them will play the guitar while the rest of them dance and sing. Jessica likes to be the lead singer. She will hold the toy microphone in front of her while she makes up songs. How cute can you get.
I remember doing the same thing with my best childhood friend Dawn. We would come up with plays and sing songs that we learned off of movies. Some of our favorites: The Sound of Music and Greese (okay I have watched this as an adult after my kids had watched it several times O my Gosh!!! It is intirely inappropiate and I had no idea what I was singing when I was little.)
I can get quite nostalgic watching my little ones as they do things that I remember doing.

The End of Subbing? and other thoughts

Okay, so life has calmed down a lot for me and I don't want to go back to the way things were. Soooo I am trying to decide if it was worth the little bit of money that I was making to substitute teach was worth the hassel that it brought. Lets see, I finally have all the kids in school (which quite frankly I am not as happy about that as it sounds) and I am too busy to enjoy the peace and quiet. This last week I have not been called into work so I have been enjoying the time that I have to do house work and relax, go to the store with out kids and relax, run errands and you guessed it relax. I have been able to go back to helping my darling children with their homework and I don't feel stressed out of my mind. I can make dinner and enjoy talking with my kids without wanting to send them to Egypt just because they are playing. I can do my calling and not feel like I have to take away time that is precious from my family because I am spending time with them. I think that maybe it is time for me to realize that there is a time for every season and right now it is my time to be a mom, a stay at home mom that does not try to add substitute teaching to the list, the long list of things that must be done as a mother of seven.

Sometimes I get a little side tracked but the Lord always brings me back to the present and helps me to see what is the most important thing in my life and that is my family. For all you stay at home moms out there I think you will appreciate this next statement. Why is it that we are treated as if we are completely brain dead?? I have a brain and I am very knowlegable. I work twice as hard as a lot of people with no children. So when people ask me what I do and I say that I am a stay at home mom it is completely crazy for me to feel as if I am some kind of a lesser person. I am a mom and that is the greatest job in the world. When you are a mom you are a chef, dietician, maid, taxi driver, psycologist, teacher, nurse ..... okay so you get the picture. Well this is kind of a crazy post but it is how I'm feeling so I guess I am going to close my eyes and just publish it.

Changes!!

If you have been following my blog at all for the past couple of days you will have seen it change backgrounds a lot. I have been trying to find one that I like and isn't too busy. I found this one at http://scrap-e-blog.blogspot.com. I think that I really like it so it will stay this way for a while.