It's Coffee Time!!!

We had some fun yesterday...

Quote of the day:
 

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, 
even if everyone is for it. 
~William Penn
English founder of Pennsylvania, 17th century


We had some fun yesterday...

    
    
   

My Lovely Heard

My Christmas Boys

 

 

My Presents Under The Tree

My Boys

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!

Life

My 4 year old honks in a really loud voice 3 times and says "Mom that's the wrong answer" when I didn't tell him what he wants!  Cracked me up!

Life has been so busy and chaotic lately.  I'm realizing how I have contributed to it but it is hard to get back on track.  I know I've done it to myself with the choices I have made in life.  But in all reality...I wouldn't want to undo any of the big ones anyways.  I'm at a point where I'm trying to learn the word individuation.  I am going to go MAD if I don't get to step away from my life for 5 minutes a day.  I always thought "what is the point in having it if you don't make it the priority".  Well I realize now that without my sanity it isn't going to grow and become beautiful!  It is hard to go back to basics and start afresh!  With technology which is suppose to make life simpler making it even more difficult. Boy the chaos it creates when the power goes off or the dishwasher brakes down.  Example:  We made the choice to have 5 boys.  That decision is based on the fact that we have a dishwasher (and other factors).  The dishwasher brakes down.  Life becomes very uncomfortable for a short time.  That creates chaos.  I know it isn't a hurricane tearing down my house or the car braking down and not being able to get to work.  But it is a day changer just the same.  Everything gets out of whack for a time creating other changes.  The baby started throwing things.  He broke a light bulb.  It took forever to clean it up.  As I was cleaning it up I couldn't help but to think one more thing on top of everything else.  Sometime the unexpected is the hardest part of all.  Not the disabilities but the normal everyday stuff.  So once again I don't get my 5 minutes because I'm to busy cleaning up the mess! 

My humbling experience

Quote of the day:

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, 19th century

This whole experience has been incredible.  I stayed a little later last night and was eating in the cafeteria.  An elderly woman sat down with me so I turned off the computer and said hello...it is crazy how one hello can effect someone else's whole night.  I ended up leaving her and giving her a big hug and a blessing before leaving.  I have had 10 days so far of a very humbling experience.  I have been around people who have just lost a baby and people who have been cooped up here for 2 months with their sick child.  There are some parents who are first time parents and some who are not but find themselves in an experience that puts their whole lives on hold.  I hope I can take this experience and use it for the rest of my life to be a better parent and a better person. 

Phone call

Quote of the day:

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too
many flowers.  
~BLESSED MOTHER TERESA

I'm waiting for THAT phone call and it may never come. I
wait in anticipation just to know.  To know if it will 
come or not.  I feel like life has stopped and is standing
still for me. Every time the phone rings I close my eyes,
take a breath, open my eyes and look at the caller ID and 
then I breath out knowing it is not the call.  I don't 
even know if I am hoping or not~It's more about what 
the rest of my life is going to be like.    

Winter update.....

Quote of the day:

Embrace the detours.

~Kevin Charbonneau

A month later....I figured I blog all year long so there will be no Christmas letter 
in the Christmas cards this year.  Oh that's right last year there wasn't even 
Christmas cards....oooops sorry!!!  I got so busy with having 4 children I didn't have
much time for anything extra.  This year I'm trying to change that.  And I do not have
to buy cards-I still have all of last years!!!  LOL  
Here is a link to the boy's school pictures:::::::  School Pictures

Here is the updates:::::::

• Brandon and Daniel are playing basket ball this season.  They love it and I love that they are sleeping so good on those nights.  They wake up grouchy but they sleep through the night.
• Brady and Jaden will have surgery on the 7th of December.  Brady will have his tonsils and adenoids out and Jaden will have tubes put in his ears. 
  
• We are trying to get ready for the newest baby of them all.  I put in a request that if the new baby (due around January) is placed into foster care that we would like to keep the siblings together.  So we're getting ready JUST IN CASE. 
  
• Hubby has decided with all his free time to work on the upstairs.  I'm so happy because they are building my room first.  They got the sheet rock up yesterday.  It is going to be nice.  What I'm really going to do with it I don't know but it will be nice for all the overflow stuff like winter jackets in the summer, all the extra clothes I keep around the house for when we have foster children or for when the boys need new sizes,  all the extra baby stuff for if we have a new baby (wink, wink),  my craft stuff.  Hubby also mentioned it will be nice enough to have my support group meet up there too.   If you go to this link  My new room  in the last picture...you will see the little window above the front door.  That is where it will be.  He is also finishing up the main floor with trimming it out, putting in new doors, and painting the living room.  It sucks it is right before Christmas but I'm glad he's not sitting around being all depressed and crappy to us all.  LOL  Plus I benefit....we know how it ALL has to be about ME!!!!!   HEE HEE HEE
• Daniel turns 9 on the 17th.  I can not believe he is that old.  I love the little boy he is becoming.  It ended up being a good decision changing therapist.....it is going really well and he is making amazing progress.  He has been so affectionate to me lately.  That has never happened -ever!!!   I am waiting to find out today where he rates on the autism spectrum.  No matter what if he is or isn't we have been treating him with things that work for autistic children and that is where we are seeing the most progress.  He is even making eye contact with some people now....he is still uncomfortable with it but he is doing it!!!!  Hurray for him.  
• Brady is doing well in school....the bus on the other hand is a different matter....I think he will be just fine when he stops taking off his boots throwing them at the other kid's heads.  LOL  Last week he just took them off...we're making progress.  What do they expect....he's 3 1/2!!!!!!!
• The big boys are doing well in school.  Brandon is having a harder time in Math but he's not behind.  It just doesn't click in his head yet.
• The big boys are still in cub scouts.  They have been doing artscape lately. 
  
• Mum and I have our crafts at a gallery in town.  We actually sold some things.  We can't do any craft shows this year because of my work but we're going this weekend to check out the biggest one in our county.  Next year we will.
• I may be teaching tap dancing classes through our local theater this winter after Christmas.  I am super excited about that!!!!
• I got kind of a promotion at work.  I am now the tri-county foster parent recruiter.  Not just for my county.  It triples my client load.  Which is good.  It is giving me good experience especially since I have been out of work for so long.  I'm in the process of planning our Holiday Support Group Party.  It is turning out awesome!  I just hope it goes the way I plan.  I love getting out of the house to meetings.  I feel like me and not just a mom.  It has been all about the children and foster children for so long now I'm beginning to feel like me again!!!  Because of this position I was asked to be on a consulting committe for out County children.  I'm loving feeling valued!  Like -my opinion matters.  That's a whole 'nother blog post for the future. 
  

I believe that's about all that has been going on around here lately.  Of course every day is a different day and nothing ever goes as planned but things aren't so bad right now. 
I'm loving and missing you all!  Have a wonderful holiday season!!!

overwhelmed

Quote of the day:
What God wants of you all is that you should live each day as it comes, like a bird in the trees, without worrying about tomorrow. Be at peace and trust in divine Providence and the Blessed Virgin, and do not seek anything else but to please God and love Him.
~ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT
 French missionary, 18th century

I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed lately.  They took Daniel off one of his meds so he isn't sleeping at night like he should and now we have to start at square one again in that department. And of course there is always so much more with him then we all talk about.  Brandon didn't pass his eye test again so we're back to the doctors and new glasses for him (That he won't wear anyways but I still have to get them for him).  Brady needs his tonsils and adnoids out.  Itty needs some brain stem test to possibly figure out why he isn't talking yet.  Boyce keeps talking about going to Alaska to work.  I don't feel like I'm worrying about tomorrow like the quote of the day says not to, it just feels like it is all too much to process in this very second.  I wish I was playing bunco with Tina tonight!  Or having a really stiff drink with Joanna.  Or a cup of coffee with Patricia.  Or rolling down a hill with friend Dan. Or tap dancing in the warf with Joy. Or watching a movie with my mummy.  Or shopping with my Memere.  Or eating dinner with Crystal.  Or swimming with Jennifer.  Or talking on the phone with Evie. Or running around Cogshall with my old friends from highschool. Or reading a good book with myself.  I know that none of these things seem tragic or anything but all together it is a bit much!  I'm feeling paralized. 

Memories

I have so much to write about but for now I just want to post this picture and I will write when I have more time.

Playing dress up

 

Gina

Quote of the day:
 

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
~Danish Proverb

My Beautiful Friend Gina.  I know you have pneumonia and you could probably 
use your Mom right about now so here is a picture for you my love.  I hope you 
feel better and I hope you know she is watching over you guiding your path.  
I'm loving you!!!

Georgene and Dorene

I wish I knew how to fix photos....I would have cleaned it up for you. 

I will have a better copy for you lata.  but for now...

 

Boys

Quote of the day:
To know ourselves has always been the greatest of all lessons. For, if we know ourselves, we will know God.
And, in knowing God, we will become like God.

~ST. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
Greek theologian, 3rd century

Well if it wasn't official before it sure is now.  I am definitely a mom of boys. 
Yesterday I opened Daniel's backpack and there was a horrific smell.  Then I remembered 
he put two worms in a plastic baggy in it the other day.  I thought he would have taken
it out by now but guess what....he didn't!!!  Yuck!!!!!  I LOVE having boys!!!

Guess what we received yesterday?????

Quote of the day:

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
~Emily Brontë
English writer, 19th century



    
    
   
    
    
    

Itty 2009

Here they are!!!  Our handsome children
I hope you all like. 

Daniel 2009

Brady 2009

Brandon 2009