Forgot one thing

I just wanted to say that in all the mess of the meltdowns that I have had thank you to those that have gotten the calls at night when I was having the break downs. (Even though it may be late were you are.) One of the hardest things for me is to have people see me at my moments of weakness. So thank you to those that have seen that and have thought nothing of it. All my friends are the greatest!! Thank you so much to everyone.

Meltdown Mania

Well we have made it through a week. I am sure this is nothing compared to what some of you have to do but for me it is my first week. We started this week out okay. Today was a little rough. The kids have started noticing the change and are having a hard time as far as listening goes and behavior. They are so little and I just want to hug them all day and tell them it will all be over soon.
Since I cant really do that in the mean time I will continue to try my best and do what works for us. I owe a huge thank you to the ones I have had to cry on lately. I appreciate all the offers to watch the kids, offers for any help, and everything else. I really do have a great set of friends and family. Thank you for letting me get this out. Tomorrow will be a better day!!!

Two hand and two extra ears!!

I think that they should sell sets of hands and ears. It would sure be nice. I just need the two hands to help with things around here. I want a set of ears so that I can just have someone listen to me. That is what the last few days have shown me.
This morning I was mowing the backyard. My backyard seemed so much bigger when I was the one mowing. I have a whole new perspective on lawn care. Then I took all three car seats out of my car and put them back in later. It made me realize how much I take for granted that David does. It would be nice to have a set of ears around for those moments when you hear something juicy, or you just need to vent, or you just want to tell someone something funny that happened, or even something sad. The last few days I have wished so bad I could just call David and say hey guess what.
So David is more then just a set of hands to do the dirty work and a set of ears to listen to me. He is the greatest. If I had an extra pair of hands and ears our family would still not be complete so we will wait until David gets home were we can have the whole deal.

Twilight, frusatration, and the weekend

Well I would like all of you to know that I am officially turned onto the twilight books. I have heard all about these books from different people. I am not one for vampires and science fiction. I was a little skeptical. My great sister in law Beth told me that I should get them to read while David is gone. So we took a trip to borders to get some books for David. I caved in and I got the first one. I thought how good can these really be I am just going to start with the first one and see were it goes from there. Well I am only 3 chapters in and I love it so far. I am not sure how the rest of the book is but I am excited to read the rest. It is my guilty pleasure at night. I look forward to reading a few pages at night. I think if I get the stuff done after the kids go to bed then I can relax and read.

One of the things I have had to adjust to is night time. After the kids are in bed who do I talk to ????? Well I have been releasing my stress by doing some workout tapes at night. It makes me feel so much better. I can release the stress's of the day. I feel rejuvenated it is great. I think that is better for me then hunkering down with a big diet coke and a bag of chocolate.
I was thinking the other day I wonder what I do that frustrates the kids? I think how many times during the day do i think my goodness I am so frustrated because they keep getting in the fridge, painting in there hair, not listening, fighting with each other, you know the day to day stuff. Well what do I do that frustrates them? I would love to sit back and say nothing I ever do could frustrate someone. Just kidding. For me I have a way to voice my frustration to friends and other people but the kids don't So that is just something to think about.

Well this weekend i am feeling a little guilty. It is not even Friday night yet and I am feeling guilty. Well we switch with some great friends of ours for babysitting. One of us takes Friday and the other takes Saturday. Well Jaime is going to watch my kids on Friday then our ward does a restaurant group every month they go to a new restaurant. Well this month it is the cheesecake factory. My neighbor is watching the kids on Saturday for me. I am looking forward to the break. I am feeling a little guilty for being gone on Friday and Saturday. I think as I am getting a pedicure or eating cheesecake the guilt will go away. Well thanks to the great friends for helping me out this weekend.
So this was all a lot of babble. Thanks for reading it all.

Three days going strong

So my great great fiend Adrienne was telling me about a great website that puts your blog posts into a book. I thought that would be a great idea to journal all our thoughts on a blog while David is away then we can put it in a book before he comes home. Thanks for the great idea Adrienne.

So it has been three days since David has left. Sunday just felt weird all day. Them Monday came around and I felt the huge task in front of me. But we got up and carried on had a great day. We were able to talk to David a few times. It was great.

Then Tuesday came to me waking up at 5:30 with Dawson. Not wanting to go back to bed after his bottle. So me and all the kids were so tired. Some how that makes things worse when you are all so tired. I got a call from David saying this would be the last time I would talk to him for 4-5 weeks. Man that is a real bummer. So for some of you out there you might be getting call from me to just listen. Tell me I am doing a good job and to hang in there.

Well the kids had a rest time and all of our frowns turned upside down. We had a great rest of our afternoon. The kids painted pictures and had a great time painting while it was raining. We are going to follow it up with dollar scoop night at Baskin Robbins at the PX.

I will be trying to keep up with this every few days to write how things are going and not going. So hope you bare with me through the good posts and the bad.