It's been so long!

Hi everyone,
It has been a long time since I took the time to sit down and type my thoughts here. Tonight I am going to type a little before my baby wakes up.
Tonight was a busy night. We went to church, where a friend's daughter (3 yrs old) fell head first from a step stool onto a tile floor. Her head had a strange looking bruise that was flat, instead of a "goose egg" looking bump. So, having always heard, it is bad if the bump swells in instead of out, we (me, my baby, friend, her little girl) took off for the pediatric ER.

So, we were driving to the ER. Then she talked with her dr.'s nurse and the nurse asked 100 questions and then determined that the little girl was okay.
Back to my house to get her other daughter. When we get to my house, her other daughter is running 103 fever and can barely talk. Great.

They left at around 11 pm and now I am here typing my thoughts.

House Update:
Today we found out that the 2nd mortgage company will not take the deal from the 1st mortgage company. The 2nd mortgage company wants to foreclose and be done with it. Which means we will have to move. Our realtor is asking us to give $1,000 and he will give $1,000 out of his earnings. And he is asking the other realtor to also give $1,000 and the 1st mortgage company to do the same. Total = $4, 000. He wants to take that money and go back to the 2nd mortgage company and see if they will take the deal with $4,000 instead of the original amount that was offered which was $1,000.

This may sound confusing to you. That is because it is confusing.

Today I bought a book called Body After Baby. It is a 30-day eating plan for breastfeeding moms for weight loss. I also bought Lose the Baby Fat! It is an exercise program for new moms. I am hoping to get motivated enough to follow both plans and lose this extra 30 pounds I am carrying around.

Aren't y'all glad to hear about all the excitement in my life?

Goodnight

Great Music and Memories

Hey everyone,
Today I was in bed all day with a migraine. I watched TV and slept pretty much all day. I nursed the baby pretty much all day too. It seemed that way anyway!
One show I watched was 100 greatest Country Duets on CMT. I loved it! When I started feeling better (about 9 pm) I came downstairs and downloaded a bunch of the duets from www.walmart.com. So right now I am listening to "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" by Shenandoah and Alison Krauss. It is such a GREAT song!! The other ones I downloaded are "It's Your Love" and "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" by Faith and Tim, "Meet Me in Montana" by Marie Osmond and someone I can't remember, and "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" by Anne Murray and another someone I can't remember.
Anyway, so then I got carried away and downloaded lots of fun songs..."Live Like You Were Dying" , "Cowboy Take Me Away", "In My Daughter's Eyes", "Happy Girl"!
I'm very excited about all of this, as you can probably tell from the exclamation points!!!!!

Let me tell you real quick about our first day of spring. We spent lots of the day outside, walking and riding bikes. The kids were very cute and it was a gorgeous day. That's all I can remember about it, so I can't write any details. :)

Have any of you "worked out" to the Carmen Electra Striptease Aerobics video? Just wondering... Not that I would ever work out to that video or (gasp) buy it or anything!!

Tonight I was watching my husband play with our kids and I kept thinking, "I love my life." I do have the greatest husband. He is so sweet and he loves me and spoils me. I am very blessed, even if he won't help me with laundry any more because I have griped and griped over the years about him leaving clean laundry in baskets and on couches so I have to finish it for him.

Gotta go! I hear Baby waking up.

Have a great week!

The First Day of Spring post...coming soon

I have been meaning to write about our wonderful Monday, the first day of Spring. We had such a great day!! However, today was a day from h-ll, so I am not in the mood to type nice things about our Monday.
I have been having much pain in my upper, mid, and lower back so I went to my dr. last week. She sent me to have x-rays and I got the report in the mail today. It just so happens that today I was in constant pain. I was in pain even before I got the report in the mail. So it wasn't one of those things where you feel worse after finding out a diagnosis.

This is what I found out
1. I have chronic muscle tightness in my neck, which is causing my neck to straighten.
2. I have mild scoliosis in the thoracic part of my back, which causes chronic muscle aches.
3. I have an old compression fracture in the thoracic part of my back. Weird, you think I would know if my back had been fractured in the past. I know I am not an observant person, but this is ridiculous.
4. I have disc space narrowing in the lumbar part of my back. This is causing the most pain.

My dr. is referring me to a spinal orthopedist. She said "spine orthopedist" but I think the correct way to say it is "spinal orthopedist." She's only a DOCTOR. Surely, I know the correct way to say it. I am a MOM after all.

This back pain is causing much crankiness in my life lately. I will post on our lovely first day of Spring when I feel less cranky.

An update on my life for anyone who cares to read about my life

One thing I didn't think about when I created this blog was the time it would take to actually sit down and type thoughts into my computer. Finding time to spend in here typing my life so the world can read it is difficult. Well, finding the time is difficult, but putting thoughts together and making sense is the most difficult thing most days.

Having said all of that, it has been quite a while since I last posted and it is because I have been very busy with all of my responsibilities. Homeschooling, laundry, changing diapers, rocking babies, reading stories... Wow, I do have the best profession in the world! :)

Right now is a very uncertain time in our lives. We are living in a house that we may or may not get to stay in and we know that in a few weeks we may not have a job! But we are choosing to trust God and His infinite wisdom and just have peace about the whole thing. I have gotten to a point where I am really enjoying my "free" big house!! At $1 a day, it is basically free.

Today is day one of week 3 of Weight Watchers for me. As of last night, I have lost 3 pounds. Of course, after the Value Sized meal I got at Chick Fil A last night I may have gained a bit. I left the WW meeting feeling famished so I headed on over to Chick Fil A and got my favorite, a number 1 combo, value sized with a Coke, for a grand total of 29 points! That includes a classic Chick Fil A sandwich, large waffle fries, a large Coke, and 2 polynesian sauce packets. Since my points started over today, I just ignored those points I ate last night. Works for me.

Have any of you read Parenting With Love and Logic? It was recommended to me by a dear relative of mine who happens to be a counselor at an elementary school. In the pat, I have not wanted to read it because I kind of felt like I was "above" that particular method of discipline and I was determined to not do something just because my "perfect" relatives did it that way. I now realize the error of my ways and I feel pretty badly about it. I have been humbled and now I am going to listen to her advice and try it out. We are going to read the book and then take the Parenting With Love and Logic class at a local elementary school. I'll keep you posted...

Let's see...what else is new in my world...
Oh, my hubby applied for a job in the Rio Grande Valley. Those of you who know me know that while I was there I was homesick. Now I am homesick for the Valley!! I'm always wanting what I don't have.

Always Fun Karaoke

Hey everyone,
Right now I am listening to my family and my brother in law's family JAM OUT to our karaoke machine. The kids and dads are having a blast!! We have a professional karaoke machine, huge speakers, etc., that we rent out for parties and events. Here's our website http://www.alwaysfunkaraoke.com/

Anyway, it is so much fun! Oh great, now they're singing "Like a Virgin"!! Maybe I should intervene. My children don't even know what a virgin is. But I have a feeling they'll be asking tomorrow. Okay, the dads got a clue and changed the song...
Now they're singing "Achy Breaky Heart". (Leslie, I know that's your FAVORITE song and it brings back lovely memories of your wedding. You'll have to come over and sing it for us.)

Uh oh...here come the kids...the dads must be ready to quit singing for the night. I thought I was going to have time to type an interesting post, but I am going to have to go for the night. The kids have found me!!!!!

Whew!!

Wow, what a week it has been! I realize as I type this that it hasn't exactly been a week, just 4 days since I last posted. I felt like a week. I have gotten a lot accomplished though.

Here's what I have been up to...
1. Getting rid of my husband's old car~those of you who know me know that this is a BIG DEAL to me. It was on his To Do list last year. He was supposed to donate it to a charity before the baby was born. Baby will be 9 months old on Friday...
2. Taking care of sick boys~ Last night it was my 3 yr old, this morning my 7 yr old, and currently it is my youngest 5 yr old. Ha! Youngest 5 yr old sounds funny! Clarification: My youngest twin is the one who is ill at the moment.
3. Cleaning house~ Today I set my timer and cleaned house 15 minutes at a time...15 minutes in the kitchen, 15 minutes in the family room, 15 minutes of laundry...you get the idea. The thing is, I cleaned all day and never made it upstairs. The downstairs is really clean though and we all have clean clothes. Next week maybe the upstairs will get cleaned.
4. Homeschooling my 4 oldest kids~ Yes, I am Super Mom because I have kept up with school this week. hee hee
5. Taking trash to my old neighbor's house~yep, we loaded up the van with our trash and took it over to my gracious neighbor's house because our city only lets us put trash in one little trash can. It is a trash can issued by the city and it is small. So, while we are still dealing with moving trash, we are taking it to our previous neighbor's house.
6. Enjoying the spring-like weather here in North Texas~ I love it! The early mornings have been incredible!

By the way, my garage hasn't been cleaned out and therefore I haven't used my treadmill or weights. But I did re-join Weight Watchers this week. I have already used all of my points for the day and I havne't has dinner yet. Guess I'll be drinking water for dinner...

Two Great Blogs for homeschoolers and large families

Okay, after writing my uninspiring little post about finding time to exercise, I checked my daily blogs. All was fine until I read the very inspiring posts of Kim (http://largefamilylogistics.lifewithchrist.org/) and Spunky (http://www.spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com/). After reading those posts, I am feeling like there is so much more I should be doing with my home and my children. I have a lot to think about this evening. I have been working on our chore charts and schedule in my head, so hopefully I can get it on paper this evening or tomorrow. I may even write about it tomorrow night so you can be so inspired!

Time for exercise

I have been thinking a lot about when I can find time to exercise. Homeschooling 6 kids takes up quite a bit of time which is why I don't exercise regularly. Okay, I am lying. The reason I don't exercise regularly is because I haven't wanted to. It hasn't mattered that much to me. And to be completely truthful, refereeing my kids' fights takes up most of my time. Homeschooling only takes a few hours of the day.
In the past, I awakened at 5 a.m. and exercised then. That doesn't sound appealing to me these days. It never did, but I did it anyway and I loved the results.

I have been reading a book by Kathryn Samsone, a mom of 10 children, called Woman First, Family Always. You can find the book at Sam's if you are interested in reading it. In her book, she talks about her exercise routine. Most of her kids go to school so she exercises in the mornings when they leave, I am assuming. She never actually says WHEN she finds the time.

Anyhoo, she does weight training and cardio 4 days a week. I would like to adopt her exercise routine. So, my routine will look like this: Mondays~treadmill for 30 minutes, then weights for 30 minutes; repeat that on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. BUT, when am I going to do this? I have gotten in the habit of waking up when my kids wake up (8:00 usually) and I am really enjoying sleeping in. The fact is, I am not going to get the exercise time in if I keep sleeping in. My days of snoozing late are over. This makes me very sad.

Tomorrow I am going to work on cleaning out the garage so I can work out bright and early Monday morning. I have also considered working out in the evenings when Corey gets home. I am pretty much worn out when he gets home though so I will try the early morning thing first.

I'll let ya know how it goes Monday morning.

One of my twins, the older one to be exact, just told me that I am the best Mommy he has ever had. Then he started talking about soup and he completely lost me.

Tonight I left to run an errand and came home to a locked door. Since we haven't closed on our house yet, we only have the key that was in the lock box. Hubby took the kids to STAR Time, a family worship time at our church, and he locked the door. He hid a key for me, but since I didn't have my cell phone, I didn't know where to look for the key. I ended up walking around Target for an hour (which wasn't so bad really) and he and the kids came home to an empty house. Bless his heart, he was so worried that I would be upset. I wasn't. Not by the time I got home, anyway.

Have a lovely Saturday night!

My first post

Okay, so I have officially started my own little blog. I am very excited about this!
For my first post, I want to tell you 10 things about myself. I probably should do the Thirteen Thursday thing like my cool sisters, but for starters I am just gonna list 10.

1. I have been married for 6 1/2 years
2. I am a stay at home mom and wife
3. I have 6 kids
4. I homeschool them
5. We have 2 beagles who bark continuously and make the neighbors hate us
6. We just moved into a new house (new to us anyway)
7. I would love to have more kids
8. Yes, I know what causes it
9. No, I am not Catholic (not that there is anything wrong with being Catholic!!)
10. Today I dropped 2 1/2 dozen eggs and only 1 survived . It was lovely to clean up.

So, there you have it, my first post on my first blog!

Goodnight to anyone who may actually read this!