The calm after the storm

My house is quiet now, almost too quiet.  After 3 days of having 4 of our kids in the house and my niece for a night, just 2 of us are home.   The 3 year old is taking his first nap since Wednesday.  He must be feeling the post holiday let down.  All this

My Beautiful Boy

Today is my oldest biological child’s 8th Birthday! He is truly the first person who taught me the meaning of unconditional love.  I remember finding out that I was pregnant with him.  One of the most special moments of my life. I always knew that I wanted to be a Mom.  Just a few short

Thanksgiving Traditions

Every Monday my boss sends out a Monday Morning Email.  It is to jumpstart our entire week.  Sometimes we are asked to respond to a certain question.  This week the question was, “do you have any Thanksgiving Traditions”.  I responded with my real answer to this question, an answer that I have been holding onto

Christmas from the Parents Perspective

When you have 6 children, who live in 4 different households the thought of Christmas can be extremely overwhelming.  Every single year, it gets more and more difficult. 8 years ago, Christmas of 2007 when I had just 1 kid, no problem.  He was 1 month old.  I could have gotten away with buying as

It’s Sunday, lets press EVERY button

I had the craziest Sunday that I have had in so long.  I felt like I was outside of my body for some of it.  Like all the kids were playing some kind of practical joke on me. After waking up to like 6 inches of snow on the ground, we had to make the

My Fourth Therapy Session

Alright, so upon completing blogs about my first 3 sessions, I realized that I have left out a couple of important to me details about the series of events. The first of these is the personality of my therapist.  While working to get a referral, my friend offered up a couple of different people.  I

Inspire Others

When I leave this planet, I would like to have done 2 things.  First, done the best I could to let the people in my life know how much I truly loved them.  Second, make an impact, inspire someone to do something that they may not have done without my help. There are a few

Imagine

So, yesterday I had a lot of time in the car by myself.  I was free to listen to what I wanted to, as loud as I saw fit and sing out loud the whole time.  On my way to my destination “Imagine by John Lennon” came on the radio. Imagine, has always been one

My Third Therapy Session

At my third therapy session, we finally talked about real life.  No more of sticking to the intake questions.  We didn’t focus on my past and we were able to talk about how my life looks now. My therapist asked me what it was that I do for a living.  For those of you that

Living the Life you Want

There are 24 hrs in a day, some say that’s not enough.  There are 7 days in a week, 365 days in a year…again it never seems like enough.  If we are lucky we get that first 24 hrs, we go to bed and we wake up with a whole other 24 hours to live.