Birthday party

Today we had my son's 1st birthday party! What a fun day. He has all hand me down toys since he was born. Getting new toys was an absolute blast for him. It was of course hard for his older brothers because they wanted to destroy his new toys. They are the destructors of all that is available to thier hands. My husband and I had to keep everything away from them so that he could play with something new. He made out like a bandit. I had about 30 people in my house and a bunch of little kids running around.

I was so excited to do the 1st birthday cake again, and he freaked out. He wanted nothing to do with his cake and got very mad at me for it. Later on I gave him some chocolate cake, and he was a little more happy with that. He actually unwrapped some of his presents by himself, but his brothers had to help, along with all the other little kids running around. The hubby, of course, prepared a grand feast for every one. They loved it. He loves to show off his mad cooking skills on his grill. Everyone always comes hungry to our house because they know they will get fed.

On another note, my older son is feeling much better after being on his antibiotics. We still have another week of them, but it's good having him back to his normal, mouthy self. My house wouldn't be the same if one of my children was constantly getting in trouble. HAHA! With a house full of boys, one of them is always up to no good.

Until Next time.....

Can't catch a break....

So my oldest son came home from his grandparents last night, and could barely breath. I took him to the hospital, and the verdict was pnuemonia. I felt so bad for my little guy. He was having such a hard time. I have to give props to McCune Brooks though, They got him in and out. We orginally went to Freeman and when we got there the waiting room was full and so we were going to be waiting for probably 3 hours and then who knows how long it would have taken to back in the room. My husband called me to see how everything was going and I told him about the wait. He called McCune brooks and called me back a minute later and told me to go there. I had absolutely no wait there. They took him back immediately, did a flu test, did his X-Rays and instantly had a diagnosis. They also gave him a shot of antibiotics while there so it could get into his blood stream faster.

I was so impressed with that hospital. If I ever need to take one of my kids at night again I will definitely be heading there. They were nothing but helpful and worried about getting Roman better. They were truely concerned about him. I can't thank them enough for all the help they gave us last night. We were in and out of there within 2 hours. That is the fastest I've ever been through an Emergency Room. Hopefully we won't have to go anytime soon, but if we do, I will be heading there. Roman is feeling a little better today, but still a little blue!!

Until next time......

Helping Others

It was a busy week this week. All my kids were sick again, including myself. It's always hard to take care of your sick kids along with your sick self.

Although it was a rough week, the end of the week was worth it. My husbands grandparents have a really old house, and we are constantly as a whole family getting together each year and fixing something. Everyone pitches in what they can afford and we fix it together. So this weekend we fixed their living room floor which had caved in it was so old. We completely tore it up and redid everything. Then we painted the room before the carpet was put in. Grandma and Grandpa have to wait until Wednesday for the carpet, but it was very rewarding to see how happy they were. My husband was there for 12 hours yesterday, and the kids and I were there most of the day today spectating. It's kind of like our very home extreme home makeover, except for 1 room a year and not in 7 days. We do what we can and It's enjoyable for the whole family. The flooring had to be done because Grandpa fell through it. That's how old it was.

How excited is everyone to see these 7 houses built in 7 days from extreme home makeover? It's pretty awesome that they are doing this. I can't wait to see everything and how it turns out. It's going to be awesome. I really want to be there for the reveal of the houses. I've been keeping up with them on facebook and the pictures they post. It's pretty awesome.

Until Next Time.....

Survey

So I just took a very interesting survey for my psych class!! Can I say it was the bes time to take it. It was all about character strengths. At the end of the 240 questions, it tells you about all your strengths through 24 of them. My top strength was Gratitude. I really enjoyed it, and hope that some of you as well have this course and get to do this assignment. It was really enjoyable. If not, I will post the link and you can take the survey. It was really neat. So, I guess maybe this is persuasive, lol! I think it made me feel a little better about myself to see some of the strengths that I didn't know I had. I will post all my strengths on the next post along with the link, and would love to hear others outcomes!!

Until next time.....

Hard Time....

So recently I've been kind of having a tough time at home. I realize i'm supposed to write a persuasive blog once a week, but I'm kind of hoping that I can get some results and some advice from my classmates. My husband is a disabled veteran and has been home since about April. Our relationship has always been working and not spending this much time together. I am also at home, because I'm a stay at home mom. We did great the first few months, and now we are starting to as you could say, get on each others nerves. The hard part is that I feel that he thinks it's all me. I would love some suggestions as to maybe what we could do to make sure that this doesn't happen too much. We try to each have some alone time, but I don't want too much. Right now, actually just writing about it is helping. I don't ever want to vent to my mom because I feel that it would upset her and she can't have that on her right now. My great uncle just died this morning, and my mom also lost a friend this week to cancer. So she has had an extremely rough week. I also found out this morning that not only did my uncle die, that a good friend of mine that is only 32, has breast cancer. I tear up right now because she is so young, with 2 beautiful girls, and a wonderful husband. I couldn't imagine those girls having to lose thier mother at such a young age.

As I said, I know that i'm supposed to write a persuasive and just a regular blog, but this week it is probably only going to be 2 regular blogs. I have so much pain in my heart right now that it's hard to even think about things. I'm staying on top of my assignments, but there are times where I just want to cry. I know I need to be strong and I am for my mom and my friends husband. But it is kind of nice to just be by myself right now so that I don't have to be strong for every one else, and I can just let go and let everything out and then be strong in the morning again.

Until next time.....which will only be a couple of hours so I don't get docked any points.

Family Night!

Tonight I was able to go have a nice dinner with my family, come home and play outside, and then come inside and watch a movie. What a fantastic evening it was!! I decide my last post of the week would be about the importance of family and the time that we should spend with them. I think it can be very rewarding for both the adults and the children. The children feel loved when they get that special time.

My kids think it's a big treat when we go out to eat, because we don't do it that often. They also love to play outsite, and it's been so nice lately. I've been reading lately that children actually have better behavior when they spend more time with thier family and do these types of things. You can read some great articles on http://www.parents.com/, http://www.americanbaby.com/, or you can just use a general search engine like http://www.yahoo.com/ to find some great articles.

I also recently came upon a great coupon for $4 off on some hasbro games!! Big Lots then had a sale for there hasbro games at $5. I was able to ad match it at walmart and get them for a $1 a piece. So my family is now going to have a game night once a week on Sunday! It will be a family night without friends and just us. I want them to understand the meaning of family, and that spending time together is important. I love my boys and husband so much, and can't wait for them to have families of thier own. OK, I guess I can wait a while. I still want all the time I can get with them and keep them to myself. It was be hard to share them when they get older.

I think children are the best thing that could have ever happended to me. My life would be empty without them. It is so hectic all the time, that I would be bored without them. They are just so much fun, and I need that in my life. They are absolutely my life. I suggest all parents on here reading this to start a family night if you don't already have one......

Until next time.......

Better Week

So this week has been a much better week. My kids are better. That makes me so happy. I've gotten a lot more accomplished with school and housework with my children feeling better. I was even able to help out the PTO twice this week. I love to be able to help out as much as I can at my kids school. I want to be that kind of parent that is involved in everything they do. My kids are my world, and I want to make sure they know that.

My husband has been doing so much landscaping lately! My house looks amazing....not to brag or anything. I am seriously so proud of him. He has been working night and day to make our house look amazing. I absolutely love having such a devoted husband who wants to have a nice house instead of a lump on a couch. My husband means the world to me and I'm grateful I have him. He is so handy when it comes to the landscaping. What he has done we probably would have had to pay thousands of dollars for. He knows I love my coupons, so I'm glad he's saved us money on that end of it as well.

I'm so excited to be able to get done with school. I really want to start teaching and watch these young minds grow. Children are so special and they all need to know it.

Until next time......

Rough Week

This week has been extremely rough!! 2 out of my 3 kids have been sick. One has been to the doctor twice and the other one has to go to the doctor on Monday due to extreme headaches. My pediatrician has told me that she will most likely be running a CT on him to make sure it's nothing serious. It sure is hard being a mom sometimes. There are so many benefitis to being a mom, but sometimes I just want to cry to my mom about these things. It's just not fair for children to have to go through this. I wish I could take all their pain away and give it to myself. I would do it in a heartbeat. This is going to be extremely short because I have gotten absolutely no sleep this week, and I need some! I will post more tomorrow.