Finally some peace & random thoughts...

Thank you LORD for the peace you've placed upon my household this week!  It is a miracle!  Cooperative kids...housework/chores getting done, and a 4 day weekend with hubby!  What more could I ask for, well plenty, but I will be just thankful for what I have.

I do not like the daily teenage drama, and 8 yr olds with attitudes...5 year olds that are tired and frustrated with school...but it is part and parcel with being a mom.  I just have to take a deep breath, count to 5, and pray for them.  It is frustrating when I try to get them to talk to me and I just can't figure out what is bothering my kids...some days I am totally clueless!  I do give it my best though and prayer does the rest.

Had a Facebook post pop up the other day that said,"Tonight my kids were being overly dramatic and I thought, "I wonder if Jesus looks down at me and thinks the same thing?"" It made me stop and think.  How often are we (The Christian Body) doing the same thing...being dramatic, throwing tantrums, and acting like a two year old?  It is the battle with the flesh, that we fight on a daily basis, and unfortunately there are days where it wins.

How do I battle the flesh, pray, praise God, and do my best to bury myself in His Living Word (a.k.a. The Bible)...he is my strength and inspiration.  Is he yours?

Freezing time and growing older...

Time is just flying by, and I know that as a Mom there are moments I would like to freeze time and keep my kids young forever...

 

 

My oldest is turning 15 in a few weeks, and is enjoying the swim team.  My son just started Kindergarten.  My eight year old is almost constantly telling me about a new boy she likes it seems to change every few weeks, and my youngest wants to go to school like her sibs.  Pretty soon, my little nest is going to be empty...
In just three short years we will have three adult children in our family, and our youngest will be in school full time!  Two years after that four young adults...it seems like a person just blinks and all of a sudden they're all grown up.  Where did the time go.  My heart aches for the time when they were little and I could cuddle them and love on them all I wanted to...

but on the flip side of things...

I can't wait for them to grow up, and watch them succeed in life.  I can't wait to see them making their own way in this tough world, because I know I have done my best and prepared them as much as I can.  I know they're going to have trials and tribulations in their lives, but I also know that they'll pull through and be stronger because of it.  They have their Faith, and their God, to pull them through.  They have the unconditional love of us, their family, so that no matter what happens they have somebody to turn to.

I am thankful for each and every moment.  A lot of the memories are frozen in time and at least in pictures they will be little forever.  I will always have them to look back on and remember, but I will also value the person they are becoming.  I will cherish them, I will miss them, and I love them...but I need to remember sometimes that it is all part of growing up and growing old.

Praise GOD and UGH, Teenager frustrations!

Thankfully, Doc says I am fine.  He says what we are dealing with is a Pseudopapilledema and it is a anomaly I was born with...my optic nerves are malformed, but not to the point that it causes issues with my vision.  Just the same they will have to monitor and test me every three months for the next year...sigh...mostly just thankful it wasn't the news we/I was fearing...

Now just got to get my life back in order, my ducks in a row, and move on.  Kids start school next week...life has been busy with swim practices, and fundraisers.  The kids all have their supplies, and are ready for school.  I need to plan out my days while they are gone so I can get everything done and still spend time with my Emma bug/Hubby...

Jo has been on a new med for about two weeks now...they put her on Concerta it has its pluses and minuses...I do not enjoy the grumpy manic like symptoms she gets when they wear off in the evening.  Thankfully she is still eating good and sleeping good at night.  I am loving she is not bouncing off the walls and is focusing better. The one peeve I do have, however, is the teenage behavior of being argumentative about everything. This behavior is driving me batty, those and the "I CAN'TS"...when I know she is really truly capable of the stuff she is asked to do.  She is capable of being and doing so much better!

Over all, though, I am thankful for my life...the joys, challenges, sorrows, and triumphs make life worth every minute. I take time to thank God for each and everyday, made even more poignant by the scare we had with my Eyes...