January

Well, we are the thick of January.  My least favorite month because I am warm blooded and love the warmer weather. But, I am making it.  The kids are wonderful...let me rephrase, the kids are good and we are hanging in.  I say that because life with a 9 year old and twins that will be 7 in a few weeks is always crazy!

They just about put me over the edge on noise level and I really think that I am pretty tolerant of that but sometimes by 7 pm I am raw nerve.  I can blame some of that on our precious puppy Cora.   Ben and Hayes constantly have their own secret language with her that usually entails some kind of "Goo goo ... eeeewwwww." At very high decibels.

That actually starts in the morning before I have had my coffee and before I am fully awake.  That sets off the tone of the morning.  Get up...let Cora (or Goo) out...get up Sam (because he is starting on his teenage sleeping years early at almost 10) ....get the kids breakfast...."gooooooo goooooo"..... fix hair ....."gooo goooo"....make lunch...."goo goo".....get backpacks together....."gooo gooo".... get in car.  Finally silence right? NO.  Then it is....I can't get my seat belt buckled.  Why not?  A brother in the background..;"why can't you ever buckle it?" .... "it is hard"...." I will help"...."Thank you".... "ok we are good". And that is how it is done.

The other night I was on the bed watching something that does not engage the brain, like Beverly Hills Housewives, and Cora is next to me.  Here come Mr. Hayes.  "How are my girls?" he asks.  I say we are fine and he proceeds to tell Cora how pretty she is but then tells me that I am much prettier.  Can we say little heartbreaker??

Not much exciting is happening around here and I like it that way.  It is status quo.  When I say that I mean, fighting, hitting, annoying, whining, loving, teasing, happiness that comes along with being a mom of three boys.  Sometimes I tell my husband that if we just had one girl in the mix, just one, it would change the balance of the house.  You know what? I love my house just the way it is.  The fighting, whining, teasing, the touching the hair (which happens every morning after I fix Ben or Hayes' hair, Sam comes along just to make them mad and messes it up. Does it work? YES! Do I get annoyed because I have to fix their hair again after the madness that ensues? YES. Do I care? Not in the grand scheme of things, only in the moment).

2014 is shaping up to be awesome and I pray we continue to have a wonderful year.  January for all its cold, dreariness is turning out to be great because I am happy and my family is happy and that is all any mom could ever ask for.

Thank you God for giving Ryan and I this incredible opportunity to have these three precious boys.

Come on Spring!