Happy New Year

I have to be honest I am more than happy to say GOODBYE to 2008 and HELLO to 2009. I have high hopes for this year. My first plan is to drop this last five pounds I have been working on. I am seriously rededicated to this. I am also hoping that our finances will settle down the first part of this year. We have a lot of exciting things in the works and are in a waiting pattern right now. I am feeling really optimistic and hopefull at the year ahead and can't wait to start it.

As far as our plans for tonight, we have decided to hunker in at home and play games with the boys and let them stay up WAYYYYYY too late and have our own little party. I am going to go get all their favorite foods, and make home made pizza. It should be a lot of fun, we will see. I have tried this before and realistically they just get cranky when they get tired and I end up sitting up alone. But to me this is better than just going to bed early due to lack of other plans. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to celebrate holidays, so I drive my family crazy putting together these little shindigs, I hope one day they remember how hard their mom worked to celebrate life!!!! :)

Happy New Year to all and be safe my friends. We love you!

5:30 AM Wake Up Call.......

This morning I woke to the sound of children playing outside in the snow......AT 5:30 AM!!!!!!! I am laying in bed and hear giggling and laughing and screaming so I look out my beroom window and there are all four of my boys having a snowball fight and building a huge snowman. Robert gets up and runs in the mornings and apparently he accidently woke up Bobby this morning when he left. So Bobby looked out the window and sees a winter wonderland that he had been patiently waiting for all weekend. So being the thoughtful big brother he is, he felt it necessary to wake up all his brother and help the little boys get dressed and go play in the snow. I couldn't believe it when I realized what they were doing. First off it was COLD!!! I didn't even want to get my cozy hiney out of bed, let alone have a snowball fight!
Let me tell you about this great snow man they built. It was actually taller than Bobby! Considering their meager resources they did very well. They were going for a whole family of snow people, but Carson kept destorying them as soon as they were done. So they decided to attack Carson instead. Poor kid, he deserved it, but this was his first year to really go "play" with his brothers. It was a lot of fun to see it. I took some fun pictures once it was light enough to take them, but I can't find my cord to down load them right now. So I will post them later. I just had to tell you about all the fun we had this morning.

I have a good excuse!

Ok it has been brought to my attention that I am slacking in the posting department and yes I am, but I have a good excuse. I have been without internet for the last few weeks. I have been able to check and send email at work, but that is it. We switched providers and there was a little snaffoo in the process. But I am back up and running now so on with the posts.

That being said I am dedicating this post to a plea for help! I am a realistic person. I know that I have four boys ages 8 and under and I work 30 hours a week, so my house will NEVER be immaculate. BUT is it too much to ask for these beings to clean up after themselves? I am working so hard to keep my house picked up and festive for the holidays. Yet everyday I come home from work my house looks like a backpack bomb exploded! (Don't get me started on the fact I have a standing "no opening back packs until mom gets home rule.) Being the realistic person I am, I also understand that I must pick my battles. My chosen battle is too keep bedrooms picked up. I am losing this battle. I am trying to teach the boys simple talents to make life easier. Their rooms will look like confined disaster areas on any given day, and there are tears, and whining and crying, and more tears when asked to clean it. The older boys are much worse than the younger at these fits. Now don't get me wrong, I have fantastic kids, who for the most part mind really well and are very respectful, but they realy are slobs. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas I am open for this. Very soon our schedules will be changing and I won't have my Enforcer around as much as I do now, and I am going to need all the help I can get.

I promise my next post will be festive and merry and full of good cheer. Just needed to get this off my chest. (Deep sigh) I feel much better, so I am going to go hug my little pigs and tuck them into their messy rooms....(Actually they are clean right now cause I was mean and made them stay in them till they were done.) :)