Boy am I a softy

So....Ellie has a little bit of a sleeping issue. If she is not in bed by no later than 8:30 every night, school is almost impossible the next day. School has only been in for a few weeks and she has already fallen asleep on the bus TWICE coming home. The bus driver has to wake her up to tell her that they are at her stop. The past couple of days Ellie has been coughing...alot. Then last night she didn't get to bed til 10pm, which I will admit was partly my fault. I wasn't feeling well with my usual head issues so Tyler took the kids outside and had a bonfire with them and roasted hot dogs, and marshmellows. Dang it! No pictures. I'll have to check with Karol and see if she took any. Well, by the time they came in they had to shower off the campfire smell, it was already 9pm. So Ellie didn't get her homework done. We stayed up and did it. Morning came and it was like waking up the dead and she really has been coughing....alot. So.....I gave in and let her stay home from school. I really didn't want a phone call from the teacher saying she had fallen asleep in class. Her teacher last year was really good about it. She told me that as long as Ellie had her work done for the day, she would just let her sleep. I don't know how her new teacher will be. So me, Lucy, and Ellie are all home to day and I can't help but think....This is nice! With four kids it isn't always easy to spend one on one time with each kid. Today....I have that time with Ellie.

Here's to the next phase of Life!

I was just having one of "those" days. But first I have to start off be saying that I will admit I do alot of reading on other peoples blogs. Usually I love it, but the past couple of days it had me thinking. Everyone's blogs are so cute and everyone is sooo active with their little ones. I got thinking about my past few years with my kiddos and couldn't help but think that my kids were majorly missing out on stuff that I should be doing with them. Most people who are close to me know of the health issues that I have been dealing with since my last pregnancy. All my pregnancies have been tough and mainly on bedrest, but the last one with Lucy really did me in. I feel as though I have missed out on so much. Especially Lucy. Things were so tough when she was a new born. Having spinal taps every two weeks made it impossible for me to hold her and take care of her and that is when Tyler's mom had to play "mom" to my kids. I basicly missed out on her newborn months and she is my last. I guess I have always felt a little jipped on my last experience of having a baby. Anyway, due to my health, my kids have had to learn to play quietly, and that mom can't always take them out to play. Well reading these blogs, I was starting to feel like a bad mom..........

So now back to "that" day. The kids weren't in school yet, so everyone was home. I was expecting a visit from my visiting teachers. I asked Philip to please keep the kids upstairs and play quietly so I could enjoy a quiet visit. I wasn't feeling well, and my nerves were already on edge. Waking up with head aches everyday sometimes makes me more edgy then I should be. Well to make an already long story short, the kids were horrible. Sadly to say that my oldest caused the most problems. He threw a fit when I wouldn't let him play the xbox and stomped off like a three year old, while the girls yelled at each other the whole time. I kept thinking, "these are not my kids!!" I was really trying to patient. The visiting teachers left and I lost it! I called Tyler practicaly in tears and told him I couldn't handle things anymore. Which I know everyone feels this form time to time. Later that day Tyler came home with flowers and told me to go out with some friends. When I came home I went up to my bathroom and a big sign layed across the floor saying "YOU ARE THE BEST MOM EVER!" Then sitting in my jewelry box were two letters.............

Dear mom,

I'm sorry about that time today. I didn't know that you're head hearting. Now I understand. And I don't think that you are a bad mom. I love you very much.

you're dauter

Ellie Kae Edwards (I love how they spell when they are first learning)

Dear Mom,

Thank you for being the BEST MOM EVER. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

I know that my kids have missed out on a lot and I have always wished that they had had a mom who physically could be a mom to them. I really took the hysterectomy hard because I always wanted that last chance to do it the right way. But after that night I realized.......my kids are ok! I am so lucky to have kids that try to understand things. Tyler always says to me, "It is time for our next phase of life with our kids. It is time for you to have that chance to be that kind of mom that you want to be." I feel like all I had to do was blink and those toddler years were gone. So here's to that "next phase".

Wiped Out

Maggee and Lucy were sooo exhausted from our long day at Seven Peaks. They didn't make it five minutes in the care before I turned around and found them asleep.

Ellie is 8!!!!

I can't believe that I know have to children that have turned 8. We treat this birthday as an extra special one in our family. Which mainly means that we just let them pick something out of the ordinary to go and do as a family. Ellie wanted to go to Seven Peaks this year. The kids loved it. Lucy was very content in the kiddie pools all day long

First Day of School

This post is a little late. But better late than never. I cannot believe that the school year is already starting again. This year will be quite different. I am very used to always having at least two of my kids at home with me. This year the three oldest will be in school all day long. Lucy will gets a lot of one on one time with me. I was a little worried at how Maggee would handle the all day schedule but she loves it!!!! I hope her teacher is ready for her high spirited personality. Lucy loves to send the kids out the door in the morning and put them on the bus. She stands to the side as they all load the bus and then waves as the bus passes her by. That's where I come in and have to run out to get her or she tries to sneak over to Karols (grandma's) house. Wow!!! I am down to my last child at home. I am not quite sure how I feel about that.

Maggee

There was no other name to name this post but "Maggee". Here's a short story to say why.

I have a very good friend whose name is Jayne Muir. My kids absolutely love her!! One weekend Jayne, and her husband, Robert had Maggee and Ellie spend the night at their house. That night they went to Dairy Keen for dinner. While they were waiting for their food they went and loaded up on fry sauce. Maggee, Ellie, and Jayne all brought the little cups of fry sauce back to the table. Maggee put them all in the middle of the table and said, "There, now we can all share the fry sauce." Well aparently Robert likes to have his own fry sauce, not to mention that he is a little shy as it is when it comes to kids. He reached to the middle of the table and put his share of fry sauce infront of him. This seemed to bother Maggee. She turned to Robert and said, "so, you don't like to share" Anyone who knows Maggee knows that this is just like her to say something like this. On the other hand, kids are always our best teachers. Our family would not be the same without our little Maggee!

Crazziness

So it has been a while since I last blogged. I do have quite a few things to put on my blog, but at this momment I still don't have much time. So I thought I would just take a quick sec and just list a few things that have been keeping me buisy. Hopefuly in a few days I will have more time.

-Kick out the lady living in my parents house
-clean their house anticipating their homecoming from their mission
-sister with three children move in with me
-trying to adjust to a house full of seven kids running everywhere!
-going to spring city the last three weekends to help my parents
-Last and worst of all....lice infection in the Edwards home
I never thought my kids would get lice. My sister's oldest child got it and it all spread from there, but we do still love them! I thought my sister was going to have a heart attack. What a Nightmare!!!!