Mommy's Project 52:6 Crazy

Crazy is me taking 3 kids to the grocery store, or anywhere really. If you never experienced the grocery store with three children aged 6, 3, and 18 months I will tell you it is hell wonderful. And you should have seen the time we went to Chuck-E-Cheese. What am I thinking to do these things by myself? Seriously I think I have screw loose. :) Crazy is tomorrow, we have a soccer game at 10, another at 12, a birthday party at 230, then dinner and 3 baths! And that's just the bare bones of what needs to be done. 

Crazy is Connor thinking that screaming this horribly shrill loud scream is an acceptable form of communication. He does this is at the most horrible times, in a restaurant, when he wakes up, when we are waiting, and in the car and the bathroom. Have you ever been in a small, confined space with the loudest shrillest sound ever? Yeah that's Connor. Crazy is Connor thinking he can do anything that his siblings can do from climbing to playing, dressing himself, even wearing their clothes!

Crazy is Brielle who likes to make up songs. Her most infamous one is "you don't have to be a poopy-doo." Those are the only lyrics. :) By the way I am pretty sure she got that saying from Daddy. Crazy is the way she loves and cares about her brothers. She loves to be around them, she looks up to CJ so much and she claims Connor is her "baby boy." Boy does that girl love her brothers.

Crazy is CJ's conversations. Today he was telling me that his Dad and I should have another baby and needs to be a girl so Bri won't have a room to herself anymore. Now THAT is one crazy idea, have another baby, hilarious! Now I get where he was coming from since he and Connor have to share room Brielle should too. Crazy is CJ and his "fads." CJ picks something he likes and sticks with it for a really long time to the exclusion of everything else, that one type of thing is all he wants to play with. First it was cars, then it was Mario, now it's Star Wars. I wonder what's next?

Here are a few pictures of my crazy kids:

I HAD to include this as an example of Bri's crazy  choice in clothing. I love how she tucked in part of her shirt so everyone could see her belt!

Mommy's Project 52:5 Loving

Well this week I am determined to get away from my lists! LOL.

I try to tech my children how to be loving and kind to each other and other people. So when they are not fighting they are GREAT to each other. Brielle more so than Connor. Brielle tries to help comfort Connor when he is upset. She gets him things, shares with him, and she tells him when he does something good. Connor LOVES his big sister he is always looking for her and wanting to play with her. When she goes over to a friends house to play he stands at the doorway looking for her and says "Sissy?".

What I really wanted to write about is my husband and how we have been doing with him half a world away. I have really been missing him the last week or two. For me him being where he is encourages me to show him love in ways I didn't before and to appreciate the small stuff. The hurried phone call, the post on my Facebook wall put there when we couldn't both be awake and online at the same time. The way he sounds so happy each time he gets a care package. To show him love so far away we make him things, draw and paint pictures, write letters to him, I take video and pictures of the kids. I send care packages full of things I know he likes and some stuff that I hope will make him smile and laugh. Stuff he can have fun with, stuff he can enjoy and know that people back home love and support him. Am I always doing it right? No, probably not but I try.

So to my husband, I love you and I miss you. I can't wait for you to come home! (Its starting to get cold at night and I need my heater. LOL). Thank you for all that you do.