A very long weekend

The feeling I am feeling is familiar. The feeling of total exhaustion but I couldn't be do anything more important than this at this time.

Oh yea, the feeling like I have a new born baby! That is exactly how I feel. But there is no new baby, but I do have a 70 year old mother who needs help every two hours to get up in the middle of the night.

I am exhausted but again I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

A crazy week

For those of you wondering I decided to go private with my blog because I kept getting really weird hits on it. However, since I posted my last post I haven't got as many so I guess I'll just see what happens.

On another note this week has been crazy. My mom had hip replacement surgery on Monday and I have spread my time between home and kids and the hospital. All I can say is the next few weeks are going to be interesting, I bring her home today. And just a reminder to myself, never have hip surgery, it really isn't very fun.

She is doing well and she is one tough cookie that woman. She blows everyone away with her tolerance for pain. She is amazing. If had half her stamina the next few weeks would be a piece of cake.

It has been interesting though, when I go into the medical supply places all of the people say, you are awfully young to be taking care of your mother. I just return by saying I was a late in life mistake, she was older when she had me.

To be honest I feel too young to be taking care of my mother but I am happy to do it. She has taken care of me a whole lot in my life time, she practically lived here when I was healing from being so sick a few hears ago. She is a great mother and it is about time I have had a chance to take care of her. So wish me luck on this journey, and pray I can balance my time between my kids, husband and mother in the next few weeks because I already feel like a balancing act at the circus and she isn't even home yet.

Going Private

Hey friends and family that look at my blog, I have decided to go private with my blog so if you are interested and would like an invite to check in on us every once in a while feel free to leave your email address in my comments.

Happy Birthday Emma

In all the craziness Emma did turn ten. Double digits, how time flies. I just want to remember a few things about Emma at 10.

1. She is so much fun, she is my little friend and I appreciate her so much.

2. She is kind to others.

3. She has so many talents. She is a great dancer, wonderful piano player, and unknown to us she is also a little actress which is proved during the fourth grade player when she blew everyone away when she walked out on stage as "Red."

4. She is smart and I love going to parent teacher conferences because her teacher has all good to say about her. She is top in her class.

5. She really is a great kid and I am so proud of her example to her younger siblings.

Birthday Spa

Emma's 10th birthday was a success! We had a birthday spa and it was one of the greatest birthdays we've done. We started the night out with a light spa dinner of rolls with ham and cheese, custom initialed water (water bottles I had put the girls initials on and wrapped in cute paper), chips, and fruit. After that we had five stations and thanks to my mom, sister-in-law, and great husband that is willing to throw pride away and paint nails it was a success.

The stations included: Pedicures, manicures, facials with cucumbers of course, do each other hair, and bath salt sundaes. The girls had a great time and we ended the night with some good old fashioned karaoke.

Christmas Day

I am finally getting around to blogging about Christmas. Maybe there will begin to be a routine around here after several weeks of chaos.

Christmas Day was a good day. Always hectic getting around to see everyone but it really was a good day. We got to talk to Eric on the phone, Blake's brother who is serving a mission in Guatamala.

Olivia loved her baking hat, apron, and baby doll that cries. She was not too happy she didn't get her stuffed animal Ruldolph the Red Nose Reindeer but Santa brought his little girlfriend instead. Rudolph was hard to find.

Emma loved her baby doll, snowboard, and new shirt.

Jamison Loved his Lego set, Lego MP3 Player, and sled. But he really loved the wii we got all the kids.

Brian's Funeral

Well, the funeral was yesterday and it has been a heart breaking week. There are just a few things I want my kids to remember about their Uncle Brian.

-He loved to cook and he was really good at it. He always made me the best broccoli cheese soup for my birthday and it is is something I looked forward to every year, never did get the recipe out of him. He loved to cook dutch oven for us, especially on Kat's birthday. He also made the best fondu around.

-Brian loved sports, he loved to play them and watch them.

- He loved his kids, he was their best friend.

-He loved his wife and they were a great couple.

-He loved all kids and kids loved him. He was a tease and the kids loved to play with him. He loved being an uncle. And because he was a tease he and I had a really good time giving each other a hard time.

-He loved games and he always won no matter who played him, he was too smart for his own good.

Those are the things that I want them to remember. He was a great man who had many trials with health and God knew what he was doing when he took him, it was his time to rest even though it seemed way too soon.