Well....

I truly hope that the few of you who actually read or at least look at my blog from time to time had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! That includes anyone and everyone!

I can't believe that more than a month has gone by since I last posted. I know I have said this before, but this last year really was the busiest year of our life (so far). I was homeschooling, my precious grandmother passed away, had a baby, was involved in baseball, All Stars, Fall ball, Girl Scouts, speech therapy, trying to get adjusted to having four kids (which honestly took me a long time to get a grip on), celebrated 10 wonderful years of marriage, "re-doing" almost our whole house (new paint,new flooring etc.) dealing with life in general and the list could go on and on. BUT I wouldn't have traded this year for anything. Except for maybe one thing....Although I am VERY thankful for David's job, he worked a lot of overtime this last year so that we could do all of those things and not have to go into debt to do it. So I would trade that time back but I am glad that we were able to do some of the things that we did this last year. It was interesting and alot of fun! :)

A lot of the things I just haven't posted about because I haven't had the time to sit down and blog. There are so many pictures that I could post on here but...Anyway, this is a new year and so maybe (and that's with a big hopefully in front of it), I will be able to blog a little bit more. I really enjoy blogging and I enjoy reading everyone else's blog, but my time has been needed somewhere else.

To give an update on all of us....We are doing well. The kids are growing up so fast and it makes me sad. I want to keep their innocence bottled up inside of them forever. I don't want the day to come when they realize that things just aren't as they really seem.

I remember growing up, my mom would pray a hedge of protection over us and back then, I just didn't get it. Now that I am a parent, I understand and pray that over my four little blessings as well.

It's hard being an adult and having to deal with adult situations. Sometimes life isn't the bowl of cherries you thought it would be. It's sad. It's sad the way that we all take things for granted...take each other for granted. It's sad how we all treat each other and how what was once close relationships have now been broken due to unforgiveness, miscommunications, selfishness, arrogance, disrespect and just the general lack of caring for each other, on all sides. God teaches us to love one another, so then why is it so hard to demonstrate that love to one another despite all the differences? Sorry, I know I seem to be rambling here...it's just some things I've been struggling with lately and things that God has been working on in my heart because of different situations that have happened to me or situations that I know about. None of us are perfect and if we would all remember that(totally including myself in that), then maybe we could all get along.

Like I said, we are all doing well. Mimi and Bud are loving school and doing great. In fact, they brought home their report cards this past week and both of them were right on target or exceeding in where they needed to be. That's encouraging to me because I really had some reservations about putting them in school.

One thing I will say is that I sure do miss them when they are gone all day long. I don't miss the sibling rivalry, but I miss those generally sweet little beings being around me all day. I loved it when they were out for Christmas break. I was really sad to have to take them back to school this past week. I really tried to enjoy them while they were off. I really tried to remember what was most important and that was the quality time that I was spending with them and the fact that they were just there....safe, in my arms reach.

Boogs is doing well in speech therapy. I'm amazed at how well he's doing considering where he was a year ago. Such a huge difference.

Little man is growing like a weed. He is now 7 months old and 20lbs of pure sweetness!! He is the cutest little thing! He is sitting up so well and has even started to try and crawl. You can definitely tell that he's ready to be mobile. All in due time though. I'm trying to enjoy every bit of his baby~ness because it's going by way too fast! I can't even believe that he is 7 months old already. I look back and think, where has the time gone?

Ahh, the not so nice joys of growing older. Isn't it funny how when you were little, the days and months just went on and on forever and for forever? And now as an adult we think, there just isn't enough hours in the day for this and that and gosh how time flies and goodness how the kids seem to grow faster and faster with each passing year? I'm still struggling with the fact that Christmas was just a few weeks ago but it already feels like it was forever ago. You wait all year for that Christmas time and it's gone in a second. :(

Wow, I've written alot. There's alot in this "doesn't think outside of the box" square brain of mine, but I guess I'll save it for another day.