This past Friday we had NO kids! All day long we had talked about going out on a "date" with each other and doing something different. Our time together is few and far between while I am in school and working nights so we were going to take advantage of my weekend off. Needless to say, when it came time to decide what to do, neither of us could really think of anything we were just dying to do. So....we went to dinner and to WalMart to get ideas for Christmas for the kids. Go figure- a night alone and we still had the kids on our minds! Does it ever end? I wonder sometimes, what will we do when all three are grown and out of our homes? Sometimes it seems so impossible to imagine. This weekend, once we had all 3 kids back, things turned into total chaos...kids yelling at each other, griping because they have to help around the house, doors slamming, radio's blaring, computer occupied, telephone occupied, friends over...and, would you believe- I felt totally at peace. It is when the noise dies down and the house is quiet that I think something is not right; so, the radio goes on and I make noise of my own! When we are in the thick of things and Kenneth and I long for the days of just he and I it is easy to get caught up in how irritating kids can be sometimes...but, when things are quiet and they are all in bed, I find myself loving the fact that they are here, in my home, SAFE and SOUND. I love my kids. I just hope that in the chaos of our lives they pick up on some kind of normalcy and we are able to teach them how to be good, responsible adults and parents some day.
Monday, September 04, 2006
Date Night!
This past Friday we had NO kids! All day long we had talked about going out on a "date" with each other and doing something different. Our time together is few and far between while I am in school and working nights so we were going to take advantage of my weekend off. Needless to say, when it came time to decide what to do, neither of us could really think of anything we were just dying to do. So....we went to dinner and to WalMart to get ideas for Christmas for the kids. Go figure- a night alone and we still had the kids on our minds! Does it ever end? I wonder sometimes, what will we do when all three are grown and out of our homes? Sometimes it seems so impossible to imagine. This weekend, once we had all 3 kids back, things turned into total chaos...kids yelling at each other, griping because they have to help around the house, doors slamming, radio's blaring, computer occupied, telephone occupied, friends over...and, would you believe- I felt totally at peace. It is when the noise dies down and the house is quiet that I think something is not right; so, the radio goes on and I make noise of my own! When we are in the thick of things and Kenneth and I long for the days of just he and I it is easy to get caught up in how irritating kids can be sometimes...but, when things are quiet and they are all in bed, I find myself loving the fact that they are here, in my home, SAFE and SOUND. I love my kids. I just hope that in the chaos of our lives they pick up on some kind of normalcy and we are able to teach them how to be good, responsible adults and parents some day.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Brooke's 1st Football Game 2006
Here are some pics from last Saturday's football game. Brookelynn had decided not to cheer this year and then at the last minute- literally, the day of the game- she decided she wanted to. We kind of figured that would happen, or at least that she would regret not cheering, just didn't know we would be enrolling her and rushing around the day of the first game.
Jovi's 1st Day of School
Here is a pic from Jovi's first day of school. I don't have one of Brooke because Rachel took her to school.
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