yep its been a loooong while. a whole month has gone by with no blogging. i start off with good intentions f bloggin but get so buys with other things and it slips my mind till i see everyone else blogging and thinking "o yea i need to to"
So lets see so much has happened this past month yet so much has stayed the same.
Sydney just tuned 7 months!! and this is the longest i have breastfed and I am really enjoying not buying formula on a weekly basis yet I am sure wishing this baby would take a bottle here and there... 7 months of breastfeeding means 7 months of not getting a real break! No mommy days out no dates no long walks on the beach no picnics with the hubs.... BUT i have to say that this has totally been worth it. As much as I have complained and asked for advice, every time I sit down to nurse and stare at that sweet precious babe nursing away I feel so blessed and loved so much by her that she is able to be nourished and fed from me. Its a special bond I will never forget and this time in life though it can be rough it is soooooo precious to me and is slipping away way to fast.
As I type here the 3 little princes sleep soundly in their beds and I can just picture all their sweet little faces and want to run up there and kiss em all over. I am such a blessed mommy to have these 3 blessing call me "mommy"
My day to day prob looks a lot like yours if u have 3 kids. and even though I may whine a complain about how tired I can get and how low my patience can get I always try to remind myself of how fortunate I am that I am able to have this life and love on those kids all day.
I tend to be a very optimistic person and so much tho that I can come off as if I have it all together all the time and that I seem to be doing it all and that I must never loose it and get mad and frustrated or that nothing goes wrong over here and that my kids must be perfect....
The truth is sooooooo far from that but the truth is that I choose to focus my energy and give attention to all the good things that go on in my life cause the bad moments shouldn't be aloud to waste any of my energy and they don't deserve the focus.
I to have many times in my day specially with 3 kids and one 4yr old who thinks she is going on 10 sometime and 2 babies! yes 2! Sophia is sooooo not much of a toddler yet she is such a baby still and is very needy and wants to be held and cuddled and played with and Sydney who is wanting all of me too! So I am spread thin and I loose my patience and I can yell at my kids and scream and want to run away. Im sleep deprived and hungry and thirsty and need to held too! Im a needy girl too! lol so this house is full of needy girls! HELP! lol poor husband. Who yes is needy himself too...
But i have come up with a great way to sneak around all the negativity that can consume us and can take over our day by giving attention to all the bad moments in our days.
only give attention and engery to the good things in life! (sounds optimistic? nah ) by doing this it helps me to feel happy and to move past the hiccups in the days. I love to only focus on the brighter side of things and then pray for the frustrating parts of my days which is usually Sarah talking back to me or repeatedly doing something I asked her not to do.
I have also become a huge friend of schedule since I became a mommy. If I live by my schedule then we r all happier around here! it can be bent or broken sometimes but while hubbys working many many days in a row which usualy means many 24hr shifts in row for me, I usually won't break it unless is a special outing or activity that can't be rescheduled.
Ive been printing out task sheets and set em up for us and along with a house cleaning schedule so no bathtub or toilet got un scrubbed and no one runs out of underwear... which yes btw has happened!(cause i hate laundry soooooooooo much) So task scedhule r a must here in the Sandberg house for sure! I also don't do everything in one day which has saved me from going crazy from being overwhelmed.
I also love to be organized and everything has its place and I like to be able to say its upstairs in the closet to the right on the top shelf and have that thing be right where i say it is... so is that what they call OCD? not sure but whatever it is its working for us.
Ill have to blog and show my schedule and post pics of our meal planning and house cleaning and daily task sheets. soon.
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