A New week, full of thanks!

I'm so grateful to be starting a new week! The kids are all on the mend. Hailey is still suffering with some minor asthma issues but nothing that requires a 6th doctor's visit in less than 2 weeks! I'm so glad for her and for me! I'm so thankful for a sweet husband who let me sneak away to see my movie on Saturday... a much needed break and may I just say... mind you I know that I'm a 33 year old mother of 5, but to repeat my friend Lynaya "that Taylor is just pretty", I agree... and from the gasps and giggles that came from the tween/mom crowd of the theater they seemed to agree too :)

Oh, how I look forward to this Friday, I like Thanksgiving but I'm just not that into "fancy" food, it's over rated in my book. I enjoy a good meal, but something about standing on my feet for 8 hours straight preparing everything really doesn't appeal to me! Then there is the 10 minutes of inhaling and it's all over! Oh the joys of the feast!

What I am looking forward to is getting out my Christmas decorations, cutting down our Christmas tree and all of the music and smells that lead up to Christmas! I made My husband a promise that I wouldn't decorate before Thanksgiving (I did one year and it really took away from our Thanksgiving day... so I'll wait, just 4 more days!).

My list of Thankfuls!
-My Sweet, loving, thoughtful, helpful, handsome and respectful husband! Mike I love you!
-Beautiful, mostly healthy, helpful, loving, kind, happy, silly and thoughtful children! I love you Faith, Hailey, Noah, Ammon and Elizabeth!
-Employment, when so many friends are out of work, how grateful I am that we can provide for our family.
-Fall, I truly love the beauty that surround me this time of year, the smells, the colors Everything!
-My knowledge that I am a child of God, I can't imagine my life without knowing this, it makes me who I am and lead the choices I make each day.
-My parents, who love me and support me and my siblings every day!
-Mike's parents who love and support us even though we took all of their grand kids 2,000 miles away.
-My siblings, for always being there to support and love each other.
-My "other" family here in NY who allow me to lean on them and help me when I need it!
-My sisters in the Gospel, who teach and show me how to be better every day!
-My Savior Jesus Christ, for his example, for his love, for his church!

And many more to come!

Sometimes you just need a good cry

I'm going to apologize up front for this post. It's been a crazy and stressful 10 days for me to say the least. 2 kids with walking Pneumonia, another child who can't breathe well and isn't getting oxygen and was almost hospitalized this morning. The extra crying, whining, drama that comes with sick little ones, An "identity theft" scare, stacks of laundry, dirty dishes, un-made beds, breathing treatments, anti-biotics, forgetting to call my sister who is having one of the worst 2 week periods of her life, taking care of my elderly neighbor who is 91 and all alone and it breaks my heart that I can't spend more time with her, taking in another child who can't be in her own home and trying to love her as my own, a traveling husband, a friend who is in a crazy love situation who needs my help, and feeling a little over whelmed with my calling. oh and car rides back and forth to school, play rehearsal, school clubs, church activities. WHEW, I really needed to just vent all of that! CRAZY 10 days, crazy day today.

I've decided that a good cry can really heal the soul. Now that I've said all that I needed get out. I'm FINE, it's amazing what it does for you when you can just let it out. I'm a grown up, I am healthy, I have love to share, I can do it !!!

To all of you "perfect" mom's out there.... hats off to you, I'm human and it's been a rough few weeks.