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Real Mothers don't eat quiche;

they don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried playdough doesn't come out of shag carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know what the vacuum just sucked up.

Real Mothers sometimes ask 'why me?' and get their answer when a little voice says, 'because I love you best'.

Real Mothers know that a child's growth is not measure by height or years or grade . . .

it is marked by the progression of

Mama

to Mommy

to Mom.

Babies are Angels that fly to the earth,

their wings disappear at the time of their birth

one look in their eyes and we're never the same

They're part of us now and that part has a name

That part is your heart and a bond that won't sever

our Babies are Angels, we love them forever.

~Unknown~

1/25/2007

.WELL its thursday night and I have worked myself up into a frenzy all day and now my energy is totally gone, so maybe I will get some sleep tonight. I'm not sure if I'll be on in the morning or not but your prayers are much appreciated and thank you so much ladies for your support these last few weeks, I'm glad I've had you guys to vent to and to keep giving me strength when I felt for sure I couldn't go another day like this

My tag team is soooo cute, I feel like a proud mommy right now.

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o.k. so this week was a weird one. Easter weekend was great the kids found eggs church was great. Everyone is in good spirits and happy. Monday morning I get the kids ready for schoold they are both running around in the house having a great time. My husband drops them off and before he even gets back home, the school calls. Lawrence threw up all over the place in his class we need to pick him up. So my husband says he's not feeling that hot he'll go ahead and just bring both of them home, no problem Janel can keep Lawrence busy and throw away pampers for me. My husband gets home with the kids and immediately goes to the bathroom and starts throwing up and Lawrence is in the other bathroom doing the same with diarrhea. I couldnt believe it, a sick child a sick husband and a baby!. I told my husband to go lay down and lawrence went on the couch with his blanket so he could watch T.V.

this is just how great my beautiful 4 year old daughter is.

I fix a bottle for Gabriel and I tell my husband I was going to the store ofr gatoraide soup pedialyte you know the stuff to make you feel slightly better. I go to the living room and I tell my daughter if Gabriel starts crying just give him his bottle o.k. (Gabriel was in his swing) I rush off to the grocery store praying the whole time that everything was fine while I'm gone. When I get home I give my hubby gatorade ask my son if he's hungry and he says no Janel fixed me a corn dog so I'm not hungry (corn dog was a big mistake but it was the thought) I look at the coffee table and Gabriel's bottle is half full. I went to the room and asked my hubby if he gave him the bottle and he says no. he heard the baby crying and got up to go check on him he peeped out of our room and janel had the bottle and was pushing the air out of the bottle like a pro and gave Gabriel his bottle and then leaned him forward in the swing and pat his back til he burped. LOL I couldnt believe it. Of course Lawrence threw up the corn dog but she was being such a little woman it made me proud, and it also made me realise how much she watches my every move.

fast forward to Thursday I get the same thing vomitting diarrhea and on top of me trying to keep my fluids up Gabriel is refusing to take the bottle so I have to nurse it was horrible. and who was there for me when she got home from school? Janel

GABRIEL 3 mos. old

5/7/07

You know I was just sitting here thinking about my Family, and I just want to say I Love my Hubby so much, and my babies make me so proud. My family pull emotions from me that I've never known, and I am enjoying this Journey God Is Good, Thank you Lord for my family its everything I've prayed for and more.

WELL my Birthday WAS FUN . We got in the pool and the water was CCCCOOOOOLLLLLDDDD however the kids stayed in and the adults jumped out.lol the water was too cold for me to give Gabriel his first dip in the pool though maybe mid to late june or early july it'll be warmer.

6/8/2007

LAWRENCE GRADUATED FROM KINDERGARTEN!!!!!! YEAH

Janel GRADUATED FROM PRE/K YEAH!!!!

I'll post some pics as soon as I download them from the camera
on the 5th day of school my teacher gave to me FIVE GOLD STARS!!!!Graduating is such serious buisness. LOL

Start spreading the NEWS! We're leaving today. We want to be apart of it FIRST GRADE FIRST GRADE!!!

Dancing with HAPPY FEET

WHAT YOU LOOKIN AT WILLIS? My goodness I've had such a long day

How do you do it? Even when explosions are all around, you are able to take a deep cleansing breath and chant your mantra "this too shall pass." You are a calming influence on your kids in a hectic world.>

SO the prep for the surgery goes great they actually hit my vein the first time around so I didnt have to worry about gettin poked a lot. So I get rolled into the O.R. and go thro more prep my hubby waits outside while they are doing this. All of the nurses come around me and say a prayer for the dr and the surgery that everything goes well, which made me feel very relieved that there were some praying people in the room. so they start to test the epidural after my hubby and the dr. comes in and I told them that I could feel a little under the skin on the left hand side they said o.k. we'll just wait a few minuted before we start to give the epidural time to work. so the cutting starts and I feel pressure and pulling, and then he starts cutting some more and I'm thinking, dang I kindda feel that, so I said doc I kindda feel that....ow ow so he looks ath the anesthesiologist and says give her more drugs I cant just stop at this point sot the anesthesiologist is freaking out and the dr is trying to stay calm, I have tears at this point and look at my husband and I said babe they're hurting me. my doc is like look I dont care if you have to put her under give her something NOW so the nurse is trying to keep me calm and I'm thinking I dont want to go under, what if I dont wake up, the anesthesiologist finally finds the medicine and pumps some in and says I dont wan the baby to be drowsy, the dr said fuck that if her bp goes up any more the baby wont have a mother give her more drugs, then the baby pops out and I hear his cry and the world is better and the new pian medication starts making the room spin, I could smell the operation gong on and the dr. hurried and got me sewed back up. that whole experience was so scary you have no idea. I was only in recovery for an hour before I got to go back to my room and the baby was brought to me all pink and healthy, everybody was apologetic, I didnt really care, nor did I wish to re live the moment I was just like please get me some juice and a bottle so I can feed my child and leave me alone. My doc let me go home a day early since I wasnt eating the nasty food anyway I was walking around the next day, he did really good on my incision it looks a lot better then my first incision, I do still have bloating from the air that wa letin from the surgery but I've been drinking warm tea for that. I drank prune juice in the hospital so that I could pass gas and get the hell out of there. Anyway we're home the baby is sleeping through the night he only cries when his pamper is being changed, but believe it or not he's scooting or wiggling, I laid him down away from me and scoot across the bed til he got next to me and laid down, I moved him back so that my hubby could see and he did it agian.....we decided that this one cant be left on the bed even if he does have pillows around him. Anyway I'll give more updates later I'm gonna go and lay back down with the little one

Tuesday, 4 Dec

Tuesday, 4 Dec

I just noticed he has something in his mouth in most of these pictures LOL