one more

I wish that I had one more hour in the day to get things done!
I wish that I had one more set of hands to help kids out!
I wish that I had one more of me to be in the place that I need to be in all the time!

I wonder if anyone else feels like this ever?  I love my family but sometimes I struggle to be where I need to be when I need to be there.  Sometimes I feel like oppurtunites have been missed because I am taking care of someone or something else, and them my patients leave and I that leaves with me with just want ing them to go to bed so I can have some quiet!!  Once they are asleep I just wish I hold their little bodies close and never let them go!! I love them so much, and my goal is that they may always know and feel that.  Sometimes I am able to do that, and sometimes I am not the mom I should be, and yet they still love me and want me to be apart of them. So thankful for them. I love them.

My goal is to be more present and to be more pateinet in the little day things that do not matter as much as a hug and a kiss!

Benson

Benson is doing a great at school.  He is starting to really pick things up.  I am so pleased with his progress. He has a few friends in his school that I convinced to go there.  It has made a BIG difference. He is still behind in his speech and might always be but I am so glad that he is starting to build a support network for himself. I am really nervous for when he goes to kindergarten. I don't think that he is ready.  He has a hard time writting his name, and can't count to 10, and doesn't recognize a lot of the letters.  We work and work and work at this.  I am so worried.  I just have to trust that all will be well.  I love that little boy so much my heart bursts and I just want to keep him safe and protect him.  I want him to stay little!!
He just turned 5 and that was hard on me.  He is growing up to fast.  He is an awesome little buddy and a joy to have around.  We went swimming for his bday and he had 8 little friends.  They had a great time.  He has 2 little girls that he really like.  And he had to have them sit right beside them.  Wouldn't it be funny if he married one of them?
Benson at 5:
Benson favorite,
food: apples with peanut butter
colour: red
outside: ride bikes
friend: burke hall
girlfriend: Olivia Muise and Bridgette Lindsay
toy: spiderman and batman houses
Likes to "read" books and likes to swim.  He also likes to be the "big brother to Hannah when Nyla and Briggs are at school!

violin

Well Briggs did not take take to violin at all.  We weren't going to let him quit but his teacher suggested that we should stop things to keep it a positive experience.  Nyla on the other hand has been playing this year.  She is very talented and plays very nice.  She is willing to practice for the most part.  Her hard work is starting to pay off.  I am excitted to see were she will be by the end of this years lessons.

ski time

We just came back from spending a week in whitefish skiing and swimming.  It was SO much fun!! We pulled the kids form school for a week and stayed at Meadow Lake.  There was on one there.  It was really quite nice.
Briggs Nyla and I went skiing.  We skied teusday and wednesday.  We all had lessons in the morning and then skied together in the afternoon.  It was great.  I was SO TIERD by wednesday afternoon.  My shines hurt.  I had not been skiing since Jan. 1 1999.  So it had been awhile.  I was nervous about taking the kids because my own abilities were really lacking!
The kids did great and really liked it.
Trev stayed back with Benson and Hannah and they swam in the morning and afternoon and in the night.  The had a great time with their dad. They don't usually get to spend time with him like that.  It was a nice reversal.
I hope to be able to do this again.

Gobble Gobble

We had a great Thanksgiving! It was nice to spend it with family. We went to Calgary for the feast, and a feast t was.

Extreme makeover

I have been wanting to do our master bedroom. We moved here and never really did anything with it. It was time to have a space of our own! Trev had a confrence this past week, so I kicked it into full gear and with the help of a friend who does decorating on the side we Painted sewed and refinished furniture and re Orangized the room. I was tired and I was nervous as to what trev would think because he had no clue! But, he loves it and so do I. Here is the link to our befores and afters.

Halloween

This year was low key Halloween. He had fun dressing up. Briggs was Harry potter. I surprised him last minute and it made him happy. Nyla was a fairy. Super cute. Benson was spiderman. Hannah was a lady bug. They were so cute. We went booing for fhe one night. We tried to pick people we thought could use a pick me il. My kids understood not everything is for there friends. We had a great time. We craved pumpkins, and went to school Halloween party and the trunk or treating. To top the night off, they went trick or treating. Live are tippy, and older neighbors that like my kids. Just wish there wasn't so much candy.