Outnumbered

Wednesday mornings from 9 am-2:30 pm I have been watching the neighbor kids from across the street, Abby 3 years who is in pre-school from 9 am-12 pm, and Alex 11 months. Most days they are good and Carson enjoys the company but last week I seriously had a "I am not having more kids" moment. I was already dreading watching the kids that day because it had been a long night for me (thanks Carson). I walk over to their house and for about an hour things are going smoothly. Then Alex was getting tired. I thought, I can handle this because Carson is still playing well.

Crying begets crying (every time) and next thing I know they are both crying. I felt helpless, they were both tired and I don't have four arms so I couldn't help them, believe me I tried for about 20 minutes. Exasperated, a kid on each hip, I make the trek across the street to our house while doing my best not to drop them. It is times like this when I am soo thankful that Andrew is at home because I passed Carson off to him.
Mothers of two or more, how do you do it all? I am in awe.

Here is the Lavastone gang. It is almost impossible to get a good picture of three kids. I sometimes I have a hard enough time with one. I took about 20 pictures and believe it or not, this is the best one of Alex, Abby and Carson.

My Homies

Last weekend we went out to dinner. We were worried about how Carson would do because he hadn't taken a nap. However, being his usual social self he immediately gets the attention of the large party next to us. The guys near our end of the table where so nice to "talk with him" and after awhile he wanted nothing to do with mom and dad so we let him so sit with his new "friends."

We moved the high chair and he soaked up his new gang for about 30 sec and then turns around with the biggest grin, I wish I would have had the camera out for his initial expression. You could tell that he thought he was so cool and big!When Carson's posse was about to leave they asked if they could take a picture of him. I was hesitant at first and although they look questionable they were nice guys but I hope these aren't the type of friends that Carson will normally be drawn to hang out with.

Class of 2010!

After being denied semester after semester and being just a number on a waiting list, I received a letter on Friday informing me that I will be starting nursing school this fall (provided that I can pass an admission assessment exam). I am anxious about the test because I have been out of school now for a year and if I don't use it, I tend to lose it. If I pass this test, I will be attending college at Yuba City in Marysville (about 40 minutes from my house). This college was not my first choice but I just want to get into a program so I am excited to start anywhere.

Just getting the letter and knowing that my life as I know it will end in six months has already started to stress me out. I am already having sleepless night wondering how I am going to be able to juggle everything...don't get me wrong, I know that people have it worse than me and I am grateful that I have this opportunity to pursue this goal of mine. Like I mentioned before I am a little rusty when is comes to academics but luckily they added another pre-requisite that I have to take before fall so I will get a "warm-up" class this summer. I am hoping that this will help me get into the swing of things. It is going to be a long two years but I know that becoming an RN will be worth all of the hard work and sacrifice that it will require.