Motherhood

Okay. I am having a bit of confusion about how my mother raised 7 children. My reality is that the moment my third turned one, part of my cerebral cortex went missing. Really.

Proof:

• I had to reschedule a doctor's appointment for Andrew three times because I kept forgetting it. Yes, each time it was scheduled for a quiet time in the morning. Yes, I wrote it on my calendar each time. Yes, I received reminder phone calls the day before from the dr. office. Each time I was doing nothing important (dishes, laundry, picking my nose, trying to remember why I opened the refrigerator door...) when I would remember. It was ALWAYS about 30 minutes after the appointment time. AUGHH!

• One of Jacob's good friends had a birthday party yesterday afternoon at Main Event -a place Jake has been dying to go to, and a friend he doesn't get to see often. Yeah - forgot it.
• I have forgotten to feed Amelia lunch....ahem, not sure how many times. (This is how you train your children to be proactive. )
  

• A couple weeks ago I left the house and ran errands without a bra on. No Katie - it was not planned.

I think the trouble lies in recognizing the written word. Whether the paper with symbols is my calendar, an email message, or something large pasted to my refrigerator so I can't miss it, whatever part of the brain processes the letters and signals to my brain what the combination means......that is the section I am missing. So if you invite me somewhere, or simply demand that I do something, you'd better call me 5 minutes before I am supposed to do the something, and hope that I am even home. BWahahahaha! (Evil laughter, because truly, I am in my happy place. Most likely at a park "chitter chatting" as Andrew says, with friends or just breathing the fresh air and trying to let my little brain recover enough to remember to make dinner before 8.)

Yes, my poor husband and children. But. . . . . "All ya need is love!" Right?

Go Tigers!

Wow! Andrew's soccer team was ON today! All five did an incredible job. I am so excited by their progress and Andrew has got some serious legs on him. He makes running look effortless and he is ALWAYS where he needs to be. GO ANDREW!!

And Jacob's team did a great job of pressing today. They held it down near the other team's goal most of the game. Lots of goal shots. Jake is a great defender and definitely is not shy about pushing his way right into a crowd to kick the ball out of the tangle.

Good work boys!

Clone Troopers and Ninjas and Pirate Girls, Oh My!

Halloween was awesome! Here is part of our group before we got started. Oh, and Millie below.

The kids did a great job designing their pumpkins.




JACOB'S












ANDREW'S














AMELIA'S (designed by Jake)













HEAD WITCH'S



And the kids are off!
Another year older =
faster and more stamina. We were out for about two hours and covered a lot of terrain.

No sore feet complaints until the
last street. Atta boys!














Checkin' out the loot.





















Nani and Poppy came over to take pictures and send us off. Then they hung out on our porch to pass out candy while we all made our rounds. It worked out great! And I think Nani took enough video footage of Amelia when we got home to put together a mini-series. (: A fun evening!