Lucky Me!

Somedays I feel like I am the luckiest mom around, I have a wonderful 10 year old that is almost always willing to help, a 5 year old that is just so sweet and friendly to everyone, he is very polite and  helpful too! A 3.5 year old that when he wants too he can be the sweetest most loving little boy and my almost 2 month old that is sleeping threw the night already! Max has a great schedule (He set) and is nursing wonderfully, I know that they do say that the more babies you have the easier they are, you know what to expect and learn all the cues early. Baby Max is also smiling and cooing so happily and it just makes my day!

I also have the most amazing husband, he is supportive and caring,  I have more fun with him just sitting at home than I could with anyone else. We will be celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary here in a few weeks and I am just not too sure what to do for him?

I have a wonderful family, my mom is just amazing and my step dad (Cal) is more than I could ever ask for. He is just great for the whole family. My dad and step mom (Kim) are great with our children and so much fun. It was so nice growing up, having 4 people that loved me. I also have a Brother, Tyler. He is the best brother a girl could ask for, we work together and hangout often, he is a super uncle for my boys and loves to spend time with them. He has a Great girlfriend Trish and she is just amazing, we have become fast friends and I couldn't have picked a better person for him myself! I also have 2 step sisters and a step brother, Casey, Heather and Andrew. Casey is from Cal and Heather and Andrew are from Kim. I love being part of a big family. Casey is married to Paul and have 2 children, Aurora and Ryder. Aurora is the only grand daughter/Niece so she is very special to us all.  We also have TJ's family, Mary Lee is his mom and Rick is his dad. Mary Lee is the best mother-in-law a girl can ask for she is easy going and so supportive. Rick is going threw some hard times right now and is just needing to work on himself. TJ has one sister Krista and a Brother in law Arturo who have 3 children. Jaleena, Saraya and Ariono.  They are super sweet and the kids love spending time together.

People keep asking us if we will have any more children and I am not opposed to it, I would love to have a little girl but so far we have not been graced with one. I am trying to be optimistic and keep hoping that we will one day. After I had Lucas I was very depressed that he was not a girl I was so hopeful and when he was born a boy it was really hard on me. This time was a little different I am not sure why but I don't feel bad that Max is a boy. Max is so easy going and really all in all just an easy baby so maybe that helps. Not too sure.

Gotta Run
Lindsay

Cherish the moments

Some days I look at my life and wonder what the heck was I thinking, I got pregnant the first time at  19, I had my first boy Zachary at 20 (2004)I was engaged to be married, and a short year later, I ended the engagement because I knew we were not meant to be. In 2007 I did marry my best friend and we have 3 more boys together, TJ and I have had our ups and downs but we have always worked things out. I am living proof that you should wait to have children, don't get me wrong I love my son and would not change a thing but waiting until I was older and in a much better relationship would have made my life much easier. Zachary was born with a problem with his swallow(Aspiration) it caused him to take liquid into his lungs and it was miss diagnosed for 3 years as asthma. All of these things made me into the person that I am today but every once and a while I think about what it would have been like to enjoy my early 20's (without children), with little to no real responsibilities. Possibly go to university, travel, just be me.  Since then I have managed to get a great career in oil and gas industry, I did take some management course at NAIT and be a "super mom" as our friends and family call me. I love my boys more than life it self and I would do anything for them.
Zachary, Brodie, Lucas and Maxwell are the most amazing little boys, and they truly are little BOYS they love to wrestle, get dirty, play sports, build forts, play with tools and build stuff, but at the same time they love to cuddle and give hugs and kisses.  I love watching them play together, there is something about a family that loves to be together and my boys enjoy playing, painting, colouring,  traveling, and helping out together. It is truly an honour to be their mom, sometimes it just takes a little reminding that I am the person I am now because of them.

This past mothers day I was given gifts with their hand prints on them and I know they won't be little for much longer and it saddens me to think that they won't be babies any more. Zach and Brodie are already in school and Luke will be there soon Thank goodness little Max will keep us in baby mode for the next few years.

The poem that came with the gifts read this.

Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints 
On furniture and walls. 

But every day I'm growing 
I'll be grown some day
And all those handprints 
Will surely fade away.

So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked 
When I was very small.

Someday I will look back and I will shed a tear(cause that's what I do),  I am seeing Zachary as more and more of a man and what he will become. He is already 10 and in 8 short years he will be an adult going off to university(he already has the one he wants to go to picked out cause it offers the program he wants to take) Sometimes I just make him sit with me and hold him I wish I could keep him young forever but then he wouldn't get to experience all the wonderful things that come with being an adult!

Gotta go ... Lindsay  

Creativity Lost but not forgotten :(

Over the past few years being back at work, having 3 kids and no where near enough hours in a day I had lost my drive to craft, but now that I am home again and being able to find a few spare minutes I am just Jonesing to get my hands on some paper, buttons, ribbon and ... My Cricut! I have so many good Ideas and no where to set up my stuff (Of which I have lots of) no really LOTS!!!) As soon as our home project is completed I am going to be setting up my craft table again and getting busy. I have a bunch of great Ideas for Max's baby book. I also did not make a full year scrapbook last year so I need to do some catching up.

SO ... here is a motivational push to get crafting. Call me if you want to get crafting and maybe we can do it together!

Lindsay

All in a days work!

We have been planning on getting our house ready to sell for about a year and the week before Max was born we started a new project. We built a wall for Zach's room and created a pantry to give us more storage due to the fact that our kitchen is on the small side, this was very necessary. We have been living in a mild amount of chaos for 7 weeks and it is beginning to drive me crazy. I am hoping it should be all done in about a week if possible! We are finally at the paint stage, I have picked new colours for the house and I love them already we only have one coat on a few walls so far and I can't wait to see the final reveal! Zachary is loving his new room but I am hating the mess that goes along with construction. He has had a very unorganized and messy room for the past 7 weeks and he is in for a big surprise cause as soon as the reno is complete he is going to have to do a big clean! The little boys room has gained a closet as well so the entire 3rd floor is in chaos and I can hardly walk past it without cringing.  Once the 3rd floor is completely finished I am going to be painting the rest of the house as well.I will post pictures once everything is finished!