I get by with a little help from my friends

This week has seemed particularly crazy. We are still getting the back to school schedule kinks worked out. One therapist is on maternity leave and another is moving. My childcare help has been sketchy and my sil, who usually takes the girls to school, is out of town. Did I mention one of the twins got sick? Anyways, I thought we were managing decently until yesterday morning. I parked instead of going through car line since I am living on caffeine and a bathroom trip was essential. Public restrooms, with a walking (read touching all the germy surfaces) toddler and a child on your hip, are almost impossible. I tossed a kid on each hip (since we had of course gotten out the door with out shoes) and ran inside to do a hand off to a fellow mom while I ran to the restroom. This worked exactly as planned, until one of my friends asked if I realized B's birthday party invitations had been sent out with no details written in them. Only a fellow mom can understand how it is possible to pick up the wrong stack of invites and send lovely labeled cards to a class full of kids who have no idea why they got them. I need my friends a lot. Thankfully they are there to catch all my shortfalls and help me glue my messes back together. I keep promising myself that one day I will truly find a way to repay all the things they have done for me, but that is the gift of friendship. They don't see it as a debt.

Why Blog?

Plain and simply, I don't have enough hands for the camera anymore. In January we added 2 yo twins to our family, bringing our total to 4 precious and energetic children. Although there have been many wonderful changes to our family life, the most frustrating to me has been the lack of camera time. I always have some one in my arms and therefore, don't have all those delightful snapshots that I took to chronicle my oldest daughters' lives. My few moments are when everyone is asleep. Faced with the never ending guilt we mothers place on ourselves, I have decided that putting the everyday moments of our family's life in print is the next best way for us to be able to look back and laugh or cry or just smile at the events that make family such a treasure.

No insults meant but my blog is for me first and if some others can get a laugh or a chuckle along the way even better. I am an introvert by nature, but here is your chance. Pull open the gate and run the range with my crazy little herd. My sister has said more than once "you know this would only happen to you!" Perhaps so, but come laugh with us anyways. We are nothing if not real!