Sunday Evening and Night

Exhaustion.

I sort of feel like a child. All of the visitors and commotion have left me completely wiped out. I cannot imagine what it was like when I was younger, but these days I do not have the energy to keep up!

We decided to have a pizza evening. Imagine that, a pizza evening at our house. I will never pretend that we are not a family who adores pizza. My only hope is that we hit a point when Bo and Cote love it just as much. I try to give them toppings, but they spit it out, bite after bite. They kill my thunder, and I whip out the pudding! I know the way to my kids hearts!

Afterwards we all sit at the table and play "Chutes and Ladders". I lose. I can never remember the rules to games, and so I just wing it this time. Bad idea on my part, Keith and Gage just whomp me. "Show Mom No Mercy" is evidently the theme of the evening.

We follow that with diaper changes, sippy's and bottle and an episode of "The Secret Circle". We all cuddle and laugh and fight and soon Bo and Cote pass out. Gage knows it is his cue and he goes to take a potty break and get a pull-up. We brush his teeth, he grabs Bones and up the stairs he goes with his Daddy.

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So this week I attempted to document my week as honestly as possible. There are things I missed, but not intentionally. I think you all sort of get the main idea as to how things go around here. My blog did not receive a lot of comments, but I got dozens of emails and Facebook messages. I now know that I will continue to blog honestly, as it reached quite a few people out there. It is hard to be a parent of anyone. Never forget that Special Needs or not, your children love you and need you. You are never alone with your frustration, and it is completely normal. None of us are perfect, and everyone deals with things differently.

You will not always enjoy my blog. It will not always be humorous. Sometimes it will make you mad. Sometimes it will make you cry. You may end up disliking me, but please remember one thing. I will never lie to make someone approve of me. I will always tell the truth because there may be one person out there who reads an entry, and realize they are not alone. That they can make it through this craziness that is called "Parenting". Those are the people I write for. I write for me, I write for them and I write for those of you who need to learn what it's like on the other side of the fence.

Maybe if I write enough, when you see us, you won't pretend we aren't there. You will walk up to us and say hi. You will hug us and invite us to your children's Birthday parties.

My kids LOVE parties!

My kids LOVE other kids!

My kids want your love...