Strong Coffee

I am sitting here with my strong coffee listening to the snores of Bo and Cote.  Gage is eating his breakfast of cottage cheese and peaches and watching some goofy kids show on Netflix.  I am glad that I asked Melissa to arrive this morning at 10:00am instead of the usual early morning.  I had a feeling the kids would be struggling this morning after having to get up at 3:30am yesterday.

A lot of things have been weighing on me lately.  I have been thinking of not only my little addiction to diet soda and internet, but also my complete and total lack of organization.  My house is always a wreck, there are toys strewn from one end to the other... even my fridge is a mess.

First of all, we bought a nice 80 acre farm.  Not big enough for large scale farming but perfect for hobby farming.  It has a machine shop, two barns, a garage and three sheds.  It also has a house.... a 900 square foot house, lol.  That's right you heard me say that my house is about half of the size of yours.  It is tiny, but perfect. We will get an addition on it when we can, but we are on a budget.  A family with three Special Needs children is always on a budget.  We are working on improving the farm first so that we can get to a point where we have enough money to not have to finance the addition.

Secondly, we are rarely home.  When we are home, we do the "junk drop" as soon as we walk through the door.  Exhausted, I get the kids changed right away and then fed.  After a long day of appointments or therapies and then errands, as well as getting the kids ready and hauling them around, I am a little poopered out.  Honestly sometimes I have plenty of time to straighten up, but no oomph left.

Now don't get me wrong, it is not disgusting in here....it is mostly clutter and toys but still.

I saw the above picture on Facebook this morning and it was a good reminder.  I may not have a new vehicle or a nice addition on my house yet, I may constantly step on lego's and trip on V-tech toys, but my kids are happy.  I have time to play with them, teach them things and enjoy their littleness.  They have nice clothes on their backs, soap to wash their little bodies and good hearty food to eat.  In the long run, isn't that what is the most important?

Although I will say that if you showed up here to help me out, I wouldn't slam the door in your face ;)