Geneva (1 ½) has started to communicate in a few little words. Lately she has been communicating her wants and needs with a head nod for yes and a shake back and forth for no.

I love it! She is so cute. There are times when I ask her a question just to see her reaction. It is so great to see it when they begin to think with their own minds.

My favorite question to ask is ‘Do you love mommy’ and I always get a nod yes.

I thought this batch of days off would be different then the Christmas one, you know less craziness but nooooooooo.  Truthfully I would rather be working through the week and just have the weekends off. LOL

I just got caught up from cleaning up all the Christmas stuff, putting the toys in their right places and even doing the regular household chores. I though I would be able to use these couple of days off to relax.

Think again Angie not with 4 kids running around. My numbers are even down because Darian (14) has been with my Dad all week long.

I guess it is safe to say I am ready to go back to work tomorrow bring it on!

I know I have not been writing like I used to it is a combination of being in a little depressing rut and not having the time but mostly not having the time. Working full time and taking care of 4 kids drains every bit of energy out of you.

Some great and funny things have happened over the last few weeks. My older boys; Darian (14) and Cullen (10) went out after the last snow storm and shoveled people’s driveways and walks for money. I was so proud of them they thought of it on their own.

I was shocked because I didn’t know kids thought to do that anymore. They were very proud of the money they earned and spoke eagerly of the customers they had made who told them to come back the next snow storm.

The highlight for me was to hear those boys talk about how they charged an elderly woman 5 bucks to do her driveway when they were charging 10 to others because she was elderly. At first they offered to do it for 2 bucks because of her age but she insisted 5.

It’s times like those that make me proud as a Mom to know their taking the lessons I have been teaching them through out their lives and applying it.

And I leave you with a good Isaiah story. On Christmas eve we each opened up one present. Isaiah was livid that Cullen got a small robot because that is what he wanted (neither did he know he had a huge robosapien waiting for him for Christmas).

So I turned to older brother Darian (14) for help. I gave him my cell phone and told him to call Isaiah from the other room and pretend to be Santa figuring Isaiah wouldn’t know.

Isaiah listened for a few seconds before he ran into the kitchen to see if the other phone was on the hook then he said I know it’s Darian.

Did anyone else feel out of sorts today? Isaiah (5) gave me hell this morning because he did not want to go to school AKA daycare.

You would think it would be easier on me this week now that I only have to see the two younger off to school, nope think again!

I was SOOOO ready to bring him back home this morning because nothing was working and now a days you have to watch your every move with your children as it could be taken as child abuse in some form.

Finally I did the hurry out the front door and never looked back. I felt bad for the poor bugger knowing it must be a combination of not being in a schedule having all those days off and it being the day after Christmas.

When I picked him up from daycare it was like nothing ever happened he was back to the Isaiah I know and love. We discussed what he did in the morning and I got the ‘Sorry Mommy’.

Another Christmas over and done with, it ended quicker then I knew. We had a nice Christmas day. The kids were all happy with their presents and I was happy watching them open and play with them.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas