Move to ohio

For those of you who dont know we moved back to ohio in march of 2010. We love it back here and it is great for te whole family.

In amish country

Hi everyone.
Im in amish country in ohio with Brad and we are having a great time. We have eaten a lot of great food and are having a good relaxing time. We needed some down time with each other without the kids. Hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving.

hi all

I can't even remember the last time that I wrote on here. So,now I have three kids and katelyn is in kindergarden and Alex is in preschool and Lexi is starting to potty train already. Lately I've felt overwhelmed most days but not to the point of giving up. I'm just trying to take things one day at a time and one situation at a time. The thing that is most frustrating for me is that everyone needs something at the same time, and Alex is working on being patient and waiting and Lexi can't wait for more then 2 seconds. I've been losing my patience much more and it is mostly in those situations where everyone needs something. I've been trying to pray alot more about it to ask for God's guidence and help because I know that I can't do it alone. So, if you feel overwhelmed and impatient know that you are not alone.

crazy

Sorry that I haven't been updating lately. Life has been crazy with three little ones. Brad has to go to Korea today on his first business trip in 3 years, so I'm a little nervous. But it is only for 4 days, I think I can survive. I'm more worried about his safety.

trying not to get frustrated

So, today is Saturday and I wanted a little break from the kids like a couple hours. So, i asked my husband if he would take them to the park and he said "why don't you want to come wsith us" and I said "Because I'm tired". So, then they were on their way out the door and I gave Brad a bag with their stuff in it and he was acting miffed so I said "are you mad" and he said that he didn't understand he wanted to do something together and then I jsut started crying. I feel like sometimes he just doesn't understand how taxing the kids can be on me and I just want to be in the house by myself to do whatever I want to do. So, he took them down to the park riding their scooters. Well they were back in aboutr 15 minutes and Katelyn had poo-pooed her panties and he was mad. All I could think was welcome to my world, then when they were going to go back outside he said to Katelyn "you have to stay here with mommy" and Katelyn was crying and he said "well you should have thought about that before you poo-pooed in your undies as soon as we got down to the park and walked out the door with Alex. Well that made me upset because he gets upset when I do that with the kids because he doesn't want me to yell at them, so it's okay for him to yell at them? I felt bad for Katelyn even though she should not be going #2 in her pants she can't be expected to never accidents. I'm just trying not to be frustrated at him.

Good weekend

We had a great weekend. We are trying to sell our townhouse, so we have been up on the market for 75 days. So, this weekend we decided to put all of our stuff that has been out in the garage and cluttering up the house more then it should be in a pod and they will store it in a wharehouse and then deliver it to us when we move into our new house. So that was a big task and it took two weekends but it got done and they camre and picked it up today and took it to be stored. This house thing is getting a little bit frustrating, but we just have to keep believing that god knows what he is doing and he has a great house in mind for us.

My Poor Husband

So, we try to do a devotional together every night after we put the kids to bed. Last night's devotioal was about ways to support one another and the one part was saying how you should love each other unconditionally and let the little things go and not get frustraited easily with each other. So, I was telling Brad that one of my bad habbitts is wanting to make everyone else happy and not caring about how much pressure it puts on me until I've had enough and then whoever happens to be around is the one that I get angry with and lash out at. So, Brad says "well by the time I get home I think that you are all done trying to make other people happy and helping others out when you can" and i said "what is that supposed to mean" and he said "just that you get frustraited very easily with me and I sometimes have to fend for myself" and then I started to cry and he felt bad. I've been thinking about it all day and I know he is right he comes home and I want to be done. I don't want to do anymore anything, i normally make sure that dinner is done and he is fed but aside from that i want him to take care of the kids, clean up all of his dishes and give the kids a bath and read them their stories and get their milk cops and on and on. I don't stop to think that he has just been at work all day too, most of the time all I can think about is how he has had a break from the kids and house work all day now (in my mind)it is his turn to do it. I think that what I really want is a more equal distribution of labor at night so that one person isn't doing it all or most of it while the other one is playing with the kids all night or sitting down watching a movie with them and not even talking to me. I think I need to let him know that I understand where he is coming from and that I will try not to get frustraighted and mad at him and just ask him to do more. I'll let you know how it goes.

family

why is it that you when you are with people that you haven't see for an extended period of time that they start to get on your nerves fairly quickly. We are from Ohio and we only see our extened family about twice a year, but while we are there and being with the people that we miss and love I find myself feeling suffocated and wanting to come up for a breath. I get frustrated easily and hurt easily and then i lash out and hurt others. I feel particularly like this with my mom, she is the best grandma and the kids love her and she loves then and enjoyes spending time with them. But, she gets into her ruts where she wants to have everything schedualed, and if we take the kids and go see someone that I haven't seen in a while we'll be there about a half and hour or an hour and she wants to leave. This happened today and I had to tell her to calm down and tell her she was getting on my nerves and then I felt like I had hurt her feelings. Family can be tough.