What's Next?

I'm beginning this blog as a form of therapy. In other words as any woman dealing with a man or children I'm slowly losing my mind.

A little about me.... I'm a 37 yr old mother of 5, 3 boys ages 19,16, and 11 and 2 girls 13 and 11. I also have a 2 yr old granddaughter and another grandchild on the way. I'm engaged to be remarried Oct. 9th 2010 to my best friend of 4 yrs. I come from a large christian family and have 5 siblings of which I am the 2nd eldest.

About 3 yrs ago I let my fiance talk me into this crazy idea to move our family from Indiana to Minnesota. I was born and raised much of my life in Tampa, Florida so I don't know what possessed me to think living in the frozen tundra was a good idea but we did it! It's been an adventure and my kids love it but of course we all miss home and do plan to move back eventually.

After 8 long years of on call and overtime I have been enjoying working a mindless job. My dream is to move to the middle of no where surrounded by forest and never emerge except for the occasional shopping trip. My fiance shares this dream.

I'm excited to see my pregnant daughter in law Lilly and my granddaughter Lizzy. They are flying in this morning from Indiana. It's been 3 months since they lived with me and oh how I miss the sound of Lizzy clumsily clomping across the hardwood floors and banging on my bedroom door in the morning yelling meeeeemaaaaaaaaa.....meeeeeeemaaaaaaa. She so sassy (like her me maw) you just want to eat her little baby head.

It is going to be tough on us with 9 mouths to feed and soon to be 10 but I wouldn't have it any other way.

You never know what's going to happen next around here. Yesterday morning my fiance woke me up to let me know Corrine (my 11 yr old girl) threw up all over her bed. Later that day I have 3 kids complaining that Irish (my 13yr old girl) is in a bad mood and driving everyone crazy. The trash man didn't pick up because I forgot to pay the bill (now it will pile up for another week). My 16 yr old son Joseph was looking at inappropriate things on the internet (imagine that!). We ran out of TP, of course, just as I needed to go, and lord knows what's in store for me tomorrow.

I spent a good part of the night looking up Disney World vacation packages. Everything looked so exciting. I can't wait to see my kids do something they will remember for the rest of their lives. I was exhausted by it and can't imagine how I'm going to feel doing all of that with them. I need to start working out to prepare! I think tomorrow I will look at some romantic getaways. I can't imagine a healthy parent who would even want to look at their kids after spending a few days at Disney with them ;) I'll probably need to have some Prozac prescribed to get me through it and surely we will deserve a nice trip away from the kids afterward but of course by then we will be broke!!!