How do you do it?

So as every mom I'm sure does at one point or another, or in my case it's done on almost a weekly basis, I have been trying to figure out the best way to get the best bang for your buck, so to speak. I'm always trying to figure out how to fit everything in to mine and my kids lives that is the most useful and helpful to our needs and I seem to always have to go back to the drawing board since I don't feel we are getting enough. Talk about tiring. I want to make sure they are getting enough mommy time to feel fulfilled as a little person and that they can talk to someone who is listening. I want to make sure they are learning something everyday that is useful and important. I want to make sure they are clean and taken care of hygiene wise with their baths and teeth brushed, clean clothes... I want to make sure they are getting good healthy meals. I worry about where their food is coming from and that it doesn't have harmful hormones or additives. I want to teach them important lessons of appropriate behavior, manners, sharing, how to ask constructive questions, not to judge people, not to make fun of people who are different, stand up for what makes them happy but without hurting others. I want to make sure they are getting a good healthy amount of physical activity. Learning responsibility. The list goes on and on for my kids but also for myself as a mother and wife.

It all seems so easy to do in theory but man it's hard to find what needs to fall by the wayside to make room for the important things. It doesn't help that I'm anal about things like dishes never being left in the sink, a clean house and other time sucking, necessary things. I seem to over analyze things and try to bite off more than I can chew but hate to not finish or succeed at something. I hate feeling like things aren't done. Every time I'm in our garage I cringe at the thought that we have unorganized boxes sitting on the shelves. When I get clothes out for the girls in the morning I'm totally bugged about the fact that I have clothes that they have outgrown still hanging up and not put into bins awaiting the next kid to wear them.

So where is all this going... well this crazy mind numbing stuff seems to be just the tip of the ice burg of my life and why I don't blog on a regular basis. I would love to sit at the computer for hours and show pictures of my adorable babies and talk up how great my kids are, since I think they are the most awesome thing out there, but I just get so sucked up in living my life that this just seems to be one of the things that I drop the ball on since it seems like a less important thing. Even though I say that I still think it is a little important since this is how I keep family and friends who live far away updated on our life and show them how big my babies are getting. I think family and friends are very important in life. After all who's there to help you up when life is kicking your trash, certainly not your clean house or dishes.

Although I don't have anymore time to write more about what's going on with us since I have stuff to get done before the youngest ones wake up from their naps I'm going to try to do short little snip its from now on. It might just be a short little blurb with maybe a picture or two but that is the compromise I have come to with myself to not totally neglect my family and blogging friends but also not neglecting my crazy busy life and kids.

Here's Allison on her 2nd b-day, Eliza jamming in her Bumbo chair and Emmie all ready for her first day of school, can't get past how dang grown up those kids look in those uniforms!