I am temporarily a mother of 6 for the next week. How do you mothers with 6 keep it all together??? The kids have been great, absolute wonders. It's me I'm worried about. Yesterday morning, day 1 of caring for 6 we get Maddy off for her field trip at 7 am (thanks Josh!), at 7:15 I open the fridge and there's her lunch. I leave the kids with Preston, get in the car going 70 in a 45 zone cause I'm thinking I would cry if I didn't get to eat lunch, barely make it before the buses take off, back in the car pushing 60 this time cause the adrenaline is still pumping wildly through my veins.
Then it's drop off Pres and Charley at school, run errands with a baby who has needed a nap for a couple of hours and isn't going to get one for another two, take Jonah to preschool, hang out to help him play his violin for show and tell (still with the grumpy baby and an overly helpful wanna be preschooler), home for about 30 minutes to give the tired baby a chance to rest her eyes, wake her up, head back to pick up Jonah, then home again for lunch, naps...
And then it's round 2. Wake up three sleeping kids to pick up Preston and Charley, home to practice, do homework and then back again to the school to pick up Maddy from her field trip, wait a half our for the late buses (while, thankfully, the kids play at a nearby park). And home again for dinner, valentines, bed time....ahhhh, bed time (except that mine didn't come for hours later).
So, I'm just wondering...how do you do it? How do you clean the house, or keep up with laundry, or even talk with your husbands? I'm just positive this all sounds mundane, even commonplace for you supermoms. But, my head is spinning. It is always amazing to me what a little perspective can do for you. It's like having your second child and thinking, what was so hard about just one or like having six for ten days and wondering, why the heck couldn't I get the laundry done with just three. What on earth was I doing with all my time (uh...blogging)?
So here's to perspective and it getting my rear in gear. And don't worry, Bek. I'll keep them safe for you. They'll have eaten loads more Valentine's Day candy than you'd like and may even go without a lunch a day or two but they'll be present and accounted for come Thursday...all six of them and then Josh and I will whisk away to some secluded tropical island for a week. Ha ha, just kidding! We really are all doing great. But you better come home with mom is all I have to say. Can't wait to see you, Mom!!!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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oh amy, i couldn't help but laugh a little---can that life really be real?! i must be. kinda makes me worried!! when does your mom come home? how fun!
ps. thanks for the valentines!!!
that was joni by the way
Crazy, huh? And then you think "My mom had more kids than that!!" Speaking of... I can't believe your mom is coming home!!! Yeah!
my mom gets home on thurs...pretty crazy, huh?
oh, and i kinda figured it was you joni...not that jesse's not welcome to comment of course :)
Wow! That makes me wonder what I do with all my time with only one! I guess it's the kind of thing you have to build up to.
That's so exciting that your mom is coming home. I hope she had a wonderful mission. I'm sure she'll be so glad to get home to her family.
Wow! I can't believe your mom is going to be home! You must be so excited. While Bria likes her current violin teacher well enough, she still talks about Jana all the time.
And good for you for taking more kids...I couldn't do it. I get nothing done with only three. :)
So basically you're saying you're ready for triplets? I'm so excited that you're mom is coming home, I wish I was there for it!
lara, that's because you're a talented photographer, singer, teacher...the list goes on!
triplets, not quite. let's just say i'm grateful bek is 6 years older than me and has three OLDER kids and not younger. i might have said no otherwise :) preston and maddy especially are AWESOME helpers.
oh, this is great! What a good sister you are. I did that. Once. I took five of my sis's kids when I just had anna and yes, all of the sudden ONE seemed very easy. Almost comical in fact. Love your writing Amy...you've got skills.
Oh, and ps...I can't believe your mom is coming home!?! Crazy!
I heard about you being a mother of 6 before I even read your blog. Holy cow!! Laughing out load here....sorry, but it sounded like you were pretty busy. You deserve a tropical vacation! I watched our friends little girl for a week last month and that was crazy enough for me.
I am so glad I got to read your blog! Finally. I am a little slow at keeping up. Writing one is hard enough as it is.
Sounded more like a marathon than a week of child care! I agree with N., you've definitely got skills! Oh and you write great too. Hee, hee!
Hope life is treating you well after the chaos. You know, I hear Australia is the perfect place to get away. There's even a really nice lady that will babysit YOUR kids for YOU! but only if you promise to run with her. Weird lady.
Good Luck Amy, just don't let Josh go fishing this week.
Amy I'm totally impressed. I can barely do five and that's when they come one by one! Good luck!
This is really weird but I had a dream about you last night. You were teaching an aerobics class at the gym. You were a great teacher!
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