Soccer Mom

I now understand the phrase Soccer Mom. This is the first time one of my kids has wanted to play. We have done dance, gymnastics, t-ball and cheerleading. None of them required the time commitment that soccer has. It is the practices twice a week and games on Saturdays. It has been fun though. I have loved seeing Ally so happy and excited about things. She absolutely loves it and wants to do it in the fall. So does Thomas. That should be double the fun.

Country Traffic

Every winter they let the cows out and you get to share the road. At times they form good road blocks. You have to lay on the horn and creep towards them to get them to budge. It one of the things I done that I never dreamed I would do in my life. I do like to see all the new calves that are being born.

March Already?

I can't believe it is March already. The month of February was crazy. It didn't help that I was sick for four weeks straight. No kidding! I didn't know a cold could last so long. Actually it was a cold, the flu and a sinus infection. One right after the other. It was crazy. But last week I started feeling better and now I am playing catch up. I have a little piled up. Anyway today is laundry day.
Now I have to brag. I had an excellent proud mama weekend. It started with my princess #3 who had a speaking part in her school concert. This is the girl who I couldn't get to pray in front of people. She flat out refused to give talks in primary until last year. But she had a speaking part and she did so good. She was awesome. Then I had princess#1 in a singing competition. She was singing with group of 5. She was the only one that I could hear throughout most of the song. A huge improvement. We have been trying to get her ot project for years. The judge actually told her to sing as softly as she could. I mean she should so that all the girls in the group can blend but I couldn't help but be proud that she has learned to sing out. She has a beautiful voice and I want her to share it.

Snow Days!

The weather here is fightful. It has snowed every day this week. Yesterday, they finally closed the schools. It had snowed all day Tuesday and the roads were snow packed and icy. So yesterday the roads cleared and they decided to have school today. It started snowing about 6am. The girls left at 7am, it was bad but the snow still wasn't sticking to the roads. It hasn't snowed a lot but the winds have been blowing. in fact they have been gusting up to 40mph. When my hasband got home he told me there were foot deep drifts on the road. At 10am I went to take my soon to a play date. I couldn't get out of my driveway. I'm snowed in and my kids are at school. Now the schools are going to keep the kids ther for the day because it is supposed to warm a little this afternoon and the winds are supposed to die down. I hope it does!

A different role.

My daugther is having her birthday party right now. She has now reached the age where I am not wanted at her parties. I'm not complaining. It was easy to get ready for this party. All I did was make the cheesecake and pizza. I got to help dish up food and take pictures of opening presents and blowing out candles. Other than that I am expected to stay out of the way. It has been nice. My three little ones are at a friends house and my hubby is at work so I get some time to myself. I am working on my scrapbooking after I finish this blog.
There are a lot of aspects of my daugther getting older that scare me but for the most part I am enjoying the freedom that comes with her getting older. I like that I don't have to do everything for my kids. My youngest will be five next month. It is a whole new world.

Attitude

The attitude has emerged. My princess #1 will be turning twelve next week. She has been very calm and delightful up until now but the other night I got the hints of things to come. We were trying to take pictures of the kids in the their new Christmas PJ's. I'm making a thank you for their nanna who bought the PJs. She has now decided she doesn't like to get her picture taken. She kept shoving any sibling who touched her. The "I am too good for this" attitude came through crystal clear. We finally managed to get a couple of shots but it was a task.

The Tough Call.

Saturday I was faced with one of those truely sad mommy moments. I had to tell my daughter she couldn't go to the movies with friend even though she truely deserved to go and we weren't doing anything better. What made it worse was that daughter #1 was going. Here's the story! We live by a pair of sisters (my age). Each had a daughter that corresponses in age with my oldest two. The two older girls had set up a date to go to the movies. Saturday morning my daughter #2 gets the call to go to the movies. The problem is I don't think that the mom is a responsible driver. She drives too fast and has taken to letting her two daughter, ages 9 and 5 ride in the front seat without seatbelts in a van with air bags. Very Stupid! Suzy (the mom) is divorced and it is like she has given up being a parent all together. She just wants to be her kids friend and they walk all over her. Anyway, I don't want my princess #2 riding with her. So I told her why. She is a very smart child and agreed with my reasoning but I could still tell she was sad. I was sad for her. There aren't any other girls that live around us so it is not like I can tell her to go play with some one else. Most of the time it is not a problem because I like to keep my kids really busy but every so often I have to make the tough call.