I can't believe School starts next week. I have mixed feelings about this. Part of me is excited to be down to 4 kids during the day. But, part of me is a little sad. The older kids are such a huge help with the littler kids. Someone can hold a baby while I get things done. I'm not sure it's going to get any easier with less kids here. This summer has kind of been a summer of survival. I haven't done anything more than keep up. No projects done, no major trips taken, really, nothing. Just keeping up on household things. Laundry, dishes, bathrooms. I have spent A LOT of time feeding babies. The biggest feat.... getting the babies from sleeping 2-3 hr stretches, to 7-8 hr stretches. And onto a decent schedule. I am absolutely not looking forward to cold season.
We have also managed to have only 2 kids in diapers. 6 of 8 is officially potty trained. The first week was over, and we hadn't made any progress, so I put her back in diapers. Then she started taking her diapers off and using the potty. This week we went 3 days with out an accident. Then last night we had a family dinner, and she was drinking any cup left out, and Trent nor I were able to keep our eye on her. There were quite a few problems. But, I think that's to be expected at this point in the game. The experts all say that the first sign of being ready to train, is waking up dry at night. She's been doing this since 18 months. But she was not ready. It did however make it so we don't have to put her back in diapers at night. Which is something we have had to do with all of our other kids.
Sadly, we spent a lot of time this summer doing this. They have watched a lot of movies. I just haven't been able to take them on a lot of adventures. We have a nice routine at home, but it's still too hard to go anywhere. The zoo isn't too bad, and I am thinking we may try the dinosaur park this week. But usually I can go shopping, and running errands. And I can't do that yet. So, there have been no school clothes bought grocery shopping has been hit and miss. I feel behind.
I certainly don't want to rush these babies growing up, but life will be a little bit easier when they are a little older.
We were able to take them camping, and we have a few more trips planned for this season. The kids are excited to go to a new school, I am not excited about the amount of homework we will be trying to cram in. Life is busy.
2 comments:
They all look so big already. My goodness! Those are the cutest babies. ;-) I know how you feel about just managing to catch up on the day to day and not getting much of anything else done and I have half the amount of kids. I feel accomplished if I can get all the laundry put away and floors done, which doesn't happen often but I am actually looking forward to two of my kids being in school so I can actually get some cleaning done. I hope scheduling isn't as scary as it may seem to be when they go back to school. Here's hoping....
I know how you feel. And I have only 4 so maybe not totally. But I'm definitely still in survival mode for a little longer. Moved Dalton to the couch last night and that seems to work much better. We only hear him when he cries. So nice.
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