Being a Mom...

My last post was about being so grateful for my four little girls

i am grateful for them

but....

there are those days when I question every thing I've done to make my kids respond to me the way they do

for example...

Becca's soccer practice was moved to 3:30-4:30 today, sort of an impossible time for us to get her to the field 20 minutes away when i need to have Abby at a follow-up appt in harrisonburg (45 min away) at 4:30 and Jeff doesn't get home from work till 4:15...

i broke the news to her this morning and you would have thought I missed her birthday or something, very extreme.."thanks Mom (with a look of disgust, disbelief and utter bitterness, and I'm underexaggerating her response)" was all i got. do I not get them to every activity of their lives and strive to always provide as many extra-curricular events i can write in my little calendar? i don't get the "thank you" for every thing i take them TO just the cold shoulder about what they cannot make...being a mom is sometimes tough to say the least


and then there's my Abby

my precious Abby
my almost-16 year old Abby
my full of raging hormones Abby

need i say more....

earlybird pe...the dreaded earlybird
if i would have known almost 2 years ago what i know now i never would have agreed to this earlybird thing

it's really "for the birds"

wake Abby up at 6am, plenty of time to leave by 6:30am...oh, we drive the carpool this week
it's 6:26am and Abby screams down wrapped in a towel from the shower what the weather will be like today??
WHAT!!
it's time to leave Abby, you have 4 minutes to get downstairs
"but Mom, it's not my fault that the clock in the bathroom is 10 minutes slow"

of course not Abby but you could have gotten up when i woke you, you need to hurry and get downstairs or dad will have to leave without you...

repeat this same scenario over and over again and get a taste of my typical morning with earlybird pe...TORTURE!


and then there's my sweet little tori...
running downstairs in a panic and sweat that Elizabeth is showering when it was HER turn to get a morning bath. Elizabeth takes ultra long showers and uses all the hot water and leaves the rest of the family cold, literally

tori thought it was her turn this morning...

again, MY FAULT this was happening, how could i let Elizabeth shower this morning?? tori ranted and raved...

tomorrow tori is your day to be first, i know it's hard being the youngest and also the one who leaves the latest in the morning...your sisters are teenagers though, you'll realize one day how important it is to look good at school (and then realize that it really wasn't)


nothing much happened with Elizabeth today except that she's missing one red soccer sock, my fault I'm sure, but the fact is she has a tournament tomorrow and needs 2 red socks...guess I'll be heading into town to the soccer store...


all this and it's only 8:16am...better pour another cup of coffee, or better yet, brew another pot.