You Know You are a busy Mama when...

WIPING, Man I am good at WIPING. All under 4 minutes...........After wiping applesauce off your 2 year old's face, hands, belly, toes, you put that messy wipe (yes, we keep wipes in every room of the house, including the kitchen table) on the table (sure to reuse in a minute), then you lift your 5 month old out of the highchair only to have him spit up on the floor (your new floor you are trying to "keep clean"- HA!)so you reuse that applesaucy wipe (it is clean enough for spit up), then you sit down while holding the spitter, to FINALLY take a bite of something that you might call sandwhich, and your oldest opens the bathroom door, and says, "Mom, I need wiped". Sure is a lot of wiping when there are 3 little people around here.

TAKE 5- "How did "I do" become "Don't touch me"?

For all you "new" moms (or mom with younger children)..........This article in Momsense magazine is worth sharing. I have tweaked it a bit, simply because I am not that fast at typing! Believe me, I will be the first to admit I need to decide daily to not give in to feeling like my kids will always be in diapers, I will always have someone crawling on me, and I will never have a clean house, friends over for games, or a moment for just "me".

A mom stands at the sink, rinsing off the dishes after a day of willful toddlers or a night of unscheduled waking- discipline, diapers and non-stop being needed. Her beloved comes around for a little nuzzle. And she wants to scream.

A friend recently told me she wished there was a love-and-libido bucket she could scoop from because with 2 kids under 4, she said, "I've got nothing left to give when my husband comes home."

If you know that feeling, try these ideas:

1. Take 5. Take 5 minutes to share something funny, momentous, frustrating, with your husband, even if it seems unimportant. At least you are connecting.
2. Freshen up. Splash your face, brush your teeth, change your shirt that the baby has spit up on 23 times today.
3. Think before you speak. Before you say, "the kids are yours now; I've had it today." Don't. At least make the FIRST thing you say something positive, then ask for his help. Don't demand it.

It is your daily decision to leave the leftovers for eating, and give your husband the fullest portion of yourself that you can (even if that means taking a cat nap on TOP of the laundry pile, or dancing throught the legos in the living room!)

1 Sign you are "about to have a baby"

Between kissing scrapes, feeding bellies and chores around the house, I don't have TIME to BLOG!!!!!!!!! With now three little people at home, I am outnumbered for sure. My house is a mess but I'll have time to catch up on that later. My kids are little right now and life is the busiest that it has ever been, and I LOVE it. Dance in the leggos, girls!