the only peace that i get is when i am in the bathroom...

I find sometimes I cant get a minute to myself through out the day, and by 9pm I am spent.  Then its finally quiet in the house and I find myself staying up until midnight just to get some time to myself, so by 7am the next morning I am still tired cause I didnt get enough sleep.  I love being able to stay at home, its nice not to have to get up at the ass crack of dawn and go into work all day!  I get to relax in the morning in bed with all the kiddos and watch mickey mouse, make breakfast and then hang out with the boys and do some things around the house.  But somedays when the boys are out of control and the baby doesnt want to be out of my arms and the dogs are barking and howling and Joe is calling every few hours bitching that we dont have enough money to pay the bills I need my few hours at the end of the night to just unwind and be by myself.  Even if that consists of me playing on myspace, ebay, facebook and craigslist!  Thats what I enjoys doing.  

my birthday and my birthday present

So last week I turned 26, what fun stuff!! I got an apple macbook which I LOVE!!  I have always been a pc user but am a HUGE fan of the mac because I have ohh so many problems with computers in general.  It seems if something can go wrong with an electronic item it will go wrong when I use it.  I am the only person that I know of that has made a computer at the grocery store freeze up when I swipe my credit card through! I guess I have some type of magnetic field around my body.  

pump

I finally got a breast pump and I am really excited about it, as CRAZY as that sounds. I never thought that I would care whether or not my baby is breastfed or not, but I find myself feeling kind of guilty if I give her formula. Now I can give her a bottle and not feel so bad PLUS we are saving money not buying formula :)

me a collector?

I have decided that I am going to start to collect something! Every time my birthday comes up or christmas or any other day that people get presents for everyone says that they never know what to get me, and honestly I usually dont know what to tell them to get me. So I have decided that if I collect something that would take all the guesswork out of that! Now I just have to decide what I am going to collect...lol

work?!?

Well after I had Elyse I had planned on going back to work, but that didnt work out as planned! Our babysitter couldnt handle Michael and David, as well as a newborn. After calling countless daycares and talking to people about finding a new sitter, we realized that it would have cost us more to put all the kids in daycare than I would make working, so I am now staying at home with the kids at least until the boys get into school all day. Then I am planning on going back to school, but we still have a few years for that so things may change by then, but as of now thats my plan!

just to let you know whats going on with all of us :)

It really seems hard to believe but the boys, I mean Michael and David will be 4 at the end of the month! It just seems like a year ago they were born! They have grown so much and its really hard to believe how much they have overcome. I feel so lucky to be their mom, although some days they drive me crazy, I wouldn't change it for anything. All it takes is one smile, one kiss or one hug for me to melt. They are my little guys and I love them so much.

I finally have them potty trained for the most part, aside from the occasional accident, like today we were at grandma and grandpas house swimming getting ready to leave and Uncle Andrew got home and sure enough out of pure excitement they both turn around from looking out the window with big wet spots on the front of them! They love their Uncle Andrew so much, and get so excited to see him. Today they were so happy they got to swim all day and were able to pee outside in a bush when ever they wanted to!

They went in for a speech evaluation at the end of last month, they do have a definite delay but they think that they could possibly be autistic or have aspergers, they will have a full evaluation in the fall and probably will be put into a preschool program, which I am pretty excited about, not only will it give me time alone with Elyse but I think that it will be really good for them to get out of the house and be around other children the same age and who are like them! I am just glad that we got this addressed now and didnt wait until they were older and falling behind in school

Other than that Elyse is already growing so much, she will be 3 months old on the 18th of this month and is getting so big. She is such a happy baby (not that the boys werent) She hardly fusses and when she does its usually because she is hungry or has a dirty diaper. I must say that it has gotten a lot easier with her. She is pretty much sleeping through the night, which I am so grateful for. I am just so happy that she is in our lives.

I will be 26 on the 18th. I never would have imagined this would have been my life. If you would of told me 5 years ago that at 25 I would have 3 kids, a husband and a home I would have told you that you were NUTS! But here I am 25 with 3 beautiful, happy and healthy children and I couldnt be more happy. Funny how things work out.

just so you know!

I have made it my goal to start to blog more to let people know what is going on in my familys life. I will admit...I am horrible about calling people and keeping in touch, but hopefully this will fill the gap so people know what is going on with me and the family!