What's in a name

I have been messing with the name of my blog, obviously. More sperm than sense was a joke. I don't know, my attempts at funny. Plus we are discussing having another baby. I think the crumb and snot thing is more accurate, a little more realistic. I think it seemed more relevant because I actually had snot drying on my leg from a little person's nose. H brought a cold home from school and now poor C is suffering the snots.

Despite signing up to run a 10 mile race in April, which would require losing large amounts of weight, we are discussing pushing the baby decision to an earlier time because we think the giant deployment is coming clock has started to tick. So here I sit on my large behind contemplating putting off weight loss for 9 months. Argh, not the original plan, but I am learning that it is futile to plan. LOVE THE ARMY!!!

One of those moments

It is one of those cold crummy winter days. It seems like it has been cold and crummy for years. So I decided to let the boys paint!! They love to paint, their arms, the floor, their feet, and sometimes the paper. They had a high old time. So when the painting was occurring less and less on the paper and more on other surfaces, I bundled them upstairs for a bath. They whooped and hollered, and best of all they giggled and laughed. I stepped out of the bathroom for a second to get something and I could hear their giggles reverberating through the house. There are days when I wonder why we are even considering having another child because my hands are full. Then we have a day like today, when I can stop and listen to their laughter and revel in the wonderment that is being a mother, especially a stay at home mom. I think the part of being a stay at home mom that is so fantastic is that you see everything. You are with them 24/7. I can totally anticipate their next move. Which is particularly great when I can prevent a disaster, like a banged head or a giant mess. I will have to come back and read this next week when I am pulling my hair out after cleaning up spills and messes all day long. I am very blessed to have a house full of laughter. I am blessed that I can be home to witness these moments. I am grateful for the moment of clarity.

Where Did the Gummy Tongue Come From

Today as I was walking past the living room rug I saw a gummy tongue on the floor. I am not sure what is more bizarre, the fact that it was on the carpet or the fact that I knew immediately what it was. I believe it was leftover from Halloween, but honestly I have no idea how it ended up on the floor.

Weaning

Well it has been over three years that I have been pregnant or breastfeeding. I think in total it was three years and two months. I haven't nursed C in three days. He is 13 months old. I originally planned to nurse him six months, but six turned into nine and nine turned into thirteen.

S was only eight months when I found out I was pregnant with C. I struggled with the pregnancy for a while. I remember thinking that it was hard to be excited about a new baby because I still had a baby. Once S was weaned and sleeping through the night it became easier to grasp that I could take care of them all. I was pretty scared that I would have a hard time caring for three children under the age of four. It has turned out great. I cannot imagine our family any other way. I finally feel like I am making so head way, even that I am doing okay mothering my three boys. C is still not sleeping through the night, but I feel like it is a huge step for us not to be nursing through the night. After lunch I gave him a cup and he held it for himself and drank huge gulps of milk. It was humbling and exciting at the same time to realize that he is growing up and doesn't need me as much.

On the way home from picking H up from preschool I got a huge Dr. Pepper from Mickey D's, because I no longer have to worry about how much caffeine I am ingesting. I feel a little loopy from the extra caffeine. I am excited and sad at the same time to finally get my body back to myself. I am a little sad, because I have been growing or sustaining a life everyday for the last three years. I found out I was pregnant with H September of 2002, so for over five years there have only been five months that I wasn't pregnant or breastfeeding, that is until today.

I think I would be down right weepy if it weren't for the fact that I think we are going to have another bambino.

Motherhood is the best hardest thing that has ever happened to me.

$35 Special

I went to the post office today, joy of all joys, to send a friend some preggie drops, which are fantastic when you are pregnant. I also needed to buy stamps for Christmas cards. With a 4 1/2 year old, 2 1/2 year old and a 13 month old anything is an adventure. I had C in the backpack, S on my hip, and holding H's hand. S had a wonderful time sitting on all of the benches and low shelves. Fortunately H is now old enough to hold a spot in the line while I run after S. We managed to get everything mailed and purchased. Everything was going swimmingly until some older lady behind me belches "Geez you've got three of them, ugh." I chose to ignore her, until she told her companion, "She's got one on her back and one on her hip and then there's another one." I yelled back, "they are beautiful children, not rabid dogs." I am really sick and tired of people commenting on my children. "Are they all yours?" "Wow there are three of them." Those are the two I get the most. It drives me insane.

So, I get everybody back across the street and into their car seats and wouldn't you know it, when I turn on the wind shield wipers, I have a F#@$ing parking ticket.

$35, isn't that special.

Crapitty Crap Crap

I am in a crappy mood. Blah blah blah. I knocked five things off of my mega Christmas list yesterday. So far today, not a single one has been crossed off. I did discover that while I thought we managed to get all of our boxes from this last pcs, I think we are missing some. Of course the missing boxes would be the boxes of Christmas decorations, ARGH!!!

If I was Martha Stewart I could craft elegant and beautiful decorations from toilet paper. Alas Martha Stewart I am not. Oh well.

Long time no blog

I haven't blogged in a really long time. I keep having brilliant ideas, but then I either forget or just never sit down and do it. I don't have a brilliant idea today, I just needed to get back on the horse so to speak. So here is a brief run down of what has been going on here.

Well not much actually, just the usual things, taking care of little people. H loves school, except in the morning when I ask him to get dressed. His teacher is really kind and sweet. S is getting bigger and speaking more clearly, I cannot wait to hear what he has to say about life. He is such a funny, sweet little person. He is very happy. C is still crawling, he is showing some interest in standing up, but not a whole lot, we are working with him. Although honestly I am not sure about having all three of them walking, might be more chaos then it already is.

Husband is enjoying his job, although I think he is having some issues just enjoying where we are now. I think, we think that he is deploying as soon as this job is up and I think he is starting to think about it more and more.

I am getting ready to go on medifast. I haven't weaned C yet, hopefully I will do this any day now. He won't take a binky, so it will be a little challenging. However being that he is still getting up two or three times a night I am just about out of gas. I am pretty exhausted, Thanksgiving just about knocked me out. I am ready to get rid of the S and C baby weight. Husband and I are seriously discussing having another baby, so I need to get serious about getting all of this weight off.

Other than that things are pretty normal here. I keep having to get up and referee H and S, holy moly. I am going to blog more regularly, that is my pre new year's resolution.