Sleep

Isn't it funny how as a parent how you look at your children sleeping and think how cute they are. Even if two or three of them still smell like stinking dogs because they didn't wash good enough in the bath. Amazing what angels they look like when they sleep. Every night I go to all the rooms and check on them, it's usually around midnight before I get to bed and they are all asleep but it has become a nightly routine for me. They are so sweet as they sleep and you check to make sure they are still breathing and no one has any headphone from Ipods or PSP's wrapped around there necks and go to bed. Then of course there is the nightly routine of getting up atleast once with the confused one and once with one of the other ones, so my sleep is about 3 to 4 hours a night. Morning comes and they just don't seem so sweet anymore. As I try to get the spoiled and confused one ready for daycare, realizing I forgot to make and label the bottles for one and the other has show and tell that day and doesn't know what to bring, the others are looking for homework, they need lunch money, or a certain pair of shorts and oh by the way mom and can you pick me up from a game after school, they don't seem so sweet anymore.

I wish I could tell you how many times I have walked out of my house to go to work without shoes, or my hair brushed or even without the labled and prepared bottles. I wonder why on earth I work. Then reality kicks in, 5 kids and school is out in the summer, do you really want to be home with them all day for 3 months???? So I work to get away. If they could just sleep all the time they would all be so sweet to me. There is nothing better then rocking a sleeping baby but in my house that normally lasts about 2 minutes before someone screams for me or at each other and there goes that moment of sanity. If only.......