Love Them!

In all my excitement for school starting last week I forgot how much I miss my girls!

There are a lot of perks to my kids taking the bus, some of them are:

-no worries of being late for school

-mom doesn't drive them to school with out a bra

-lots of time to talk to friends

-do homework after school while waiting for the bus

But there are some draw backs to the bus as well:

-leave the house at 7:00

-get home at 3:40

-school has been over for so long they have forgotten what happened in the day

-a half hour before and after school that I don't have with them, but could if I drove

It has been a strange summer trying to adjust to the needs of a baby along with the needs of my other 3 daughters. They each have their own personalities and things they need from Darrell and I. I feel like it has gone a lot smoother with this baby then with the others, but now that the kids are back in school I realize I missed doing a lot of things with them because I was tired, feeding Baylee, cleaning, changing diapers, running errands....

I was starting to feel bad about it, but then read an article in the Ensign. I'll blog about that another day. It made my day so much better! I do feel bad for loosing my patience with them all summer, but luckily kids forgive and forget quickly. There were a few times in the summer I'd go to bed and under my pillow was a card from one of my kids, Ashlee made one that said I was the best mom ever. Lexi made me one that said how much she loved me. Hopefully they can keep loving me and thinking I'm the best while I continue to try and figure out how to be a better mom!

One thing I don't miss- the mess of school bags, lunch boxes, shoes, and jackets always left on the floor!