Fall time FUN!

There are several things I am 100% sure of! 1-Being a mom is the BEST job I have ever had! 2-Raising kids means putting your children before anything in life to include yourself BUT you can still find time for you if you look hard enough! 3-Kids love you for who you are, no matter what your hair looks like, if your clothes match, or if you have an off day. 4-I have been a single parent to 3 kids under 3 for 11 months and 15 days-give or take about 9 hours. Yes I am proud as hell! 5-A year ago I had no faith in myself as a mom or worker, etc. BUT I am suceeding in the mom department and would like to think my work has shown dedication and hard work as well. 6-Finally Fall is my favorite season and I will miss the beautiful changing of leaves, tempuratures when we move to Florida. Am I excited? No not yet but give me time and I will get there. :) For the last several weeks I have tried to do something fun with the kids outside the house, be it the harvest festival, pumpkin patch, or the mall (Which Kellan loves by the way!) Every weekend has been dedicated to them, I see them about an hour in the morning and 2 hours in the evenings on work days so the weekends I attempt to drink it all in. Do we always have awesome moods? Negative Ghost rider-BUT I still try! It seems like everytime I take them somewhere I am always a one man show and them, I get the "ooohhhs" the "are they triplets?" and the "wow you're brave to go out alone with no help!" From day one the twins we always took out to eat, the mall, grocery shopping, etc and the same with Violet so my kids have adapted to being out and about and listening to me MOST of the time. Today we had a blip-Violet totally lost her marbles in Olive Garden where in turn she threw my leftovers, then head-butted me in the mouth(I was bleeding at that point!) and did I mention those said leftovers hit another patron? Yeah LOST HER MARBLES! Haha! But I gave the women money, paid my bill, and hauled butt out of there. EEK! Now all three are home, bathed and playing together until bed time at which time I will collapse either on the couch or bed as I have been up since 5:30 thanks to my son kicking the wall until I woke up! Yeah-Rise and shine! :) Yet I digress... Each of our fall activities over the last several weeks have been for them, not for me-although to see them light up over a ton of pumpkins and kettle corn I must say makes me feel I am doing right. I may not always get it right but I do my best, and I have learned that at times your best is enough and at times your best is not enough. I have failed plenty in work, life, mommy-time but each time I learn and grow and I believe that is the whole point anyhow! Now here I sit as I type this asking the kids what they want to be for Halloween-I had decided early on I would not do this dress up thing and candy thing but I simply have to. On the 27th of October my church will have a "trunk or treat" where everyone decorates their trunks and hands out candy to all the kiddos! We did it last year and I want to do it again this year, so I asked them what they want to be. Kellan wants to be "Mater" from Cars, Scarlett wants to "rella" Cinderella I think and finally Violet said "ruff ruff" so I assume a dog perhaps? Tomorrow we will go out in search of a costume, the second hand kids store has great constumes at cheap prices, no sense in paying tons for one afternoon of wear time. As I wrap this up I look around my house that is hardly decorated for Fall but darn it I will miss my house so much. It may not be perfect with a beautiful kitchen or amazing furniture but it is MY SPACE, MY HOME. I work so hard to keep it looking nice, up until the movers come in less than 10 days I will keep it the way I like it with my candles glowing in the evening and quiet time at night. I will miss this home because it is part of our family, but we will make new places, find a new place to call home and simply learn to adapt. The kids are starting to feel that stuff is changing, I can only hope that with some extra love and cuddles my trio and I come away from here ready for new mountains to climb! Until next time sport's fans~