Just One Person

Does any one else have trouble finding enough time to do everything they should, need, or want to do? I do! I feel like my day is spent this way most days: Wake up, go to work, get home from work, feed kids, get kids to bed, work out, shower, go to bed, rinse, repeat. At this point, I rarely feel like I have time to just relax, or do the work that my house & yard so desperately need! (ie: I have some weeds that are almost as tall as Kenzie...) I feel like my house is constantly in shambles. It is a mess all of the time! Luckily, most of it can easily be blamed on kids. There are toys EVERYWHERE! I have decided it is now time to go through my junk. All of it. And, decide what should be sold (started that process yesterday, and put up a bunch of ads on ksl.com), what should be donated, what should be thrown away, and what should be put into a yard sale. But, I don't have time to do all of that! I can barely keep up with my daily routine as it is! Oye. Sometimes I feel like saying to the universe, "I am just one person!" However, I have an amazing husband, who does help a lot with the kids. A great Mom who watches the kids 4 days a week. And an awesome mother in law who watches the kids only one day a week, but tends to do my laundry, or help clean my house when she is here. I don't know what I'd do without these people! I used to feel a little weird about my mother in law doing my laundry. For obvious reasons. But now, more than anything else, I'm just grateful! I can typically find time to wash it all, but that's not the hard part. Putting it all away is a feat in and of itself!
    Ok, enough of the whining. I really do enjoy my life, despite my rant above. I am lucky enough to work from home for part of the day every day, which allows me to spend a little extra time with my kids (even if it isn't really quality time). I have a pretty big house, with more things than I really need. We always have enough food for the family, clothing, shoes, formula & diapers for Caleb, etc. We have enough money to buy presents for our kids for their birthdays, or for Christmas. And sometimes, just because we feel like it. We are blessed enough to have 2 incomes, 2 cars & a motorcycle. And many other things that are more than the average person has. Believe me, I don't take that for granted. Though, some days it is easy to lose sight of things like that. 
    When Tyler was growing up, he didn't have a lot of those things. His Mom was single, trying to provide for herself and her 5 boys. That would be a hard job for a family with 2 parents. Somehow- she made it work. Once in a while, Tyler will remind me that his childhood wasn't as easy as mine was. It's hard to imagine some of the things he's been though. But, he came through it all like a champ, and has been great at making our kids' childhoods enjoyable.
   All in all, I guess what I want you to take from this post is: Yes, life is crazy, busy, stressful, and sometimes it's hard to keep up, BUT in the midst of all of that- I do still realize how lucky I am to have the people and luxuries that I have in my life!

In other news:
    Caleb is almost a year old. He's pulling himself up on things, walking with assistance. He says "Da da da da!" and sometimes we hear a few other words, but nothing on purpose yet I think. He giggles like crazy, he is the sweetest boy ever. He recently started cuddling, and it's my favorite thing! He now has 4 teeth- 2 on top & 2 on bottom. Caleb's smile is so cute! He's so much fun.  I took him to his 9 month appointment a few weeks ago, and it was determined he is also a big boy! He weighed 22 pounds 10 ounces, and was 31.5" tall. That means he was in the 90% percentile on weight, and 97% percentile on height. 

I was going to update on Kenzie too, but I ran out of time- the boy is crying in his crib. Maybe I'll update again soon...then again, maybe not.