Sometimes...

Sometimes I would like to freeze my children at the ages they are now.... 
I want to be able to always carry them downstairs in the morning or upstairs at night.
I want my hand to always be bigger than my son's.
I want to always stand taller than my daughter when I brush her hair.
I want to give them piggy back rides.
I want to fit comfortably with all three of them in a queen size bed.
I want them to ask for sprinkles at Dairy Queen. and a face :)
I want them to pick out the biggest pumpkin and not be able to carry it.
I want them to ask for Frosted Flakes and Honey nut Cheerios mixed together for breakfast.
I want them to argue over who gets to lick the spoons first when we bake.
I want them to be so excited about the tooth fairy that they use an entire roll of toilet paper to get their tooth out. Even though it probably wasn't ready for weeks.
I want them to understand that the tooth fairy didn't come because she couldn't see your tooth since it was still waded up in that big roll of paper.
I want them to want to be a professional soccer or football or basketball player when they grow up. There is nothing wrong with dreams.
I never want them to grow up..:)

thanks

In a thankful mood this morning. This doesn't happen very often, usually I'm more in the mood to think about what I don't have, or what I want or what I think I absolutley can't live without. Instead this morning I feel thankful.

Thankful for my son telling me when the two of us when to Kings Island alone, that it was the best time ever because, " we rode in the very front of every roller coaster we rode!, and we got to share a footlong pretzel dog, and he forced me on white water canyon so I could look like I peed my pants all day !"

Thankful for my 7 year old who still let's me carry him downstairs every morning to get him to the table for breasfast. And that the highlight of this kid's day is to have someone, ANYONE, play a game with him, or throw him a baseball or football.

Thankful for my daughter telling me yesterday on my way home,  the dishes were in the dishwasher and the boys had done their homework and she had made grilled cheese and soup and mine was in the microwave so it didn't get cold.

Thankful my dad has found someone who he is tryluy happy with in his life, and to hear him be excited about his new puppy he can't wait to show the kids.

Thankful my husband took us to three different ice cream stores the other night so everyone was satisfied. ...and then I ended up with a smoothie.

Thankful I have friends who help me drive my kids around to practices every night so I can take turns seeing all my kids in their sports. We can't be four places at once.

You may or may not have known..

• I hate licorice, not just the black licorice,I also hate twizzlers, even the rainbow kind. But, I wish I liked them, I've told myself I like them, I've tried them over and over, I just don't like them. I don't even like to use them as a straw.
• I hate coffee. This is something that irritates me severely, I'm not in the "coffee" club at work, I can't say I'm going to starbucks to buy a 4 $ mocha latte whipped..something something. I don't like it. I do enjoy hot chocoalte and I pretend like it's coffee. Is this the same as when I smoked cigarettes in 8th grade and pretended to inhale to look cool?? Do we ever change people? (fyi.. I don't smoke anymore) but I'm obviously still trying to fit in, which I can't figure that out.
• I know way too much about what goes on with Miley, Selena Gomez, and Demi Lovato, if you don't know them, they are on Disney and I'm slighty interested in their shows. I can't help it. I caught myself asking my daughter is Oliver was still going out with Lily and did Blue Jeans get to come to California.-Sad, sad, sad.
• I have been in the Insurance Field for 10 years, and although I complain about my work, I am sincerely thankful that I have a job with this economy and job market. I wake up every day and when I think i can't get out of bed, I tell myself , "Sarah, you have to eat, and your kids need a house, get up."

• I really want to go on a family vacation to Wyoming, I've never been horseback riding, and I would love to take my family on a vacation "out west" and stop at the many shops along the road on the way there. My family has not allowed this trip to happen, for some reason they aren't as excited about riding horses all day and sitting around a camp fire at night looking at the stars, I think it sounds amazing. 

• I want to travel . I want to go to a foreign country and eat at the little stands they have set up and wonder what I'm actually eating. (I won't drink the water). I want to hike in Hawaii on the volcanos, sit on the beach in mexico, drink a beer in ireland, and have a glass of wine in Italy while riding in a gondola
• I wish my parents were still married. I thought at 28 I would be over it, I'm not.
• I am selfish.
• I have a hard time deciding what I want to eat when I go out because I love food, and everything looks good to me.
• I love to read.
• I draw pokemon characters with my boys.
• I worry what I'll do when my kids are out of the house, I've never lived alone in my entire life. I had 3 kids by the time I was 21.
• I want my kids to be well rounded, I want them to enjoy waffle house as much as they like Bravo.
• I never want my kids to struggle as hard as I have over the past 10 years, but if they do I hope I can be there for them as much as my  mom has been for me.

• I love taking my kids places, I hate sitting around doing nothing, I can take a couple hours of tv, then I'm ready to go for the day, movies, kings island, hiking, swimming, ...which leads me to say I hate weather in Ohio. I get so bored in the winter. I loathe cold weather.
• I hate the way I look when I'm not tan. I've never minded my freckles.
• I would get eyeliner tattooed if I was brave enough, because as my kids say, mom you look much better with make up.
• I love flowers.
• I love watching movies.
• I want to freeze my kids at the ages they are now, and never see them hurt by relationships or the real world, I enjoy the fact that their biggest worry is what kind of cereal we have or is the battery is charged in their scooter.

• My daighter is one of the kindest, most caring person you will ever meet in your life. She is special  and amazing. I don't tell her this enough.
• On the other hand, my daughter and I can fight like cats and dogs, ughh, she can be so much like me. 
•  If I read a book and the movie doesn't follow, I get very upset.
• I've learned it's not as important to have 15 or 20 so so friends as it is to have a couple very good ones who are there no matter what.
• I tell people everything about me.
• I'm horrible at keeping secrets.
• I love playing games and I'm very competitive, in fact everyone in my family is. I'm the queen of Taboo!!!
• I sometimes worry too much about the past and the future that I forget to live in the present.

Moving and New Schools.

enjoying the new house :)

Dining room, which we have lived here since august 1st , and have yet to "dine" in :)

View into the kitchen, the kids must be asleep or not here since they are always in the itchen :)

living room- you can see sponge bob on the tv and julian's knee poking up:)walls are still empty, getting there.

OK, so I finally feel like I'm "all" moved in, I mean of course there are a few boxed in the garage, which I'll probably get to in the next few months, but nothing that seems pressing for me to do right this minute. The two boxes are full of clothes, which i keep thinking if I can do without them, I probably won't wear them once I get them in my closet anyway, since I tend to wear the same 5 outfits everyday to work, and the same thing on weekends, which consists of shorts and usually a kids sprots team related t shirt. I love love love living so close to work, however, please tell me why someone who lives literally 3 minutes from work is still late every day? I don't know, I can't answer this question.

The kids have all started at a new school, Aubrey is in junior high, and thinks it's crazy that she has to change classes 6 times a day, Ohhh how I remember those days, she was pumped the first day in her new outfit, new shoes, ready to go. Today is the second week of school , not so pumped, tired, and the biggest fit of the day because she couldn't find one of the ten brushes we own. Seriously how do you own ten brushes and we can never find one, I know it's aubs or me loosing them, the boys do not even brush their hair!! I'm lucky that they brush their teeth.

SO.... my son corban tells me that someone in his class can't eat until 4:00 everyday, i then ask "he can't eat after 4 or he cant eat before 4?", he says "he cant eat till after 4", then my daughter who is an expert says, well "if he's indian, he probably is fasting", I'm like how do you know, she says" I know people at school who are fasting". All i'm saying is, there's no way I could wait until 4 to eat. Then while we were still on the discussion of lunches at school, my youngest, Corban , who is 7, says, I want to pack everyday unless they are having beef rib a que on bun or hot dog on bun. Gross. That's all I can say. Who makes a piece of meat that is supposed to look like it has bones formed like the mcdonalds rib a que, then I find out it's my son's favorite at school meal?????