Motherhood at it's best!

Well, Lyla Jane is now 5 weeks old and smiling all the time! She actually recognizes me and just stares, it is so heart-warming that it brings tears to my eyes. How God gives us such wonderful blessings wrapped up in tiny {and not so tiny anymore} packages, even when we do not deserve them, is so wonderful! It has been quite an adjustment having three, or having two of the three under 2 years old, I'm not quite sure! But praise the Lord she has been sleeping through the night for the past 2 weeks. Now if I could just get somewhere, anywhere on time that would be fabulous!! Even though life is a little crazy it is so amazing being a mother to my three beautiful children! A small glimpse...trying to keep house, train and teach the boys, feed my little darling, keep each of them clean and happy and fed and clear from bumps and bruises is practically impossible! Haha! Then throw in a quick shower and a snack for me and dinner?...Oops totally forgot about dinner...Thomas is home...didn't get around to half the cleaning I wanted to...laundry everywhere...lunch still stuck on the table from a sweet little toddler who loves to eat with his hands, but what a joyous sound when pounding feet run to the door shouting "Papa's home, papa, papa!!!" and then Thomas gets a hundred peanut butter and jelly kisses! So this morning when Lyla was staring so sweetly into my eyes and grinning so beautifully and Elijah is keeping himself quite busy with a color book and crayons and Ethan tells me {before he goes!} that he needs to go poo-poo, I am so excited to take him to the toilet, only to have him say "Done, Mama" in his super sweet voice. "That's okay" I think, "we'll try again later." Meanwhile Lyla is squawking in the other room, so...I turn to her before I put a new diaper on him...I return to the big poo-poo right on the carpet...and a darling little boy grinning so big at me saying "Oh Mama poo-poo", I just laugh and thank God that he allows me to be home with my children and cherish all these wonderful {and not so wonderful} moments with these amazing little people! So what next? {after I clean up the mess} Feed a beautiful little girl, correct a couple brothers who are becoming more and more "brotherly" as the days pass, try to instill a bit of character into them, remind myself to smile and move on to the next this or that...and on with the day! Cherishing every moment...