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nd you must be just a jerk to others yourself i mean where else would they pick up that kind of behavior now i understand the sentiment of such posts as parents we are to guide our kiddos to be the best little people they can be we should teach them manners and kindness to others we should demonstrate this in our own lives and we should be always on top of this so that our child would never be that child who does something uncouth after all who can argue with proverbs 22 6 train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it there you go plain and simple we are to train so that must mean it s our fault except i don t see it that way not at all if you look at that verse it says and when he is old he will not depart from it old do we all realize that our children are in constant training it doesn t say and if you train them they will be perfectly behaved at age 7 nope that s not it unfortunately our natural tendencies as children can sometimes be unkind i don t understand it i wish that wasn t the case but it is adults can have these tendencies as well i think my kids are great i love watching them play together and i especially love seeing them play with other kids to see how they interact sometimes i will drive by the playground when i know sarah my 1st grader is out there when i am running early for gabriel s preschool drop off i would love to think my child would never call another child a name i go over this with them constantly every morning before caleb 3rd grade and sarah leave for school i say have a great day and be kind to others i feel that my husband and i demonstrate this to them we do not talk about people unkindly in general but especially not in front of our kids but it could happen they could say something to another child that could be hurtful or unkind and if it does happen i honestly hope that the parent of that child comes to me with respect and kindness and we could work together to fix it i suppose i say all of this because i don t believe it s always the parents fault if a child does something horrible we do the very best we can and sometimes our kids are going to mess up they will let us down but we still love them and keep working to train them our children are a work in progress keep fighting the good fight and be mindful that other parents are doing the same 9 comments wednesday july 31 2013 the unofficial end of summer almost hello july 31st i am a little sad to see you this summer has been good to me and my family and the fact that i see you on the calendar means august is tomorrow and tomorrow means 5 days until my husbands goes back for teacher meetings and tomorrow means two weeks until my kids have to go back to school so i guess you could say that while summer s end is still officially over a month and a half away you make me realize that summer is basically over for our little family i do love the fall and i do love everything that comes with the change of the seasons whether the official change or the school year change but i willl miss summer this time probably the first time in a long time because of moments like this and i m glad i have this guy to share those moments with july 31st it s nothing personal i just wish you didn t arrive so quickly this year take your time next year ok 5 comments thursday june 20 2013 the bridesmaid dress this is a really flattering dress in a really flattering pose and i ll take it it s been two steps forward one step back on my journey to look nice for my sister s wedding i have lost 22 pounds when i was measured on wednesday it was the first time in i don t know how long that there was a distinct difference between my bust waist hips for years i was very square my measurements were literally all the same now my waist is 5 inches smaller than my bust and hips i almost cried happy tears i still have more to lose to reach my goal i am happy with how i look in that picture don t get me wrong i feel pretty and am ok with admitting that i do have work to do on my arms as they do not look like they do in the picture when i m holding them down as to carry a bouquet i do love that picture and that dress 1 comments thursday may 16 2013 keeping kids rooms clean have you ever gone through your facebook picture albums and had fun looking at a bunch of old pictures i did that this morning i m not sure why i just had a whim but one of them made me cringe it was a picture of what the play room used to look like i took it as a before picture because i was about to tackle the mess and make it better yes that was what it looked like all the time i hated it i would summon the determination to put everything in its place only for it to look like this all over again a few weeks later usually i would just keep the door closed no i was not good at making them pick up each time obviously but then came time for us to rearrange and get ready for another baby when i knew we would have two boys and two girls i realized that the rooms would have to be for both sleep and play so i came up with a revolutionary plan to help keep the kids rooms clean it s amazing really you will want to do this i can t believe i m sharing this secret here goes get rid of almost everything that sounds harsh right but i am not kidding over the course of the last year or so we have donated or sold on a yard sale tons of kids toys i am not horrible i promise caleb helped me with the boy stuff and it didn t even bother him we have kept the few things he and gabriel actually play with and that is legos and some imaginext castles and the good guys bad guys that go with it same for sarah we have a doll house for her barbies several barbies a container of my little ponies and some lalaloopsy dolls that s about it we have a few baby toys for leah too the girls room former play room the boys room the result is less clutter of course but i also feel like this helps the kids when it comes to cleaning their rooms when i say go pick up they know exactly where everything goes and it doesn t take much time at all i know i have friends who are amazing at organizing their kids toys and can have all the stuff we used to have if they can keep their rooms looking nice with tons of stuff that s great i just couldn t and my kids couldn t and frankly we don t have the room for it a friend of mine sent me a text with this picture she was reorganizing the kids toys i said she should get rid of it my current challenge is trying to figure out how to stay free of stuff how do you keep a happy balance of allowing gifts for your kids at birthdays and christmas while not becoming overwhelmed with stuff so difficult if each of my four children received only one gift from each of the five primary gift givers that is parents mama papa a mama papa v uncle stevie aunt rebecca uncle chris aunt sonja for their birthdays and then only one gift from each of those for christmas that is 5x4 two times that s 40 new things each year in our house and lord knows one gift doesn t happen what do you do when it comes to the toys that accumulate how do you how can i change the amount that comes in or should we just let it all come in and then donate it away and how can i write about this without seeming ungrateful for the nice gifts my children receive 5 comments wednesday may 1 2013 the real me really fakebooking have you heard this term if not let me help it s sort of self explanatory right you basically put a bunch of awesome happy pictures online coupled with awesome happy status updates i ve read two maybe three blogs articles about this recently some funny some down right serious and they are basically calling out those who just go through life putting up a fake front via facebook anyway i totally get what they are saying really i do but here is my problem with this concept who on earth thinks to take a picture or wants to of what they look like first thing in the morning or who thinks to take a picture or wants to of their child throwing a fit or being defiant or puking at 3 00 am no pictures how about a status update about the time i almost died when my daughter said someone was ugly that s not how i ve raised her why would she think that or say it why should i go to facebook and type my daughter really disappointed me today when she said a woman we know is ugly no i m not going to do that having a rough day yeah i have those lots of them i have four kids for god s sake and i m married it s not always blissful and i have family and friends who can at times let me down i m sure i let them down too but do people want me to update my status every time i have a fight with my husband or yell at my kids when i should keep my cool is there a balance when it comes to keeping it real i m sure there is i mean i guess there is i m not sure i ve found it though i honestly don t think people want to hear my problems they don t want to always know when i ve been up all night with one or two kids when i was on the couch all night with a fussy baby only to get up at 5 30 so i could go work out because i desperately want to lose weight and sometimes that doesn t always go well they don t want to know when the dog puked on the carpet right as i m trying to leave to take a child to preschool i don t think they want to know when i question if i m being a good mom or a good wife or a good friend really truly i think people are ok with this the chrissy who pulls herself together each day to tackle the world or maybe not the world maybe it s just tackling what the day will bring in her own little world the chrissy who wakes up each day with the attitude of this is another day he s given me i will rejoice and be glad in it through all the crap through all the joy all of it is ok really it is am i thrilled when something bad happens no of course not but keeping it real might have different meanings to different people my life on facebook is an airbrushed and instagrammed image of my real life i edit the suckage because i want people to think i have my stuff together i give everything a hipstacular filter to make the drudgery look interesting most of the time i think i m a decent mom and i think i m giving my kids a pretty good life but i also think i d be a better mom if i stopped pretending and making friends on facebook feel like they have to pretend as well sarah emily tuttle singer the thing is i am not pretending i do not for one second expect others to pretend and i don t think they are what you see on facebook is the real me it really is and if you think it s not real because i don t share the crap in my day then i m not sure what to tell ya but i want to know do you think we re all pretending 8 comments friday april 12 2013 leah turns one my sweet baby girl turns one today as i went through pictures to try and put together a sappy post i actually had a mini meltdown halfway through it s just hard to believe it s been a year already leah michelle you have made me smile since the first day i met you and you make me smile every single day when we took you to your first cardinals baseball game you were a champ they won that day on your first 4th of july you slept a lot even though it was really hot and when we play in the back yard you smile for your first dci show i m sure those sitting around me thought i was crazy for bringing a baby but you were good very good just watched like the rest of us your brothers and sister adore you we enjoy family trips with you this was your first time out at maramec spring park and this was your first time at chuck e cheese we shared a first together our first nlds game it was a winner too we stayed up late watching them play on tv you love your daddy he loves you too you love to cuddle with papa and i guess i was waiting to have you so i could take this picture at the zoo with four kids you just looked so cute on your first halloween mama was proud and i think you look a lot like your great grandma because i look like her too and you look like me i think you had fun on your first christmas morning and your first snowfall you love this papa too and the first time you were sick you didn t even cry you just cuddled with me more did i mention your siblings love you and i love to read to you you are beautiful and fun you seem to always be smiling i didn t know what our family dynamic would be like when you came along but i can genuinely say that you complete us you really do i can t image what it would be like without your crinkled nose and sweet giggle i m so glad that god has allowed me to be your mom happy birthday leah 5 comments tuesday february 26 2013 perception my kids like tortilla shells right out of the bag they probably get that from me i used to eat them that way too the other day sarah wanted one i told her they were in the pantry on the second shelf she went into the pantry grabbed one and came out saying you were right that they were in the pantry but they were on the third shelf perception from her view looking at the shelf from the bottom up she saw it differently than i did when i look at the shelf from the top down i ve thought of this a bit since it happened this seeminly unimportant difference made me think about how we communicate and how perhaps we argue or differ with others on certaing things we might be saying the same thing just in a different way 11 comments monday february 25 2013 my journey round two or is it three or four i have been contimplating writing about this again and each time i sit down and start putting my thoughts together i change my mind so if i actually hit publish it will be a miracle you re reading that means i hit publish two years ago i wrote an entry entitled don t hog your journey where i chronicled my changing weight through the years i even posted real numbers i felt bolder back then for some reason sharing that at my thinnest and most tone i was 165 and at the time of the entry it says i was 205 for the record i ve had to start over after having another baby since then and having gall bladder surgery those two things did not give me a kind number on the scale with my sister s wedding just over eight months away i have been pretty diligent with my efforts to lose weight again since january 1st i have lost 17 2 pounds i m not going to share my starting number this time but i might share it later as i post updates those updates will only be after i hit two main goals which are getting under a certain number not hard to guess that number i m sure and when i reach my ending goal total weight loss goal is 66 8 pounds so i still have about 50 to go in october my in laws had us over and all of us went outside for a family picture their two sons daughters in law 5 grandkids and the two of them were posed for a sweet snapshot everyone said what a great picture it was when they posted it on facebook there were some very nice comments but when i saw the picture i couldn t believe it it was the first time i finally saw what the last year 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