Well, my #2 daughter turned five on Friday. Yikes! I can’t believe she’s so big already. She spent Friday night at Hubby’s parents house and then Sunday night at her Aunt and Uncle’s house and then is having a party on Saturday (combined party for Faith’s first birthday, which is February 1st), so she’s all celebrated out. Oddly she doesn’t seem too upset by this….

Not much else going on around here. My six year old is suddenly looking very tall and my eight year old told me the other day that his pants were too tight. Overall, very disturbing. Parenting drives me crazy. I spend half the time wondering when the heck all these little uncivilized maniacs will grow something resembling brains and the other half of the time wondering how all my little tiny, cuddly babies suddenly sprouted into these tall, smart children.

These feelings (plus half a dozen others ranging from “now I’m going to pitch this child out the window” to “I want hug this child for the next 4.8 years straight” with many stops in between) bounce back and forth at lightning speed numerous times every day. Makes me feel moderately schizophrenic. Very odd. Plus with so many kids, just as one or two kids is growing out of the driving me nuts phase (or are temporarily behaving for the week), one or two or four others are jumping right into the make Mommy crazy sphere. This may have something to do with why I feel like a crazoid….

Rachel