fredman.org http://fredman.org/blog pretty much all about the kids! Thu, 03 May 2012 02:37:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= May Mania! http://fredman.org/blog/2012/05/02/may-mania http://fredman.org/blog/2012/05/02/may-mania#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 02:37:06 +0000 Sarah http://fredman.org/blog/?p=1128 This is always a super busy time of year but this year I think we’re setting a record! In the next five weeks, we will have Asher’s Birthday, Moving Day (or moving week), Zeke’s Birthday, Titus’ Birthday and the end of the school year. And that doesn’t even cover the graduation celebrations, other family birthdays and travels. Starting to feel overwhelmed just getting it all down in print! The bad news is that with everything happening at once, I have to be really careful to make sure we enjoy each of the events as individual celebrations. The good news is that it’s all SO very fun and exciting :) The other good news is that this mania has caused a bit of hyper productiveness on my part. I mean, productive to the extent that the invitations for the big birthday bash on June 16th are already made and ready to go. I tend to go to bed each night with my mind whirring (maybe drives my husband a bit crazy :) ) and have never in all my life accomplished the days whole to-do list so many days in a row. I know it will all crash at some point, but for now the packing, moving, preparing, gift buying, traveling, etc. just gives me a bit of a high.
In other news, my Titus is miserably sick today and I’m thinking I better tell this sickness to enjoy it’s stay now because after this week, our family is off limits from all sicknesses…too much to do to be sick!
So at any rate, Happy May everyone!

]]> http://fredman.org/blog/2012/05/02/may-mania/feed 1 How Did We Get Here?? http://fredman.org/blog/2012/04/29/how-did-we-get-here http://fredman.org/blog/2012/04/29/how-did-we-get-here#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:41:57 +0000 Sarah http://fredman.org/blog/?p=1133 It’s been a long time since I last blogged…I mean a REALLY long time.  Nonetheless, at least once a week I have thoughts whizzing through my mind that I feel I want to blog about….obviously that hasn’t happened!  So, here’s to an occasional blog post!

Today as the three boys and I took a tour of the elementary school Titus will be attending next year, I found myself thinking…”how did I get here?!”  I mean, it truly wasn’t all that long ago that I was living in Vermont, leading a peaceful (well, sort of) life as a single gal.  11 years later and what a different story :)   Marriage, houses, kids, joys, trials…quite the life!  I pride myself on not being a mom who is constantly grieving my kids growing up but sometimes I just can’t help myself.  In just a few short months, I will be sending my oldest off to school and I am struggling today as I just keep thinking about him as my tiny (or not so tiny!) newborn who wouldn’t sleep worth a hoot and wanted rather constant attention and entertaining.  So different from my 5 1/2 year old who gets up in the morning and heads to the basement to play or read quietly so as to not wake his baby brother.  So different from my 5 1/2 year old who is devastated when spring break lasts too long and he can’t go to kindergarten prep.  So different from my 5 1/2 year old who is so proud of his new skills in reading, riding his bike, doing chores and more.  For all the challenges we might face, I could not be more proud of my amazing 5 1/2 year old!  (And that goes for my 3 1/2 year old and 10 month old too of course!)
I seriously don’t know how we got here…but wouldn’t give it up for anything!!

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Titus followed with, “I’m going to be the best good sport in the world!”

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Yes, we are dangerous! 

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