Car Pool Lane

After going through all of this week's pictures I realized that lately the most time I get to spend with my children is when we are in the car. How did I realize that? Well, when you have 20 pictures from a week and 18 of them are from in the car...it doesn't take much to realize you miss your kids.

Thankfully it will only be for a few more weeks!

Every morning I wake up, hop in the shower and give myself about 30 minutes to find something to wear and "beautify" myself. Then I rouse the kids. I start with Josh because he takes longer to wake up. From the time I say, "Josh....it's time to get up" to the time he actually gets out of bed I have picked out his entire wardrobe for the day, picked up the previous day's clothes off his floor, woken Lauren up and sorted through the massive amount of her clothes to find something for her to wear.

Then I spend the next 25 minutes convincing him to dress himself. Honestly, if I didn't push him every morning it would probably be noon before he got his pants on! By the time I actually get them fed, dressed and in the car it feels like I've run a marathon. So the fact that everyone is still smiling in these pictures is amazing.





Not every car trip is as pleasurable as that one. Lauren's been messing up with everyone's sleeping routine lately so some days I get to listen to this for 25 mintues.



Oh....those are my FAVORITE days!! Those are the moments you honestly wish you were deaf.

Then on top of her screaming you have Josh screaming, "Warren...GET OVER IT!" and "Warren, stop screaming." and "Mom, make Warren stop screaming!"

Given that it's tax season and I'm working a ton of hours Larry and Toni have been taking the kids overnight on Thursdays so that I can go to work at two or three in the morning. The last two Thursdays I have given the kids their baths, dressed them in pajamas and packed them up only to ship them over to Grandma and Grandpa's.





Josh thinks it's the coolest thing ever and Lauren is just happy to go wherever Josh goes. It helps me out a ton and the kids don't even miss me! If only that feeling were mutual. I got home this past Thursday after dropping them off and turned on the TV and the Jetson's movie was on. Between the stress and lack of sleep I started to cry because I missed my kids already. You can't win, can ya?

Other than that....not much else is new. Lauren is standing up on her own more and more each day. Every day I swear she looks more like a little girl and less like a baby. **sigh** Does this ever get easier?