Well I continue to be amazed and how difficult it is to get in here and blog regularly! I mean sheesh, the last time I was here I had one less kid! Life as a mom of three has certainly been a transition a midst all of the things I am engaged in, admittedly by choice but nonetheless taxing at times. So to tally it up, I am currently finishing up my BS in political science with ASU, home schooling the kids, and taking a more active role in our real estate business. I actually enjoy all of these tasks...just not necessarily all at the same time which seems to be the case recently!

Also, my precious little six month old baby girl is still waking every 2 to 3 hours (sometimes every hour) through the night and if I thought I was tired the first few weeks of her life, six months later I have officially reached the "I'm really tired" zone. Still, life is good. I get to spend lots of time with my kiddos, and given a recent prescription of Zoloft I am feeling more like myself again. Luckily I don't subscribe much to the "some things are to remain private" mantra, my life is indeed an open book so I feel no shame in admitting my weakness :)

Anyway, I may try to incorporate video blogging into our Mighty McKinley blog since it seems a little easier than typing it all out, and.....it makes me feel sorta famous when I see myself on TV ;)

Huh, this blogging thing is easy to forget!

So.....its been awhile, but here I am! This blogging thing is harder than it looks. I read once that if you're going to blog you have to do it everyday to create the habit to blog. At the time I thought that was a little extreme, and what on earth would I say everyday anyway, but I now think that they might have been right! Can't remember by the way who the "they" were, but I swear I read it somewhere. Anyway, on with it!

Yesterday was the first day of school for all of Fountain Hills and I have to say that I have mixed feelings about the beginning of school pretty much every year. Here's the deal, I love being a home-school mom...I do, but I am more than a little envious of the free time other stay at home moms look forward to as they watch their kiddos toddle into school five days a week. This thought is usually followed by another thought. I know I would feel a tremendous amount of guilt going against everything I am convinced is so right about homeschooling for "our family". I stress the "our family" thing so no one gets all huffy like I think homeschooling is for everyone. I know this isn't so. I have to imagine that that guilt alone would keep me from really enjoying my free time, but still the thought is present and so very real! I mean, I can still think back to all I am able to get done in the few hours they are away at vacation bible school. Alas, I will settle for a glass of wine at the end of the day on the patio with a friend. It's amazing what just a little time to yourself will do.

After all, I really wouldn't trade all the time I get to spend with my most precious asset, my babies. Maybe rather than day dreaming about sending them to school, I should be researching how to become a super hero! That would certainly fix all of the "not enough hours in the day" issues right?

Woo Hoo, a family blog!

As if Facebook wasn't enough, (straight from my husband's mouth) I decided to start a family blog. Maybe its because I don't have enough to do with myself (I'm pretty sure that's not true) or maybe its because I have some intense Freudian reason to feel like I need to belong to some extended community that actually cares about the mundane details of my life. BAAAAHHH, I hate myself already, but I suppose not enough to shut the web page down and forget all about it so......here goes!

Today was an interesting day. I woke up to my precious little Reese kissing me with not so precious breath and reminded her that while Mommy thinks she is probably one of the single most adorable things on the planet, I simply cannot be woken up before 6am, oh who am I kidding, before 8:30 am. As I tried to go back to sleep, I could hear the sound of the toaster being moved to the counter from the cabinet and that meant that Reese was attempting to make waffles by herself. History has proven that this leads to marshlands of maple syrup on my kitchen floor so I decided it was in my best interest to get up and lend a helping hand.

I've been trying out these diet pills lately and after a healthy dose of those this morning I was off and running. Billy had piano lessons and lately we've had to brave the blustery winds on our golf cart on Monday mornings because Will is gone at appointments on Mondays. It ended up being fine, the kids and I needed micro-derm abrasion from the wind anyway. After arriving safely home, we delved into the endless array of second grade and kindergarten curriculum that while interesting seems to take FOREVER to get through. We are thoroughly spoiled by homeschooling, two and half hours is FOREVER in this house. I made lunch while the kids informed me it was opposite day and that they thought their lunch was disgusting and I was very ugly.

The rest involves other quite boring details, besides the dinner at LoLo's chicken and waffles (my BMI is now measured in acres) that was delish and then, well, here I am...starting a family blog. Will is worried he is going to have to break in and edit my embarrassing posts. You all will tell me if I'm giving TMI right?