Welcome Back Kotter

It's been a good 3 months since I've even looked at my blog.  It's not that I've been avoiding it, it's just that...well, I've been avoiding it. I've been having a time.  Caleb started school in August, and since then has had 3 bouts of Strep.  His tonsils and adenoids are to be remove this Tuesday.  So hopefully he will feel better soon.

The doctors are very concerned in the drop in my energy level, and coincidentally my white blood count. So, for the last few weeks I've been poked and prodded and re poked whenever they see fit.  They've determined anemia, but they have "further testing" they want to do to make sure it's nothing more.  I just want  to "want" to shower. But most days I just opt for bath so I don't have to stand.

I'm also extremely grumpy of late.  Home life gets to you when don't really have the energy to do anything more than walk to the kitchen and back to the couch.  Even my job is a task.  I think, "Why does this stupid time clock have to be so darn far away."  I love my job, but if I could do it while sleeping, I would like it much more.

 Carley has turned into Oscar the Grouch lately, and while it's a little cute at times, mostly it's just annoying.  My two year old tells me what shoes she will wear, what she will eat, what she will not eat, etc. And whenever she gets in trouble she just smiles her sweet smile and says, "I not do nothing, it Caleb."  Yeah, I know, cute huh?



So anyway, I kind of turned into a robot.  Get up, drop kids at school and babysitter, go to work, eat, go home, bathe the kids, put kids in the bed, sleep, wake up and repeat the next day.  And then tonight after picking up my kids from their grandparents' house we were driving home, Caleb from the back seat says, "Hey, mom look at those Christmas lights."  (He was speaking of the lights in the town square.)
Then Carley says, "Aw pretty Momma."

And it reminded me, that no matter how hectic life gets, we should always take time to enjoy the little things in life. Even if it is just Christmas lights.  So we took a detour.  In an abandoned town square my children and I rolled down the windows and cranked up the heater and enjoyed the Christmas lights.  Oddly enough, the Welcome Back Kotter theme song popped into my head right at that time.  I guess it was my subconscious way of telling me I needed to snap out of this fog. And all it took was two little babies, and some twinkling lights.

Enjoy the little things...they are gone far too quickly.



Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! :~)