While I have a moment where the house is quiet, Emma is asleep- fed and dry. I just made some fresh cookies the kids and I started this evening before bed and I think the washer is going, dishwasher scrubbing... All is good.


Erin and Lara are out for an overnight at a friends...Josh is still at Michelle's. I have my home to myself.......and seven sleeping children..LOL Yet, I feel alone. A moment of peace.

Erin has been a big help I must say. Whenever one has house guests just the fact you make room for more changes the dynamics of each day. My grand daughter who is five is a bigger adjustment for me. She TALKS and talks and talks and did I mention she can talk! LOL It is a HUGE difference raising a "only child" and have many children. If I have learned one thing for sure....I am a mom of many for all the right reasons. I am enjoying the time with Erin to get our relationship from the past to a present level of trust, mature adult level. Lara has had the crash course on disabilities and for the most part all goes well..some classic socially acceptable language is working itself out.. The words used in generations past to how to include and accept persons with disabilities in the year 2009..a teaching moment.

Josh on the other hand seems to trigger some unresolved inner issues in me that I need resolved. I have a hard time communicating with him still. I have less tolerance, less ability to make the effort..I am working on some answers.. He is almost 21, very immature in his thoughts and conversations... I hope that knowing I am part of this will help me gain patience to work on resolving it..

The kids here at home have been WONDERFUL.. because we had spring break right at the time we took custody of Emma we made major sacrifices for self desires so that Emma has had her needs met. The kids love on her so much.

The past couple days have been blasted with mishaps... Erin drove my van to take Lara to a specialist to look at her foot and some how ran over - into- who knows a stop sign.. it instantly popped a tire and did something to the windows of the van. I handled it well I believe. It all took several hours to get fixed and home, Erin took charge of getting it repaired and back in the driveway.

Josh put the SD card into my camera upside down, when trying to pull it out with tweezers he scratched the contact and so no pictures will transfer into the computer to load for all of you...ugh! I will pray they load onto a CD at Walgreen's. I can view them on the camera.

I actually wanted to get on and tell you all about the funny things that have been happening...

The last I wrote I was going to All Children's in St Pete. Tressa had her sleep study. She slept through the night with only some arrousals. Then we stayed for naps throughout the day.. We wake at 7 am then down for a nap at 8:30 for 20 minutes. She actually falls asleep and gets into dream mode. We do this every two hours and each time she sleeps. The 4pm room check to go down at 4:30 brought on a sassy girl with a major melt down. She actually fell aslppe within seconds of llights out and went into a very deep sleep (per machine monitoring her) She was hard to wake. We left shortly after for home. Once she got her "dinner" which she was a billboard reader informing me of each eattery along the highway ...we stopped for a bite and she fell asleep for the remainder of the 2 hour ride home...to go to sleep two hours later for the night.

At the hospital she was very takative, she let everyone know of her new baby sister. Most were a little shocked to hear i had a three week old and was there for a sleep study with Tressa. The beauty of it was I got lots of sleep as well.