OH WHAT A DAY!!!!!!(read if you dare)

Ok everyone. Today has been one of those days! This is gonna be a long one. Go ahead & pour you a cup of coffee and stay a while!
I decided there needed to be some changes. So I decided to change part of my headline from "A place of encouragement for moms" to "Real Life Of A Homeschool Mom". And for those of you who may ask WHY..............well, let me tell you!
I still want to encourage you with great words of wisdom, but that doesn't mean it has to always be great little wonderful tips and stuff. It may encourage some of you to hear about how CRAZY and out of control my days can be. I felt like I was being a little unrealistic just sharing only the good and encouraging side of being a mom/wife/nurse/maid/cook/janitor/teacher/maid(oh sorry I already said that one). I feel that I need to be totally honest and let you in on the good,bad & the ugly! So I thought I would let you all into my world as it is on a daily basis!
Let me begin by saying that I LOVE my 3 wonderful,amazing,sweet children. Don't forget that line!
I wanted to get up early this morning being that we started back to school today after a break of about 3 weeks. Well, I happen to get this nasty sinus monster attaching itself to my body. Everything on the left side of my face is swollen. From my gums all the way to my neck down to my shoulder. So needless to say I slept in today. My little Jacob woke me around 7ish and wanted food. So being the great mom that I am I say to him,"Go get a pop-tart." I really thought I needed to have a warm breakfast for him since he was starting back to school today, I think warm meals are overrated!
So then I decide to get up and attempt to have somewhat of a quiet/devotion time to myself before the other 2 wake up. And what do you think happens? YEP you guessed it! They both wake at the same time. They do decide to play for a while so I get in a little quiet time.(10 precious minutes) So we all get breakfast and then the oldest starts on school while the other 2 play/fight whatever you wish to call it. All the while I am trying to decide whether or not I am sick enough to go to the doctor and waste the money it would cost. I spend a little time on the computer and then returning phone calls. I decide not to go to the doctor.
So now it is time to check school work. My wonderful Jacob is spending his time on the computer playing. I find that he has written some stuff wrong in his English and call him over to correct it. He acts like I have pulled him away from talking to a movie star or something.(As of right now I am thinking of a different/more hands on way of doing school) I had to remind him of the importance of an education and that we are not doing school work just because it is fun! And then comes the attitude!!! He needs an adjustment these days!
Then comes the wonderful task of LUNCH!!! It was actually pretty uneventful today. So not much to share there.
Well, after lunch we decide to go on a walk so that maybe mom will feel a little better. It did help some. After our walk we play outside for a while. The problem with this is that my amazing 3year old daughter(who really has enough drama to be in the movies) loses her mind if she loses any game! And my little Nathan only wants to play in the mud. So we decide to go in, against my children's wishes! But I have dinner to cook and need to get busy. All the while Jacob and Amber are trying to see who can talk the ugliest to each other. And Nathan decides to cry and whine until his daddy gets home and then he smiles!!!(did I not give birth to him?)
So all in all today has been an ok day. Besides the fact that I have this terrible thing wrong with the left side of my face, Jacob tries to talk to me like he is 32 instead of 8, Amber screams and cries at every little thing to TRY and get the boys in trouble & Nathan climbing on and falling off of any surface he can get his chubby little knees on(esp the kitchen table-he takes off in a full run across it and bout gives me a heart attack every time!) And last but not least, my wonderful husband comes home and informs me that he has to go to bed early because instead of going in at 7:00 he now has to be at work at 3:30AM!
So if you have lasted through this pitiful excuse of a day, bless you!!!!! Sorry it is so long, I guess I needed to get it all out!!!!
So my words of wisdom today are:
Even though we may have days that our children act crazy and do everything wrong, we are soooo blessed to have those amazing children! And YES I can say that I really do love their precious little faces and all the things they do, even the wrong things!!!! I am so blessed and thankful that I am the one that gets to be with them every day and that I get to wake up with them and put them to bed each night. Thank you God that you have allowed me to be a Homeschool Mom!!!