New school year 2017

First day of kids back to school and I'm exhausted.  I was up at 630, hubby and i got kids dressed and fed, off to school by 735, back to house to bring toddler and baby 3mos old to my mom's house (my aunt arrived at 730 to help), off to work by 830, 530 run to grocery store for a rotisserie chicken for home,  630 pm head to choir practice while hubby watched kiddos, home at 830... all kids down and in bed by 915.  Nurse baby til 940... get up and fix lunches, feed dog, ready bkfst prep for am, sweep and mop kitchen.   Done at 1100pm... laying next to my 3mos old.  What a day!

Here's how adorable my schoolagers looked today:  

Here's my two tinies:

Totes adorbs right?  So as crazy as it is up on this sikeWard... I praise God and am thankful for being present and involved in the lives of these amazing gifts of children.  I'm afraid that if I blink, they're off to college!

Shark week... whoooot

Last night, we took the kids to shark week at Odysea aquarium.  Funnnnnnn!!!  It was practically empty as it was a Monday evening so we were able to get through the exhibits relatively fast.  That, and the kids have the attention spans of toddlers and kindergartners.

Between the screams of "fish!!!!"  And "over here over here!"  We thoroughly enjoyed it.   Coraling the children to stay as a group was an adventure in it of itself.  

Although I enjoyed seeing the exhibits, I think I enjoyed watching the kids enjoying the aquarium exhibits more.  Their fascination and excitement brings joy into my heart and I smile now even typing about it.

Afterwards we took them to the Wandering horse buffet at Talking Stick Resort.   Yay for free meals for kids under 5! 

But then... we exceeded bedtime.  Oh the crying.   That was probably the only misstep of the night.   We should have started a good 45 min before what we did.

Making memories in my heart and filling it with joy.

EEEEK, I Made It!

So... I like to write and I love to read.  Not for anyone else but for me really.  It's very - cathartic.  What I should be doing is cleaning, or organizing my shit, which frankly, is going very dangerously into horder mom mode.  (Like who needs leggings with holes in the inside legs where my fat thighs basically rubbed together to create enough friction to cause said holes???  I should've thrown those away at the first sign of holage, but no.... I hung on to those comfortable puppies forever).


For a long time, I just made journalish entries and saved them in my laptop.  Then facebook came along.  YAY.  I love that about social media.  It's basically blogging, without blogging.


I don't know the rules about blogging.  I don't want to be controversial, I don't even want anything to go viral.  I just want to have a place to put things on paper.  I don't even know if I'll ever share this site... ever!


Either way, eeeeek, I made it.  I made a blog site.  And the title theSikeWard is pretty much how my life runs nowadays.  It's a little bit cray, a little bit serious, a little but awkward, and a lot a bit fun.


This'll be a story how this mama tries her hardest to balance kids, family, work, faith, friends, and everything else that comes in between.