if I wasn't laughing I would be crying...oh wait I am crying...the title of this entry is being the mom of 3 kids...

So I have taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging since May. Oh I managed a couple of entries I think.  I don't really remember because quite frankly I have no mind.  All logic and reason have gone out the window.  I am simply in survival mode.  I kept thinking that this phase would pass.  The onset was really when #3 was born although the build up was long before that...oh the 9 months, I'd say.  But the phase isn't passing and so now I am in a place of acceptance.  I have no mind.  I am only blogging at this moment because I have so much to do and I don't want to do any of it...I've already checked Facebook and Pinterest multiple times.  I refuse to read/watch the news because that would send me into a spiral...so I'm blogging.

Things that I have learned with 3 kids...
*At any given time someone is crying/whining...it is really "funny" when you realize that the crying is coming from you.
*At any given time someone is throwing a fit...not surprising that I fall into this category as well.
*My kids now know that when I start calling on the name of Jesus that they need to quit talking, moving, hitting, throwing...whatever they may be doing because Mom is either calling for a spiritual intervention or calling on some divine power...either one of those merit silence.
*I can now add professional wiper to my resume...who knew? I wipe noses, faces, hands, bottoms, dirt off of clothes, snot off of my shoulder, spit up off  shirt, food off of the floor/table/wall.
*Toys mate and multiply. I don't know how this works.  Yes, I do know it is scientifically impossible but ask any mom (especially one that lives in a smaller house) and it happens.  I am as amazed as you are.
*This is the new normal...sometimes when you have kids you think...well, when they are a bit older our life will go back to normal.  3 kids later--life never goes back to "normal". This is the new "normal".  Don't cry...don't fret...just accept...have a cup of coffee and move on.
*There are not enough hours in the day...so at any given moment, someone is going to be neglected...unhappy...unbathed...this is just life.  Handle this as you will...I am currently saving up for my children to go to counseling.
*MY LIFE IS CRAZY...and there is not one part of me that would trade any of my 3 precious babies in...not even for a moment...and so I breathe...say a prayer...and drink another cup of coffee...

so until my to do list is so overwhelming that i have to blog again...
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