Crazy or Is It Something Else?

Well the last few days have been quite busy for me. Kristy has made a new friend and she has been over a few times, we invited her and Kristy's cousins over for a sleep over saturday night. I've had other kids in my home including my own since Thursday. At times I've had up to 8 kids, I must be nuts. A lot of people, especially Marvin doesn't understand how I can do it. It can be hard at times but with a lot of patience, understanding, and some kind of control it's not bad. For the most part they know the limits in my home, although they sure can test them, but they also know that if they do something wrong than they would have to pay the consequences.
Kids are wonderful things that god has given us the oppurtunity to have in our lives. Have you ever just sat there and watched what a child does or says. At very young ages they know how to do things and their minds are very creative. They pick up on everything, even the things that you wouldn't think they would. They have to have such an open mind and not a one sided mind. They can show an adult so much by just they way they express themselves by wanting to copy everything you do to just coming up to you and saying 'I Love You Mommy' without anyone telling them to do that or even just sit next to you on the couch and give you a hug and watch a show with you that you would think they would not understand or even want to watch. From watching my own children to other children I have learned to appriciate everything about a child from the time they are babies until they are old and grey.
Over the summer I had quite the oppurtunity to do things with my children that we just don't do at home. We went to Colorado and it was wonderful. Grass, trees and bushes everywhere. Flowers by every building and the temperature couldn't have been more perfect. I was able to teach my children how to put a worm on a hook and catch a fish. The excitement and pride that swept over them on catching a fish was a wonderful thing to experience, even reflecting on it now makes me want to cry with pride and happiness. During our trip they showed me that it was okay to be silly once in awhile and act like a kid. They got me to roll down a hill a few times, which I was caught by some adults walking their dogs and the neighbors and roommates. It was fun. It felt good. Everyday with a child is a good day. We as Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Moms, Dads, Aunts, Uncles or whoever have the greatest privelage and reward of knowing a little once, we can do our best to teach them the rights and wrongs, to teach them to be better people but at the same time they teach us rights and wrongs and teach us how to be better, and that is why I feel that I am not Crazy or Nuts having so many children around me.

My Mom said!!!

My mom said that I had to create a blog so here it is.
I'm not sure how to start it so I'll start with the events of today. Kristy had a friend come over today. They had lots of fun. They all went outside to play in the pool. Well I know the boys would have gotten muddy, but I didn't expect to see the girls covered from head to toe in mud. Even though they were sprayed off with the hose before they came in they still tracked mud in through the house. Camron was the worst of them all. It looked like he layed down and rolled around in the mud and then was covered in it. I guess I missed out on the mud bath. I hear mud baths are good once in awhile. They all had so much fun.