The Mooney Clan

At the beginning of the year I was feeling fairly depressed and definitely tired all the time. I was frustrated by all my stay at home mom responsibilities. I yelled at the kids and was just super negative. I decided to start doing what I could to try and change that. I started small. I started taking vitamin D. Then I started changing my diet so that I was eating more healthy foods and less sugar. I needed to get off of that sugar high and crash that I had every day. A few weeks later I started exercising. I wanted to take care of my health and most of all - I was really hoping the endorphins would help my mood and my energy levels. For the first little while it didn't seem to be helping. I was just falling asleep on the couch even earlier than before. I was still grouchy all the time and had that deflated feeling. I certainly attribute some of that to winter; the season that I have a lot of difficulty likely at all. Then I went away for four days. I was at the end ...

In case some of you were concerned after I posted about the blood yesterday - here is the update. Dylan got carried away and slammed a door on Liam's finger. He has a little cut that bled a lot of blood. Dylan also managed to push Evan over and hit Caden on the head all in that one little moment of time. Oh brother! He did end up saying sorry to all and giving them hugs. If you weren't concerned - I hope you didn't bother to read this.

Sometimes I don't blog because I have nothing much to say. Today I have too much going on in my mind to get it down properly. My lack of blogs though - makes me feel a responsibility to say hello to everyone that checks in on us. I am getting more organized these days and am hoping to be getting on here a little more. I am writing now, while the kids are awake, and am realizing my mistake already. There have been potty breaks and fights and a few warnings against bad behaviour already and I've just begun. So I am not at all focused and so this will likely make no sense and be a total waste of your time. So - if nothing else, let this be a little note to say I am still out here and I do still intend to blog. I need to get some pictures up and fill you in on how the kids are doing this first day of March. I guess that means that in two days they will be 30 months old. Caden is 2 months from his 5th birthday and we actually have his kindergarten info meeting on thursday ...

I bet most of you are thinking this post will be about our kids. Maybe some kind of revelation we had to help make the days better, to spark the creativity and enhance the personality we know each one of our precious darlings possess. But instead, this post is about hockey which, to most Canadians, is almost as important as the children thing. This past Saturday, I got to play in my first Church League hockey game and first actual game of hockey in almost 20 years. It was so fun. I have been sort of trying to get some equipment the past few years but was too cheap to buy any and for some reason, not telling anyone I wanted equipment didn't get me any. But as luck would have it, I did end up getting nearly an entire set of equipment for free. All I need is shoulder pads and maybe a sweater and I am set. On top of that, my good friend Craig has been hounding me to play all year. I kept saying, "Well, if I can get any equipment, then I will." Well when the equipment showed u...

I took Caden and Evan to swimming lessons last night. That was fun. It was nice to get out of the house and I got to spend one on one time with Evan (we go to a class together while Caden goes on his own). I love spending that time with one of the boys at a time. It's such a special thing - and it is so rare. I want to try and take the kids out separately more often. I feel like we've had a lot going on lately. Mostly good things. And yet I'm pretty tired and low on steam. Not sure why. Just seems like there is so much more to do in a day than what I have time for. I guess we all feel that way hey? So - we plug along and dream about spring.

Well, 5 days of the intense potty training with Evan and it appears that we have gotten no where. Who knows - maybe he is just one hour away from getting it? How can I know? I have decided to let it go for now and give him some more time. He's just so laid back and really doesn't care. He's peed all over the house for 5 days. I am done with that. Thankfully Dylan is still doing well so I don't feel like a total failure. Liam asks to pee all the time so I will likely try the 3 day thing with him this weekend. I'm going to give myself a couple of days off though. This has been draining and frustrating. We took Caden and Evan to swimming lessons last night. Evan seemed to enjoy it. He pays no attention whatsoever to what the teacher is saying to do. He just has fun. He's so in his own world but he's pretty happy there so who says that has to be a bad thing? I'm just glad that they got to get out of the house and do something! Speaking of gett...

It has been a long day and it's only 1230 in the afternoon! I could definitely use an assistant these days. I'm trying to do this 3 day potty training thing with Evan. It's something that works only if you are with the child constantly. Well, I have Dylan who was pretty reliable but today he decides to regress some. Lovely. So I'm in the bathroom with one boy getting him cleaned up and the other one is in the living room, peeing on the floor. I get over there finally to clean him up and clean the floor and the other one is asking to go again. And over and over it goes. The 2 boys have gone through 30 pairs of underwear in 5 hours. WHAT! In there I am supposed to answer the phone and make lunch? Oh brother. What a joke my life feels like right now. I feel like I'm swimming in pee and poop. I hate to be frustrated so early on in the process. But I can't give up now and I know it's only a phase. Doesn't make me any less tired...