For The Crazy Times

"Things may seem crazy right now...but someday you'll miss this." YES. This has been my motto the past few weeks. Having an 8, 4, 3, and almost 2 year old can be trying, to say the least. They can make you think you're crazy even on the good days. And I promise you for every truly good day you squeak out, there is 3 cry your eye's out days to be had. I'm in hopes that the "someday you'll miss this" part comes sooner than later, for one kid in particular at the moment! Although that will change soon enough. I think its a game between the kids to take turns being difficult.."Okay, mom thinks I'm being the miserable one today, quick! You be bad and I'll be good, that'll confuse her!"

Right now we are dealing with what I'm assuming are the terrible twos (he's only 19 months), a major growth spurt, or a rebellion unlike anything we've ever seen before. Jonas. He's testing EVERY limit we have. Maybe it's because he's the baby, maybe it's because he's trying to keep up with his 3 and 4 year old siblings, maybe, just maybe, our kid is always going to be a whirlwind of trouble. Either way, you combine that with the other 3 kids, and it makes you start thinking about their bedtime 10 minutes after they all get up! They may all look sweet and innocent...but that's just their cover for their devious sides, I'm sure you know all too well what that looks like!


Am I crazy? Did we not already go through this stage with 3 other kids? This is just a phase right? Was it really THIS bad with the others? Quite frankly, yes, yes, yes, and yes...somehow we manage to forever block out every bad thing our kids do once they grow out of that phase. But the "someday you'll miss this" part of the quote really makes me question how accurate that statement is. Will we REALLY miss these moments? Nope. I mean as I write, Jonas is currently in the pantry (which you can't keep him out of) trying to stack the juice bottles like they are building blocks, growling at himself and showing us his ornery side.

What will I miss? I will miss how physically little he is at this point. I will miss how he still needs me more than anyone else in the world (even if right now he screams like I'm leaving for a month every time I have to go to the bathroom). I will miss how he's learned to tell us what he wants in his cute jumbled up words as he's learning to talk more. I will miss how he's my baby and no matter how horrible the days are and how trying they are, that they are still days gone. And whether I like it or not, that's another day I'll never get back with the kids at this age.


One day, some day, they won't want anything to do with us...and there I'll be, one of those people saying "Things may seem crazy right now...but someday you'll miss this." It will happen. Until then, I'll gladly clean up the messes, hand out the discipline when needed, and love on them until they tell me to stop!

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