Welcome

Welcome to the Fab 4 Mom Chronicle! As you can see I'm the mom of four children! Two Girls-2 Boys  Sophie, Livvie, Sonny and Mikey ages 7,5,3,1.  I'm an aunt of soon to be 12 nieces and nephews all under the age of 7(we even have nephew triplets). I'm a sister/sister in law to five beautiful women (all great moms), a wife of one knock out husband and a friend to many and all who will put up with me! I love children and found my calling in becoming a mom. I hope you have too!

With this chronicle I hope to share the fun and frustration, romance and disillusionment, and the heartbreak and unconditional love that comes with being a parent and most importantly a mother. Whether you are a new mom, a veteran mom or somewhere in the middle you know that parenting is the hardest job in the world.  So lets see if together we can find a way to step back, slow down and enjoy the "job" because isn't the payment worth it!

Thank God for Mono!

Ok so I decided to be a blogger because I have mononucleosis.  How a mom of four kids gets the kissing disease is beyond me but I have it!  Besides the fact that my liver enlarged, and I have to try to force my self to stay awake, I feel relatively normal.  I feel as though I should be doing the normal every day duties. You know the breakfast, lunch making, car pool, dance class, football practice, homework, dinner, cleaning, and laundry duties.  But my doctor said the only way to get better is to rest, rest and rest. I asked if I could start next Monday because I really have a busy week but that was a no go. So here I am trying to rest surfing the net and blogging.

 While in the ER I started to think the worst.  I had an enlarged liver and couldn't eat or sleep because I was in pain.  I was hopped up on Morphine and my husband gets an emergency call from our dear neighbors who have our four kids and their four kids. GOD BLESS THEM!  That my oldest is vomiting so I send my loving husband out of the oven and into the frying pan.  Of course I'm ready to go home because my place is with my sick daughters. Did I write daughters? Yes the second child vomits 30 minutes later and then after everyone is bathed and ready for bed my son takes his turn.  Poor dad!

 After X-rays, ultrasounds and many test they discovered they have no idea what is wrong with me and let me go home.  I return home to find dad still trying to get the stains out of the carpet, so still hopped up on the morphine I grab cleanser and rag and start showing him how it's done.  A mother's work is never done!  

 It takes two trips to my doctor's office, three blood test later to tell me I have Mono.   I was frustrated that it took another week to find out what was wrong but I was sooo happy to hear I had Mono. So after a good stress relief cry I began to find the good in being sick. Yes I was going to be positive and not think about all the laundry and dust that was going to pile up.  I began thinking of all the naps I could take and the reading I could catch up on. I was not going to be making as many meals because my great friends have been cooking my family dinner.  My husband after scrubbing toilets and floors decided maybe a cleaning service might be needed until I felt better. (I may be keeping them.) But best of all I have enjoyed spending quality time with my children. I love reading to them and had not been taking the time. We have been playing cards and games and my sons and I have built some killer cities out of blocks and letting the giant dinosaurs destroy them. Spending this time with my kids has been such a gift. I know so many of you may be like duh!!! But I did not realize how caught up I was in the everyday grind that I forgot what my job was....to be there for my kids.  

 Thank God for Mono!

Anyone have any other great ideas to do when you're laid up? Let me know!