Long Days

So I guess its been awhile since I've updated this. I've been really tired this last week and having lots of headaches so sitting and thinking about what to write hasn't been a top priority. I haven't really done much this week, I did teach preschool Monday and today. Thank goodness for the Internet, it helped me get lesson plans late late at night the night before both times. Why do i save things like this for the very last minute? I don't know, just do. But it went really well, better than any other time that I have done it actually. The only hard part was Parker climbing on things, in the playpen and excersaucer, on the table, and jumping around. The whole time laughing and saying "Oh I am so funny, look at me! look at me!" Oh the pleasures of life with a hyper active child, always wanting to be the center of attention. He is so fun, I love his big personality, but at times like this I can see too much of myself in him and it makes me scared for whats to come as he grows up. But I guess that's the mothers curse huh, a kid just like you. I think my mom must derive some sort of pleasure in seeing the struggle we have with him sometimes after all the years of saying "I hope one day you have a kid just like you!" As if that would be punishment enough for all that I put her through. Thanks Mom.
Parker has gotten a lot better though and for that I am very thankful. I guess there is a lot to be said for the terrible 2's. He has so much fun with KC. I love having 2 kids, I think how sad it must be for all the only children out there. All the fun they miss out on with siblings and the trials of learning to share, etc. Today Parker decided that he should get to feed the baby. So for lunch and dinner he stuffed KC full of whatever baby food he could find in the cupboard. Poor KC was getting so much food at once he could hardly swallow any of it. I don't think he was a very big fan of the new way of getting his food, but it sure was cute to see Parker so excited to take care of him. Parker also thinks he can pick KC up now to move him around. I am not liking this at all. KC doesn't seem to mind though and hasn't even so much as flinched the few times Parker has set him down rather hard. I think he loves the attention he gets from Parker, and Mommy making sure he's okay.
KC is into everything!! I forgot just how busy they are when they learn to crawl. He is getting really good at moving all over the house and finding any bit of anything left on the floor. Poor guy has been spending a lot of time in the play pen these days.
Well it seems there is so much more to write but not a whole lot to really say.
Today has been a rather slow day, mostly just relaxing at home after preschool and getting some much needed cleaning done. I did go to the grocery store to get some things to make dinners for my dinner co-op (we all make a bunch of meals then trade) and while I was there I talked to a girl I used to work with. She's 16 and has a 4m old baby. Shes looking for a babysitter and so I was offering, then she told me she needs someone to do it for free because she just got kicked out of her house and has no money. She's been staying with her boyfriend and just kinda passing the baby around to anyone who will tend him. I am tempted to babysit for her anyway, for free, just so that poor baby can have some stability. But I am really good at taking on more than I can really handle and then feeling upset about it, so for now I told her I can do it sometimes. I hope she calls. I know she has dropped out of school, so maybe I'll offer to do her day care for free on the condition that she gets back into school.
I feel so bad for kids that have to grow up in these kinds of families. And I am so grateful that I have a loving husband and we have a stable loving home for our children to grow up in. Even if we never have tons of money to give them lots of things, at least we can teach them good values and correct principles and help them have a foundation to build their lives on. I am grateful that my little girl has such a great family to grow up in and that her parents are teaching her all that she needs to know and that she isn't being bounced around between me and some scuzzy boyfriend. When I see these girls that are pregnant and planning to keep their babies with no real plan of how they are going to take care of them it makes me sad that they don't have, or don't choose to have, the knowledge that maybe they aren't supposed to raise that child and that they can love their baby by giving it a good home. I just realized as I finished typing this that maybe some of you reading this don't know all this about me, but I guess now you do. I had a little girl 5 years ago, just 8 m before I met Aaron. I placed her for adoption and it has been such an amazing experience for me and for her family. She is so beautiful and happy. This is an old picture of her but its the only one on my computer.
So anyways, thats all i really have to say today, sorry for the ramblings.. but I guess it's my blog so that waht you get :)