Crazy Wrap Thing!!

My results 12 hours after 1 wrap!!

So one of my friends kept posting about these wraps.  At first I ignored them but them the more she posted the more curios I got.  So I started looking at the results she was posting and asking questions and such.  After a long drawn out process of asking her a million questions I decided to get some.  At first I was just going to buy them and then looked and realized that becoming a distributor had less risks (I know weird right?) so I signed up for that.  As soon as I posted my results on FB it was nuts.  People were asking me how it was done, how they could get their hands on some and how would they get into selling these too!  I had 5 loyal customers within a week.  Nuts!  Not only that I have 3 distributors under me and 2 that are in the process of signing up plus one of my distributors has a distributor!  VERY cool!  So all in all I am making money, having fun with my team on selling these AND wrapping myself skinny at the same time.  This is awesome!

Here is my page where you can see more results of my friends!  Like and share!!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fit-Wraps-by-Jenny/532480130108093

Who wants to be 4....BRECKEN DOES!!

A Jake shirt!!

 So here we are with our BIG 4 year old.  We asked him who wanted to be 4 and he always says "ME" and Bay says "Brecken does!!"  He had a lot of fun!  We woke up and let him open his gift (some are still in the mail) from grandpa and grandma and then one from us that was on time in the mail.  We got him a Jake and the Neverland Pirates outfit for his party!

Superhero book!  It has stickers and pages that you can stick and re-stick....he really likes this book!

 He got a sticker book from grandma and grandpa and he loves this thing!  It is really cool.  It was hard to let him do it and not take it away so I could do it :) 

He asked for chocolate chip pancakes:)  They were YUUUUUMMMMMYYYYY!!

 I said he could have whatever he wanted for breakfast and he saw a picture of chocolate chip pancakes on Pinterest so that is what we did.  They were really good.

He dressed up like Jake

Here is the cake!  We all got our pirate gear on....argh!

 We had a BBQ for him.  All our friends showed up and had some fun!  We only invited 3 families and between all of us there were 15 kids so Brecken had a blast! 

He kept trying to blow out candles before we were done singing.

More presents!!

I love these kids...all our friends here in the CA!

All in all it was an awesome day!  He got another couple outfits (which mommy loves) and another couple toys (which Brecken loves).

Brecken~

I cannot believe you are already 4 and I cannot express how in love I am with you!  I have loved being able to see all you have done the last 4 years and cannot wait to see all you are going to do in future years!  You are an inspiration to many and so many love you!  You are an awesome big brother to Jayce and you are a pain to your sisters but it comes down to it you always show them you love them and protect them.  You are amazing!  Daddy and mommy love you so much and know while you are little we will always stand in front of you to lead and protect your, when you are older we will stand beside you to take your hand and be with you and when you are old enough to be on your own we will stand behind you to encourage and love you always.  We love you!!!  Stay you and always stay smiling!!!

The BIG 4 Months!!

 Where does the time go!?!?!  My baby is 4 months already!  He has been doing awesome on all his milestones!  I must admit after having Brecken I get nervous and check where Jayce should be and if he is doing well.  So far he is good!  Jayce LOVES to wear Breckens shirts which is really cute and Brecken loves to let him. 

 He is able to sit up with help and keep his head stable!  I love his little feet:)  When I nurse at night I have started laying down on my side since it is more comfortable plus I like feeling his little feet push on my belly.  Other nursing mamas understand.

 He smiles all the time now!  He just sits in his swing or on the floor and looks at all the craziness of his brother and sisters and smiles like he thinks they are nuts.

He is sleeping through the night now which is AWESOME!  We had a rough night last night but he will go almost a whole week without waking up during the night at all.  He has stopped taking so many naps during the day though now so trying to get things done is a little harder however he is actually playing with his toys which helps when I put him on the floor.  He has his 4 month check up next week so we will see how he is doing.  It makes me laugh to think he was a preemie yet he is now in 6-9 month clothes and look at all those adorable rolls!!  I love rolls:)

Disneyland, Cookies and Christmas!!

Family photo by the tree in California Adventure!

 I know I know!!  I am sooo behind on blogging!!  I have been getting messages asking when I was going to blog again.  It is nice to know you all care:)  It has been super busy so you all know how that goes but here is a recap.  So first we went to Disneyland!  We took the kids for their Christmas gifts from us.  We had some friends come down and go with us and we had a lot of fun!  A lot of craziness but fun! 

Hanging out with Mickey in Toon Town

Minnie in Toon Town

 Then it was time to get home and start our adventure of making Christmas fun for 4 kids.  Although Jayce really could care less...lol.  We decorated cookies for Santa.

Brecken apparently does not know what I mean by put the icing ON the cookie.

Bailey does not know the meaning of "for Santa"

Taylor seemed to get it.....

 Then Christmas morning!!  Brecken asked for a Hawkeye bow and arrow from Santa!  He was VERY excited to see he got what he asked for!  Taylor asked for a pillow pet dream light.  Bay got a bunch of stuff for her doll and Jayce got a floor gym.  He was very excited.

Hawkeye Bow!!!

Baileys favorite present was a doll Grandma sent:)

Taylor got a bunch of big girl stuff.  Make-up, jewelry kit and scrapbooking fun!

Jayce obviously loved this outfit!

My friend Jennifer Sharp got the kids some gifts but I was sure she probably bought this for me but got the wrong size.  I will let Bailey have it.

So I know that is kind of short and sweet.  I will try and keep up now on here.  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and that you have a Happy New Year!!!

Homeschooling....

Now let me just tell you growing up I was SO against homeschooling.  I have no idea why...maybe it was the pasty white kids who shielded their eyes as they walked out into the sun every couple weeks when done with homeschooling.  Or the fact that none of them talked and they all walked in line behind their moms like soldiers.  You know....THOSE kids when we were all walking home from school with all our friends in colored clothing and laughing at Tommy blowing milk out his nose in the lunch room...yeah high school was awesome....lol.  So anyways that obviously never happened anywhere but the horror movies where the kids ended up actually being dead or something weird like that...well the milk thing happened....couple times....stupid jocks....lol.  ANYWAYS I have no clue why I was against it.  Being uneducated about how it really was probably had a massive factor in all of it.  So we started our lovely little kiddos in public school because of course...they rock and have normal people and that is what everybody does....right?

Oy....let me say that first of all schools are nothing like when we went and we went at some pretty sad and dark times.  Columbine happened a couple blocks away from our high school.  We were the high school they played in sports and such down the street.  So we went through our scary moments.  I do not blame the schools or teachers whatsoever on this so please do not take this the wrong way and it ALL is only my opinion BUT I feel it was 99% the parents fault....I know I know...blame the mom.  I just feel like parents used to hold their kids responsible and now they blame it on everybody else but the kid and dang it those kids need their butts whipped once in a while!  Geeeeeeez!  Crazy how much parents allow their kids to do and if I hear one more parent say "Well he is like that because he has ADD"......AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!  Now do not get me wrong.  I do feel that is a condition however I feel it is VERY over diagnosed and sometimes the kid just needs a parent to step up and take on the parenting role and NOT ALLOW THEM TO ACT LIKE THAT!!!  I get you all think my kids are angels and that I have no idea since I live with such well behaved children....a little hint....I DID NOT ALLOW THEM TO ACT LIKE THAT!!  My kid threw themselves on the ground and oh yeah...mama got the spoon!  NO WAY my kid is pulling that crap!  Although they still try and I will never be the mom that says "my kid will never..." since as soon as I say it they are doing it.  I just find certain behavior unexceptionable and my children do get spanked for it.  Do I beat them...no.  I would like to sometimes but I do not.  They get a spank on the butt and that is it.  I must say if you are sitting there thinking "yeah but she does not have any strong willed children (yes out of 4 kids I never had one strong willed.....BAILEY....child at all)" however keep in mind that I do I just controlled it before it got out of hand.  If it ain't cute at 12 it ain't cute at 2.  OMG sorry....back to homeschooling....lol.

So a couple reasons we decided to homeschool.  First of all we prayed long and hard about this.  We waited until God said it was time and that was when we pulled the kids out of public school.  Taylor was coming home and talking about how mean kids were and was telling me what they were doing.  They were not making fun of her but of other kids and she did not like it.  That is when she started coming home a little sad each day because of this and if you know her you know it takes a lot to bring her down...she has an amazingly happy spirit.  Another reason was I wanted to be involved with their education!  I could volunteer in the kids classes but I was not allowed to bring other kids.  Wa wa wa...yep....can't do that.  Then I noticed Brecken was not learning what he needed to.  Those were our BIG reasons.  Some smaller ones were Brecken has 5 therapies a week and I am getting worn out from doing all his therapies and school so I can imagine how he is!  We decided it would be best to pull him and keep him in his more intense therapies then in the school therapies.  It was just too much.  Plus he would cry when we tried to take him to school which is weird for him too.  He is a very happy kid and loves to play.  Then being a military family and having Doug in and out of deployments and such, I just figured it would be nice to be able to pick up and go back to Colorado for a couple days if I wanted to and not be worried about the truancy officers showing up at my house.  California is crazy on their school attendance laws.  Then I started hearing about teachers strikes and kids were suffering for it and then the whole morning after pill will be offered to high school girls (they are starting this in NY)....I was done.  Too much for a kid to worry about that they should not even be thinking about!  SO all in all we decided this was best for out kids at this time in our lives.

Now let me just say I have MANY friends who are teachers and they are good!  I would love my kids to be under them and I do not think that teachers get paid enough whatsoever but when you are a military family and you are seeing soldiers on food stamps and getting any other help they can because they are not getting paid enough and instead of going on strike they volunteer for a deployment and leave their kids and spouse behind in hopes they will see them again to make a little extra money...then you tend to frown upon people going on strike....especially when you are letting kids pay for it and then we have the awesome referee strike which cost a couple football teams some wins...that is a WHOLE other blog...just all bad.

So back to homeschool....lol...wow I am on a ROLL today!!  Taylor has been doing great so far!  She loves it and I love working with her.  Brecken is already doing better then he was!  It is working out so far and we shall see where this takes us.  Please do not take anything in here offensive.  It is all my opinions and I have slept no more then 2 hours straight since September 1st so I get to rant once in a while.

Now we are in day 2 and I must say as crazy as the kids are making me it is going well!  I am actually enjoying it and Taylor seems to like it also and as weird as it is I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. 

Mothering ALL my kids!

So I just saw a post from a mom whom I started following who has a special needs son.  Same thing as Brecken and about the same severity.  Her son is 9 now so I really like reading what she is going through as a mom and how he is doing being that Brecken seems to be on the same track.  While I agree with some stuff she says there are certain things I do disagree with.  Today she had written an article about how mothering is the most important thing for a special needs child.  Yep...I agree....however the article was so focused on her special needs son there was no mention of her daughter.  I often do this too when I get on a role about how hard it is to mother a special needs kiddo.  I love my son so much and I hope he knows how much I adore him and yes taking him to all his doctors, therapies and such is a lot.  I never imagined I would be doing this once I had a family of my own.  My life literally revolves around Brecken more then any of my other kids because of his needs.  I often catch myself hearing other moms talk about how hard their day is with all they have to do and think "try throwing a couple therapies on top of that" or "yeah in the middle of helping one kid with homework I am rushing my son into a warm bath because he is having painful spasms in his legs".  I try not to do this because I understand how hard being a mom is period.

As of now yes my boys take more of my time but my girls are definitely taking more of my mental sanity.  Haha.   So personally I think mothering is the most important job no matter what.  For all 4 of my kids.  I try and get to where they all have something in their lives.  Taylor is in gymnastics so that she has something that is for her and no one else.  We try and take her out on dates so she does not have to be surrounded with "Brecken" on everything.  She enjoys his therapies and helping me with him but we have had her comment on "why does Brecken have to have Cerebral Palsy".  She never says it in a mean way or anything like that but she sees other families and knows that they do not have to do a lot of the stuff we have to.

I KNOW God gave me her as my first child for a reason.  She is an amazing big sister and a huge help to me.  Especially since we live the military life and my husband will be gone for days to months to years at a time.  I know she does the same exact thing I do too though.  She looks at other family's and wonders how it would be if we could be more "normal".  Although being 6 she does not realize that all family's have their challenges. 

Bailey on the other hand is my kiddo who knows something is up with Brecken but she is not quite sure what it is.  She pushes him around and tells him to keep up which is awesome because it does push him.  I have a feeling she is going to be the one who pushes him the hardest and be in his face when he gets older telling him to get up and try harder when he wants to quit.  She is a crazy stubborn girl who loves her big brother and will want to see him do his best no matter what.

Jayce already pushes Brecken.  Brecken sees him and gets that he is his big brother and I see him wanting to be the best big brother he can for him which in turn makes Brecken push harder.

So all in all YES parenting a special needs child is important however not forgetting that there are other ones looking to you to be the mom you need to be is just as important.  Making time for my other son and my girls is just as important to me as being the strong mama Breck needs.

I love my kids and yes they ALL drive me nuts sometimes but they are ALL worth it every single day!  Every night when I go to bed I always think my worst days with my kids is 1,000 times better then the best days I had without them.  Being a mom is hard and no joke but it is a job only the amazing and strong can handle and I say if you still have the same number of kids at the end of the day that you started the day with...you are super mom!! 

Never Say Never

I read this on my friends blog and actually remember her saying some of her "I will nevers" and I am SO sure people remember me saying mine so I figure this was a good list because it is very true.  So here are some things I have said I would never do as a mom and now I realize I never ever say that I will never because I end up doing it.  I also will never be that mom who says "My child would never..." because as soon as I say that they are doing it....lol.  A lot of these are the same as my friends so here is my list.

1.  I will never let my house go more then a week without being cleaned....HAHA!
2.  I will never have the TV be a babysitter for my kids.  Yeah that one did not last at all...lol.
3.  I will never bribe them to be good since they should always just be good and listen (yeah ask my kids what they got for our last grocery trip).
4.  I will never yell at my kids or say things my mom used to say....HA!
5.  I will never say "because I said so"
6.  I will never give my kids junk food in the mornings (again ask my kids what they got for our last grocery trip...lol)
7.  I will never pretend like I did not see something they are not supposed to do just to get out of disciplining them....oy.


Here are a couple things I think I have held strong too which I know a lot of moms have since I am surrounded my awesome mamas.

1.  I will not allow my kids to not hear me tell them I love them often.
2.  I will not go very long without hugging them.
3.  I will not allow them to think I do not mess up...often...I am trying my best and there are days....there are days I just think "wow how on EARTH are they turning out so good with me as their mom".
4.  I will NEVER EVER forget to thank God for them and for allowing me to be their mom.