Another round

Ok. this is a real, raw and unfiltered post!  No super cute pictures, in fact no pictures at all.......no one to impress, just our real lives.  I have not been posting for the past few months, I have been distracted by facebook, which I personally think if a huge waste of time!  If you really want to say somthing worth while--you wouldn't put in on facebook, and to take the time to tell everyone what you ate for lunch, and what the weather is tomorrow is quite ridiculous!!  Just my opinion.  Plus I realized the value in keeping a blog, a writing, of happenings that I can print each year for my family to reflect on:)  In addition, 2009 was yucky!  It's something I wrote/talked around on my previous posts, but Derek and I were seperated twice and almost went through a divorce!  So from January to November--life was stinky--but I"m not too proud to say we are human, and things are better now.  We have been working hard since November, taking seminars, attending counceling, and doing a lot with Imago Therapy work.  It's been so wonderful to make sense of human beings and especially the "cycle of relationships".  I think it's impossible for two humans to live together with contention arrising ( even if it's sedom). So the tools we are aquiring do not take issues away, but help up to work through and untangle things, strengthening our marital muscles for the next "bump" as we know it will come! 

The kids are great, and super happy that we are all one big happy family again.  Although I have to say I've felt a bit like a first time mother........I am an experienced mom, motherhood came very naturally to me, I've never or hardly ever struggled (this was mothering my three daughters) then came GRANT THE BOY--MR. TESTOSTERONE!!!!  Heaven help me to stay sane, and live through raising him to a calm, non biting, non hitting, non stripping, non spitting, non poop smearing, non eater to a wonderful man and husband:)  I know it will happen we just have a good ol case of a busy busy 2 year old boy who wants his way, and will stop at nothing til he gets his way!!  But being the smart experienced mom I am, I know as he heads towards three he can reason with me and understand he can't run around taking his clothes off  and peeing and pooping everywhere...........

We are off to run kids to karate, and finish up dinner.............