Beginnings

The first question I have to answer myself is, "why am I starting another blog?"  Well, I have been keeping my family blog for almost 7 years now.  It is a great place where I put pictures, stories, activities and accomplishments of my family.  I love having it there as a resource for our grandparents, parents and friends to see what the boys are looking like and what we are up to.  It is also an amazing resource for us - to look back at what one boy was doing at a certain age.  I definitely want to keep my first blog going - but this will be something different.

I am the mother of three boys.  It is official - on Sunday I officially weaned my third son.  He is no longer a baby - and I have three boys - not two boys and a baby - but three boys!  On an almost daily basis - when my boys and I are out, people will stop and start talking to me.  The conversation starts out in different ways.  "Do you have three boys?" or "Are they all boys?" or even better "Are these all yours?"  But it usually ends the same way... "G-d bless you!  I don't know how you do it!"

Listen, it is not easy having young kids.  For some people a group of young boys is scarier than the alternative.  To me, I am living my happily ever after.  A couple of months ago, when #3 was not taking to cows milk, not sleeping well and #1 and #2 were giving me a hard time I was starting to loose it.  I looked back over the last 12 years of my life to figure out how I got here.  I went to law school, fell in love with my soul mate, he proposed and then was diagnosed with cancer.  I remember praying, pleading with G-d to let him get better ~ to give us a chance to get married and have a family.  Through a lot of pain, surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation and miracles - I got my happily ever after.  So how do I have three boys 6 and under.... this is how I do it.