Comments on: Is this it? http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/ Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sarah http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Sarah Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:37:18 +0000 http://rileycentral.net/partyof5/?p=5#comment-21 Shelly: I know you are right, because my son was already approaching seven when the second one was born and I could barely recall anything about those early years. As eager as I am to pass through this stage, I am trying to appreciate it as well since it is the last time any of my kids will be this sweet and innocent, and when they are teens maybe I'll get lucky, ha ha ha. One can hope! Shelly: I know you are right, because my son was already approaching seven when the second one was born and I could barely recall anything about those early years. As eager as I am to pass through this stage, I am trying to appreciate it as well since it is the last time any of my kids will be this sweet and innocent, and when they are teens maybe I’ll get lucky, ha ha ha. One can hope!

]]> By: This Eclectic Life http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20 This Eclectic Life Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:47:33 +0000 http://rileycentral.net/partyof5/?p=5#comment-20 Oops. I gave you an extra kid...sorry Oops. I gave you an extra kid…sorry

]]> By: This Eclectic Life http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/comment-page-1/#comment-19 This Eclectic Life Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:46:06 +0000 http://rileycentral.net/partyof5/?p=5#comment-19 Darlin', when you get as old as I am, you will look back on these days with wistful longing. It will be momentary, you'll snap out of it, but you will miss it. You know how you forget the pain of childbirth after it's done (of <b>course</b> you do, you have 4 kids!)? You'll have that same memory lapse. You won't remember how dog tired you are right now. You'll just remember the beauty of those babies. I'm not going to tell you it's going to get easier. That would be lying. They will become teenagers (and you will discover the reason that some animals eat their young). You'll live over that, too. Hang in there. Darlin’, when you get as old as I am, you will look back on these days with wistful longing. It will be momentary, you’ll snap out of it, but you will miss it. You know how you forget the pain of childbirth after it’s done (of course you do, you have 4 kids!)? You’ll have that same memory lapse. You won’t remember how dog tired you are right now. You’ll just remember the beauty of those babies. I’m not going to tell you it’s going to get easier. That would be lying. They will become teenagers (and you will discover the reason that some animals eat their young). You’ll live over that, too. Hang in there.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Sarah Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:44:58 +0000 http://rileycentral.net/partyof5/?p=5#comment-18 Jessica: 4 kids all one year apart? The fact that you are still coherent makes you my new hero. Are you blogging from a padded cell? Jessica: 4 kids all one year apart? The fact that you are still coherent makes you my new hero. Are you blogging from a padded cell?

]]> By: Jessica The Rock Chick http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Jessica The Rock Chick Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:22:12 +0000 http://rileycentral.net/partyof5/?p=5#comment-17 I've been asking myself the very same questions. I have 4 children all spaced one year apart. (I know, what was I thinking?) Temporary insanity. I always thought when they got a little older, I'd stop having stains on everything, messes everywhere I looked and popcorn ground into the carpet. Ummmm, no. Now I have 4 teenagers who bring herds of other teenagers over to flop down on the couch, eat me out of house and home and make even bigger messes. And the bedrooms? OMG! I just close the doors. By the time I drive the teenagers back and forth to school, work and then pick up all the teenagers and drive them to all the activities, I am wiped and I haven't even cleaned the house yet. But, like you, if I take a night off, it's just double the disaster. I struggly with the fulfilling part, too, because most of the time it's just "running like a nut" and cleaning which is not very exciting. But then, I look at them and I think 2 years from now my oldest will be off to college and each one right after that and how much I will miss them when they move on. I think that's the fulfilling feelings. Jessica The Rock Chick I’ve been asking myself the very same questions. I have 4 children all spaced one year apart. (I know, what was I thinking?) Temporary insanity.

I always thought when they got a little older, I’d stop having stains on everything, messes everywhere I looked and popcorn ground into the carpet. Ummmm, no.

Now I have 4 teenagers who bring herds of other teenagers over to flop down on the couch, eat me out of house and home and make even bigger messes. And the bedrooms? OMG! I just close the doors.

By the time I drive the teenagers back and forth to school, work and then pick up all the teenagers and drive them to all the activities, I am wiped and I haven’t even cleaned the house yet. But, like you, if I take a night off, it’s just double the disaster.

I struggly with the fulfilling part, too, because most of the time it’s just “running like a nut” and cleaning which is not very exciting.

But then, I look at them and I think 2 years from now my oldest will be off to college and each one right after that and how much I will miss them when they move on. I think that’s the fulfilling feelings.

Jessica The Rock Chick

]]> By: Damien Riley http://www.rileycentral.net/partyof5/is-this-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Damien Riley Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:12:29 +0000 http://rileycentral.net/partyof5/?p=5#comment-16 Very well put! Very well put!

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