Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

My mom sent this to me as a email and I have watched it and cried through it over and over.
Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

Inspiration

So last night I was killing time after my kids were in bed and before Ryan was home from rehearsals. I was feeling a little down and having a pit of a pity party. I was looking around online and found the most amazing inspiration. There is a blog called www.neineidialogues.blogspot.com that touched my heart and made me take a step back and look at my life and count my blessings. This woman is an inspiration! She is a mother of 4 and a few years ago she and her husband were in a plane accident. She was in a coma for 3 months and suffered horrible burns. To hear the way she positively looks at her life is amazing and made me rethink my own. If you have a minute, check out her blog. She will strengthen you!

Chaos

So the Hoskins's house has been a little on the crazy side lately... we have had many ups and downs, but it is hard to do more than just keep our heads above water as of late. We have had some major things happen the past few weeks. First of all Sheldon is now done with 1st grade. I can't believe how fast this year had gone. He is so smart and finished out the year reading above grade level, having crazy spelling words and still loving school as much as he did in Kindergarten. Allie is done with preschool. She is ready to start Kindergarten! She sings and dances all of the time and can't wait to go to the same school as Sheldon. Ethan is taking up a storm. It is weird to hear people ask me how old he is and when I say two they don't believe me because of the sentences he can put together. Ryan is now working at the Lion House Bakery at 2 am, then he goes to Titan and works until 4:30 or 5:00, then hurries home to have dinner with us and goes to rehearsals for Hello Dolly at 6:30 until about 10:00. I am working with the PTA again, learning how to make bread and freezer jam and trying to hold down the fort while everyone goes a million miles an hour. Life has been crazy, but we have been blessed in ways that we didn't realize.

Accident Prone

Ryan while growing up was a pretty accident prone kid. His mom tells stories about many trips to the emergency room. I on the other hand have never broken a bone at the first time I had stitches was after having Sheldon. It has always been my fear that I would have kids that would follow in his footsteps. With the first two kids we haven't had that problem. No stitches or broken bones, knock on wood, but then Ethan came along...Since turning 2 he has fallen off of the bar stool and knocked himself out, and yesterday he was jumping on the bed and hit his head on my head board and split it open. Sigh! At least he is a trooper and after a couple of minutes he is his same old happy go lucky self and it all doesn't seem to affect him, but it this is a precursor for what I have to look forward to, one or both of us is going to have to be locked in a patted room! :)

March... so far.

A few weeks ago (the 18th of February) I got a call from the office staff at Sheldon's school. They were in need of a sub for the afternoon and were wondering if I could come and take the class. I told them that would be fine and headed over. The last Wednesday of February I went to the district office to fill out my paperwork so that I could be paid. Monday morning I got a call to Sub, which I took, I got one Tuesday morning that I did take, Wednesday I took it, and didn't take the one on Thursday. So needless to say this subbing gig could be come full time! I have very mixed emotions about that, but that is a whole different post.

Yesterday was my baby's 2nd birthday. Can you believe it? He is such a fun little one to have in the house. He is always making us laugh with his silly faces and games. Anytime he hears music he asks me to dance with him. He is a big Mommy's boy, but is so good natured that he really loves everyone. We sure do love our little E.

It has been a long time...

The Hoskins' house sure has been busy over the past few months. So busy in fact there hasn't been much time for anything else, but one of my New Year's Resolutions is to blog a lot more often... we will see how that goes :)

My kids are growing up way to fast for my liking. Sheldon is one very smart kid! We have been enjoying our off track time by reading Harry Potter together. He has such an imagination sometimes that it is fun to hear the ideas of the story that are going on in his head. He reads non-stop and loves anything to do with math or spelling. He also love to do hip-hop and enjoys the music that goes along with it.

Allie is a diva in every sense of the word! She loves to dress up and be girly. She is starting to read and write and loves to draw pictures and make cards for everyone. She is dancing still and starting to show tons of progress. She loves her daddy and tells me daily that she is a daddy's girl.

Ethan is so big and talkative that I forget he isn't even two yet. I came into the kitchen the other day and found him standing on the bar... when I asked him what he was doing he calmly replied, "I just standing here Mommy." He loves to play with his big kids and walks around the house calling for Shel-shel or Princess whenever they are gone at school. But his favorite thing to do is snuggle.

We are so blessed to have such wonderful kids!

The Eighth Dwarf... BUSY

My wonderful sister posted this as her status the other day and I loved it so much I figured that I would use it. Thanks Kim!! The Hoskins' house sure has been busy the past few weeks, but I think we are finally settling in and getting used to our routine.

Ryan is working two jobs right now, plus studying Spanish medical terms in hopes of getting a better paying second job. He leaves for work at 4:30 and most days isn't home from work until 6:00. He is working so hard, and I am so grateful for the husband and father that he is.

Sheldon is doing great in school. He really loves everything about it. It seems like he is gone the whole day, which makes it hard, but when he comes home and says it was awesome it makes it all worth it. He also is taking a Hip Hop class. He is doing really well and loves to get out his energy with the cool moves and great music.

Allie is busy with preschool. She loves her teacher and comes home everyday singing new songs. She is taking ballet and tap as well. She loves to dance and sing and is always doing some from of them.

Ethan is getting so big and fun. He loves to cuddle and will grab your hand and take you to the couch or bed and tell you he needs to snuggle. He loves to play with Sheldon and Allie, but also loves it when he has just Mommy around. As soon as he hears the garage door open he runs to it yelling, "Daddy, Daddy!" He repeats just about every word that is said in the house. He is always caring around a blanket and his stuff frog from Grandma.

As for me I am busy with PTA, Reflections, cleaning, cooking, carpooling and Zumba.

So as you can see the Hoskins' house is busy, but we are enjoying life and having fun!