I May or May Not be a Good Mom...

I don't know about all of you, but some days I question if I was suppose to be a mom.  I think my kids would agree, that my patience has grown VERY thin over the years.  I try, I really do, but lets be honest...Being a mom is HARD WORK!  Lately I feel like I have two different families.  I have the older girls who have definitely hit the fun teenager years, and then I have Dalaney and the boys.  Poor Dalaney falls right in the middle, and tends to be a little neglected (my bad).(:  The boys on the other hand, still spend a lot of time with sweet ol' mom.  I'm not gonna lie, I'm tired...tired of being on the ball, so occasionally I let it drop.(:  I don't always do the things that I did with the older girls.  I remember when I would never let my kids watch tv all day...um ya, and I remember when I would read to my girls every night...no comment, and I remember buying the girls bubble bath just so they could play bubble princess in the bath tub all the time, and I remember making sure they were wearing something cute every day...hair done and everything.  Well, I am trying, I really am to do better with my boys and reinforce all of these fun things that I tried so hard to do with the girls.  Again, Dalaney kind of just got skipped over, and one day she'll probably need therapy...that I will of course end up paying for.(:  The other day, I was at walmart with my boys...which of course is ALWAYS a fun experience.  We happened to be over by the lotions, and the boys noticed the "Cars" bubble bath.  They had no idea what it was, but they wanted it all the same.  I, of course was in a good mood, so I bought it for them.  We went home and started running the bath water.  They could hardly believe it!  It was so fun and so new for at least the first half hour, until the bubbles started to be thrown all over my bathroom (walls and all).  Needless to say, they have been grounded from bubble baths for this last week.(:  Another thing that I seem to have no control over is the way that my boys dress.  I seriously cannot believe how picky boys can be.  At first it was just Ethan, but Spencer has decided to join the bandwagon.  I would never let my girls go out in public in such clothes, but lets again reinforce how tired I am.(:  So more often than not, they are wearing something I would normally not approve of.  Oh well, I guess it's all a learning process, especially for the mom.(:

Experiencing their first bubble bath...this was before I started yelling at them to quit chucking the bubbles across the bathroom.(:

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