Mother of the Year Award.

We have all heard of it. If only it were a real thing that represented something good. Unfortunately we have all received it, some days we get it on more then one occasion. I know that there isn't a day that goes by that I don't receive it at least once a day. So...I thought that I would help make everyone feel better and give you my Top 5 reasons why I am the mother of the year.

5. So far, having a second child has not been as hard as I anticipated it to be. But the hardest part is SLEEP! When you only have one kid, you can sleep when they sleep, not matter what time of the day, or night that it is. But, that doesn't work so well when you have two. Especially when the older one gave up naps at least 2 years ago. Needless to say, when the baby sleeps now, I have a lot more laundry to do, a lot more things to pick up off my floor, and a 3 year old to entertain. No time for sleep. I have turned my sweet little boy into a bit of a couch potato. If you turn "his shows" on for him, he is entertained. Ever since we got Laynee home from the hospital a normal morning consists of feeding the baby, turning on the T.V. for Kastyn, and then going to "lay down" with Laynee for a minute. Which is code for,"I'm going back to bed." I can't tell you how many times Kastyn has come in asking for breakfast and I have said "I'll get you some in just a minute." Then fallen back to sleep without realizing it. That is until Kastyn comes in yelling at me because he is STILL hungry, and I haven't gotten his breakfast yet. OOPS! Mother of the Year Award.

4. Last year I decided I was going to potty train Kastyn over Spring Break. Surprisingly it went really well. I made him a chart, and when it was full we would let him go pick out any toy that he wanted. Well he finally filled up the chart and we decided instead of getting him ANOTHER toy to add to the toy box(which really means, to add to my living room floor) we wanted to get him a bike, and start teaching him how to ride. Teaching this kid to ride a bike takes way more patients then God put in my patients cup. Its one of those "the glass is half empty" things. Our house in up a little hill, nothing to dramatic. So one day I was out there trying to teach him how to ride and he still wasn't getting it. But I noticed that when he was starting to go downhill, he was actually getting the motion of pedaling. LIGHT BULB! I just needed to let him go down the hill. I could run next to him so I could catch him if he falls! I AM A GENIUS!! Yeah not so much...he fell WAY faster then I expected him to, and he skinned his elbow. BAD!! Mother of the Year Award.

3. Yesterday we went to my Grandparents' house to have dunner for Fathers Day. After dinner we ended up going to a park nearby and playing some baseball with the cousins. First of all, I only brought 2 diapers with me! I didn't think we would need more then that. So naturally, Laynee pooped, and I didn't have a clean diaper to put on her. As I was getting her in her car seat I was paying more attention to talking to my aunts and cousin, and not enough attention to buckling the baby in. All of the sudden she started SCREAMING!!! We are talking bright red faced, refusing to breath screaming. I couldn't figure out what in the world was wrong until all of the sudden I saw it. The pinch mark on the inside of her thigh! I totally pinched her leg in the buckle of the car seat!! Mother of the Year Award.

2.I absolutely hate sharing my food! I cant tell you haw many times Kastyn has found me in the pantry with a mouth full of candy bar, or some other treat. I just give him a package of fruit snacks to make myself feel better. Mother of the Year Award.

1. We really struggle getting Kastyn to eat dinner. Lunch and breakfast is pretty easy because it is a lot of  kid food". This kid could seriously eat chicken nuggets, or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the rest of his life and be totally fine with it. Around Christmas time I think it was in 2013 we had been gone all day long and he had been telling us he was hungry. So we stopped and got him some chicken nuggets from McDonald's We weren't hungry, and we KNEW he would eat chicken nuggets! Apparently since it was now dinner time, he didn't want chicken nuggets anymore. They were yucky! I was at my wits end and I let it all boil up at that one time. I started shoving chicken nuggets into his mouth!! What part of me thought that was a good idea? I don't know! But with as frustrated as I was, it was the best thing I could come up with at the time! I NEEDED HIM TO EAT!! So there I was shoving food in his mouth while he is crying and having a total meltdown, and the next thing I know he throws up all over me!! Serves me right!! I couldn't believe what I had just done. I wasn't accomplishing anything positive by doing what I had just done. I was dissipointed in my self for days!! Mother of the Year award.

I am happy to say that the scabs have healed, the pinch mark is gone, and Kastyn is actually starting to eat better. I still sleep more then I should and hide when I eat my treats, But hey 3 out of 5 aint bad! I'm a work in progress, we all are!! At the end of the day, I take a deep breath, kiss my kids good night, tell them I love them, and think about how cute they are as I am falling asleep, Then I wake up the next day and wait to screw up again!!