When she was just a girl She expected the world But if flew away from her reach so She ran away in her sleep And dreamed of Paradise Every time she closed her eyes When she was just a girl she expected the world But it flew away from her reach And the bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on, it gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly Every tear a waterfall In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes In the night the stormy night away she'd fly And dream of Paradise She'd say, "oh I know the sun must set to rise" This could be PARADISE

I'm meeting with our new nanny tomorrow. I am beyond thrilled to have someone that will pick up all the slack I can't seem to maintain these days. I'm also happy because she will do the cleaning, cooking, laundry, take care of the kids including baths, etc. Now our time together will be quality time instead of all these other things that take up so much of our time! We'll have her 3 days a week since the kids will be in school twice a week but when they are out for summer and winter break she will be here 5 days a week.
I'm also looking into bringing speech back for all three kids. Now that they've started communicating more, I think they will benefit from services. I pretty much will only do it if the therapist come to the house. It was way too hard trying to get them to the offices and now with me working full time I wouldn't be able to. I'm also excited because I want the kids to learn Spanish and our nanny is bilingual.
In cute news, Madi thinks Brody's name is My Man and Brody thinks that is his name too! My new favorite time of day is right before they go to bed because they each give each other kisses and we sing our ABC song. They actually sing A-B-C!
I bought the kids Elmo shirts and Madi a Abby nightgown. I only bought one nightgown because it came in a 2T and Gracie is much smaller than Madi. Madi would not take it off! Finally I had to pry it off of her because she was in desperate need of a bath and boy was that fun to listen to. Anyway, little did we realize that Gracie is pretty much the same size as Madi now if not bigger! I immediately went online to order Gracie one and they were sold out... of course! Also, all their Elmo shirts were too small and they were size 12 months! We just got into that size! So I'm on top of the moon because they are growing so much!! Maybe, just maybe we can be in 18 months by their Second birthday!!
Owning a house is so expensive! It's like always something needs to be updated or the yard needs to be mowed, etc. We have to get two windows replaced and that is just shy of $1000! For two!! Oh well, beats living in an apartment any day. Don't know how we did that for so long. I can't believe we've been in the house over four years now!
We are headed to Austin for a couple days. Super duper excited about that. I've been a couple times but never long enough to really enjoy the city. Although, there was a really fun "hill" that Meme and I use to race down in her truck!! Don't ask :) I hope the kids enjoy it and that the weather isn't too hot and doesn't rain!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day. Being a mother is the best things that has ever happened in my life and I am the luckiest momma in the world to have my three babies alive, healthy, and thriving. God is great and we are BL3SSED!

XOXO,

Krista