The past couple weeks, have been nothing but sickness, messes, laundry, house cleaning, cleaning up Gavin's pee and poo messes (he's potty training),dealing with Ashlyn teething, Brennen working late and on the weekends, and the list could go on and on. I don't know about you, but being a mom and wife is so much harder than I ever imagined. Of course way more rewarding than I could have imagined too. (Most of the time) :) Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing wrong though. Especially when my kids are acting like crazy people, hitting, punching, wrestling, throwing things, calling each other names. They get in trouble every time, but it doesn't seem like it gets through to their brains that that behavior is not OK. They continue to do it again and again. Am I not being strict enough? Or not punishing them enough? Are time-outs not enough? I wish that I had a manual on how to be the perfect parent. I feel like so much fighting and anger is larking around here. I don't like that feeling at all. Maybe I need to focus more on spiritual things. So the spirit will guide me in how to mother my children better. It couldn't hurt trying I guess. I wish I had 10 times the energy I have now. That would do me a LOT of good.