Let's Get it Started!!!

I guess now is as good a time as ever.....I have decided that I might as well try this thing they call blogging.....since I spend a lot of my time reading others. My main focus with this thing is to keep somewhat of a diary. I wake up nights in anxiety mode stressing over things I have no control over....one being the aging of my precious boys. Jake, 13, wants nothing to do with being photographed, our family outings, or me when he is around his friends. Jamesen, 9, is as sensitive and precious as ever, but has gone from the ever so laid back easy child to the one always contemplating death and dying. His conscience gets the best of him so he is always telling on himself and his friends when he feels they have done something that might disappoint me. Jake is constantly calling him a "suck up" but I honestly think he has a strong sense of "pleasing". Christian,6, is trouble with a capital T! He has no problem with lying when it benefits him, he's ALWAYS RUNNING, and deserves about 95% of what he gets!!!!! He, like Jamesen, still loves his momma and loves to snuggle in mom and dad's bed when he is overly tired. Now my fourth child, my husband Jason, is my best friend. He is caring, sensitive, pretty laid back when it comes to the "child induced anxiety" thing, and tends to handle the teenage stuff better than me....although he is a little lite on the discipline compared to me. He, like Jamesen, aims to please for the most part. He loves his boys (and his wife) and spends most of his free time wanting to "hang" with the family. Needless to say, he doesn't play much golf and only got into watching sports after marrying into the Sams family and having three boys, the oldest of whom loves SPORTS! Then there is the WIENER DOG......Wiener One Kenobie....fondly known as OBIE. He is our 5 soon to be 6 year old red dachsund that we acquired from a lady in my brother's office for a mere $50. He was the last of the litter but definitely not the smallest. He was supposed to be a mini....but his body and his territorial instinct is neither. Let's just say " Enter the Rees house and yard at your own risk"! BEWARE OF PROTECTIVE WIENER DOG!

Then there is me.....MOM.....I guess you could describe me as always having good intentions, but following through for very long is not what I do best. I am doing exactly what I have always wanted, being a stay at home mom. I do tend to envy those who seem to be able to do it ALL, but I love the fact that I really don't have to DO IT ALL. I have tried a few business ventures from home and also opened my own gift / monogramming shop. Then I realized that I had disobeyed my Lord and Saviour in doing so. With help from my Father above, we bowed out gracefully just as things were becoming profitable. I am coming to the conclusion that the Lord put me here on this Earth to raise three positively productive boys who will one day grow up and leave me for their own families. I used to be excited about that .....being in a QUIET home with only me and Jason to care for.....but now I am having second thoughts. Maybe it is that I just turned the big 40! I just have to trust that he Lord will find me three wonderful daughter-in-laws to enjoy who will bear me many beautiful granddaughters.

Now, just so you know that if you ever visit the Rees household, let's say at dinner time, it may not seem that I am doing my God-given duty. First off, we are lucky to be at the dinner table all at the same time.....maybe once or twice a week. If we are, the conversation usually revolves around the male anatomy. If the table is quiet, one brother has probably "dissed" the other one , another has taken up for that one only to "diss" the other one and I end up "dissing" one because I have allowed myself to be brought down to their level because I get so angry and my husband has cut all conversation to a halt. Once in a blue moon we have good, meaningful family dinners, but don't hold your breath!

So now that I have given everyone an overview of life in the Rees household, I am now ready to start this thing. The boys all go off to school on Monday....the house should be totally empty by 7:30 am until around 3:30 pm. Only Mom and Obie. I have a lot of plans :

1) Spend some quiet time with my Heavenly Father.
2) Get this place organized!
3) Keep exercising on a daily basis.
4) Maybe even keep up this blog!

So as the Black Eyed Peas so appropriately say,

"Let's Get it Started!"

Oh...... my 13 year old would let me know that "that song is SO OLD" although he just left for a
JOURNEY concert with 3 more of his friends and two 40 something moms!