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so, ok im new at this.

I realize now that I may need help, not major help just some support, some knowledge that I am not alone.

Backround: 2005 I gave birth to my beautiful daughter at 27 weeks she was born 2lbs 8oz but healthy and after 2 months of going back and forth daily I got to bring my baby home. My husband at the time was a pilot and always gone...some times for a day sometimes for a few weeks at a time. as a brand new mom this wasnt easy to do on my own but I got used to it.  Someone popping in and out changing things up and also after finding out some aweful things about this other life, the one away from his family, well....things with him fell apart right around my daughters 2nd birthday and we just couldnt make it work any more.

Countless physical therapy and Infant teacher visits, speech therapy and Tubes for her ears...Kaylee is a healthy normal little girl...so smart and bright she has a wonderful presonality and is always smiling.

Flash forward that little girl is now 4 and I find myself madly in love with a fantastic man who recently is going through a divorce and has custody of his 2 kids and his teenage brother in law.

Suddenly I am a working mom of 3 and a sister/confidant to one 17 year old! WOW! It is not easy!

So here I am surrounded by mounds of laundry at 5 am...oh no wow 6:28! the only time I have to myself to think...to just be and I wonder if I can do this? This house is a mess...kids will be up soon and all 4 of them need to head off to school. Lunches need to be made, shoes need to be tied, hugs need to be given, fights need to be broken up and i need to get ready for the day....off to work part time for little money and try to make ends meet and make it through another week with a smile....can I do this? Im sure gonna try!

So, any words of wisdom would be so greatly appreciated....how do you keep your house clean? how do you make dinners interesting? how do you stretch a buck....i mean really stretch? how do you get kids to listen and pick up after themselves and most importantly....how do you keep your sanity?

~Lee