I have resisted for so long now... but I finally gave in and have my own blog! I really think I will enjoy it, once I carve out the time to!
I am the mom to three boys, Justin, Kyle and Cody... and wife to my firefighter husband, Mike. When Cody was a small boy I called him "Cody Boy" and one day he started calling me "Mommy Girl" back. It has stuck ever since! Hence, Mommygirl3...
I started homeschooling 10 years ago when my oldest started kindergarten. I was working 4 days a week at our church office at the time, and was paying my mom to watch my kids. There was a lady that would come in frequently to pick up mail for the "school" that belonged to our church. It was a "home school" group. I started asking her all kinds of questions, as I did not have peace at all about sending my son to public or private school for that matter. I was also struggling with working outside my home and longed to be there to take care of my boys.
One day on the way to work I was praying about the sitution, and God clearly told me that he gave those boys to me. He chose me to be there mother... not my mom. He chose her to be their grandmother. It was my job and my responsibility. I shared this with my husband and he agreed. We talked about homeschooling and figured that we would do a six month trial. I figured that it was only kindergarten, how hard can it be? Especially when he already knew most of what he would be learning in kindergarten in a "school" anyway.
So we took the plunge and I learned about budgeting, cooking from scratch, homeschool and much, much more! Six months went by and we were hooked! I did start babysitting to supplement our income. I did infant care and had 1-2 infants daily. It worked out nicely with our schedule and included them as part of our family. After moving 40 miles away five years ago, we decided that I wasn't going to babysit anymore. After about a year, we all missed having a baby in the house and would just go gaw-gaw everytime we saw one. My neighbor was expecting her first baby in a few months and I let her know that if she needed childcare, we were available. I still watch that little boy today and his baby brother will be joining him in January.
I had added another baby last year and he is home with his mom now. He was a premie, ended up with a traech and now we just found out he has cancer. We are doing all that we can for him and his family... especially praying for his healing.
I have found that having a baby around has been great for my boys. It has taught them a lot about caring for someone else. They are able to learn the same character traits that comes from having a large family with babies around. They are all going to be great daddys someday! My oldest son (14 1/2) can pick up any baby now and put it to sleep. They have learned a lot about training children as they have watched me. They have opportunity to do this themselves as well. It really has been a great experience for our family!
Now we are moving into new territories as we have one in high school now! So far so good, and we are learning more everyday.
Looking forward to sharing more...
Jennifer | 
The evening ended with a few gifts of tools, sweatshirts and earbuds for his new MP3 player. Plus... a wine red drum set!!! Justin has wanting a drum set for a couple years now, and had his money saved for it last year. However, he decided to use that money to go to the National Satin (rabbit) Convention in Wisconsin. So he was thrilled to be getting this drum set. He actually only opened the stool for the set as the rest of the set was on backorder and shipped yesterday. That gives him time to rearrange his room and get ready for the set. His father is equally excited as he grew up with a drum set in his room. Yikes! I can hear the "jam" sessions now our youngest son has an electric guitar, and our middle son has an acoustic guitar.
