I am thankful for my children. I have 7 of them and there really are days, weeks, nay even years that I want to just pull my hair out and wonder why I even ever thought that having children was a good idea. But really, truly I am so thankful to be a mom. It is all I ever wanted to do in my life, grow up, get married, spend the rest of my life being the best mom in the world- just like my mom.

Today, I am thankful that you all are getting to know my second born, JJBananas, http://www.cre8buzz.com/profiles/1765

Isn't her photography amazing? I know she doesn't get that from me. Probably from my dad who I think is a phenomanal photographer and he want to be as good as she is.

This past week I have been coming down with (or rejuvinating) a yucky cold virus. Yesterday it was brutal, fever of 102+*. Not fun. I was in bed delirious and at the "I am afraid that I am not going to die" stage. My daughter did a load of towels for me, my 3rd child cleaned the kitchen (in the Marines it would be called KP-he's trained well) and my 5th child even cooked hamburgers for supper. And did a pretty good job for a 14 year old boy- not too much smoke- anyway not so much that opening the window and back door and it was cleared out in about 10 minutes. But he tried and it was acutally edible. And today, I made it back to the land of the living and they are all still wonderful.