Admit it  - parenting is HARD, and I defy anyone to tell me different!

Its Sunday evening and I am really looking forward to going back to work tomorrow morning. I don't say that because I don't want to be with my kids, I say it because I am realistic and if I am honest its just so much easier going to work!!

Cleaning day has turned into cleaning weekend! The kids rooms, need I say more? The arguments, tantrums, and stress over room cleaning have got to a point that I have thrown up my hands in despair, and started writing my blog! Sometimes its just better to let them go, yell at each other and I choose to do something else, rather than try and problem solve for them.

I listen to them yell at each other and wonder why they spend so much energy yelling - if they put all that yelling energy into cleaning energy, their rooms would be spotless in a flash.

Thats what being an adult is all about isnt it? Knowing when and where to use all that energy. One day they will see that they should "choose their fights" and fight over things that matter.

They are children, at the moment, the world is all about them, the day will come when they understand that these little arguments were silly and there are more important things to fight about - like poverty, human rights abuse, and unfair working conditions.

We just have to be patient, and let them work these things out in the short term, so they they grow to see whats fair, and whats not fair, whats right and what is unjust.. These small people are our future, our job is to see that they make it into adulthood safely, so that they can go on to make an impact in our world, thats what parenting is all about.

I hope I am making all the right choices and that I am giving them all they need to succeed - Only time will tell!

This is a little scary isn't it? What do I say?

Well its Saturday Morning and as I work full time during the week, its cleaning day!! Don't get me wrong Wayne is the best "house husband" and a fantastic dad, but he is still new at this, so I do the finishing touches on the weekend!

Wayne really is an amazing guy! We met, fell in love and had a baby and got married within a year - I wouldn't necessarily recommend it ( I would normally advise caution) but it works for us!

He's either very brave or completely insane, but he walked into a relationship with a single mum of 4, with his eyes wide open! And took to it like a duck to water. He cooks, cleans, plays, feeds, bathes, and parents like he's been doing it all his life, to 4 children who are not his own and 2 of his own, and you can't tell the difference! There is no difference to him - biology doesn't count - they are all his children.

And he takes everything as it comes, he does get cranky sometimes, he's probably a bit overwhelmed, but if thats all I have to complain about I'm doing OK!