Facts

I buy roughly 18-20 bananas a week. Between breakfast shakes for Jed and I and snacks for the kids and babies we eat us a lot of bananas.

I sprinkle Flaxseed on my families food. I read somewhere, and where that is I have no idea, that Flaxseed helps prevent cancer. So I figured I might as well. My family has no idea I do this.

My kids have never seen Star Wars. Yet they LOVE to play it! However they call each other Jedediah Knights instead of Jedi Knights and when I correct them they will say Jed Knights instead.

I have serious thoughts about throwing away toys every day. Honestly I could take every single toy get my kids each an iPad and for Christmas or birthdays just give them a dollar to buy a new app.

Who needs their own room? When we were looking at houses we were looking for one that would allow the kids to have their own rooms or to have the least amount of sharing as possible. But honestly why? The kids don't ever play in their room, maybe this will change when they become teenagers(four teenagers at once heaven help me). But as of right this minute my kids haven't stepped foot in their room all day. I should just stick all four in one room and use the extra rooms as a craft and workout room.

Morning wake-up call. Noah wakes everyone up every single morning. Always the first to rise and last to fall asleep.

If I don't have anything planned for dinner I will make a cup of rice and then see where that leads.

Never use the kids bathroom. A friendly warning when coming to my house stay clear of the kids bathroom. For your own safety. I use gloves, bleach and a gas mask(kidding) when doing my cleaning of that. If you had a little boy with horrible aim you would know exactly what I am talking about. Also toilet paper is rarely detached from the roll when applied to the dirty bum. So...yeah. And for those that think "why don't you watch your kids go to the bathroom" bite me, understand that at a certain age when kids got to go they go and don't announce it. When I see a child running to the bathroom I usually follow with my usual "wipe!" "wash your hands!" "lift the seat!" but ya like I said bite me.

We say bum. I have no idea why but I don't let my kids say butt. Butt isn't a bad word, it's a part of the human body. I get that, but we say bum. As a result my kids laugh hysterically and get a huge grin on their face whenever someone say butt.

Chaos is the only way to describe dinner time. Usually Natty is practicing piano and asking every 30 seconds if dinner is ready, Noah is rolling around on the floor because due to EXTREME hunger(even though he just had a snack) and the babies are usually in their high chair screaming eating and screaming and generally being loud. I am hurrying to get dinner all done so that the everyone can eat and stop pestering me for food and then cue Jed who usually gets home about 5 minutes before I am done and then all the kids disperse and I am left screaming "DINNER!" about ten times so I can feed my children who were starving before Jed came home.

Our 5th child is Noah's stomach. He talks about his stomach as a separate person. Noah is never hungry his stomach is hungry. If I offer him a snack lets say a grape he will often reply with "my tummy says he doesn't want a grape he's wants a cookie" when Noah had the stomach flue a few weeks ago "my tummy is very very mad." And that Mr. Tummy pounds about as much food as Jed and I combined.

My boys scream. I am not sure why but they scream way more than my girls and at a much higher pitch.

We are loud. We are a loud bunch we say "huh?" a lot.

Bedtime is set in stone. My kids all go to bed at 7pm, no questions asked, we are not flexible about this come 7pm bodies have been washed, teeth have been brushed, diapers have been changed, stories had been read, bladders have been emptied, scriptures and prayers have been read and I am a kiss and run type of Momma so at 7:01pm all kids are in their beds and my night begins.

My kids sleep through the night. People always give me such a hard time about putting my kids to bed at 7pm but you know what you nay sayers....my kids sleep through the night with rarely have any incident(besides the occasional night time wall pee art done my a half asleep Noah). The big kids don't take naps we are all up and out of bed by 7am.

I set the tone. It's taken me a little bit to realize that my mood controls the family. And a few days a month the family is rather moody. Also if I am in a room the kids sort of naturally gravitate to that room. If I am in the guest room within minutes the big kids who were doing their own thing are in the room as well(the babies always go with me anyways).

It's the guest room. We have an office/guest room and since moving here we have only had two guests in that room yet use it as an office daily yet we always refer to it as the guest room. We are a weird bunch.

We have a lot of trash. We seriously have 5 trashcans( three recycle, one regular trash and two yard waste trash) It's rather ridiculous to see so many trashcans outside out house on trash day. But they are always overflowing.

I eat less when I have more food. If I have too many options to chose from I often just don't eat, it's too overwhelming.

No toys allowed downstairs and if you want to bring a toy down you can bring just one. This prevents them from bringing down one toy then going and getting another leaving that original toy on the floor because like I said toys rarely get played with anyways. Plus a clutter of toys(well really anything) makes me nutty.

This was a pointless post. Yep, I have a child asleep on my lap and a quiet house full of sick children and this is what I do with my time.