Family Life in the Henderson Circus

So here it is, My First Blog. I am sure I was the last person in the WHOLE world who even knew what a "blog" was, but after much avoiding I finally gave in so I could make another pretty custom background :O) Ok maybe that wasn't the only reason, I thought it would be fun to have another way to update all our families and friends on the day to day without having to e-mail group e-mails where half the people aren't really that interested. This way only the interested will be inundated with the Henderson circus, instead of the blissfully unwarer who are suddenlly bombarded by our family in their "inbox".

So here it is. We are doing great here as a family. Judah is in full time school and is just thriving. That said after almost half a year I still find it hard to not see him during the day. Does that ever go away... Maybe that's why parent's cry when they take their kids to college, it's decades of bottled "I miss them" feelings shattering all over the dorm room... It's easier somedays but then other days when someone's been mean or "incidents" happen at school I just want to rip him out of there and homeschool him till he's 25 and I pick the perfect wife for him...but that's just somedays.

It's DONE!!!! Pottytraining that is... Yes after months of Heidi being ready and mummy not ready for the mess Murray stepped in and did a one week intensive training with her over his vacation while Wesley and I were up North in an aboriginal community. Of Course she did wonderful and except for pull-ups at night is completly out of nappies. Yiippppeeee!!! She might have out grown nappies but certainly hasn't outgrown the WHY? Stage.... Everyone says watch out for the terrible 2's but I say Watch out for the terrible 3's. All I hear from her is "WHY...." I usually make it to about 11:30AM before I resort to the old stand-by "BECAUSE IT JUST IS THAT WAY" or "BECASUE THAT'S JUST THE WAY GOD MADE IT" or the one I avoid but find myself falling into "BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!!" But then I remind myself how blessed I am to have a bright, energetic, curious, little girl who is full of fire and yet is as delicate as a rose, and I take a deep breath and try to be more patient with the next question.

And then that leaves me with Wesley. He is our source of laughter. His antics are a constant ammusement. Just today we went shopping and he insisted on wearing Murray's beanie, which of course is 12 sizes too big, and yet he pulls it off so naturally that you can't help but to smile. He never has to try to be funny, he just is, which makes all the more hilarious. We have had our 2 year old moments with him, but in the scheme of things he seems to be pretty good... But then we will see what he has to hold when he turns 3, that is if he follows in his sisters foot prints :O)

I think BALANCE is our word of the day recently. It is so hard to find that balance between kids and school and work and church and housework and dance classes and marriage and, and, and, And, AND.... sometimes it goes on forever. So we have been thinking something needs to go, but then you have to ask the even bigger question, WHAT? So as we spin plates, and juggle and swallow swords, and chase after clowns we are asking ourself what stays and what goes and nothing seems to make it to the chopping block. But we are fighting for it. We are fighting for our kids and our marriage and our family so I take comfort knowing that it is when we stop fighting for these things that Life has won the victory over our family and all balance has been trully lost.

So there is my first blog... hopfully the next ones won't be so wordy... but it was fun and I will definitly come back for more!!!!