Parent Teacher Conference

Today was parent teacher conference day. A day I dread. A day I get all worked up, stressed out and super emotional. See I always feel I need to defend my boys. Cause lets face it, they are pretty awesome!! But as a mother, and one who tried her best to keep the attention span going, grades up, homework done, and still have fun I struggle with people telling me what my child is doing wrong.....even if I know what will be said when I walk in the room. So I always get my defenses up, ready to blow up. But I never need to. I'm lucky this year. My boys have awesome teachers!!! Like really awesome teachers!! Both of my boys are having a difficult time with their meds right now. Elijah is almost worked out and we are still working on Ethan's. I was sooooo worried about report cards. the boys have never brought home anything lower than a B. To my relief they kept their grades up!! I'm not sure how but I am so thankful!!!  Do you know what it takes to have ADHD kids with a/b grades?? ALOT!!! Sheeze!! Now on to the next 9 weeks!!

Welcome to my crazy life!!

I started a blog y'all!! I had intentions of actually posting earlier, but I'm busy! Let's see what I should start off with. My name is Jenni, I'm married to Jamie who keeps me grounded and sane much more than I ever thought anyone could. He just gets me. We have 2 son's Ethan and Elijah. They are the reason I was born, I just didn't know it until it happened. I was the girl in high school saying I wasn't going to get married or have kids......At the time I had no clue how much I would have missed if I hadn't met Jamie. Both of the boys have ADHD. When you get told that your baby, the one you would walk though fire for has this condition you want to take it away, because you never want your child to struggle, or be different. But what you look at as a set back, I look at as a blessing. My kids are different. They are hyper, they can't hold a serious conversation well, they have trouble looking you in the eye when you talk to them, the medicine never works for a long period of time before we have to change it up. BUT they both have high IQ's, read well above their level, make A's and B's, they are inventive, funny, and super sweet. They say yes ma'am and no sir, they say excuse me and will open doors for strangers. They are great guys in general, and I hate for people to think otherwise when they find out they have it. What brought this post on was what Ethan said to me this morning. He said, We aren't a normal family mommy. Well I can't argue with him there, we are by no means a normal family. But I did always think normal was boring! I'm lucky enough to have kid's that think the same thing too! Our normal would probably drive you insane. But it is what it is. We deal with it, we have learned to roll with the punches, because they come often. We talked about it most of the ride to school and the boy's are fine with not being normal, they like their mommy, like to dance to their own beat. Guess they are kinda like me in some ways :)