Finding harmony in family, finance & military life

To the mom who thinks she is doing it wrong, Trust me, you are! It does not matter if you are a first time mom, a mother of three, the mom going for number five, the quiver full mother of ten or perhaps fifteen with three sets of twins, you are doing it all wrong! Who only has one child? That's selfish! Why on earth did you have more then two? God only gave you two hands! Five is too many, ten you must be crazy and fifteen means your uterus must be the equivalent of a clown car. See, each one is clearly wrong. The mother who vaccinated her herd just pumped poison into their bodies, she is doing it wrong. The anti vac mom just put the entire preschool at risk, she is doing it wrong. The selective and delayed vaccinators, well it serves them right if they get the flu, they are doing it wrong. It doesn't matter how much research you do, the choices you make about vaccinations will be wrong. Each new case of measles, flu, Ebola, and autism spectrum disorder will someho...

So as you know I have five children and am currently the only parent in the home. Every day is an adventure but here lately I have felt like I am living on my own personal survival show. I am desperately trying to find balance in my daily schedule and there does not seem to be any. Now I am sure that there is time wasted somewhere likely between the 5 o'clock and 6 o'clock in the morning hour but even I need rest.  I try to keep things realistic and realistically speaking that is the best time to just drift in and out while you enjoy the silence or in my case the ringing in my ears but it is all the same thing. Yesterday I decided to start tackling the mounds of laundry overflowing out of three large laundry baskets in my office. I also really needed to clean my kitchen and get my three year old in to see a doctor. Somehow I thought all of that would get accomplished before noon, not sure why but that is what I was aiming for. Well I got most of the laundry done by noon and t...