just being silly!

This is where I found Riley when I came back into the kitchen to get the rest of the laundry out of the dryer. He thought he was pretty funny.

Halloween.

Okay, so I know I am way behind on these pictures. I am now just getting around to putting them up. The kids had so much fun on Halloween! They were all pirates and even Mommy dressed up as a pirate with them! It started out raining that night but it did not last long and cleared up to a pretty nice night. We went down a few more streets than we normally do now that the kids are getting older and then we went back to check out the Fire trucks by the bank and then we went to enjoy our last Creemee of the season at the Cafe. It was a great night and the kids had a lot of fun!

Changes

It has been a busy time around here at the Carpenter home. I have decided that I am going to talk on a more personal level to begin my time back into blogging.
My family is going through a lot of changes. My husband and I have decided to seperate and eventually divorce. Trust is a key issue in any marriage and once trust has been broken it is very hard to go back to living in a loving, caring and safe environment. So, it is now time to start a new chapter/phase in my life. My main goal is to make sure that my kids are happy, well taken care of, safe and they feel loved.
Wesley moved out of the house in August and we have been working on trying to focus our energy on the kids. Has it been easy? hardly. There are some great days, some not so great days and some down right horrible ones. Being a single mom of three kids is not where I pictured myself at 28. I was suddenly torn from what I thought was my life and thrown into what must be somebody else's life. This couldn't possibly be happening to me? And then I would wake up and realize it is happening to me and I am living through it right now. So I pick myself up and I move forward. I am trying to re-connect with friends and get myself back out there to a 'normal' life.
I know I am going to get some flack for making this such a 'public' thing right now. There will be people who will disagree with my decision to write such personal things in my blog but I feel like this is a safe place for me to write freely, to connect with so many different people on so many different levels. I am also hoping there are people that will be happy about my decisions and be there to support me with a laugh, a hug, a shoulder or just a kind word every now and then.
So my posts will be erratic, cover many different subjects and quite possibly not make sense sometimes; but I hope that you will continue to follow along.

I am (hopefully) back!

Well, my computer is up and running now and I have lots of stuff to share over the next few day/weeks. Things have been very crazy here in the house. I have debated for a while now if I should/would write more personal information about things that have been happening and I have decided that I will write more about it on this blog. I intended this blog to be about me and my life. I want that to include things with and without my kids. I will get to more of that in the coming posts. Right now I just want to say I am here, I do plan on writing still, but time is short and kids come first!
Some topics that may come up in the next posts:
Crafty times
changing families
kids stats
school
just being silly
the good, the bad, and the ugly
the future