This is only the beginning . . .

I start this journal in the attempt to add humor to an everyday life that can easily send a person to the aslyum. Five weeks ago our lives took a major change - we added another two year old to the family - our nephew Ryan, whom we hadn't met before. Before this, life was a daily fight with Blake to stop torturing Ella, Barron to stop dancing in the kitchen, and F'er to go away :) Things have changed. Now I fight with Blake to stop torturing Ryan, Ryan to stop biting Blake, Ella to leave the boys food alone, Barron to clean up ALL the crumbs from the boys and not just what looks best, and F'er and Milo to eat their food and BE QUIET! I had seriously misconstrued the difficulty of having not just 3 children under 3, but one of them not raised primarily by our family. The personality differences are astounding and difficult, because Blake and Ella had known nothing but our family and our way of life, they have similar temperments. Ryan spent his first two years with his mom and dad and must adapt to our lifestyle and idiosyncracies. Things are starting to smooth out in that arena and I assume that fighting will just be a part of daily life . . . oh, good.