children

Like most everyone, my young six year old son and I were on a budget this summer. No new mouse ears and no new found seashells. I'd finished the supper dishes, my son already in a daze before the television. What a waste of summer I thought as I picked up the phone to call one of my three sister's. I told her of my blues and the guilt I felt that no big trip could be planned.

Looking at my 15-month-old daughter's cheeky smile is my bright spot. When she was born she took about 5 minutes to start breathing, and we really thought we'd be going home without a live baby. Then she had to spend 3 days on a drip in the neonatal unit, to stabilise her blood sugar because of my gestational diabetes, but despite all that, and being born to an over-40, she's so quick to pick things up, and is very chatty already.

My triplets went off to school on Monday,this was a huge step for them and for me. For the past five years I have been their world and now their world has gotten larger. When each of them got off of the bus I had homemade cookies for them, they had each drawn me a picture saying how much they love me and missed me.

When asked what mommy does now that they are in school. They all said my mommy rest, she needs her rest because she deserves a break.

how sweet is that.