I HATE that I haven’t written in over a month.  Literally every single day I have ideas or stories that I want to tell and every single day the time gets away from me.  This must be the phase of life I’m in right now.  Today my goal is to catch up here and to remind myself that mom’s are resilient, resourceful, and BUSY.

As we move into May, the busiest month of the year.  It’s not December, peeps, it’s May, trust me.  My adorable and precious Grammy turned 95 yesterday and she reminds me often of being resilient and resourceful.  Even when she doesn’t feel well, her sweet laugh and love for family always shines through.

It’s evident she taught my mom a few things along the way, and we all know how awesome she is too!  Every once in awhile when I question the chaos that surrounds our household most days, I usually put it in perspective and realize my own kids are learning so much.

Morgan is always gracefully taking on her busy life.  Here she is leaving for school with everything she needs…

She’s successfully completed life guard training, she’s already years into her neighborhood mowing career, volunteering in the 1st grade Sunday school class often, securing a nanny position for the summer, and jumping in to help anyone in need – such as our friend Stacey as she was struggling opening a bottle of wine.  Oops…how did that one slip in here!

Don’t worry, my dad has already taught her how to be a wine opener/server at all Michie family functions.  She could be a successful waitress tomorrow if she needed another job.  But for now, she’s already over-committed this summer.  I’m never going to see her!

Drew is also learning a few important things.  Like getting his uniforms laid out for a baseball tournament.  I love this organization.  When I said be prepared for the cold, he took my directions very seriously.  Look at all these layers!He’s also learned that baseball can turn on you in an instant.  Like when you’re winning the game without feeling in your hands because it’s FREEZING, and somehow after 2 hours, you’ve lost.  However, he’s also learning to sprinkle in some fun along the way and everything is better with cheeseburgers, ice cream and friends!

Daily, he reports back to me what he’s doing in school, checks his grades in the app, and a full run down of school drama – who’s being bad, which girls are annoying, who’s dating who — WHAT!? in 5th grade!?  Back it up here, bud, there’s no dating in elementary school.  Thank goodness he agrees.  Hard to believe he went to PRT last week for his first look at a day in middle school!He will forever be the one that steals everyone’s hearts.  Look at how attentive he is to our new cousin baby Maggie…

And he lets me make his allergy pills out of essential oils.  Now that’s love 😉

Reece is well on her way to topping off her very own bank account with $500 as she started her first mowing job!  I love a girl that is determined to create her own wealth at the age of 8 years old.  Go girl!

She’s working so hard spending 7+ hours a week at the gym training, eating her greens, crafting and creating every chance she gets.  This resourceful girl can play for hours by herself!  Her brain comes up with countless creative concepts.  She turns a piece of paper and some tape into a wonderland of make-believe.

Jake is turning into the teenager we always knew he would.  Gorgeous, funny, smart, and forever a lover of sports.He now has Instagram and Snap Chat.  We’re working on common sense and appropriate amounts of screen time.   Yikes!  I’m hoping I’m not the only teenage boy mom working on this, because it seems to be an uphill battle.

He has a big heart, a big fro (he needs a haircut!), and a big stomach — he eats constantly.  His knees and feet are always hurting because he’s growing so fast and I’m trying to fix him with shoe inserts and essential oils.  Moms do whatever it takes to make their kids learn, grow and also not hurt!  I even sit at soccer games in St. Louis with sleet pelting me in the face.Jake is determined.  He does his job on the field every. single. time. even when he’s soaked and cold and despite him being a teenager, I do learn from him often.  Resilience at it’s finest.

Congrats KC Bulldogs on a very hard fought Finalist position in the Rawlings Grand Slam Tourney.

So as I close here, I do want to share a few more things that have happened within the Conley Crew recently!!