Teenagers

Do you know what happens when you have 5 babies??? One day, you will have 5 teenagers!!! I am freaking out for the boys to be 8, let alone teenagers. My food bill is skyrocketing! Carter and Carson are now out eating Chet and I on a pretty regular basis (and they also eat a full meal after school at 4, then again at 6 with us). It used to be that if they didn't like dinner they would just eat enough to "make it through" or enough to get a treat after dinner. Now, they pretty much eat as much as I possibly can, sometimes complaining they hate this dinner in between mouthfuls, and sometimes that they love it, as they are getting their 3rd helping. Caden is still picky, so find him something he likes and he'll eat us broke (breakfast! Put syrup on anything and that kid will eat 5 of whatever it is!) When Chet and I didn't have any kids we ate on $150 a month. We are now up to approx. $600 a month. That includes me making almost all of our treats homemade and bread stuff and eating pizza about once a month. Today as the boys were walking up the street (I carpool with a neighbor so she takes them to school every day) I was watching them from behind remembering a time when they were in their diapers walking away from me at home, and then imagined these tall skinny young men of the future! It will be here before I know it! I just so hope that I am doing a great job now, so that they are great young men then! Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept! One lesson at a time.