My Start

Hi my name is Krista and I'm 36 years of age and I have seven (7 ) beautiful children 4 boys and 3 girl. I had my first boy when I was 16 and my second when I was 17. Yes I was young and foolish, don't get me worng I don't regret my children none of them. Then I got married at 18 that did not work so we divorced. When I was 20 I meet another man and by the time I was 21 we got married.
When we got married I had already had our first child then we got into the church well he got into the church first the months later I followed. I was working as an accounts assistant and decided I needed a college education. In the midst of having children and being a wife I went to college to get my BS in accounting plus working two jobs and being real active in the church.

The Children

Wow my children are my pride and joy I'm so proud of them I don't think I can find the right words to express.

Ackie: he is my eldest but I do see him as my baby. Ackie was 8lbs 8oz at birthHe has a very strong personality he loves to be comforted, but in all truth who don't like comfort, we all do he just makes it very clear to all LOL. Ackie is 6'2 and weight about 250 or 270 lbs so he is not a little fellow. He loves sports, his brain is like a sponge he remembers all sports icons, when they started out where they are from and more, he's also like that with countries and their history. He wants to be a political analyst and a businessman, he's working real hard to accomplish this and I know he will.

George: he is my second born he was 5lbs, he made a very big decision from the day he was born that he did not like meat only the meat on the 2 fingers that he sucked from day he was born when the nurse was leaning him up and weighting him we heard a sucking sound there he was sucking his 2 fingers next to his thumb on his left hand. I guess u figured it out he did not like sucking he breast he wanted only that milk but not from the breast he would taste the meat of my breast in his mouth and just push it out so I started out with putting a bottle nipple over my breast till I decided to pump. George was a very quite baby never got up at night I had to time him and wake him up for feeding. George wants to be a pastry/breakfast chef and a business man, he’s 5’11 or 6’ about 180 lbs

Gio: he is my third born he was 8lbs 4oz. Gio did not like the idea of playing he would sit and watch other kids play and if he did play he would do it for a very short period then he was done. Gio did not like the playing thing till he was about 10 I know strange but that’s my Gio now he will play more than he use to but mainly if its to win not just playing for the heck of it but play to be competitive. Gio is gifted academically he’s above average but don’t like it as it means he not kool and is called a nerd but we have had some talks so know he is a kool nerd LOL he told me he wanted to study astronomy. I just tried talking to him about that and he asked me if I was crazy and where did I get that idea, that he wants to be a businessman. Gio is 6’4 about 175 lbs and we are always telling him that he is too skinny his things is that the girls love it.



Nate: he is my fourth born he was 6lbs. Nate was a twin but his twin did not make it from he was little he would talk to himself and when you ask him who he talking to he would say the little boy that looks like me or the boy when he got a little older where he was of the full understanding that he’s a twin then he would tell us he talking to his brother. My little Nate was my shocker baby he walked when he was 7 months, by the time he was 10 to 11 months he was make sentences the reason he was a shocker baby he was little like at 7 months he looked 5 months so to look 5 months and walking shocked people very often to be 10 months and look 8 months and talking would shock people so he was my shocker baby, he was short until he was about 11 then suddenly he is now almost 6’ Nate wants to be a sports figure he loves skate boarding and is good at it he said when that is over and he is too old to do it he wants to be a businessman. As for Nate he is my born businessman he is always selling trading for better to sell and always trying to figure out how to turn his lunch money into more money I think he will do business as its in his blood it seems

Sam: My fifth born but my first girl, amazing she was 5lbs 5 oz. Sam brought some excitement to the family as she was the first female birth in our family for over 20 years. Sam gave us a scare the day she got out of the hospital I had just feed her changed her diaper and was trying to put her to sleep but she started to cry hysterically had my sister, and myself just terrified I tried everything changing her diaper again, her clothing nothing worked I called the doctor and could not get her by this time I was now crying so I put her in her cot and was looked at her and then decided to get ready to take her to the hospital then she sighed and went to sleep. As of that day I learnt that once Sam is clean and her belly is full put her down she don’t want to be held. Sam has a very strong independent I know what I want kind of a personality, she wants to be a gymnastic professional and said when she is too old to do that she want to be a elementary school teacher she is 5’ 4 117lbs.

Angel: My sixth born and second girl. Angel was my miracle baby and was named Angel by the nurses at the hospital. I was 5 months pregnant and when I fractured membrane so was but to bed rest so hated that. I flat lined with her twice when I was not quite 7 months and my doctor was willing to take her but the pediatrician doctor was not will to do so until I was 7 months and 2 weeks but Angel was ready from I was 5 months pregnant when I was 7 months and 1 week she started to eat her fesses so they had to take her. Angel was only barley 3lbs but did not want to be help to breath so she never saw the inside of an incubator I forgot what its called but she was in half of one that help monitor her body temperature and was sucking she I pumped and she drank from a premi bottle by her second day. Angel is also gifted academically and finds regular classes and home work boring as they don’t challenge her enough. Angel wants to be some who worked towards saving our environment. She is 5’ and is about 110lbs

CandyAms: she is my baby she was also a premi that was ready so I had her 7 months 3 weeks she was 5lbs and ready to see the world. CandyAms is my go getter she has no fears and just thinks she can do everything. She is a natural born leader always thinks once she is in the midst she should be in charge even if she allows you to be in charge its just for a little while. She asked me recently if I think she will be a good mom like me I told her most definitely she said well I want to wait a while so I said you have a long wait you need not worry about that stuff yet she said I know but I’m just thinking a head as I was to be a professional gymnastic athlete plus a designer not to mention I want to travel for a while. My baby 4’5 and is 98lbsSo there is a bit about my babies

Bills

So today is one of those days that a bill came in and I'm like saying oh hell to myself you know you have the bills that you can say that has to wait till next month or the next two week or just whatever you can just put it on the back burner for a bit. Then you got those bills you got to pay or else well today I got one that you pay or else. I'm gonna share something that some people just don't think about when they get a bill I trun to God and I said, God you see and know that this one has to be paid I have been asking them for time for several months now and they are now saying no more time, but ths item is needed so I need you to make a way out of no where you have done it for me b4 I so need it today

Being a single mom can be fun at time but there are many times that you will get up wishing you had that special person to help you when you don't feel like cooking or you don't feel like being the one to figure out how to pay that bill

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

So yesterday my eldest girl Sam says hey mom I need you to help me with something. I am thinking of course I will help my baby it's a good thing I did not say that out loud. I said what is it baby, she says to get a new cell. all of the hair on my head kind of stood up like I was electrocuted like in the cartoons, cause was thinking well you using one right now any way I gave her the benefit of the doughty and I said what is wrong with the one you got. Low and behold she said nothing. I was thinking OHK, so you want a new cell phone but there is nothing wrong with the one you got MMMMMMMMMMMMM what is wrong with this picture. As you might imagine I continued with my evening and did not respond for a while so I shared the conversation with some friends and they said she properly want a Black Berry. I then thought I needed to entertain her a little longer and I asked her what kind of phone you want then. My little girl is yet to answer the question so let see what happens for the week.

My daughter Angel very adult like personality so as always decided she needed to have an extended conversation with me today as always and after she said mom how are you and I said I am good the she said what are doing right now and I said nothing really then she sighs and our extened coversation ended.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Today is Ackie's birthday he is 21 today but not doing good he is studing and not working and it makes him feel like he is not heading any where I'm not sure what to say to him right now to make him feel better. i understand how he feels. Well Im going to spend some time today thinking about what I can say that will make sence to him to put him back on a positive track. I'm thinking I am 37 and I have a 21 year old wow
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Well today is May 11th and I have not said anything in about 5 days that will tell you all how busy I've been. Well Friday was good Ms Q my eldest son Ackie's girlfriend that I told you had got burn in her face with hot oil well she's been at the house and my son is trying to baby her as much as possible well the family have been trying to baby and comfort her, unfortunately she thinks she is now ugly well I guess that is a normal reaction for anyone who have gained any form of facial scares. There is nothing in my opinion that will let her look ugly as she is such a beautiful girl inside and out if she could only see that.
That reminded me that when Ackie was about 6 or 7 he stood up in an ant nest and he was bitten all over his legs and did not want to wear shorts for a very long time no matter how much I told hum that his legs did not look ugly so it is our nature that once something goes wrong with any part of our body we will not want to show it.



Saturday was also good nothing much happened that was out of the ordinary it was a quiet day. There has been a bug going around with vomiting and diarrhea Nate was up till late vomiting with Nate being ill I was not worried sounds funny but true. Nate is my all time healthy baby, he doesn’t really get sick and when he dose it’s very short lived. Nate will have the flu for one day who catches the flu and have it for a day, and that is after everyone in the house has had it for a week or two each.
Sunday started good then Ackie and my niece had a big argument over a loud vacuum and that fact that she wanted to vac so early when his little brother was sleeping and was sick all night. So Sunday was not such a quite day o start with but it ended well I got a real nice dinner and happy mother’s day from all the kids and it was great Ms Q family had a cook out and Ackie cooked hush puppies mmmmmm. Well he likes to cook and don’t do a bad job if I must say so.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Well for the past 2 days I have had a bit to deal with, with Nate he got in trouble at school with 2 teachers the teachers got together to think about how to deal with the situation so that he would not have it as a referral that was good now I travel a lot so I spend a lot of time communicating with the teacher via email even when I'm not traveling I do that as I want to know what is happening with the kids so if the teachers have issues we can try to address them together and not wait until teacher's parents conference.

Well with communication door open one of the teachers emailed me to tell me what happened and that Nate might be or is accepted into this academy. I saw the word academy and panicked as we know a lot of kids get referred to academies because of behavior issues academic issues. I'm he must have been miss-id as he is in advance classes and none of his teacher are telling me anything about real poor behavior. Any way I started by trying to research the academy that did not help well on sentence did not help it talk about at risk children and I'm like at risk WHAT RISK NATE IS NOT AT RISK.

I went on a email frenzy I email teacher, principle, consoler and who ever I could think of to make sure he was not miss-id I also wanted more information on this academy and who recommend him for it and why. I needed more. The good thing was all that got the email wanted to help as they saw my panic in the emails so I go 3 very important phone calls. I got a call from the consoler who recommends him that said he was highly recommended because his grades and behavior was good. The academy is to help him work to advance to 2 grades in one year the program were for children that was a grade or two behind but show that they should not be there and that Nate was a very smart child who was too far behind. I also got a call from the principle and the teacher that is in charge of the program, and I got lots of info from him and was put at ease

The whole thing did not help as Ackie my eldest we tried something that was to help him with school because of his age and grade and that was a disaster I think it was my fault for not being on top of it enough and trusting the system too much.

As a parent especially a single parent we tend to take whatever help we can get some times without realizing it, trusting the school system is one of them I’m not saying we should not trust the school system as what sense would it make to send your children to school of there is not going to be some kind of trust. I’m saying don’t trust them so much that we don’t question their actions and make sure it is what your child needs or what you want for them. The school system is made up of people just like us and just like us they are not perfect. Mistakes happen wrong decisions are made as parents we need to help them with our children as apart for parenting or children on a daily basis they have their children, some don’t have any how you take children need all the help they can get with maturing into adults we can be proud of it’s not just the jobs of the teachers, bus driver, lunch room attendant, Liberian, principle, consoler we play the biggest role of it and I learned that the hard way

Well today was a very up side down day, my eldest Ackie's girlfriend got burned in her face with hot oil and my son was so upset he spent a lot of time crying and it took me sometime and touch love to calm him down. I had to remind him that he was about to become a husband as he along with his brother George and his girlfriend is about to get married in July, so he needed to be more of a man not just for himself but to be strong for her. I spoke to her and she was angry but calm. I understand that he would be upset as he was two hours driving distance from her.

I really needed to calm him down as he was driving to go see her and I wanted him to have just positive and comforting thoughts. I was able to calm him and get him thinking positive. I was very proud of him for not having fear of showing his emotions
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