The Schafer clan has been revived

Here I am reviving my blog from the dead, it has been five years since I posted my last and only blog when my girl Keona (our second daughter) was two and half years old. Now here she is 6 years old. How sad is that? Well anyhow, it's nice to be back! Instead of trying to recapture the last five years, I am just gonna start anew starting today which is all I can do. I want to make a goal to keep this blog going at least once a week.

In just two days my son Alimaka will be 10 months and in just two months he will hit the one year mark which I have mixed feelings of. It's not that I don't want him to grow and develop, I just want to hold on to the baby stage. Babies grow so awfully fast and it's unstoppable, I am trying to treasure every moment whether he is crying because he is teething or whether he's asleep in my arms. It's all the same, those precious kodak moments. But no matter when he becomes one, two, three, etc.. I will still treasure him as do i with our other three children.

Thomas/Tommy or as what we call him Tom-Tom is gonna hit the three year mark in four months. No matter how many tantrums he has per day, he melts my heart. He follows me wherever I go. If I am doing laundry, he comes into the laundry room and enjoys watching me throw clothes into the washer and watch the dryer go round and round. He does this high voice when he's excited "Oh look mommy, it's going round." There never goes a day without him entertaining us with something he says or does. He adores his sisters and wherever his sisters go he must tag along. If his daddy leaves, he has a meltdown. He is daddy's boy and he is also mommy's boy.

Keona or nona as what Tommy calls her will hit the seven year mark in five months and next year she will be baptized! Oh how time flies. She is the most affectionate of all of our children and she would just jump up on you and just hold on however long you let her. She would grab her sister from behind at lunchtime and Eva would threaten her that if she doesn't let go she won't get a unicorn for her birthday. Hmm bribery? The things kids concoct with these days.. Keona loves her 1st grade teacher and looks forward to each day of school. She has a best friend name Maddie whom she just adores and looks forward to each playmate she has with her.

Eva or ara as what Tommy calls her will hit the ten year mark in six months. She is the most responsible and mature of all of our children. She loves to read until she falls asleep which explains her IQ and the way she thinks. She never ceases to amaze us with the kind of conversations we have with her. There are times where I feel like I am talking to an adult, her mind just blows me away. She adores her brothers and sister, she would bend over backwards for each of them (Daddy here. That is true. Eva was the first person in this life to touch Ali as he was being born. Eva was there for his first breath, and she dotes on Ali, Nona and Tom-Tom.) She loves to socialize and has a variety of friends from different nationalities. She's very close with all her cousins.

My other half is Adam and no joke, he and I seem to be made from the same cloth. If he gets sick, I get sick. He knew the same people I knew growing up; he and I were both raised oral (reading lips our whole lives) and then learned sign language later in life. We both went on missions, both are the middle children in our families, both of us love to travel and go on road trips.

Well as for now I shall close. Until tmmw, this is just the beginning.

Lisa