The joy's of parenting, and living life

My two kids keep me on my toes. It is very hard to be a good parent sometimes. Victoria likes to try our patients and push our buttons. Kudos to all of you moms out there who have more then two kids...how do you do it? I wish sometimes there was an easy button like on the Staples commercials. I look up to Mike's parents and I think they did a really good job at raising their kids. I hope we can be like them someday. My dad recently passed away and it was very hard on me due to the fact that I wasn't close to him at all. I think that was the hardest thing about him passing. I think about him a lot, sometimes in a good way and sometimes not. He never got to see the world. He never traveled, went on a cruise, took an unplanned road trip. He was always very good with money but never used it to do happy things. Life is too short. I think we all need to live a little.