Question #16, my 5 greatest accomplishments

I think I should be aloud a skip question and this might be it.  Although I am a little nervous to answer # 27 due to the fact I should be honest but might not be...  Think, Think, Think...Okay, I do not know about which is the greatest but here are 5 things I think of when I hear the word accomplishment:

`1` My boys, Caleb and Joshua. I can be a patient person.  I can tolerate lack of sleep. I can do with some noise.  I am capable of handling many things thrown my way.  But the simple fact that these two were not thrown out a window at some point before they turned 1 year old is an accomplishment for me.  I remember there were nights, always between 3-5am, just before the light of a new day, I had thoughts.  Not so good thoughts.  That is when I knew it was time to put that baby as far away from me as possible and just let him cry his eyes out regardless if Troy woke up or not.  These nights were extremely rare but I did consider dropping Caleb off the back porch when we lived in the little house.  And Joshua, well, the bad nights with him were slightly more often, go figure.  Joshua would have been dropped off the back or the front deck of the duplex we lived in then.  Either way I knew I couldn't really do that so I either cried with them or put them down in a safe spot and just left to another room for a breath and some quiet.  Troy rescued his boys a few nights, taking them for a car ride for a few hours so I could get a few hours sleep before they nursed again. Breast feeding had many up sides but the fact that they only breast fed and took no bottles was also to my detriment. My boys were not hard babies by any stretch of the imagination, no colic, nothing like that.  There were just 'those' nights.

`2` Sticking to the plan and not moving back to Quebec in the first 3 years I was out in Alberta.  I got pretty homesick, not that you could tell but there were those days, and weeks...
I knew in my heart this is where I was supposed to be so I stayed.

`3` My family.  I love my family.  As the boys grow there is so much more to do together and having the weekend off now!  It is so good.

`4` My friends.  I love my friends.  I work at those relationships because they mean so much more to me than things or stuff.

`5` Blank, I really want to move on from this question so that's all.