November 23rd: On Our Own
Dear diary,
It is hard to be a mother of three young children and a full time master. I know that I have Cobra and Bingwen to help me and they truly do. However, I feel like I'm still alone after Naoko. Xiao zhi, Zhilan, and Jun are officially four years old and the quadruplets are 8. I have decided that my kids could begin to train in Kung fu so the family tradition can continue. They are so cute when they try to copy their Uncle Bingwen. Baba placed him in charge of my kids so I could focus on helping the other masters train Minzhe, Zinnia, Flicka, and Wren with the village students. Wren mainly stays with Viper because she has more paitence than the others. Wai gong still watches our training, but he has given that task over to Po now. I see what Tigress meant when they found out that I was pregnant, that I was going to have a hard road ahead of me. It was easier with my adopted family because most of them were older and the older ones helped the younger. Now that I have my own kids to raise, I see that it is entirely different. While I may have loved my adopted traveling family like they were my biological family, it is something else when you have kids who are biological. At least I'm not exhausted all the time like I was in the beginning. Cobra and I had it rough. Ma offered to help, but I told her that if she and Baba managed to raise the quadruplets without help, then I could too. We managed to do things right. Cobra never changed a diaper before, because the youngest child we had before reaching the Palace was Wolfess, and she stayed in my arms or Naomi's most of the time. so this is a new exprience for the both of us.