You may expect THIS along the way...
But these are the JOYS of having IAN in our home!! Happy 9th BIRTHDAY Ian...It's been an amazing journey!! We love you!!
LOVE,
Mom
Monday, February 7, 2011
Enjoy the Journey
When life starts you off like THIS...
You may expect THIS along the way...
But these are the JOYS of having IAN in our home!! Happy 9th BIRTHDAY Ian...It's been an amazing journey!! We love you!!
LOVE,
Mom
You may expect THIS along the way...But these are the JOYS of having IAN in our home!! Happy 9th BIRTHDAY Ian...It's been an amazing journey!! We love you!!LOVE,
Mom
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
"Like, gag me with a spoon!"
WARNING: What You Are About To See Is Controversial, and May Be Offensive To Some Audiences...
But, not me! :D...So, as embarrassing as it is to admit...my boys have a "problem" when it comes to AIM...their bathroom stinks up to high heaven and back!! **mothers of boys know EXACTLY what I am talking about!**
I have tried EVERYTHING and more, and nothing has worked...so, back to the Internet to gather some helpful tips. I found a web site that said I should get one of these...
I have tried EVERYTHING and more, and nothing has worked...so, back to the Internet to gather some helpful tips. I found a web site that said I should get one of these...
and take it around to "SEE" where the problem may "lay"...Luckily, I have a dear friend who owns some of these and let me barrow hers...(now I'm wondering how GOOD of a friend she is for letting me see how NASTY my house is!!) But alas, I went around the boys bathroom and was totally grossed out!! Let me just insert here that THEY thought it was totally cool...BOYS!!(WARNING: if you want to be sickened by what you are living in, take a black light to your home BUT you will never walk bare foot, sit on the floor, eat off the table or cook on your kitchen counter AGAIN!!)
After an hour of scrubbing with bleach, no water, just BLEACH, I sprayed this...
and tada...gone! the smell is totally gone...YEA for me and just so you know, you are all welcome over and I have a bathroom you can use now, just FYI...
as for the boys...they have been banished out side with the dog!
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Oldest
Well, I can honestly say that I've never posted anything on this blog, but I felt impressed to do so today. With a house full of boys, competition can be an ugly thing. "I beat you!".... "no you didn't"... "you cheated!" (I could go on, but you get the idea).
We signed up each of the boys to play basketball over the next couple months, and Baker and Creighton are on the same team. This was a necessity, to avoid having 4 different games in 4 different locations. What I witnessed this past Saturday had nothing to do with the ugly side of competition, but had everything to do with selflessness and caring. Baker and Creighton's team name is the 'Strippling Warriors' and is made up of all LDS kids. The same group of YM play soccer and basketball together each time they are available... all are wonderful examples to our boys.
So, as the game progresses, our team is leading by 20 points or so. Baker and all of the other members of the team have scored, but I know that Creighton hasn't. Creighton has attempted a few shots, but none went in. Baker and Creighton are playing together when they both have a fastbreak and Baker has the ball going in for a layup. He stops, passes it back to Creighton to take the open shot... he missed it. The other team gets the ball and we are back on defense. Once again, a fastbreak with Baker and Creighton going to score (one defender)... Baker passes the ball to Creighton, and he misses. Baker gets the rebound, passes to Creighton... he misses.... and the same sequence is repeated 3 or 4 times. Finally, Creighton makes the basket and he's thrilled and Baker's excited for him. Since Saturday, I've heard from several individuals who were at that game, who were very impressed with the brotherly love that Baker displayed. It was a moment I won't forget... and to some reading this, it may not seem like much. I suppose you would need to understand that Creighton has many talents and abilities, but he seems to struggle with things that Baker excels at. For Baker to look out for his younger brother and to give him confidence in an environment where individuals have the tendency to be selfish, was something special. Just as a strippling warrior, his mother has taught him well!
We signed up each of the boys to play basketball over the next couple months, and Baker and Creighton are on the same team. This was a necessity, to avoid having 4 different games in 4 different locations. What I witnessed this past Saturday had nothing to do with the ugly side of competition, but had everything to do with selflessness and caring. Baker and Creighton's team name is the 'Strippling Warriors' and is made up of all LDS kids. The same group of YM play soccer and basketball together each time they are available... all are wonderful examples to our boys.
So, as the game progresses, our team is leading by 20 points or so. Baker and all of the other members of the team have scored, but I know that Creighton hasn't. Creighton has attempted a few shots, but none went in. Baker and Creighton are playing together when they both have a fastbreak and Baker has the ball going in for a layup. He stops, passes it back to Creighton to take the open shot... he missed it. The other team gets the ball and we are back on defense. Once again, a fastbreak with Baker and Creighton going to score (one defender)... Baker passes the ball to Creighton, and he misses. Baker gets the rebound, passes to Creighton... he misses.... and the same sequence is repeated 3 or 4 times. Finally, Creighton makes the basket and he's thrilled and Baker's excited for him. Since Saturday, I've heard from several individuals who were at that game, who were very impressed with the brotherly love that Baker displayed. It was a moment I won't forget... and to some reading this, it may not seem like much. I suppose you would need to understand that Creighton has many talents and abilities, but he seems to struggle with things that Baker excels at. For Baker to look out for his younger brother and to give him confidence in an environment where individuals have the tendency to be selfish, was something special. Just as a strippling warrior, his mother has taught him well!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
I CANNOT GO TO SCHOOL TODAY
"I cannot go to school today"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox.
And there's one more - that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue, It might be the instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke.
My hip hurts when I move my chin, My belly button's caving in.
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained, My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My toes are cold, my toes are numb,
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak, I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight, My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There's a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is ... What?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is .............. Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"
by Shel Silverstein
I started school on Tuesday, let me save you the sob story and just say IT WAS NOT A PRETTY DAY!! It has almost been 20 years since I have stepped into a class room and now I know WHY!! I have been taking classes over the last few years, but they have been all on line...a TOTALLY different story. I can not recall being THIS horrified in, FOREVER.
FEAR does not describe the feeling I have...Today, I MUST go back. It is taking ALL I have and more to get up the courage to go...it was not horrible, noting BAD happened...but it was HORRIBLE...every time I think about it my eyes fill up with tears,my heart races, my hands start to sweat, and my head goes to bad places...I must be the biggest baby on the face of the earth!! I would rather have 4 more kids with NO anesthetic than go to ONE more class...that was noting compared to this...THIS IS that BAD!!!
I am a MESS...a MESS...why? I am older, wiser, by FAR a better dresser, my SHOES rock in comparison to the slippers I saw on Tuesday...and yet...I can't stop shaking...my headaches are non-stop, my stomach is turning, my foot won't stop tapping...I am completing out of control...
and yet I tell my boys..."just do your best, relax, everyone else is thinking the same thing"...some mom...next time maybe I'll just let them stay home...
"I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox.
And there's one more - that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue, It might be the instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke.
My hip hurts when I move my chin, My belly button's caving in.
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained, My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My toes are cold, my toes are numb,
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak, I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight, My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There's a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is ... What?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is .............. Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"
by Shel Silverstein
I started school on Tuesday, let me save you the sob story and just say IT WAS NOT A PRETTY DAY!! It has almost been 20 years since I have stepped into a class room and now I know WHY!! I have been taking classes over the last few years, but they have been all on line...a TOTALLY different story. I can not recall being THIS horrified in, FOREVER.
FEAR does not describe the feeling I have...Today, I MUST go back. It is taking ALL I have and more to get up the courage to go...it was not horrible, noting BAD happened...but it was HORRIBLE...every time I think about it my eyes fill up with tears,my heart races, my hands start to sweat, and my head goes to bad places...I must be the biggest baby on the face of the earth!! I would rather have 4 more kids with NO anesthetic than go to ONE more class...that was noting compared to this...THIS IS that BAD!!!
I am a MESS...a MESS...why? I am older, wiser, by FAR a better dresser, my SHOES rock in comparison to the slippers I saw on Tuesday...and yet...I can't stop shaking...my headaches are non-stop, my stomach is turning, my foot won't stop tapping...I am completing out of control...
and yet I tell my boys..."just do your best, relax, everyone else is thinking the same thing"...some mom...next time maybe I'll just let them stay home...
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Thank HEAVENS for Little BOYS!!
As I was leaving this afternoon to pick up the boys from school I noticed a DEAD BIRD. I quickly phoned Mike to let him know of the EMERGENCY...but there was no such luck of a rescue in my future...he said, "have the boys do it"...SO I DID!!
Ian came to my RESCUE!!! and I didn't even have to beg or bribe! (SWEET!)
He was happy to help...after a few STABS to make sure it was dead!
Off to the TRASH...dead as a doornail...
Gotta LOVE em'...BOYS...LOUD, but I LOVE em!!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
" Look Not behind Thee"
So many things I can do better...maybe THIS one I can actually accomplish!
"Look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future." Jeffrey R. Holland
“This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13–14).
Having a husband who teaches seminary has opened my eyes and brought GREAT blessings into our home and my heart...this year, I choose to not look BACK but rather, do my BEST to be the BEST I can be. The Lord has taught me though His example and given me all I need...now it's just up to me...to not look back but forward...
"Look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future." Jeffrey R. Holland
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