that's just WRONG...

can someone please explain this to me?

Last night, I actually got to SLEEP. ALL NIGHT! I fell asleep around 11pm and slept until Aaron woke me up just before 7. That's like 8 hours. I should be bounding with energy... so why is it that I can hardly keep my eyes open? That is so totally messed up. (I think it's because when my body actually gets sleep, it thinks "oh man, this is great. gimme more gimme more gimme more!!!")

Go figure.

Other good news - I FINALLY got my kitchen clean yesterday. This week has been just really crazy, and the housework has suffered. It took about 3 hours, but I DID get it done.

Today I need to catch up on laundry and pick up the rest of the house. I usually do the Flylady "a load a day keeps Mt. Washmore away" thing, and it works pretty well at keeping the laundry monster at bay, but again, I've let it slip a bit so today I get to play catch up...

I suppose I'd best get off the computer and get back to work. Ya'll have a great weekend.

My little Daniel Boone...

Okay, so did anyone out there actually think I'd be able to sleep with this costume thing hanging over my head? NO WAY!!! After posting that picture of Daniel Boone, I looked closely at the shirt thing he had on, and I thought, "how hard could it be..."
So 11:30 pm found me at the local Walmart buying some brown material. (you most likely couldn't care less, but I feel compelled to tell you that this was the first time I've been in a Walmart for about 3 years. Bryan was a new baby the last time I went. I have "personal issues" with Walmart and I don't shop there, but there was nowhere else that was local, open, and likely to have brown material - so I bit the bullet and went...)


Anyway, back to the story. I don't really know how to sew, but I did a simple poncho style type thing - tracing one of his shirts to get the general size, and I thought the finished product turned out pretty well. My thoughts were confirmed when Aaron woke up the next morning and tried it on. He was really pleased with it and felt super confident when he did his report. He liked it well enough, that after school he put it back on on, wore it scouts, and wore it all evening. I was a little tired after staying up to make it, but it was worth it. (the arm fringes don't really show in either picture, but rest assured that he was fringed pretty much everywhere it was possible to be fringed.)


I did my volunteer time, and then since his report was scheduled for right after lunch, I made arraignments to eat lunch with him. He thought it was so cool that I ate in the lunch room with him. I figured I'd go in and help his teacher with stuff while he played during lunch recess. NOPE, he wanted me to play with him, so I went out and played with him and his friends. We played "dead cow" (don't ask, I still don't really get it, it's like a strange version of tag)"Mother, May I," and had cartwheel contests. (I was the worst cartwheel-er; they all thought it was hilarious) It was a lot of time out of my day, plus the cost of paying for a babysitter for the other kids, but it was worth it to see Aaron feel so important. He loved having me there. He asked me, "can you do this every week?"

The video below is him doing his report. Of course I forgot to take the camera to school, so he agreed to do the report again at home so I could record it. (he did it lots more smoothly at school, but he was trying to do it without holding his paper in this video, so it was harder for him to read it...)

Who spit in her bean curd?

I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm guessing this is the question my family is asking themselves about me today.

I'm thinking it's a combination of a lot of things - sick kids (caleb and bryan were both up last night hacking and booger nosed and they took turns tossing and turning in our bed, and today Caleb was a bear, fussing unless he was being held...) now my throat is starting to hurt..., Aaron has his oral book report tomorrow - 50% of which is graded on the costume he wears to look like the person (and as of right now, 10:31 pm, he has NO costume at all...) and to top it all off...I think I've got some major PMS going on here.

Any which way you look at it - I was not a happy camper tonight, and you know what they say - "if momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy!" I should probably be staying up to work out some sort of costume, but I was pretty much done with today about 5 hours ago, so I'm going to go to bed instead, and hope that something inspirational comes to mind in the morning. Hey - if anyone in the local area happens to have any Daniel Boone'ish looking outfits that you can get to me (or I can get from you) by noon, let me know! I'd be ever so grateful, and so would Aaron's grade.


Good night!

quote for the day

Hey all -

I was on my way to choir practice when I heard a quote I liked. I don't know who it was, or any details, but this is what he said:

"If 'living your religion' is taking all the fun and joy out of your life; you're not doing it right."

I really like that. After all, "Men are that they might have joy." I'm going to sign off here and go have some JOYFUL (sabbath appropriate) FUN with my cute little family.

We're going to DISNEYLAND!!!

Just in case you thought I was just messin' with you ... KOSY posted our (blurry but still fun) "winner's" picture, and here it is!

I have discovered the WONDER DRUG!!!

SLEEP!!!!

Last week I actually had a night where I got 6 1/2 hours uninterrupted sleep. It was so amazing. The next day I had more energy, more patience, got more cleaning done... it was wonderful!

last night? No such luck - it was one of my worst in recent history. I got to bed by 11:00, but couldn't seem to get warm and just couldn't fall asleep. It was probably just as well, since Caleb woke up at 11:40 and refused to go back to sleep. Finally at 2:15 I gave up trying and just took him down to my bed with me, figuring he'd stop fighting it if he was snuggling with me. He still tossed and turned and did one major headbutt on poor Tim (when I apparently was drifting off and not paying much attention-sorry Tim) but he did finally fall asleep. What it means for me, is that I definitely didn't get my wonder drug last night. Wish me luck today - I may need it.

HOPE!!!

Everyone once in a while something happens that gives me hope that Tim and I are doing an okay job in this whole parenting thing. Tonight at Family Home Evening I had one of those moments. As you who have read my blog for a while know - FHE isn't usually a real spiritual feast at our house. It is more of a "sit down," "please keep your hands and feet to yourself," "Listen to the lesson," You can't have a FHE treat if you are not reverent," - kind of adventure on the parental end; and a "are we done yet?" "this is boring," I already know all this," "She put her foot on me me," "he did it first," - is the kids version.

So tonight, after a humorous pre-FHE, where Aaron and Katrina both had to put on their "reverent pajamas, and Aaron got ready with the timer, so he could "time how long I am reverent." We started. It was quite amazing. Aaron and Katrina were really focused and fully participating, with really insightful and good answers, and Bryan had his best FHE ever. (He still kinda started to lose focus at the end, but he still gets major KUDOS for doing as well as he did.)

At one point in the lesson, Aaron got emotional again and said, "mom, I'm feeling the spirit again." That's twice now - he's feeling pretty good about that. it's pretty cute. He said our family prayer tonight and he said, "please bless that Trina and Bryan will someday be able to feel the spirit like me."

There's hope! Maybe I haven't totally ruined him yet!