Officially Moving and the Tornado has struck again!

There has been a lot of chaos at our house the past few days. What is new right? LOL

Sunday the Activity Days girls sang in sacrament meeting the song we practiced and learned 2 weeks ago. They did a great job! This week for Activity Days we made friendship bracelets. Cute huh!? We did them by punching out fun foam circles using a hole punch and then running a needle with elastic through them. Each girl made 2. One to keep and one to give to a Friend. The cool thing is that my friend Nikki brought me all the stuff and the idea to use. Isn't that cool? So friendship brought together our lesson on friendship. And now I sent them on to Leslie for her girls and she will send it to another ward and so on. AWESOME! Anyway while the girls put together the bracelets we talked about friendship and how to be a friend.

Apparently it isn't helping my poor Samantha though. Not only did she leave her bracelets on the table at IHOP and the bus boy threw them away but this had been some of worst few weeks for her in the friend world at school. Man I am so glad that I only have 1 girl. This whole girls cat fights thing it just too much for me!!! Tonight after getting back from packing a taking things to the new house. Samantha came in my office and sat here and cried to me for over an hour about how "everyone is being mean" and "no one wants to be my friend" "not even one person will play with me now" etc.

Ya know those times when you just want to make it all better but you know you can't? Well that was us. I really didn't know what to tell her other than to just hang in there and try to be nice to everyone. It seems that her 2 favorite friends in the world have decided to be BFF's and that leaves no room for her. And even though she just keeps saying "I just don't know what I did." and "Why why are they doing this?" "Why does she have to tell everyone else not to play with me now?' and "I am not being rude to her I am only being nice" I know that there are things she is probably doing and saying that aren't very nice. She insists that she is sitting on the bench at recess friendless. (not sure about that one)

So when I try to explain that even though she may not think that these things hurt their feelings they might. Then she just cries harder and tells me that now I don't like her either and that I just want to get mad at her for trying to make friends. Poor kiddo how do I just listen and not lecture? It is so hard for me. So I decided that all she needed was a shoulder to cry on. So we cried together and tried to think of ways to make friends. The hard part is that the one friend that is mad at her is the "Queen Bee" and has told all the other girls not to play with her. And her other friend isn't being mean but won't play with her because queen bee says that she can't. So she is stuck between a rock and a hard spot and well....UGH GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!!!

It's just so hard as a mom to see them with their broken little hearts thinking that their world is coming apart. So glad I only have one Drama Queen. I feel bad for my sister who has 5 girls to deal with. YIKES!!

And in other news....

We are OFFICIALLY MOVING!!! We passed the final inspection and have been moving stuff into the garage and tomorrow we sign on the final papers and get the keys! WOO HOO!!! MINE MINE MINE!! (well after 30 yrs of paying the bank but hey still MINE!!) LOL Tonight is the last night that I will sleep in the rental and tomorrow we are FINALLY after years going to be sleeping in our own home that we have waited for, planned, waited for, fought for, and pushed for, for such a long time. I know that my grandma would be so happy to see us finally living here. We dreamed of this for years and the day has finally come. It still doesn't seem real to me that I am going to be living on this ground that has been in our family for 150 yrs. and that I have dreamed of since I was a little girl. I just can't believe that it is finally here... And that is has really been worth all the red tape and bull crap but that we finally made it through. I can't wait for tomorrow. And how and I going to celebrate it??? I have no idea, probably by yelling at my kids to not touch anything in the new house and by ordering in food because I will be to busy moving to cook. LOL

Not very creative I know. But I am still very very excited!!

p.s. of course Will is sick when we are moving. Garyn was sick on Saturday and spend the night laying across the street on Grandmas Couch while we hauled boxes and Then last night I got off work and came into bed at around 3am and poor little Will woke up in his disoriented middle of the night FREAK OUT that he does. He sits in the bed and cries "bugs bugs bugs" or "spiders" and he is totally convinced that there are some and we have to turn on the lights and show him that there isn't any and then after a while he finally calms down and goes back to sleep. Who ever heard of a little BOY being so scared of bugs?? UGH!!! It started with him getting stung by a hornet last summer and was escalated by the big kids using it as a scare tactic to keep him out of places they don't want him to be. Saying things to him like "No Will don't go in my room there are spiders" and etc. OOOH I could just beat them!!! I get so mad at them for giving him this stupid fear. He is going to hate summer when the flies start to come out again. And living on a farm with cattle you can just imagine that yes we have flies.

Anyway he finally go back to sleep and I get about 20 min of sleep when I hear a not so lovely sound and look up and there is Will standing on the side of my bed puking on me. GREAT!!! So we spent a very sleepless night and a not so productive moving day taking care of pukey Will. Thank goodness for family!! My dad called and came over and took him around 1 and kept him so that I could pack. (funny thing is that by then he felt better and Grandpa said he didn't throw up even once) And my sister came to help me pack the kids (totally disgusting messy) rooms. This was very very nice of her. She is a Drama teacher and this is THE worst week of the year for her as she is in the middle of her musical production of "Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat" with a cast of over 150 kids in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. And she took her only night that she doesn't have rehearsals or the play and came to help me move. And then my mom came over once she got off work and packed all my kitchen cupboards into boxes and took that over to the house. Yeah the ROCK!!! I was happy to have so much help and this is just the beginning. I have had so much help from family in the process of building this house. ENORMOUS blessings from Jesse's family and mine clear out to our cousins. I can't even believe how many people have helped in one way or another. In huge ways from helping us get a better interest rate, to out of the blue bringing us the fill dirt we needed, to even one of his cousins just happened to work at the electric company and helped us save thousands on the installation, and my uncle works at the phone and helping us paint, and well this list could go on all night. It has been absolutely jaw dropping. And the numerous offer to help us move be friends family and neighbors. Sorry this has been such a long entry but I feel very very blessed and I felt that I needed to have this written down. See ya in a few days when I am feeling more settled and am back to work. I took the rest of the week off. :)