Grandma gets a taste of T R O U B L E oh, I mean, Will

Does this look the face of TROUBLE to you?

Well, It does to me and to Grandma too!

Today Grandma got a great taste of Will's terrible twos. It was actually pretty funny! I worked late again last night. (Because I am such a sucker and keep thinking well if I am at home I may as well stay on another hour or two.) And so of course I was tired this morning and had a hard time getting up for church. I missed the 1st hour but did make it to the last 2 hrs. Will is not liking nursery anymore. Ever since they took me out of nursery and put me back into teach the 11yr old girls he hates church. So I thought I would take him to the first part of his class get him playing with toys and ditch him. WRONG! He knows the drill and wouldn't let me put him down, so then he fell asleep on my lap. At that point I figured I would just sit in there with him since I was in a rocking chair and comfortable. I didn't want to sit in the primary room on the hard armless chairs. So when Grandma came in to do singing time she offers to save us from ourselves and invited us over for dinner. Poor Grandma she should know better.

So I packed up some mashed potatoes and headed on over. The big kids were already there because they sneak into her car in the parking lot. (I bet she has days that she wishes we didn't live so close) I don't think Will was in her house for 5 minutes before he started getting into things. He got out the broom and was "sweeping" which is code for banging on things and knocking stuff all over the place, he pulled off a whole roll of toilet paper, found one of her many, many, candy stashes, ate the candy and spit some out, then got into her lipstick. Oops! That was the last straw. She called him some fun names that only Helen can get away with and threatened to lock us all up in a cage. LOL (I am so my mom! I say all the same things) I admit fully that when he got the lipstick I wasn't watching him because I was dealing with the big kids crisis of the moment, so don't judge. :)

So then, my new neighbor that is also building a house right now about 500 yards down the road stopped by to bring me a lighting book and wanted to do a swap walk through of our houses. I wasn't going to miss that opportunity. So I took Will with me while we walked through our house and by then he was freezing cold. So when I went back to jump in her car to go to her house I left Will at Grandmas with Samantha watching him. I was walking through my neighbors BEAUTIFUL house when here comes Jesse and Samantha to look at it too. Um.... yeah no Will. So I say "Where is Will?" and Jesse says "At your moms and she wants to kill him." Um, thanks Samantha, for watching him so well and forgetting that you are watching him. So we do a quick look through, drool a lot, then put our tongues back into our mouths, and run back to save Grandma.

What do we find? Grandpa and Will standing in the front yard picking up things with grabber sticks. So like an idiot I ask "What ya doin" and Grandpa says "Well, we have been banished from the house because Will is into all of Grandmas stuff and she is as mad as a hatter."

HA HA HA HA HA OK so I know that I am totally mean to be laughing but I find it so funny because when I am at my whits end with this child it is always Grandma that tells me to "relax and let him live a little"

To that I say...... "Oh really!? Yeah sure as long as it is my house he is destroying." and all in all I am just happy that he is busy and curious and into things these days, because doing damage control and picking up after him is small potatoes compared to the days when he is sick and crying and clinging all day long. And I don't think Grandma will be rescuing us again anytime soon.

Survey says: I would rather have a busy healthy child

than a crying sick one!

p.s. for any wondering, I take him back this week to run more blood tests, but he has been doing much better anyway.

My fish bowl that I call life, is crowded and dirty!

Wow what a week. Do you ever feel like you live in a fish bowl that is dirty and crowded with crazy fish that keep spitting on you? That would describe my week.

It just seems that I have something going everyday but yet I get to Friday and look back and think... "Did I get anything done?" Why is it that I have such a hard time, seeing a stack of clean dishes, a group of happy primary girls with plates full of cupcakes, kids bathed and fed, (and still alive to tell another tale I might add), churches decorated for family parties, 35 middle of the night hours worked, church lessons prepared and taught, and so on and so forth as accomplishments? I still feel like nothing ever gets done. It just always feels like I am swimming in circles in this dirty little fish bowl with my kids throwing stuff on me, and at me all the time. Do this do that blah, blah ,blah.

On a much happier note I did get my flooring picked out for the house and it was oh so painless. The sales girl was so helpful to me in my indecisive ways. I am so happy with my findings that I am simply giddy with excitement! And here is my latest picture of the state of the house. Notice Jesse and the kids in the window-less window areas. Just had to note that I am not the only excited one here. ;)

We do finally now have the windows in the holes. Yea, a novel idea keeping the snow out of the house instead of in. This week we even have all the plumbers, electricians, and HVAC guys there working hard. :) WOO HOO our 4 way is next Friday.

The best $850 bucks I ever spent!!! It only cost me $850 more to have my bonus room (space above the garage) lifted 2 feet. Look at how nice it made this space. Now, that is a room fit for some family parties! I love it and we have now decided to finish it. I did however bargain with Jesse that I will give up my porch railing (that I wasn't sure I even wanted) in exchange for finishing this FABULOUS party room. :) Now that was worth it, right?

The well drillers still have a broken rig and we are STILL waiting for them to get it fixed and come drill our well. So we have a 1/2 finished house and still have no water. So that means the poor cows are still waiting patiently everyday for someone (usually my poor dad) to haul water over from my mom and dads house for them. See how they line up at the fence waiting? Poor things! But that is a whole other story.

Just because I haven't posted a picture of the back of the house. Complete with the Honey Bucket (port a potty) that Samantha just can't get over and that Garyn thinks is so cool because it is a bathroom outside . HA! HA! He is a crack up I tell ya!

And here is Jesse draining Lake Jensen from the front yard. We got a lot of snow/moisture and of course if puddled right in front of the house. I love my little swamp land! My own personal Navoo. :) Here is a picture of Lake Jensen so you can see that it is really a lake!

And lastly, Samantha at our Primary Party decorating cupcakes. Mantha is the best part of having this calling: Getting to teach these 12 amazing little girls is great, but getting to connect with my one and only daughter in a fun, social, and spiritual way through our activities and lessons is priceless and makes every hour of my volunteer time worth it. I actually look forward to planning and holding your weekday activities. It makes my Wednesdays so sweet. Even if it is sometimes a hectic mess. :) But with me, who would expect anything less? LOL Mess, is my middle name, after all.

Friday Funny (a few days late)

I know I am a few days late but I have to post these 2 hilarious things that Garyn said this week. He is 4 and says the cutest things that just catch me off guard sometimes. I want to always remember how cute and fun he is!

#1 So he is playing and being silly he calls Will a "pee pee head" I said in a funny mom voice "Hey, Garyn don't call him that, he isn't a pee head" and so his response......

"I know, he can't really pee on his head, because his weenier can't stretch that far." Now realize he says this all in such a matter of fact way that I thought I was going to die trying to keep in all my laughing. What a silly boy!

#2 He had already been home from preschool for about an hour and he comes into the kitchen where I am working and casually asks "Well, did you want me to get a certificate and a treat?"

I am like "Huh?"
So he says "Well, DID you want me to get a certificate and a treat?"
So I say "Sure hunny I want you to get a certificate and a treat."
Garyn says "Well too bad, I can't, because you didn't teach me my phone number."

Now the funny part of this is that I didn't even know they were learning phone numbers at school and the really funny it that he says it like you would say "oh, I guess we are out of crackers." he talks like he is just talking not like he is mad about missing out on something. He is so dang funny. Needless to say, we now know the phone number and have earned the certificate and the treat! LOL Thanks Miss Lindy! You made his week. :)

I will try to post a picture later.

Cold stinking day, but my windows arrived! & Pioneer Thankfulness!

The kids and a cousin IN the framed fireplace. I told them not to make a habit of hanging out in the fireplace or they might get burned up. LOL It was so stinking cold they probably wished there really was a fireplace already.
And we have a roof! Jesse can sleep in peace tonight and stop tearing his skin off his hands stressing out about the possibility of it snowing in the house. Sweet Dreams Baby!
They joy of my day, WINDOWS! Seeing as how most of the house is windows I was thrilled to see them arrive today. I did however think that the ones for the front of the house had grids in them.... hum, guess I better be checking that one out.

This was such a cold day today! I was way tired because I am a sucker and can never say "NO" so I ended up staying on late to work and didn't get to bed until 4 am. I love my job! I still can't believe I get to work at home and actually get paid to play online when it is dead. It's a cool gig! Anyway since I was tired and it was so cold (heaters are broken) I just wanted to stay in bed all day. But I didn't :) I got up and actually got some stuff done including 2 batches of laundry. WOO HOO for me. I drove by the house on my way to take Garyn to preschool and the framers were there putting on the rest of my roof. I wanted to drive back over later but it was just too cold. So instead I had a nap. Then when Jesse got home he honked in the drive way and put me in his warm car and drove me over to see how far they had gotten. I was excited to see the progress on the roof and bonus room, but can you imagine my surprise when I walked into the garage and saw this pile up of windows? It made trumping out into the cold with 4 kids worth every cold breath!

It has come to this , a good day is getting windows piled up in the garage. I look forward to all the days and years ahead looking out these windows and watching my kids and someday grand kids playing in the yard, watching my baby girl drive off on her 1st date, pacing the floor looking out these same windows waiting for them to come home from dates and eventually for family dinners and holidays, and all that life will bring both happy and sad. I will for the rest of my life be looking out these same windows at the spectacular view around me and marveling the blessings that I have all because more than 150 years ago my great great great great grandmother packed up everything she had into a wagon and walked thousands of miles to bring her family to a place this beautiful to raise her family where they could worship god in peace and then their families, and so on, and so forth, so that I can now raise my family 7 generations later in this very place! Thank you Caroline! and Grandma! and especially Mom too! Because of you, I finally have a place to call my home! I hope the Lord will give me the strength and help I need to raise my children with as much Faith as they.

1st Blog Post

New to blogging. Thanks a lot Crystal, Missy and Janet! You just knew that I needed a new hobby didn't you? Actually, I really do need to do this. I need to keep a record of my thoughts and feelings. I am truly the epitome of a walking tornado. My friends tease me all the time about being the poster child for ADHD and this is a great way for me to organize my thoughts on a daily basis. I just hope that you can get past my bad grammor and spelling. (Shush, Crystal!) So really, thanks for the inspiration and for being such great friends. I hope that I can use this as my own personal journal and as a place to refer to for my scrapbook pages. I really want my kids to have the story not just the pictures.