- Tuesday, we went and bought my "new toy", as I keep calling it to the kids :), a giant WHITE BOARD!!!! I'm sure I sound crazy, but I've wanted one of these F O R E V E R (go ahead and read that with the same drawn out tone that the kid has on Sand Lot). It has been a dream come true! I can put everything on there that I need the kids to think about and see, everything I need to think about and see, it's just really fantastic for my cramped brain!! I feel like it's already helping me to get more organized which is something I have been needing to do for a while. Here's to not waiting for the next stage in life to get on with things! 11-15-11
- Oh boy... I have left out a lot of days!! I will try to catch up, but all in good time.
- Monday morning I had my first meeting with the Primary President as her first counselor. She gave me my binder and a run down of my responsibilities. I'm really excited about my new calling. I will miss Bradley, but I think he needed a break from me too :). I'm glad I"m still in the Primary at least. 11-21-11
- Monday 11-21-11 we announced to the kids at FHE that we have FINALLY filled the trampoline jar... kind of anticlimatic since it's too cold to put one up, but come Spring!!... and now we are going to start a new jar, a much larger one of course, to save up and earn a trip to CALIFORNIA!!! Particularly Disneyland, but Sea World and Universal too!! I can't believe how exciting this was!! The kids all cheered and screamed and bounced around!! SO FUN! We are not big travelers (yet :) ), but if it's always this exciting, I think we'll be doing a lot more of it in the future :).... I say that like we're going soon ;).... We project that we will be going in September sometime... that's the "plan"... we'll see. I'm happy that the kids reacted so well.
-Tuesday was a crazy day, I worked in Brad's class, ran around like a crazy person getting Luke and Carter, then taking my Mom to the doctor, going out to Lunch with Nate, my Mom and the littles, then going to the school again to pick Kelly up (hoping I wouldn't have to take her to the Doctor) because she had fallen and hit her face against a wall. Sometimes I just don't know how to react. I try to remain calm most of the time, until I know exactly what's happened to my kid, but I just wish the school wouldn't downplay the bad stuff, or exaggerate the not so bad stuff. She was totally fine. They had me worried. After we got the big kids from school, we made our way to McD's for ice cream and to hang out with Christy and her kids. That was nice! Such a relaxing time compared to the rest of my day. And Christy and I were able to catch up a little. I respect her so much. She's done so much with her schooling and has such an impressive position. It's neat! Moms who can do work and Momming at the same time and end up with such good kids, I gotta hand it to them! 11-22-11
- Wednesday was a lot of fun! Since the kids were off and Nate had the morning off we decided to take advantage of that and went to see a movie! We saw Arthur Christmas. It was a pretty cute show. Not sure how I felt about the outlook on the Santa, but the kids didn't seem to mind ;). I think Nate's mom has given me a new perspective on Santa, and it creates this... almost reverence for him... which I think is cool. It's not weird or anything, obviously Christmas isn't about Santa, it's about our Savior, but when you can find the relationship, or the similarities between the two, it's really neat. Nate's mom is so good at that! Fun times. 11-23-11
- Friday we spent the WHOLE DAY cleaning house! I like to do my Spring cleaning in the Fall. The girls and I spent a good 3 hours on their room, it looks SO good now! And the boys and I did their room for about an hour. It was surprisingly not as dirty as the girls.... go figure. We always rearrange the layout of their rooms when we clean, just for a fresh new look. It's fun. I love making our home a place where the Spirit can be. After the kids' rooms, I did the office and the toy room (which Kelly totally helped me with and talked with me while we were doing it, that was a lot of fun!). Felt so good to purge ourselves of 3 large garbage bags of trash, and then another 2 of stuff to take to the D.I. Love that! We still need to get rid of a bunch of the toys though.... that's coming up! That night I couldn't sleep for some reason, then Erika came down and couldn't sleep either, so we stayed up all night (and I mean ALL night!) watching Tangled. I finally got to my bed at 5:08 am. It's been a while since I pulled one of those... but not too bad. 11-24-11
- Saturday was our "lazy day" as Brad and I called it. I didn't nag :). It was nice. The kids actually had a lot of fun, AND got their jobs done! And I enjoyed it as well! It was nice. Bradley did need to get out about halfway through the day though, so he and Erika and I went to run some errands for my Mom and got some of the things we needed for our Swedish food. It was good time with my boy and his little sis. I enjoy that. Thankfully Nate let me take a nap when he got home.... I was in desperate need. Then he fixed dinner for the kids and everything! Nate and I looked through some of his mission stuff after we got the kids in bed. SO FUN!! I feel a real closeness with Sweden and the people. I did spend a good 2 years praying for them and the missionaries there, so I feel that may be the cause. It's neat that Nate was with Brent. I read Nate's journal, a couple months' worth and just fell in love with that sweet 19 year old boy!! What a neat missionary he was!! I have so much more respect for what he (and other missionaries) did and went through. I can't believe the Lord requires that of 19 year old boys! And yet after reading his journal, I can see why!!! They are Spiritual powerhouses!! Nate is just amazing. I love readin git.... I think that will be my new form of Spiritual enlightenment! 11-26-11
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