I don't know why, but I've always loved the newness of the beginning of the year. It's weird because I'm realizing that not a lot of things are all that new other than the numbers that I write at the end of the date. One thing, though, that is DEFINITELY new with the new year, NEW PRIMARY TEACHERS!!! I mentally took inventory this year and from what I gather, my kids all love this new thing too. So Charity went to Sunday School for the first time, wahoo! and I think she liked it okay. I can't for the life of me think of who her new teacher is though... kind of defeats the purpose, but I'll figure it out eventually and then I might remember to correct it on here :). Kelly actually didn't get a new teacher, but she did get a whole new group of kids in her class, one of which being her lovable big, little brother! From the looks on their faces when I ran into them near the bathrooms, they were just thrilled with their new situation. Yes, sarcasm is included. But I'm happy they're together :). Could end up being a good thing.... maybe :). Kelly only has five months left of Primary, so Brad can have the class and Sis. Robins all to himself then :). He seemed okay with it all for the most part. Luke moved up to Senior Primary for 2015! woot woot! He has Bro. Tenney and Bro. Green whom Bradley has had for the last two years. Seemed content. Noah got to move up two classes for good behavior (well, really because his birthday is so early and the only other person in his age group's is so late- they split he and Elyse up). While I think he was shocked to be the youngest now, he thoroughly enjoyed being in Josh's class :). This is the only way we can get our kids in one of the Maughan's kids' classes :). Erika was surprised to find two boy teachers this year and dug her heels in a little when we got there, but quickly changed her mind. She had a great time and loved that they do coloring in this class!! Her last class had kind of stopped doing that lately. She was also very happy to have a new girl in her class and Elyse!! Doesn't get better than that when you've been in an all boy class for 1 1/2 years :). Jack Jack is still in Nursery, still blowing bubbles and singing songs (his favorite parts), but he also had a new teacher (from what I was told by Nate- Jack has his Daddy wrapped around his little finger so he takes him every Sunday :)), Sis. Natalie whose new last name is slipping my mind right now! He seemed to do fine going, so I think she passed the Jack test. So there ya have it. No complaining from any of them! I'd call that a successful first Sunday of the year!
BITTERSWEET
So today was a bit of a stress for me! I got the call this morning to meet with Bro. Jacox at 3:50 today. I always assume those things are for Nate so I rarely get nervous, but when I said Nate couldn't and he said it was okay if I came alone, I started to wonder!!! I was so far from wanting to be released from my calling as Mia Maid adviser. This has been such a great blessing in my life. I don't want it to be over at all! So I was stressing all through church. I even made the mistake of asking Debbie if she knew anything about it. Assuming that if I was being released, she would know. She seemed surprised by it, but didn't say much. So then I just got frustrated. Then before Sacrament meeting Nate went up to ask Bro. Jacox if he really didn't need to be there. He said it was okay as long as Nate supported me in any calling. Thus, I was getting a new calling. I was on pins and needles for the rest of the afternoon!! Drove me nuts. I know I'm just a little crazy right now, so I know I was overreacting, but I was really starting to get frustrated by the time I walked up to the Bishop's office. I stood outside the office and talked to Bro. Huntington for a minute about Alaska and then the saddest thing ever, Debbie walked out of the Bishop's office in tears! My heart sank!! I didn't really think I was going to be released, even more, it had never occurred to me that Debbie would be! According to her and Keri, just a week ago, we had a year left before that would happen! So the shock!! They released me from Mia Maid adviser. Rats. I really am still a little bummed. Luckily they quickly hit me with the good news that I am "being recalled" (you can imagine where that term sent my mind :) jk), and I am going to the new 2nd counselor in the YW. PHEW!!!! That was a HUGE relief. Still a little sad, but mostly good- I just LOVE the YW!! I hate to leave my Mia Maids, but I will get to be Charity's teacher and in a half a year, Kelly's too! It will be fun!! I'm really excited about who the new President is, Jami Caldwell, and also who I am suspecting is my partner, Michelle Jackson (I HOPE!)- beehive adviser. I will miss working with all the other ladies, but I kind of think a change could be good for our YW. I'm trying to keep it a secret from the girls, I want them to be surprised next week in Sacrament meeting, but I'm really excited. 1-4-15
YELLOW
The other day Jack was trying to use Charity's phone (ours look the same now) and I said, "No that's Charity's, it's white, so it's Charity's" (we've been doing a little bit with colors with him lately, he knows a few of them) He understood and walked it over to Charity. Then he came back with this accomplished look on his face, climbed up in my lap and said, "Mom. LUH-LOW" It took me a minute, but then it hit that he was relaying the fact that he knew MY phone is yellow!! It was adorable. Sounds simple, but the look on his face and his struggle to say yellow and the pointing in the direction that my phone was, it was just so sweet! He is so smart! 1-4-15
TOYROOM
So today, Erika and I had this plan to clean the toy room. She is #6 this week, so she has the downstairs anyway, and I've been wanting to go through the toy room since before Christmas, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity. We worked on that room for four hours!!! I couldn't believe how bad it had gotten! We definitely need to clean that room more often. I am getting rid of 3 boxes of old toys that we don't need anymore, and then there were also 3 huge bags of garbage! Like actual garbage. We need to have a talk with our kids about the way they do their jobs because I found several things that had been in the family room and then mysteriously moved to the toy room. Not sure what that's all about, seems harder to take stuff to the toy room than the kitchen, but whatever. So anyway- yes, we are slobs. But now we are a little more organized in the toy room :). It was all worth it too, because I got to talk with Erika the entire time! She was talking up a storm. It was a lot of fun. 1-5-15
STAIRS
So I stepped on a pencil when I was walking down the stairs and my whole life suddenly flashed before my eyes. My feet went out from under me and I totally body slammed it back down into the stairs. UGH. Hurt so bad!!! After I came to, I thought I was going to be able to tough it out, but I totally didn't! Cried like a baby for a good five minutes. I totally couldn't get up, my back hurt so bad!! It wasn't til I got up that I realized my elbows were on fire. Not literally, I think I banged them on the banisters. My poor behind is bruised as well, which is saying a LOT! That was the worst thing that's happened to me in a while. I could barely walk for the rest of the day. I did want to make note that my sweet Erika was right there the instant that it happened and regardless of how freakishly I probably seemed crying like I was, she still just wrapped her cute little self around me and tried to love me better. It was priceless. I actually took her up on her offer and cried into her shoulder for a good minute. She proceeded to reprimand Jack for not joining in. Poor little guy, I wonder what was going through his little head. I hope the pain wears off soon, it's now been about nine hours since it happened. We'll see how it goes. 1-5-15
FHE
I was so proud of us tonight. We ALMOST skipped FHE tonight. Everything was making it seem impossible. We had a book we were trying to locate that Charity only has a few days left to read- shame on her for not getting it sooner, I almost want her to not find it in time so that she learns her lesson (not really), then Kelly wasn't feeling well, Bradley needed to run to the store, Noah needed to pass out his invites (we're already so late), and Erika, our lesson girl, was asleep on the couch!!! Not to mention how sore and tired I was. It was going to be so easy to put it off til tomorrow (which probably would have meant last week), but something in me made me think we needed to have it no matter what. No matter how simple and short it was. We needed to do it. So luckily Nate was on board. We got Erika up in time to do her "Button button who's got the button" lesson. It was a nice, quick, little FHE, but I think it served it's purpose. The kids seemed happier with each other- not as much as I'd like, but happier than they were before! So that was the blessing for tonight's FHE. I am grateful we have been counseled to do that and that I know it is something we can do right. I'm grateful for the fact that we didn't give up on it tonight! 1-5-15
DYLAN'S
Luke asked me if I would take him to Dylan's to get a shake a couple days ago. Kind of random, and while I'd like to think it was just so that he could spend one on one, quality time with his mother dear, I'm sure the yummy shakes have something to do with it :). We went tonight after family night and I loved it :). Not just the shake too :). Luke was very talkative and we had a lot of fun sitting in the car talking about everything under the sun... and all the happenings of the third grade. He got Twisted Caramel with crunchy chunks of pretzel, and I got my usual, Reese's PB cups. My favorite line, "I'm not surprised at all that I'm going to be nine." What a stud. I love my Lukey. 1-5-15
TUESDAYS ARE USUALLY CALMER
So we are still adjusting to Nate's new schedule. One of the new things is his absense on Tuesdays. It's produce day, and every other week, it's our grocery shopping day. Erika Jack and I had to do it all on our own for the first time in a while! I'll admit I am glad that Nate and I will have that time to do something else during the week, rather than running dumb errands and stuff, but it was still kind of a bummer to not have him there. We actually did a lot of errands this morning, picked up the produce, made our menu and shopping list (sounds simple, but it's really not), picking up Charity's book in Sugarhouse, stopping at Zurchers to find out that they, too, do not have any cool "jet" party things, mailing a package to the Hatches (before you think we're awesome, it was a coat my Dad had asked me to send for them back on Christmas... go ahead and thing I'm a jerk now... but I did slip a couple boxes of candy in there for the kids... hopefully that makes up for how late it is- yeah right), and lastly, the grocery shopping. We were all so hungry and tired by the time we were done- one of the differences between running errands with Nate and running them without- Nate would have stopped for lunch way before 1:30. We never go hungry when Nate's around. After that we drove up to Ogden, then picked up the kids, made dinner, passed out a few more party inviations (I'm so embarrassed that we are getting them out with such short notice), and then took Bradley out for our Keva Juice date that he won finding Erika's Sunday shoe :). (I had found a whole bunch of keva juice cards in my purse adding up to a couple free ones, so I offered that as a reward the other day- been wanting to do more dates with the kids again) Although, it was so late and since Keva juice is in Bountiful, we ended up going to Dairy Queen instead ;). Not sure how that worked out, but whatever :). We had a good time. I enjoy being with Bradley. He wasn't as talkative as usual though, I had to pry some things out of him, and we played the question game near the end- an old time favorite- but yep, I still love his guts! He's a good boy. It felt like a busy day. Oh, I didn't even mention the Potty Train that boarded here at our house! We were out of diapers and decided to give potty training Jack a try- we'll see how it goes. Nate and I had an abnormal amount of patience during the three or so hours it took to get him to take off his wet pants and put on underwear. Still trying to get him to sit
on the little potty. Do we know what we're doing? Nope. Just following our instincts. It's worked in the past, but we will see. I can't wait to get his midnight accident all cleaned up tonight- that should be fun. I'm hoping for yet another miracle. Noah and Erika delivered :) I know it can happen :). 1-6-15
Last week with this leadership
FOUR WEEKS
Before reading this please refer to THIS POST under the heaqding "TESTING TESTING 1-2-3".
I did this with my last pregnancy, kept track of all the gory details, and it's been kind of interesting to look back on. It's been a while, and since my blog has had a more than a three year break from the hormones, I figured it was okay to jump back into these.
Words can't express how excited I am to be pregnant! Not that I haven't been in the past, it's just so incredible when it's been so long and so prayed for! A year and a half!! I feel so blessed! And so in denial at the same time- still doesn't feel as real as it needs to :). I get that wave of yuck every couple hours though, that feels pretty real, but I still just can't believe we're finally here again.
I cannot stop thinking about this new baby. I feel like I know things about him or her already. This is my motivation to wanting to tell the whole world already. I've only told Annie and Heidi (besides Nate of course), but the desire to shout it from the roof tops has been stronger than usual! I hope I can keep it in for a while. Although, I just feel like this baby wants people to know and be excited for their arrival :). How cute is that. I guess we just have to be careful since the kids really can't find out yet. It just drags on too long when they find out too soon. They're kids, they lose interest :).
So anyway- staring to feel the tiredness pretty much all day, but I've been fighting it really well, which I'm proud of! The nausea as well. My goal is to make this pregnancy a good one. It might be my last so I want to go out with flying colors, ya know. Not like last time. I was the biggest wimp last time. I plan on keeping all complaints to myself and this blog. It never helps to tell people anyway. Unless of course, something huge happens, it's not important that anyone else know about it. I regret that so much from the last time.
So. There. I am getting so anxious to meet this baby already :) I hope we have lots of fun in the meantime, so that time will fly :) 1-6-15
CASTED
I took Kelly in for her wrist (again), they x-rayed it, and found nothing to be wrong. Dr. Tew said it really shouldn't be hurting still and that if she had more protection, maybe it would stop hurting so much. He recommended that she get a cast. SURPRISE! I was. So he put a cast on her! Kinda crazy if you ask me, but whatever. I am glad it might stop hurting. Poor Kelz. 1-7-15
POTTY UPDATE
Nate got Jack to sit on the potty while I was at YW, this was the first time he had! but when I came in the back door, there was my cute little Jack, completely naked, sitting on his "car", eating a nice juicy apple, watching a "Wee wee"(movie :) ). It as such a happy sight :). After about an hour of sitting there (and he even requested that I sit down next to him), he finally peed in the potty!! It was yellow :) his favorite color :). He took it upstairs with Daddy and said goodbye to it in the big potty. It was SO CUTE!!! He was so proud of himself! Hopefully this is a beginning. 1-7-15
NATIONAL ACADEMIC LEAGUE
Charity had her first meet for NAL. I was busy with Kelly at the Doc, so I didn't get to watch, but Nate went and cheered her on (although it was in the library, so I'm not sure how much cheering was going on). She did well according to Nate, but her team lost by six points. Kind of a bummer, but it was the first time, so I think they've got room to grow :). Hopefully the nerves are less in the future. 1-7-15
GET AIR
Went to Get Air with the YW. Debbie changed the activity to something a little more exciting I think since it was our last one as a leadership. It was a lot of fun. I didn't jump for several reasons, but I did have fun chatting with Liz. I'm going to miss working with her. Debbie too, but luckily I get to go visiting teaching with Debbie and to Keri still. It's just weird to think I will be back in with a different group of leaders. I'm excited for the change, but I am going to miss the old. So, last activity as the Mia Maid adviser went well... minus that Charity twisted her ankle. 1-7-15
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