Oh, I'm starting to regret my time decisions earlier this week. I have tons to do before we leave on Friday and I'm starting to feel stressed. I forgot to factor in Braden's 5th grade patriotic performance tonight and the big one, pack meeting tomorrow night! I will be spending most of tomorrow and some of today doing awards, going to the store and preparing for that.
Plus there are lots of other things I need to get done before we can go. I look forward to taking Kayli with me to get the tires rotated and transmission flushed on the van "like a poke in the eye" as Barry puts it. However, they really need done before we drive somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 miles these next two weeks.
On a very happy note, only 2 1/2 days left until we leave. I caught Braden sitting at the bar last night with a smiley dreamy look on his face as he said to himself "only 2 1/2 more days until we leave". Hahaha.
For other news, the kids all started a 6-week jump rope program at school last week. This is so fun for them and a great $5 deal for mom to get them to EXERCISE. Tyler got his jump rope at school yesterday as they didn't get the older kids in on time. Last night after dinner he was begging to go out and jump rope so he headed for the back deck. The last time he tried this program he was frustrated because he tried and tried and really couldn't do it almost at all. Last night he was jump roping backwards with a huge smile on his face! Looks like he has finally figured it out.
Braden has been telling me about all the things he can do with a rope but I haven't seen them yet. I am going to go outside with them later today and have everyone show me what they are learning. They came home with a list of different skills by level and a point value for them. I can guess what most of them are but are at a loss for the others. Apparently Braden has gotten past his mentality that jump roping is a "girl thing". He has been getting comments from his classmates about how good he is at when they jump rope during P.E. So, that makes me a little curious because he certainly didn't learn it at home.
Karina is really excited about it, too. Once the kids are in 1st grade they can join an actual jump rope team that I think will start doing competitions. One of the ladies doing it was a jump rope champion for some high level like national or world or something. THAT would be very interesting to watch!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
From the frying pan and into the fire as they say...
Barry got his new calling at church today and was released as the Cubmaster only to be sustained the Scoutmaster for the 11-13 year olds. We both got a good laugh after church when we were visiting about it. He said he had a lot of people come up and comment to him and somewhat express condolences on his new calling and I got the same from a few people! Fortunately we are both really excited about the new calling and he is very enthusiastic so we just had a good chuckle about it all instead of agreeing with all of them.
He was really excited to tell me that the troop already has planned a 50-mile (or is it 150-mile?) bike trek later this summer. I had fun needling him about getting to relive his "glory days" as a scout and finally getting to go on a scout bike trek. There are lots of other ideas floating around in his head (some quite wild) so I'm sure the scouts are going to have a fantastic time with him, especially Braden.
He was really excited to tell me that the troop already has planned a 50-mile (or is it 150-mile?) bike trek later this summer. I had fun needling him about getting to relive his "glory days" as a scout and finally getting to go on a scout bike trek. There are lots of other ideas floating around in his head (some quite wild) so I'm sure the scouts are going to have a fantastic time with him, especially Braden.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Ahem, yes, it's been awhile
Now that I haven't posted in over a year, maybe I should do that, eh? I would upload some pictures but I don't have any recent ones. Another thing I seem to have been slacking on. I'll rectify that later this week since Karina is having another ballet on Saturday.
As for what is new in our neck of the woods - not much. Kayli is still a big tease like always. Having learned it from Tyler and that is who she teases the most we all just get a good laugh. Her favorite game with him is to go over, sit on his back and bounce up and down while he laughs and tells her to sit on his head. They have a great love/tease relationship. She is also signing to use more so we are having a better idea of what she is wanting. Fortunately she is attempting to throw in the words she learns on the signing time videos so she is at least saying something, too.
Karina Ballerina is still loving dance and we are trying to decide what to do with that. As you can guess, it has extra costs and other things associated with it so ballet isn't the cheapest of hobbies/sports. However, she absolutely loves it so we will keep at it awhile longer and debate for a few more months what to do when Barry goes to work part-time.
Tyler is such a sweet smiley boy. He had his first piano festival last weekend and got a superior. He was expecting something more like a recital apparently. When we got all done and left, later that day he asked me when he was going to have his festival in the chapel. He didn't realize that festival was just walking in the room, playing your scales and pieces for a judge and you were done.
Tyler also finally got qualified for speech therapy through school. He started that a week or so ago and is very happy about that. He is working on his "th" sounds at the moment and is practicing them fairly well.
Braden is still in the "the oldest child who thinks he knows everything" phase. Exactly when does that go away, if ever? He thrills in learning all kinds of new stuff - and then "sharing" it with all the jocks/bullies at school who harass him about being a nerd. I'm sure that doesn't help the situation but at least he is being true to himself I suppose. He is still playing the cello and had his first concert with the jr. high and high school this month. Oh, hey. I even have video of that, too, now that I think about it. I'll add that a little later. If you see the camera bouncing around it is because Kayli wanted to help.
Barry is busy with school, work and as of next week a new church calling. We are a little nervous about how he is going to fit that calling in as it involves lots of time, money and effort but I'm banking he'll be blessed for saying yes and everything will work out. More on that later since it hasn't officially been announced in church yet.
As for me, life is just regular duties - cook, maid, chauffeur, errand runner, cub scouts, etc. With no bear leaders at the moment I've added that onto the Webelos leader and advancement chairperson assignments so that Tyler has some cub scouts to go to. I have fun with the boys, though, and since Braden is the only consistent Webelos it gives him someone to do activities with.
So there is the rather mundane (happily so) update of our lives for the moment. Hopefully I won't take a year to post the next one.
As for what is new in our neck of the woods - not much. Kayli is still a big tease like always. Having learned it from Tyler and that is who she teases the most we all just get a good laugh. Her favorite game with him is to go over, sit on his back and bounce up and down while he laughs and tells her to sit on his head. They have a great love/tease relationship. She is also signing to use more so we are having a better idea of what she is wanting. Fortunately she is attempting to throw in the words she learns on the signing time videos so she is at least saying something, too.
Karina Ballerina is still loving dance and we are trying to decide what to do with that. As you can guess, it has extra costs and other things associated with it so ballet isn't the cheapest of hobbies/sports. However, she absolutely loves it so we will keep at it awhile longer and debate for a few more months what to do when Barry goes to work part-time.
Tyler is such a sweet smiley boy. He had his first piano festival last weekend and got a superior. He was expecting something more like a recital apparently. When we got all done and left, later that day he asked me when he was going to have his festival in the chapel. He didn't realize that festival was just walking in the room, playing your scales and pieces for a judge and you were done.
Tyler also finally got qualified for speech therapy through school. He started that a week or so ago and is very happy about that. He is working on his "th" sounds at the moment and is practicing them fairly well.
Braden is still in the "the oldest child who thinks he knows everything" phase. Exactly when does that go away, if ever? He thrills in learning all kinds of new stuff - and then "sharing" it with all the jocks/bullies at school who harass him about being a nerd. I'm sure that doesn't help the situation but at least he is being true to himself I suppose. He is still playing the cello and had his first concert with the jr. high and high school this month. Oh, hey. I even have video of that, too, now that I think about it. I'll add that a little later. If you see the camera bouncing around it is because Kayli wanted to help.
Barry is busy with school, work and as of next week a new church calling. We are a little nervous about how he is going to fit that calling in as it involves lots of time, money and effort but I'm banking he'll be blessed for saying yes and everything will work out. More on that later since it hasn't officially been announced in church yet.
As for me, life is just regular duties - cook, maid, chauffeur, errand runner, cub scouts, etc. With no bear leaders at the moment I've added that onto the Webelos leader and advancement chairperson assignments so that Tyler has some cub scouts to go to. I have fun with the boys, though, and since Braden is the only consistent Webelos it gives him someone to do activities with.
So there is the rather mundane (happily so) update of our lives for the moment. Hopefully I won't take a year to post the next one.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Lose Weight! Feel Great! Or something like that...
Haha. Barry is a student this semester so we were able to get a gym membership to the Apple Athletic Club for less than the cost of a regular individual one. We have had SO much fun. My favorite part, though, is I feel GREAT this week!
The boys' particularly love the youth area. When I worked in the nursery there a couple of years ago they didn't have anything in this area. Now they have the WII equivalent to Dance Dance Revolution (with bigger industrial strength footpads), stationary bikes that had video game monitors on them so the kids can race together and some cool kind of laser game that gets you moving. It honestly looks like something off a sci-fi show. They have some other fun stuff in there, too. Dad, you would get a kick out of seeing how excited my kids are to go "work out" at the gym. They never want to leave!
Karina's favorite part is swimming. Barry is working on teaching her and Tyler how to swim. When we went this week it was Kayli's first time ever. We had size s/p swim diapers for her and guess what - they were WAY too big! The little peanut only weighs 12.5 lbs so they looked like Erkel pants on her.
We even managed to get Barry to finally work out yesterday. I got a kick out of his, "Wow. You can just drop them all off and go workout?" comment in a somewhat stunned voice. Yes siree, and now we all know why I like the gym so much! Hehe. I love my kids but it's nice to see them so excited to go get some exercise while Mom goes and does hers.
Our membership ends May 30 since it's a student one but until then - play on kids aka go get some exercise!
The boys' particularly love the youth area. When I worked in the nursery there a couple of years ago they didn't have anything in this area. Now they have the WII equivalent to Dance Dance Revolution (with bigger industrial strength footpads), stationary bikes that had video game monitors on them so the kids can race together and some cool kind of laser game that gets you moving. It honestly looks like something off a sci-fi show. They have some other fun stuff in there, too. Dad, you would get a kick out of seeing how excited my kids are to go "work out" at the gym. They never want to leave!
Karina's favorite part is swimming. Barry is working on teaching her and Tyler how to swim. When we went this week it was Kayli's first time ever. We had size s/p swim diapers for her and guess what - they were WAY too big! The little peanut only weighs 12.5 lbs so they looked like Erkel pants on her.
We even managed to get Barry to finally work out yesterday. I got a kick out of his, "Wow. You can just drop them all off and go workout?" comment in a somewhat stunned voice. Yes siree, and now we all know why I like the gym so much! Hehe. I love my kids but it's nice to see them so excited to go get some exercise while Mom goes and does hers.
Our membership ends May 30 since it's a student one but until then - play on kids aka go get some exercise!
Scratch that last post
Braden says:
"Scratch that post. I win at video games. He does not. It's the other way around. And I still don't get why he likes school."
"Scratch that post. I win at video games. He does not. It's the other way around. And I still don't get why he likes school."
School Time
Tyler says:
"My little sister has an Easy Bake oven. She is very cute and pretty. I have a baby little sister. She is cuter than my other sister. At school I learn math. That I like. My family is the best family in the world. My dad is silly. My sister is funny. My little cute baby sister is very cute. I am a good person at school. Braden does Cub Scouts and so do I, too. My brother is great at video games. I usually beat him at video games. School is the funnest place ever. I like my family."
"My little sister has an Easy Bake oven. She is very cute and pretty. I have a baby little sister. She is cuter than my other sister. At school I learn math. That I like. My family is the best family in the world. My dad is silly. My sister is funny. My little cute baby sister is very cute. I am a good person at school. Braden does Cub Scouts and so do I, too. My brother is great at video games. I usually beat him at video games. School is the funnest place ever. I like my family."
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Chef Karina
Karina says:
I made my very first cakes today. I shared it with my family. They were chocolate."
Karina got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas from Santa. Today we took a regular cake mix that cost a $1 and divided it up into twelve packagkes. Our little chef's savings by not using the Easy Bake mixes - $71!!! (If anyone else has an Easy Bake - it's 1/4 cup mix and 1/6 cup water for two cakes.) She did everything from start to finish, including setting the timer and serving everyone, all by herself. She is so happy that now she has 10 more cake mixes (we ate 2) to bake whenever she wants because she can do it ALL BY HERSELF! Plus, she knows how to make more mixes later when she needs them. At the moment she is selling the last cake to her brothers in exchange for chores or a quarter. We'll see which brother wins. Haha. Good job, Chef Karina!
Tyler's Baptism
Tyler turned 8 on December 30. We took the kids to Leo's Place to celebrate and had a blast. They have a huge maze of straps and pipes the kids can crawl through and they absolutely love it. We got fortunate, too, that Tuesday happened to be token night. So we got a bunch of tokens to play at the game arcade. My personal favorite is the alligator one where you have to bash them on the head. The kids line up with me and we go at it together.
Tyler was so excited when Saturday finally arrived and he got to get baptized. He was jumping around and so excited when he was sitting on the bench waiting for his turn. I haven't seen him with that big of a grin or that excited in a long time. It was awesome to see him so happy to be baptized.
Thank you to everyone for coming. We missed you Camille and Josh but everyone else was there. We especially appreciate the King and Gallafent families for extending their trips to be there. We love you all and thanks for being there for his special day!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Bye, bye binkie!
Kayli started sucking on her fingers occassionally last month. I noticed her trying to do it more often and attempted to stop her whenever I caught her. It is sure a lot easier to remove a binkie than it is fingers! We had a great time one night at dinner trying to put the binkie in instead only to have her figure out how to pull it and put in the fingers. It really produced a lot of laughs from the kids. By the time we gave up I think she figured out what we were trying to do. She had started trying to be sneaky and slowly move then binkie and then quickly shove in the fingers! So, we officially have our first finger sucker. It has turned out to be nice, though, that we don't have to look for lost binkies anymore.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
It's been awhile....and our own little miracle
Yes, I've been slacking on the posts. I've been busy the past month and just haven't taken the time to stop and post. Barry has finally listed the other house so hopefully we won't be now. At the beginning of October I started doing some work for Angela, too, and that has been fun - after you hit the learning curve. I think I'm still in it, though.
I also spent time getting together Box Tops for PTO and working on other fundraising projects for the boys' school. We've done great with the Box Tops since I started, though, so it is getting funner! I handed over some of the promotional material to the principal this week and they will be starting team/classroom competitions in the next week or two. For those of you interested in doing that with your school they are lots of fun. I have a Thanksgiving collection sheet for 10 Box Tops if you kids want one to turn into their school, too. There is a different holiday one for each month or one for just about every sport kids would participate in.
As for the kids, I've noticed they all seem to be growing like weeds the past month. I bought the boys news pants at the beginning of the school year and they are both already outgrowing them! I wasn't planning on that. Hopefully Tyler can transition into Braden's old ones even though they are two sizes bigger. Braden seems like he is going to catch up to me pretty quick. WAAHHHH!!! Sniff, sniff.
Kayli keeps learning new things each week. This week she has discovered toes. If I cover them up she gets this confused look on her face like, "hey, where did my toys go?". It really kind of funny.
Karina is getting quite a bit bigger, too. At present she is preparing for her role in the Nutcracker again this year. She's very excited about it and was showing me how I was practicing her dance wrong with her tonight. Hehe. So much for mom being a helper! We are going to videotape the teacher next week, though, and e-mail it to the moms that want it so they can make sure their girls properly learn it. That should help us some because I'm confused on some of the arm motions in various spots.
We also had our own little miracle today that revolves around ballet. Barry accidentally took my van keys to work today. He was supposed to bring them home before ballet so I could get Karina there. If she misses any of the practices in November they said the girls can't be in the production. Since we just bought a bunch of tickets I really didn't want her to miss it. Barry got stuck in meetings, I couldn't contact and obviously he didn't show up. I'd mentioned to Barry earlier that maybe we could take the truck and he said we couldn't as it doesn't run right now.
Well, Karina and I were desperate. I decided we would just try the truck anyway. We loaded up, said a heartfelt prayer to help the truck start so we could get her there and it worked. I dropped her off instead of taking her in as I didn't want to turn it off and get stranded. I even told her I might not be there to pick her up right away and why. (Her best friends mom is the teacher so I knew she'd be okay with being there a little longer.) I told Karina she had her own little miracle and that Heavenly Father had helped the truck to start so she could go.
Well, apparently I didn't realize it really was a big one! When I went to go get her I had no luck. (Apparently she has more faith then I do! Haha) The truck wouldn't start so I tried calling Barry again. When I told him what happened he was stunned that the truck had started. He kept saying, "No, I don't think you understand. There is really no way that truck should have started." He still had meetings and when he got her an hour later he was still amazed that the truck had started and said it really was a miracle as it definitely shouldn't have.
It's amazing to see how when we ask we can get blessed with even the littlest things we need. I'm glad Karina got a chance to see that Heavenly Father knows her needs and loves her.
I also spent time getting together Box Tops for PTO and working on other fundraising projects for the boys' school. We've done great with the Box Tops since I started, though, so it is getting funner! I handed over some of the promotional material to the principal this week and they will be starting team/classroom competitions in the next week or two. For those of you interested in doing that with your school they are lots of fun. I have a Thanksgiving collection sheet for 10 Box Tops if you kids want one to turn into their school, too. There is a different holiday one for each month or one for just about every sport kids would participate in.
As for the kids, I've noticed they all seem to be growing like weeds the past month. I bought the boys news pants at the beginning of the school year and they are both already outgrowing them! I wasn't planning on that. Hopefully Tyler can transition into Braden's old ones even though they are two sizes bigger. Braden seems like he is going to catch up to me pretty quick. WAAHHHH!!! Sniff, sniff.
Kayli keeps learning new things each week. This week she has discovered toes. If I cover them up she gets this confused look on her face like, "hey, where did my toys go?". It really kind of funny.
Karina is getting quite a bit bigger, too. At present she is preparing for her role in the Nutcracker again this year. She's very excited about it and was showing me how I was practicing her dance wrong with her tonight. Hehe. So much for mom being a helper! We are going to videotape the teacher next week, though, and e-mail it to the moms that want it so they can make sure their girls properly learn it. That should help us some because I'm confused on some of the arm motions in various spots.
We also had our own little miracle today that revolves around ballet. Barry accidentally took my van keys to work today. He was supposed to bring them home before ballet so I could get Karina there. If she misses any of the practices in November they said the girls can't be in the production. Since we just bought a bunch of tickets I really didn't want her to miss it. Barry got stuck in meetings, I couldn't contact and obviously he didn't show up. I'd mentioned to Barry earlier that maybe we could take the truck and he said we couldn't as it doesn't run right now.
Well, Karina and I were desperate. I decided we would just try the truck anyway. We loaded up, said a heartfelt prayer to help the truck start so we could get her there and it worked. I dropped her off instead of taking her in as I didn't want to turn it off and get stranded. I even told her I might not be there to pick her up right away and why. (Her best friends mom is the teacher so I knew she'd be okay with being there a little longer.) I told Karina she had her own little miracle and that Heavenly Father had helped the truck to start so she could go.
Well, apparently I didn't realize it really was a big one! When I went to go get her I had no luck. (Apparently she has more faith then I do! Haha) The truck wouldn't start so I tried calling Barry again. When I told him what happened he was stunned that the truck had started. He kept saying, "No, I don't think you understand. There is really no way that truck should have started." He still had meetings and when he got her an hour later he was still amazed that the truck had started and said it really was a miracle as it definitely shouldn't have.
It's amazing to see how when we ask we can get blessed with even the littlest things we need. I'm glad Karina got a chance to see that Heavenly Father knows her needs and loves her.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Welcome to Winter - yeck.
I'll start by saying it's late so I always ramble. However, now is a better time for me to do our update than later.
Life has been busy around here since I posted last Wednesday. Angela came to stay on Thursday and Friday while she attended a real estate broker training class. She had lots of fun laughing at us and telling me she feels like a squirrel when she comes to our house - aka always hoarding food while she is here. You should have seen her face when I told her I needed to pick all the corn and we walked out there. She got a look of disbelief and less than unenthusiastically said, "ALL of it?" She said later she was looking at the field thinking she was going to have to pick the field of dreams. In reality as you know it wasn't very much and we did end up having fun with it.
She did manage to time her visits for the last two weeks just right, though. Last week was potato gleaning and this week we had to get all the corn and onions in because it was supposed to freeze that night. Oh, and then there are the usual chicken duties and collecting the eggs. Unfortunately I didn't realize the corn would go bad within days and we've already had to throw some out. We will be doing what survives tomorrow night for family home evening. Who knew corn went bad within days of picking? It survives at the store just fine and we all know that stuff isn't fresh.
Saturday the kids and I went to Pocatello to help Barry on the house. I didn't get much done but Barry and I really enjoyed actually spending time together. Kayli was such a good girl, too, and just hung out for HOURS while we worked! It was quite unusual but very nice.
Later Saturday evening I went to drop off Tyler and Karina (Braden had stayed the night at A's) to Angela's while we worked. However, on the way I was turning from a stop sign and kept on going. I flipped around slid right toward a bunch of cars. I stopped in the middle of the road and missed hitting a lady and scraping down her side with my front by an inch. I actually ended up facing her driver's door. She was very nice about it. However, I was freaking out elected to go back to Agate and stay there since we were now facing that direction again anyway. That was horrible sliding toward her knowing I had no control and we were going to hit. It really was a miracle we didn't.
I called A and told her we weren't coming and Braden might have to stay longer as I wasn't going to drive and come and get him. Fortunately, Brent was there and drove the truck while Barry drove the van when we went home. I REALLY appreciated that as I was still really scared to drive. I did have to drive from Brent's and was white knuckled, again, the whole way. Geesh, I told Barry he needs to teach me how to drive on ice and snow better since obviously I am really crappy about it. I thought I was being careful, too.
Today we've had a nice relaxing day and just hung out. At church the library is still under construction so I was working out of boxes on the stage. The copier was at the other end of the church, too. It made for nice running around and a little chaos. Hopefully the remodel will actually get finished this week so we can get everything put back together by next week.
After church we came home and I got to take a four hour nap!!!! It was SO nice. I have been up very late every night this week either visiting with Angela, up with a baby or who knows what. I got 4 1/2 hours of sleep on Friday so I know it was needed.
Apparently the kids were out playing in the snow while I slept. Our front room is now lined around the fireplace with wet coats, etc. I'm glad to see all the kids are so excited for winter. As for me, after yesterday I'd like to just skip straight to spring, please.
Life has been busy around here since I posted last Wednesday. Angela came to stay on Thursday and Friday while she attended a real estate broker training class. She had lots of fun laughing at us and telling me she feels like a squirrel when she comes to our house - aka always hoarding food while she is here. You should have seen her face when I told her I needed to pick all the corn and we walked out there. She got a look of disbelief and less than unenthusiastically said, "ALL of it?" She said later she was looking at the field thinking she was going to have to pick the field of dreams. In reality as you know it wasn't very much and we did end up having fun with it.
She did manage to time her visits for the last two weeks just right, though. Last week was potato gleaning and this week we had to get all the corn and onions in because it was supposed to freeze that night. Oh, and then there are the usual chicken duties and collecting the eggs. Unfortunately I didn't realize the corn would go bad within days and we've already had to throw some out. We will be doing what survives tomorrow night for family home evening. Who knew corn went bad within days of picking? It survives at the store just fine and we all know that stuff isn't fresh.
Saturday the kids and I went to Pocatello to help Barry on the house. I didn't get much done but Barry and I really enjoyed actually spending time together. Kayli was such a good girl, too, and just hung out for HOURS while we worked! It was quite unusual but very nice.
Later Saturday evening I went to drop off Tyler and Karina (Braden had stayed the night at A's) to Angela's while we worked. However, on the way I was turning from a stop sign and kept on going. I flipped around slid right toward a bunch of cars. I stopped in the middle of the road and missed hitting a lady and scraping down her side with my front by an inch. I actually ended up facing her driver's door. She was very nice about it. However, I was freaking out elected to go back to Agate and stay there since we were now facing that direction again anyway. That was horrible sliding toward her knowing I had no control and we were going to hit. It really was a miracle we didn't.
I called A and told her we weren't coming and Braden might have to stay longer as I wasn't going to drive and come and get him. Fortunately, Brent was there and drove the truck while Barry drove the van when we went home. I REALLY appreciated that as I was still really scared to drive. I did have to drive from Brent's and was white knuckled, again, the whole way. Geesh, I told Barry he needs to teach me how to drive on ice and snow better since obviously I am really crappy about it. I thought I was being careful, too.
Today we've had a nice relaxing day and just hung out. At church the library is still under construction so I was working out of boxes on the stage. The copier was at the other end of the church, too. It made for nice running around and a little chaos. Hopefully the remodel will actually get finished this week so we can get everything put back together by next week.
After church we came home and I got to take a four hour nap!!!! It was SO nice. I have been up very late every night this week either visiting with Angela, up with a baby or who knows what. I got 4 1/2 hours of sleep on Friday so I know it was needed.
Apparently the kids were out playing in the snow while I slept. Our front room is now lined around the fireplace with wet coats, etc. I'm glad to see all the kids are so excited for winter. As for me, after yesterday I'd like to just skip straight to spring, please.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Woohoo! We have lights!
Woohoo!!! As some of you know, the boys' bedroom lightswitch is broken and has been for awhile. I finally decided Barry had enough other things to fix and I could do and fixed it all by myself!!!! Yippee! It's SO nice to have light in there again.
At one point in time I did call Dad to ask him a question about installing it. He sounded a little nervous and afraid when he found out what I was doing. Well, at one point in time I did seriously tell Braden that if he heard a "ZZZZZZZTTT" sound and a big thug to call 911 and told him exactly where the phone was. You know, you think most people who didn't know what they were doing would be wise enough to stop at that point.
However, I figued it out, survived and then felt so cool that I did it all by myself. Yeah, all you men can laugh at me and all the women can rejoice in the fact that we can fix things when we need, too, and have great fun doing it.
At one point in time I did call Dad to ask him a question about installing it. He sounded a little nervous and afraid when he found out what I was doing. Well, at one point in time I did seriously tell Braden that if he heard a "ZZZZZZZTTT" sound and a big thug to call 911 and told him exactly where the phone was. You know, you think most people who didn't know what they were doing would be wise enough to stop at that point.
However, I figued it out, survived and then felt so cool that I did it all by myself. Yeah, all you men can laugh at me and all the women can rejoice in the fact that we can fix things when we need, too, and have great fun doing it.
Monday, October 6, 2008
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