6:50 am text from jessica that shes ready to walk
7:10 wake the kids
7:20 jessica arrives
out to walk/run with my "ghetto" stroller with no front wheel
run into justin and natalie
tyler hurt his leg, so was lagging behind
8:15 back home
jess home
kids watch PBS cartoons: clifford, dragon tales, word world
me where?? computer:)
jobs around the house....
11:30 lunch
12 to HEB for supplies
1 home
package from linda and alyssa's new bracelet
countdown 30 days to my birthday with presents...which means she isn't coming:(
i am SO excited about the presents! I start on Saturday
call her...it was fun
2 shower and get ready
2:30 drop matthew and alyssa off at stacy's
tyler and i have an outing
2:40 dr. fitzpatricks office for my "annual" while Tyler reads his chapter book in the lobby. Stress about insurance, almost have to pay out of pocket, but ok
3:45 race to tylers dr. appt. get there late
wait an hour...teach him to do Sudoku in the lobby
4:45 get in the office with dermatologist..numbing and taking off more of his bumpy legion/mole
Tyler was sooo brave! I sang "i am a child of god" in his ear as he whispered "ow, ow, ow" but was soo tough. The doctor said he was tougher than most adults and ALL children. They cut out a perfect circle to get all the extra tissue out and then stiched it up with 3 stiches. He did awesome!
All the nurses and doctors said so:)
5:25 we leave...stop at wendy's for a frostie and hamburger
matthew was sad when we got home, tyler shared:)
Tyler was so excited to tell michael about how the doctor said he was so brave
dinner with fam
6:30 michael helped me shred chicken...teaching enrichment on mexican tacos
6:45 to class...10 people to eat tacos also taught with Adriana Vargas
8 chat with natale clayton and others
9 home
check computer, write this...to bed at 10
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
7:30 meet Jessica at her house to walk...no jog stroller for me b/c missing screw, borrow her regular stroller...run into Cerie and sharon on the trail
8:30 she heads back home, I stay with kids at the park and walk to her house up that steep hill with my kids running ahead of me
9 arrive at our car, give her her stroller
home...shower...quick computer burn disc for michele
10:15 drop off disc of baby Sophie blessing to Michele
early to gym, take kids to park down the road...talk to Jen in DC about their new home
11 enroll all 3 kids in summer gymnastics, fun hour of tumbling, talk to Karen, Emily, Becca on the side, talk to car dealership as they tell me how much $$$ our car will be to fix (1K)
12:15 leave gym, drive up to dealership to look for my wallet in our van (karen spotted me $20 just in case)
12:30 yay, our prayers are answered..found my wallet!
Happy Meal for kids at McD's while I get chipotle burrito...play at the geargetown wood park and have our picnic (summer fun jar activity)
1:30 leave the park and head to Target
find a few dresses for myself and bday present for tylers friend
2:30 call from michael while he tries to work out our car details
3 take kids to snow cones (as promised from day before--they were so good with all the van changing and running to dealership)
3:30 home to rest and relax....
kids watch Diego
I burn disc for Karen and vegge a bit
4:30 stacy comes buy to get cookies to take to st. clair's for dinner
phone rings off the hook (so unusual)
5:30 michael home...eat leftovers
6 leave to go to tylers first baseball practice
7 take michael to church meeting
7:30 alyssa fell asleep in car (yay) stop by to give karen her $20 and picture disc
7:45 stop by sonya's to say goodbye (she is moving) and see her fruit trees in her yard
8 home, alyssa to bed, boys get ready
scripture, to bed
9 computer for a bit
9:30 michael home from meeting, run to walgreens looking for glycerin...not there! I need a small bag of chips---sour cream and onion lays
10 headache again:( tylenol and to bed
8:30 she heads back home, I stay with kids at the park and walk to her house up that steep hill with my kids running ahead of me
9 arrive at our car, give her her stroller
home...shower...quick computer burn disc for michele
10:15 drop off disc of baby Sophie blessing to Michele
early to gym, take kids to park down the road...talk to Jen in DC about their new home
11 enroll all 3 kids in summer gymnastics, fun hour of tumbling, talk to Karen, Emily, Becca on the side, talk to car dealership as they tell me how much $$$ our car will be to fix (1K)
12:15 leave gym, drive up to dealership to look for my wallet in our van (karen spotted me $20 just in case)
12:30 yay, our prayers are answered..found my wallet!
Happy Meal for kids at McD's while I get chipotle burrito...play at the geargetown wood park and have our picnic (summer fun jar activity)
1:30 leave the park and head to Target
find a few dresses for myself and bday present for tylers friend
2:30 call from michael while he tries to work out our car details
3 take kids to snow cones (as promised from day before--they were so good with all the van changing and running to dealership)
3:30 home to rest and relax....
kids watch Diego
I burn disc for Karen and vegge a bit
4:30 stacy comes buy to get cookies to take to st. clair's for dinner
phone rings off the hook (so unusual)
5:30 michael home...eat leftovers
6 leave to go to tylers first baseball practice
7 take michael to church meeting
7:30 alyssa fell asleep in car (yay) stop by to give karen her $20 and picture disc
7:45 stop by sonya's to say goodbye (she is moving) and see her fruit trees in her yard
8 home, alyssa to bed, boys get ready
scripture, to bed
9 computer for a bit
9:30 michael home from meeting, run to walgreens looking for glycerin...not there! I need a small bag of chips---sour cream and onion lays
10 headache again:( tylenol and to bed
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
June 3rd 2008
Wow, what a day!
7:30am call the Mazda dealership about fixing our car (can't go on the planned morning walk with Jessica)
8:30 try to start the car (the key wouldn't come out of the ignition last night) and it was dead--then the key came out.
Called Jackie and Heidi to see if they could pick us up and take us to party (we can't all fit in any one persons car with their kids)
8:45am Whoops, alyssa tries to reach a bag of pretzels on the counter and down comes last nights dirty dinner casserole dish to the ground....crashing shards of glass everywhere
I sternly tell her to get out of the kitchen (so she won't step in glass) and she gets her feelings hurt and starts to cry and walk away...oh well...I'll talk to her in a minute
clean up the wet, nasty glass: sweep, mop, vacuum
Talk to Aj and explain why I had to quickly tell her to get out...so she won't get hurt
9:15 am kids play, i work a bit on computer
get us dressed
find alyssa in my bathroom putting on my make up (isn't she too young for this?)
9:45 heidi comes, and tyler sits in between her boys in her car
9:50 jackie comes and matthew jumps in the back with her boys while alyssa sits by "baby brooky"
10:10 we all arrive at the mall for Xander's birthday party...a jumpy place
kids jump, I run out to a few stores
chat with friends
11 upstairs to eat cake and ice cream, i run to a few more stores
12 wind down, head to cars
12:30 home, heidi trys to help me jump my car, but I can't get it out of the garage, won't go into neutral...run to clairs to look for longer jumper cables, call russ for help, etc. no dice
send her home
12:30 listen to voice mail that I signed up to feed the Sister Missionaries tonight
12:45 tyler has his first piano lesson in 45 min. try to call 5 or 6 people for rides and only one person was home...she had extras at her house and it wouldn't work
1:25 call piano teacher and leave message about our dead car
1:30 put on Madagascar for the kids while I try to unwind on the computer IM with michael about the situation.
1:35 call AAA to come jump start my car
1:45 piano teacher calls to see if we remember the lesson and I tell her about the message I left that she didn't hear. I feel bad, but she is really understanding and offers a 3:30 slot if we can get the car fixed
2:05 AAA is fast and starts the jump and diagnosis (while I chat online with michael)
the car starts, but the key won't come out again, AAA guy says I need to take it in somewhere and get a new ignition
2:20 I let the car sit idle in our driveway...Michael would flip, but oh well.
3:10 car still idle, kids movie is over, I tell 'em to get shoes on and get in the car
3:30 drop tyler off at piano...drive around with matthew and alyssa and stop by candida's house
tell her my scenario and that I'm gonna take it to the dealership and just rent a car...she offers her white mini van (she just got a new van and they haven't sold the old one yet).
wow...how nice...I take her up on it
4 go get tyler from his first lesson (he was all smiles)
4:10 back to candida's, she sends 3 of her kids to a neighbors and follows me to the dealership up a few miles north on the interstate
4:30 drop off the car, unload my kids, load them into her new van
BREATHE
4:45 back to her house, get her white van, load my kids into THAT one
hurry home b/c Sister missionaries come to dinner at 6
5 my neighbor Clair offers to pick up anything at the store for me and I tell her french bread and 2 frozen apple juices
5:15 make spaghetti casserole and mini choco cookies
bread and juice delivered by clair's husband, Brad
Michael home
Quick clean of the house
5:50 Sisters come just a bit early
we finish cleaning the kitchen
6 sit down to dinner
nice chat, but I have a headache
6:30 they shared a message about Abinidi and ask the kids if they know who he is, Matthew says, "He was killed by the bad King Noah" and Tyler says "by fire" and the Sister says, "but his message was heard by a good Priest of Noah" and Tyler says, "Alma" to which they amazingly said, "yes, wow you really know this one" to which I just sat and smiled:)
7 they left...time to do our "fun jar" activity that never got done b/c of all the chaos: blindfold taste testing...it was a lot of fun, thinking of different things to put into each others mouths...a test of trust, too. Tyler and Matthew really got into to:)
7:25 Michael got the kids ready for bed, I took Tylenol, laid on the couch for a minute
we read scriptures, prayed, and sent the kids to bed
7:30 Alyssa and I watched a few minutes of "mommy's show" and then I walked her and Strawberry back to bed singing "popcorn popping" all the way back. As I said goodbye, she reminded me as she does every single night (doy=door) "Leave my doy open, leave the brothers doy open, leave your doy open, leave everyones doy open." It makes me smile coming from her cute 2 year old voice.
7:45 I get on the computer, my mind numbing activity...and eat a few cookies.
8 send emails to a bunch of photography forum peeps reminding them to submit recipes to our Photographers cookbook
8:30 edit picts of michele's baby sophie blessing day
9blog a bit
10 pray with michael and send him to bed
10:30 write this little ditty
7:30am call the Mazda dealership about fixing our car (can't go on the planned morning walk with Jessica)
8:30 try to start the car (the key wouldn't come out of the ignition last night) and it was dead--then the key came out.
Called Jackie and Heidi to see if they could pick us up and take us to party (we can't all fit in any one persons car with their kids)
8:45am Whoops, alyssa tries to reach a bag of pretzels on the counter and down comes last nights dirty dinner casserole dish to the ground....crashing shards of glass everywhere
I sternly tell her to get out of the kitchen (so she won't step in glass) and she gets her feelings hurt and starts to cry and walk away...oh well...I'll talk to her in a minute
clean up the wet, nasty glass: sweep, mop, vacuum
Talk to Aj and explain why I had to quickly tell her to get out...so she won't get hurt
9:15 am kids play, i work a bit on computer
get us dressed
find alyssa in my bathroom putting on my make up (isn't she too young for this?)
9:45 heidi comes, and tyler sits in between her boys in her car
9:50 jackie comes and matthew jumps in the back with her boys while alyssa sits by "baby brooky"
10:10 we all arrive at the mall for Xander's birthday party...a jumpy place
kids jump, I run out to a few stores
chat with friends
11 upstairs to eat cake and ice cream, i run to a few more stores
12 wind down, head to cars
12:30 home, heidi trys to help me jump my car, but I can't get it out of the garage, won't go into neutral...run to clairs to look for longer jumper cables, call russ for help, etc. no dice
send her home
12:30 listen to voice mail that I signed up to feed the Sister Missionaries tonight
12:45 tyler has his first piano lesson in 45 min. try to call 5 or 6 people for rides and only one person was home...she had extras at her house and it wouldn't work
1:25 call piano teacher and leave message about our dead car
1:30 put on Madagascar for the kids while I try to unwind on the computer IM with michael about the situation.
1:35 call AAA to come jump start my car
1:45 piano teacher calls to see if we remember the lesson and I tell her about the message I left that she didn't hear. I feel bad, but she is really understanding and offers a 3:30 slot if we can get the car fixed
2:05 AAA is fast and starts the jump and diagnosis (while I chat online with michael)
the car starts, but the key won't come out again, AAA guy says I need to take it in somewhere and get a new ignition
2:20 I let the car sit idle in our driveway...Michael would flip, but oh well.
3:10 car still idle, kids movie is over, I tell 'em to get shoes on and get in the car
3:30 drop tyler off at piano...drive around with matthew and alyssa and stop by candida's house
tell her my scenario and that I'm gonna take it to the dealership and just rent a car...she offers her white mini van (she just got a new van and they haven't sold the old one yet).
wow...how nice...I take her up on it
4 go get tyler from his first lesson (he was all smiles)
4:10 back to candida's, she sends 3 of her kids to a neighbors and follows me to the dealership up a few miles north on the interstate
4:30 drop off the car, unload my kids, load them into her new van
BREATHE
4:45 back to her house, get her white van, load my kids into THAT one
hurry home b/c Sister missionaries come to dinner at 6
5 my neighbor Clair offers to pick up anything at the store for me and I tell her french bread and 2 frozen apple juices
5:15 make spaghetti casserole and mini choco cookies
bread and juice delivered by clair's husband, Brad
Michael home
Quick clean of the house
5:50 Sisters come just a bit early
we finish cleaning the kitchen
6 sit down to dinner
nice chat, but I have a headache
6:30 they shared a message about Abinidi and ask the kids if they know who he is, Matthew says, "He was killed by the bad King Noah" and Tyler says "by fire" and the Sister says, "but his message was heard by a good Priest of Noah" and Tyler says, "Alma" to which they amazingly said, "yes, wow you really know this one" to which I just sat and smiled:)
7 they left...time to do our "fun jar" activity that never got done b/c of all the chaos: blindfold taste testing...it was a lot of fun, thinking of different things to put into each others mouths...a test of trust, too. Tyler and Matthew really got into to:)
7:25 Michael got the kids ready for bed, I took Tylenol, laid on the couch for a minute
we read scriptures, prayed, and sent the kids to bed
7:30 Alyssa and I watched a few minutes of "mommy's show" and then I walked her and Strawberry back to bed singing "popcorn popping" all the way back. As I said goodbye, she reminded me as she does every single night (doy=door) "Leave my doy open, leave the brothers doy open, leave your doy open, leave everyones doy open." It makes me smile coming from her cute 2 year old voice.
7:45 I get on the computer, my mind numbing activity...and eat a few cookies.
8 send emails to a bunch of photography forum peeps reminding them to submit recipes to our Photographers cookbook
8:30 edit picts of michele's baby sophie blessing day
9blog a bit
10 pray with michael and send him to bed
10:30 write this little ditty
Monday, June 2, 2008
The first official Day of Summer!
Monday, June 2nd 2008
7:45 am tyler comes into my room with his fake $5 to wake me up saying he's ready for a snack. When I question whether or not he just had breakfast and find that he did, I suggest he wait on the snack.
8am Curios George and Clifford on PBD
9 tv off, Nathan L. over to watch while mom and sister go to the doctor
I work on sophie blessing picts on the computer
10 computer off...play "house" in alyssa's room, and she likes me to chase her with the shopping cart and pretend we are sleeping
10:30 have a talk with the boys about being kind to each other
11 stacy and julia come back...chat for a bit
11:30 lunch with kids
12 head out to a play group with the baird children (they have boy boy girl the same age as ours, plus a baby)
hang at their house
12:30 to the stone canyone pool (realize we hadn't been there since going with marianne and linda 3 years ago)
hang at the pool, kids having fun, chat with Jennifer, Cerie comes and chats, too
2:50 leave
(key was stuck in the van, covered it with a shirt and locked with my spare)
to HEB to get just a few things
run into Grace from Tyler's 1st grade class and her mom
run into other school moms
at checkout, the man behind me commented on how "she needs a nap" and I notice Alyssa nodding off while sitting in the grocery cart...I pull her to my shoulder to briefly rest
3:33 pm we get in the car to go home, alyssa was asleep by the time we left the parking lot
Once at home, change, shower, sit on couch
time for our fun jar activity: watch old home movies of tyler and matthew as a baby...it was so fun, laughs and giggles. Matthew said, "I want to hold baby Matthew." Hmmmm, how will that happen?
5pm make Lemon Chicken for dinner with rice
5:30 Michael home...tell him about our fun day
6 family home evening: "It's nice to be important, but its more important to be nice."
More home movies and snickerdoodles
7 scriptures, prayer, and kids to bed
7:45 am tyler comes into my room with his fake $5 to wake me up saying he's ready for a snack. When I question whether or not he just had breakfast and find that he did, I suggest he wait on the snack.
8am Curios George and Clifford on PBD
9 tv off, Nathan L. over to watch while mom and sister go to the doctor
I work on sophie blessing picts on the computer
10 computer off...play "house" in alyssa's room, and she likes me to chase her with the shopping cart and pretend we are sleeping
10:30 have a talk with the boys about being kind to each other
11 stacy and julia come back...chat for a bit
11:30 lunch with kids
12 head out to a play group with the baird children (they have boy boy girl the same age as ours, plus a baby)
hang at their house
12:30 to the stone canyone pool (realize we hadn't been there since going with marianne and linda 3 years ago)
hang at the pool, kids having fun, chat with Jennifer, Cerie comes and chats, too
2:50 leave
(key was stuck in the van, covered it with a shirt and locked with my spare)
to HEB to get just a few things
run into Grace from Tyler's 1st grade class and her mom
run into other school moms
at checkout, the man behind me commented on how "she needs a nap" and I notice Alyssa nodding off while sitting in the grocery cart...I pull her to my shoulder to briefly rest
3:33 pm we get in the car to go home, alyssa was asleep by the time we left the parking lot
Once at home, change, shower, sit on couch
time for our fun jar activity: watch old home movies of tyler and matthew as a baby...it was so fun, laughs and giggles. Matthew said, "I want to hold baby Matthew." Hmmmm, how will that happen?
5pm make Lemon Chicken for dinner with rice
5:30 Michael home...tell him about our fun day
6 family home evening: "It's nice to be important, but its more important to be nice."
More home movies and snickerdoodles
7 scriptures, prayer, and kids to bed
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Sunday, June 1st 2008
Relased from my calling as a Primary counselor after 23 months
baby Sophie blessed, Michael joined
finish up in Primary...say goodbye, share testimony, sit by my boys
home, relax
1:30 to steeds for "after baby blessing" lunch (Monica salad and I made my potato salad)
chat with people, eat, take picts of baby
4 leave..quick home
4:30 Broughs had us over for dinner (rare double booking)
eat yummy ham and potatoes and peach cobbler
kids loved the alligator and other "stuffed" animals
they played with baby ezra
play cards with tyler and chat
matthew and alyssa played "mommy and daddy" alyssa would say "i'm the mom"
8 home, kids to bed
relax...fun day with friends
baby Sophie blessed, Michael joined
finish up in Primary...say goodbye, share testimony, sit by my boys
home, relax
1:30 to steeds for "after baby blessing" lunch (Monica salad and I made my potato salad)
chat with people, eat, take picts of baby
4 leave..quick home
4:30 Broughs had us over for dinner (rare double booking)
eat yummy ham and potatoes and peach cobbler
kids loved the alligator and other "stuffed" animals
they played with baby ezra
play cards with tyler and chat
matthew and alyssa played "mommy and daddy" alyssa would say "i'm the mom"
8 home, kids to bed
relax...fun day with friends
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