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