Post it Notes

Sleep?!

I just took a nap. Why you ask? This weekend was youth conference weekend at church. What does that mean? Let me share with you.

First off we were tricked into being youth conference parents; they asked us if we would have girls come spend the night. Sure how hard would that be? We later found out being the conference parents meant you need to be at all the activities with the kids. After MUCH grumbling on my part (and boy did I grumble) we got all ready. Well as ready as we could be. We were given 8 girls. Yep eight. I got as many air mattress as I could and as many munchies as I could.

DH spent the day at the beach with them on Thursday. Then it was off for swimming. Got settled for the night. Well that was after a 1:00 am food run. Friday I spent the day with them, speakers lunch and service project. It was major fun. We were suppose to go to dinner at the church, but I quickly got sucked into can we please order pizza? Can we take extra time to get ready for the dance? Ok at this point write sucker on my face, I caved. Pizza dinner, I was smart and I ordered extra for the late night snack. Off to the dance. Those kids are so funny, Dh and I laughed so hard. Just the funny thing and goofy dancing that they do. The boys all made sure the girls were dancing. I think what was even more impressive is that all and I mean all, the girls were dressed modestly. I love to see the youth having fun and being righteous in their decisions.

After the dance we had plans. We knew that we needed to have plans to keep them busy. We had some spiritual thoughts and small lesson and gave them all a little keepsake to take with them. It is always a joy to see the kids express their joy of knowing that Jesus Christ knows and loves them. They stand for truth and righteousness. They stand apart from other youth of today because of different choices that they make. It makes me so happy to see them.

Ok so onto what we were off to do. We had in the "rule" book, no TPing. Lights off at midnight. We can say the lights were off (in the garage) and we did not T.P. Nope we broke out the post it notes. Did you know that 48 post it note pads can completely cover a car? Yep completely. Did you know that 8 girls can very quietly peel them off and stick them in neat little rows all over the car? Did you know that a red car can turn into a yellow car in about 30 minutes?The even better part was that they were excited that their leaders would take them to do it. We figured it was safer to pile them in the car together and take them off to their harmless fun and be with them to make sure that all was well. In this process we got dubbed as cool fun parents. They would consult us about different questions and ask if they could do things. There is one thing I made them promise for all the fun, that no matter what time we went to bed we would be there at 8 am the next day when it all started. We got there a 8:12 and WERE THE FIRST ONES THERE! That was a pretty awful trick. LOL.

We had a ball. Really we did. After all the not wanting to do it, I sure hope they ask us again next year. I am not so sure that will happen, we were crazy. But hey, I did learn how to post it note a car!!!!

Fun Fun Fun

So today was just a fun day. So wait back up, it did not start that way. I woke up to find out Dh had not really slept, sorry Dh, I was sleeping and not aware that you had a bad night. I did feel bad about that. So then we were off to the movies. I was so excited because it was suppose to be one of my favorite movies. Spirit. I love that dang cartoon, horse movie. We got there and I think I was MORE excited then the kids. THE DANG MOVIE BROKE. So we had to watch Muppets from Space. That is one of the worse movies.

So from there we went to grab some lunch, came home and had some time with the tired DH. Princess Girly Girl decided that she wanted to stay home with Dh, so he would not be alone. Princess Seriously and went off on an adventure. First we stopped at the ROXY outlet. It is school shopping time. Got some cute stuff. Then is was off to Costco to get a Heidi Swapp package they had there.

The next stop was a fun one. We went to see Aleksei and his mom. We were going to finish the paper bag books that we started. They are so cute! I love spending time with them. Her sister is in and we were giggling the afternoon away. Aleksei is HUGE. I love his little fat rolls on his legs.

So on the way home, PS and I stopped at Starbucks and chatted the whole way home. Well we sang too, but we chatted also.

I love days like this :)

5 ways to torture Princess Seriously

#1 Tell her that you will take her in at 9 am to get her stitches removed.
#2 Wake up late
#3 Ask the doctor if they can swim later today
#4 Listen to the answer that she still can not swim for THREE more days.
#5 Watch her sit in the pool with her foot sticking up for another 3 days and tell her that we are not going to be home that day for her to swim and then discover the first time she will be able to get in the pool is NEXT Saturday because then she will be out of town.

*insert evil cackle* BWAHAWHHAHWHAHHAW

Energy discussion turned to Childhood memories

So sitting around the dinner table (my favorite place to have a discussion) we were talking about what can we do as a family to cut the energy bill. Princess Seriously brought up laundry. That turned quickly to a childhood memory.

When I was growing up, we used to go to Arizona during the summer. Everyone knows it is DANG hot in the summer there. I remembered that Grandma and I would get up early and do the wash. Now doing the wash was hard work. Why do you ask? Because we did it by hand. Yep hand washing. Well there was the old tub with the wash board and the wringer. Then we would rinse and then hang dry the clothes. By the time we would get to the end the clothesline the clothes that were first hung were completely dry. Then we would take them down shake them out and start again. Now I would always ask why did we not use the washer and dryer in the bathroom? Because those were for winter use and only then.

So guess what the girls want to do, they want to see if we hang clothes out to dry, just how long will it take? I suppose you will see a post about that later this week. LOL

This also led to a discussion about handwashing the dishes. Yep that is what we did after dinner. That had me thinking about all the things we take for granted now. So are you looking for ways to save energy? Well, while that is a great thing, think of things that you can do to spend more time with you kids and talk about the old world you lived in when you were growing up.

Remind me of that later this week when I am ready to string the girls up by there toes.

602

Anyone want to guess that THAT number means? Really, toss it around for a minute. 602. What could that be? Lets make a list. Could it be:

• The number of minutes Princess Seriously used on her cell phone?
• The number of laps I have done in the swimming pool?
• The number of people that have looked at my blog in the last 2 days?
• The number that I have blogged about the house?
• The number of times whatever.

You could guess until the cows come home but the answer would still be NO. Take a deep breathe, make sure that you ARE NOT drinking. anything, using you cell phone (cause I dropped mine when I heard), that you do NOT have to use the rest room.

It was the electric bill for the month. $602.

As you process this little thought, let me tell you about the month. It was humid, it was HOT. We are in a house with a 20 year old A/C. I really don't like the rental house now. I have to give it to DH, he survived the shock. He said that it is ok (well as it can be), what is happening is that it is eating into the extra house money that we have. Ok I can deal with that, but dang it. The next thought that ran through my head, it is bad. "Dang, that is less money for scrapbooking this month!"

I know, bad!!!! So if you thought your bill was bad, come here and rethink that. We can trade bills with you.

More blogs to check out.

Hey my blogging community is getting bigger :)

Check out Gawfer. I have met him in person! He is a friend of Elizabeth's. He is a really nice guy and has an adorable family. It is soooo nice to meet other bloggers in person.

Also, I don't know if I have ever mentioned Joe's Blog. He is a WONDERFUL person. His entire family is amazing. Why, because he has a special needs son, a cute daughter, wonderful strong wife and they have all been through sooo much.

There are so many more I could mention, but tonight that is it, you go scoot, and keep busy, reading away.

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Interesting CNN article

So, my home page is CNN. Ok I am addicted to it. I am addicted to any news. I think that comes from working 9 years on a newspaper.

This caught my eye. So of course, I went looking for her blog. Can you imagine being fired for what you wrote? I mean I am sure that my kids will need intense therapy, but I hope they will not fire me. Well I mean they might, but then I would have more to write about on my blog.

But on a serious note, this is the internet. If you search hard enough you can find anything. One can never be too careful about what you say.

Something to think about.

Piano Teacher Part Two

Well Princess Girly Girl and the piano teacher did not hit it off. She was not excited at all about doing piano and wanted to know why her sister could not be the one teaching her. I was not about to spend $100 just to pull teeth to get her to practice.

Another mom told me, "he must have not been the right piano teacher for her, keep looking." I am going to keep looking. Cause I kinda like spending money on something that is going to be good for the kid and mom. Not another torture device.

So stay tuned, The great search for a piano teacher continues.

Piano

I am about to go meet the new piano teacher. I think I am INSANE. I already don't particularly enjoy when they pound on the piano now. What is it going to be like when I have to make them play the piano. Now please don't email me to tell me I will love it. I know there will be a point where we all gather around the piano and sing Christmas carol's. That part I like. I can dream of it. It is the part inbetween now and then.

Do you think if I got a good set of ear plugs, I would survive? Ohhhhhhhhh wait, I know, Dh's Bose headset! Yeah, books on tape and I mght just survive.

Can you see the smirk now?

The Summer Schedule

So you know when summer comes around that bedtime is dramatically changed. I guess I did not realize this until Princess Girly Girl is asked the question and I was there to hear the answer. It went something like this.

Friend: So PGG what time do you go to bed?
PGG: Never, it is summer.
Friend: You stay up all night?
PGG: No just until I get tired or Mommy gets tired of me. (She looks at me while saying this)
Friend: Mommy gets tired or you?
PGG: Yeah it is summer, so she does not get a break. But August 16th she is free.

At this point I think, if they know that date and that I am free, I think I have said it too much LOL.

However, what she is saying is true. There is no bed time in the summer. They have to be up for swim lessons. Well PGG does. Princess Seriously already knows how to swim and I spend a small fortune on her to be on swim team. But she likes to go and watch because PGG's instructor is on her swim team. Stephen. PGG drools over him. Ok I think he is cute, she did good in picking. After the foot incident she still hobbled over there. When he was doing something, I asked, PS how is your foot. The answer was foot, what foot? For that one hour. I does not hurt.

Ok back to the schedule. There really is none. We eat when hungry. We swim. I love the summer schedule.

But I can not wait until August 16th...

Yesterday was one of those days.

We were floating in the pool waiting for the Fed Ex guy and for some friends to come over and you know how you just think wow everything is so fun right now. Well, it went from perfect to pretty awful in the matter of hours. When we got home from the pool Princess Seriously was clearing stuff out of the car. In one of the bags was a peanut jar. You know one of the glass jars. Somehow the bar ripped or something and the next thing I hear is a shattering of glass and a blood curdling scream. I think I threw the laptop across the room. (It is still working btw) and ran out to the garage.

Blood was everywhere. PS is not sure what happened, but the side of her foot (well side kinda top too). Princess Girly Girl was quickly sent out of the garage. I grabbed a towel and sat her down to figure out just how bad it was. It was bad. Call the DH "Come home RIGHT NOW" then poor guys proceeds to ask lots of questions and I once again tell him, " I can not talk to you right now" I then hang up on him. Poor guy, that is becoming pretty regular. He got the same phone call when the house was on fire. Anyway. I get PS to the car and get PGG in the car. I am driving to urgent care and I call a friend that has a Doctor for a DH. He is in surgery and while he says we can wait for him, I am not to keen on having my daughter sit there with blood gushing out of her foot. Of course once I actually get into to urgent care she calls back and says he is on the way home. Grrrrr right after I have done all the paper work. But he is the one that is going to take care of the rest of it. On the way there I drop PGG at a friends. Well she was on the way. Poor friend got the type of phone call. What are you doing are you home? Can you open your door, I am sending PGG up. PS cut her foot open. Thank goodness that she is one of those friends that you can do that too. I did not want PGG there while PS was crying. Plus I was not sure I was going to make it through.

At urgent care they took us right away. I was actually surprised. PS was freaking out by that time. They said stitches and she lost it. Then it was time to clean it out. YUCK. She was screaming. Little kids were looking out of there rooms to see who was hollering. I got her calmed down and had her breathing. Breathing you say? Well that was the only thing I could think of. They gave her the numbing shots and she once again panicked. More breathing. I thought we were in the clear after that but it did not numb all the way. The doctor did not believe her and wanted to keep going. I told him numb her more or you will see Mama Bear come out and that is NOT FUN. He rolled his eyes, I was ready to strangle him and then numbed her more. After that she hung in there. It took FIVE stitches. Augh.

Now I am not the blood parent. As in I will do anything else but handle the blood stuff. Vomit any other bodily fluid BUT not blood. All ths time I am trying to to lose my lunch. I was doing well until the nurse comes to wrap it and then starts talking about oozing and other things. Cleaning it. I told her put it all on the paper. Dh will be handling all to this. The nurse tells me I am turning white and am I feeling well? PS starts laughing and I looking for the nearest trash can. I survived without the trash can but augh. DH arrives and puts her in the truck and off they went home while I went to get PGG.

By the time I got home, the garage was clean. PS was on the couch and all was right with the world again.

PS is off swimming for at least 12 days and out of the next swim meet. She was NOT happy about that. But when she woke up today it was hurting she was not concerned with that anymore.

I did find out one other thing. There becomes a point when no matter hard you try, you can not pick up your 5'4" 120 pound daughter. There is a point when they are too grown up and then 20 minutes later they are once again your 20 pound baby that needs all the love in the world that you have to give.

The Pool

Saturday we went to the house to do some yard work, ok DH went to the house while I took a nap. I woke up load the kids and the dogs in the car and went over. When I got there he was all excited! The gas was on!!!! WOOHOO!

Now, the water was cold before that. Well to me anything under 85 is cold. Around here it is not common to heat the pool. WHAT?! Please people, that water is dang cold. I like to spend hours in the pool, I like to not be shivering and have to move around. I like to float. I like to lounge.

Now yesterday we spent the day at the pool. It was so nice. I almost makes me imagine that we are back home. Not yet but the time is coming. We can not wait :)

So if you can not find me, it is because we are floating in the pool.

The important of a journal

Today Relief Society lesson was about the importance of journals. I love to write. I love to record. Am I not very good about doing it consistently. But today's lesson touched me so much. It is so important to be the family historian, which is a lot of what I do with my children's scrapbooks. Lots of journaling. But it is so important for the girls to know me. To know who I am and where I have come from. That is the part that I need to work on. They need to know the good, the bad and the ugly.

I know that Princess Seriously, thinks that I have been a mom my whole life. She just does not get when I tell her I was once her age. Well I was. I remember so much of it so well. That is the stuff that I need to put down on paper. So once I get all my scrapbook swaps done this week, that is another project that I need to add to my list.

One of my friends has a DH. His mom passed away when he was 14. She left 4 boys for the father raise and one of them was very young. She has tons of journals. One of the daughter in laws, took those journal and typed them all up and gave them all copies for Christmas, a few years ago. Those boys, especially the youngest, laughed, cried and remember the wonderful times they had spent with their mother. They have those very specials entries that are about each of them. They have the words written that tell them just how much there mother loved them. How much she loved their Dad. What a wonderful present to leave your family.

I do think that I will also be posting some of these things here on my blog. I encourage all of you to write about you. Tell YOUR story. Leave your history.

Wheat Thins

Ok there is a whole long story to this but I am going to try and give you the short version. Ok maybe the medium version.

On Thursday night I went to a baby shower. Ok, lovely a baby shower. But the highlight, well for me anyway, was the dip. See I am a dip person. Crackers and dip, chips and dip. Yum dip. So the new thing there for me was the cream cheese and the salsa over it. Why I never tried it before I have no clue. I know I have seen it before. But the even better thing is that they served it with Wheat Thins. Yum. I could have stayed right there and ate the whole thing. Ok so I didn't. When I got home the DH said, I am snacky tonight. Well that was all it took.

Off to the store I went. I got cream cheese and other spread stuff. Then I went to look for the Wheat Thins. SCORE! Three boxes on sale and with a coupon! I thought we were set for at least the next 3 weeks. Boy was I WRONG.

The Dh ate half a box that night. DD's (yep both of them) ate a second box for lunch the next day. Two boxes down in two days. The comments that I got when asked about them.

• We never have Wheat Thins
• I like these better then chips
• I love Wheat Thins
• What are these? They are so yummy (Princess Girly Girl)
• I want more of those crackers
• Do you have more coupons?

They have no idea I hid a box. I think I will ration them out. My poor deprived children.

Hoilday weekend stuff

Oh crap, I had a nice little entry about the camera and the computer but you know what, I already told you. LOL I think I need that Brain Age Game. Ok lets start again.

So off we went to a friends house for the big 4th of July BBQ. They have a pool and it was nice and warm. The girls has a ball. I loved being in the pool. At one point the kids were out and it was just Sharon and I. Nice! Love it.

They also had fireworks on the street. That is not something that we can do here where we live. So the girls had a ball. The funny thing is there were so many boys and they were all excited to be lighting the fireworks.

Today we went to a park that has those cool water fountains. We spent two hours there. The Princess Seriously had to go to swimming. Do you want to know what time the girls went to bed? EARLY. LOL I love wearing them out.

Whirlwind

That is what it has been since the girls finished school. Last week was spend running from place to place. The contractors, the kitchen place, the dealership to get things repaired on the car. Princess Girly Girl and I did manage to have some fun. We went off to the local theater for the summer free movies. She loves that. This year I am excited because they will be showing MY favorite movie, Spirit. I am very excited.

This week is going to be spent doing as little a possible. I have my daily projects. You know the goofy things like clean out the frig. But they are getting done. The one thing that I am not looking forward to is packing up what we have accumulated in this house to move home. I need to declutter!

The other news is Dh brought me home a MAC computer. I am very excited about this because of the cool things that they do. So now I have both. I also had to get a new digital camera. Well, lets just say the Princess Seriously tried very had to catch the camera as she dropped it. So off Dh and went to find a new camera. This is what I got



While we were there, we actually saw a camcorders that we liked. We lost ours in the house fire. So now we feel a techy! LOL

Ok well I am off and running it is BBQ day. Happy 4th everyone :)