It is Thursday morning, and a rainy one it is! The weather here has been so beautiful the past week. One day it got up to 75' and sunny. I can't complain it is February. I am so ready for spring. I miss the green grass, the flowers, the warm weather, my kids playing outside and YES I miss the humidity. I never thought I would ever say that, but I do.
I love rainy days too. They are the days that you can cuddle up on the couch and play with the kids, or read a book. I have set a goal to read more this year.
It is dark outside and the boys are sleeping in. The girls however went to school grumpy because they wanted to stay inside and watch it rain. Well, the rainy season is here and we will enjoy it. Bring on the green grass, I can't wait.
The past few weeks I have been making my lists and getting ready to check them off. I have officially decided to put the house on the market. My goal is to use srping break to get it 100% ready. With kids home for a week I think we can manage this. We are going to clean, box, paint, and re-arrange. I am going to get a storage shed to move all the extra stuff out. Selling your house is no easy job. I know I tried it last year. But I have much faith that this is the year. When Russ gets home I don't want anything to stop us from being together.
We have no idea where we are moving too. All we know is that there is not a job here in Evansville Indiana. I just keep telling my Heavenly Father I will go where ever he wants me to, just let our family be together. This however could mean that our family will be homeless for much of the summer. Again that is OK, we have family and friends who will put up with us.
Please pray for a quick sell of our house.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
February 18th, 2011
It has been a very long week. But I can say that it has been a successful week. I have learned so much about myself. I have decided that is what trials are for. They are for us to learn about ourselves, and to improve who we are. I set a goal for myself to be a better person when Russ gets home. I am working on that. Russ told me that he had a lesson on this at church. The person giving the lesson said how sad would it be if they are over in Afghanistan for a year and they came back the same person or worse. Russ has really taken this to heart. We have had many long conversations about us, our marriage and our family. Not that Russ has much room to improve, but he thinks there are areas he could try. I told him if he fixed those areas he might get translated. I think he is pretty much close to perfect.
So its Friday and I can now say another week done and over with. Thank goodness for the weekends.
So its Friday and I can now say another week done and over with. Thank goodness for the weekends.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
It's all in a days work
Sticks and stones can break your bones but words will never hurt you, Whoever made this up is wrong!
Saturday I woke up to my ever so familiar alarm clock, EVAN. It was 5am and he was crying. I have not been letting him cry in the mornings because he wakes up the boys. I ran in and got him and got back into bed. Who can complain because he snuggles right up against me and eats away. When he is finished eating he goes right back to sleep and I can quietly put him back in bed.
The problem is I never can go right back to sleep. Thus why I am typing this at 6:30 on a Sunday morning.
I decided to get up and clean the house and then off to the gym. My new goal is to make it to the gym 3 times a week. Yes my first week was successful.
I had a great work out finished at 8:50 and then back home to pick up the boys for TKD, back into town I went. When the boys finished we hurried back home to get Brooklyn for Gymnastics. I had 30 min jumped into the shower. Then off Boo and I went. Came back home cleaned up started the lovely Saturday morning striping of the sheets and washing them. Then back to get Brooklyn. Back home I fed the boys lunch, loaded the dishwasher, and played with Evan.
Brooklyn and I fed and took care of the neighbors dogs for 3 days and made $40.00. We decided to go out to lunch together, so off we went. We took Evan with us, had lunch, went to Walmart, and then found a cute, NEW, frozen yogurt place. WE had to try it. Back home again I decided to install a new door handle on our front door. It was successful and only took me 1 hour to accomplish this. I cleaned up the mess vacuumed the house, and then crashed on the couch. After my 45 min nap I got up and off the boys and I went. Our local High Schools were having Semi-finals in Wrestling and I thought it would be the best way for the boys to really see how to wrestle. They started wrestling last week and it is hard to understand why people are telling them what they are,without seeing a real match. On the way to the stadium Logan says
Logan- Mom why are you fatter than Dad?
MOM- I have had 6 kids and your Dad has had 0.
Logan- So
MOM- When you have babies your body gets fat and each time you have to work really hard to get back into shape. I have not done that yet, but I am working on it.
Logan- You should work harder.
MOM- Does it embarrass you that I am fat? ( I went to his school to help with the Valentines party and he would not speak to me or look at me).
Logan- After minutes of silence......Yes, Don't come to my school.
How do you tell a 6 year old that he just hurt your feelings by being honest? All week long I have been talking to him about honesty and how you should always tell the truth and if you do you will get in way less trouble than if you lie.
Yep, it hurt me really bad! But great incentive to get to the gym.
After watching the wrestling matches we went for a little dinner at Culvers. We found friends there and so we stayed and talked. The boys loved it and I was glad to have some adult conversations. I have now taken all 4 kids on a date and feel that my Saturday was more than successful. Yes, Sam and I are going out this week. She didn't get left out.
Saturday I woke up to my ever so familiar alarm clock, EVAN. It was 5am and he was crying. I have not been letting him cry in the mornings because he wakes up the boys. I ran in and got him and got back into bed. Who can complain because he snuggles right up against me and eats away. When he is finished eating he goes right back to sleep and I can quietly put him back in bed.
The problem is I never can go right back to sleep. Thus why I am typing this at 6:30 on a Sunday morning.
I decided to get up and clean the house and then off to the gym. My new goal is to make it to the gym 3 times a week. Yes my first week was successful.
I had a great work out finished at 8:50 and then back home to pick up the boys for TKD, back into town I went. When the boys finished we hurried back home to get Brooklyn for Gymnastics. I had 30 min jumped into the shower. Then off Boo and I went. Came back home cleaned up started the lovely Saturday morning striping of the sheets and washing them. Then back to get Brooklyn. Back home I fed the boys lunch, loaded the dishwasher, and played with Evan.
Brooklyn and I fed and took care of the neighbors dogs for 3 days and made $40.00. We decided to go out to lunch together, so off we went. We took Evan with us, had lunch, went to Walmart, and then found a cute, NEW, frozen yogurt place. WE had to try it. Back home again I decided to install a new door handle on our front door. It was successful and only took me 1 hour to accomplish this. I cleaned up the mess vacuumed the house, and then crashed on the couch. After my 45 min nap I got up and off the boys and I went. Our local High Schools were having Semi-finals in Wrestling and I thought it would be the best way for the boys to really see how to wrestle. They started wrestling last week and it is hard to understand why people are telling them what they are,without seeing a real match. On the way to the stadium Logan says
Logan- Mom why are you fatter than Dad?
MOM- I have had 6 kids and your Dad has had 0.
Logan- So
MOM- When you have babies your body gets fat and each time you have to work really hard to get back into shape. I have not done that yet, but I am working on it.
Logan- You should work harder.
MOM- Does it embarrass you that I am fat? ( I went to his school to help with the Valentines party and he would not speak to me or look at me).
Logan- After minutes of silence......Yes, Don't come to my school.
How do you tell a 6 year old that he just hurt your feelings by being honest? All week long I have been talking to him about honesty and how you should always tell the truth and if you do you will get in way less trouble than if you lie.
Yep, it hurt me really bad! But great incentive to get to the gym.
After watching the wrestling matches we went for a little dinner at Culvers. We found friends there and so we stayed and talked. The boys loved it and I was glad to have some adult conversations. I have now taken all 4 kids on a date and feel that my Saturday was more than successful. Yes, Sam and I are going out this week. She didn't get left out.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
February Something
I have no idea what day it is and guess what I don't really care. All I know is that it is Wednesday and the boys have school. It is Gage's treat day and show in tell. The boys have wrestling tonight and Sam has personnel training. Other than that who cares?
I had a really bad day yesterday. I was on the phone with the IRS fro 3 hours, got hung up on twice, and after all of that they told me that they shouldn't even be talking to me because Russ is deployed and they are not allowed to call or send letters to family of deployed soldiers. I was so mad that I went to the gym and ran 6 miles. It felt so great.
However I have only worked out one other day in the last 3 months. Needless to say I am in much pain today. I did realize as I was running that I really need to spend more time at the gym. I love to go and work out and if I do I don't have any energy to get angry with my kids after. They should be begging me to go.
I did get to talk to Russ this morning. It was a great call and no one was in line so after his 25min were up he called again. I got to talk to him for 30 whole minutes and I loved every minute of it.
I says he will be home mid August so we are half way done. Now if I can just stay focused for the next 6 months.
I had a really bad day yesterday. I was on the phone with the IRS fro 3 hours, got hung up on twice, and after all of that they told me that they shouldn't even be talking to me because Russ is deployed and they are not allowed to call or send letters to family of deployed soldiers. I was so mad that I went to the gym and ran 6 miles. It felt so great.
However I have only worked out one other day in the last 3 months. Needless to say I am in much pain today. I did realize as I was running that I really need to spend more time at the gym. I love to go and work out and if I do I don't have any energy to get angry with my kids after. They should be begging me to go.
I did get to talk to Russ this morning. It was a great call and no one was in line so after his 25min were up he called again. I got to talk to him for 30 whole minutes and I loved every minute of it.
I says he will be home mid August so we are half way done. Now if I can just stay focused for the next 6 months.
Monday, February 7, 2011
February 7, 2011
It's Monday and the house is quiet for just a minute. The girls are at school and the boys are sleeping. I have just a minute to blog. I made it to church yesterday. Sam stayed home she was not feeling well. I had so many mixed feelings yesterday some of which I will not talk about and some I will.
I have been praying for many weeks and had not come up with an answer to my problem. Yesterday when I least expected an answer it came. It was all because I made it to church to take the sacrament. Right as I was taking it I got my answer and I started to cry. It was such an amazing feeling. I know that the Lord is there and watching over me. But sometimes I just need to be reminded. I almost gave in and stayed home from church. I am so glad that I listened to the spirit.
I had a friend tell me the other day that one Sunday her husband didn't want to go to church. They had a long week, and he felt that he needed to stay home and get some things done. She knelt down and prayed and ask for help. She didn't want to make him feel bad, but she thought that they needed to go to church. After offering her prayer she went to her husband and said. We are asking a lot from our Heavenly Father right now. She listed the things they were in need of. Then she said "All he is asking of us is to go to church". With in minutes her husband was ready and out the door they went. I have thought a lot about that. Right now I am asking a lot from my Heavenly Father. If I can't even give up 3 hours on Sunday to go worship him how can I expect him to bless me with all that I am asking for.
I have been praying for many weeks and had not come up with an answer to my problem. Yesterday when I least expected an answer it came. It was all because I made it to church to take the sacrament. Right as I was taking it I got my answer and I started to cry. It was such an amazing feeling. I know that the Lord is there and watching over me. But sometimes I just need to be reminded. I almost gave in and stayed home from church. I am so glad that I listened to the spirit.
I had a friend tell me the other day that one Sunday her husband didn't want to go to church. They had a long week, and he felt that he needed to stay home and get some things done. She knelt down and prayed and ask for help. She didn't want to make him feel bad, but she thought that they needed to go to church. After offering her prayer she went to her husband and said. We are asking a lot from our Heavenly Father right now. She listed the things they were in need of. Then she said "All he is asking of us is to go to church". With in minutes her husband was ready and out the door they went. I have thought a lot about that. Right now I am asking a lot from my Heavenly Father. If I can't even give up 3 hours on Sunday to go worship him how can I expect him to bless me with all that I am asking for.
Friday, February 4, 2011
February 4th, 2011
I am not doing so great on my journal keeping, and so much has happened in the past week.
Where to start Sunday January 30th we all stayed home from church. Sam had finally got the flu bug and with everyone else just getting better I thought it best to keep all from going.
We did have a short meeting at our house. I read to the kids the message that is on the post pervious to this one. I got out the Cpt. Moroni picture and a picture of Russ in his full battle uniform. We talked about putting on the whole armor of God and what that means. We wrote things on strips of paper that we thought we could do to protect ourselves from the world. The kids came up with Pray, read scriptures, family home evening, Honesty, strong testimony, go to church, stay away form evil, do what the prophet asks. Then Gage got to be our Soldier and we stuck the papers on him. We then talked about how Gage is now prepared to go into battle here in Evansville Indiana. It was a great lesson and the boys loved it. Thanks to Russ!
However it was a very long Sunday the kids got board. Brooklyn tried her best to help me entertain the boys. Later that night the kids were playing around and I heard a loud thud and Logan came running into the kitchen he had blood all over his face. I had no idea what he hit or where to even look for the cut. His whole face was cover. Asking, well yelling at Brooklyn to tell me what happened, found out it was his mouth. He had slipped on the tile and fell face forward knocking out his front tooth and cutting his lip. NO....his tooth was not loose. I got him all cleaned up and then he looked at himself and started screaming. He is way to vain, he then fell asleep crying about how ugly he looks. He told us the next morning he was not going to school until he had a new tooth. He is now OK with all of it but the other front tooth is loose and he will not let me touch it.
I was so glad when I woke up and it was Monday, yea a new week! Ya right, my weeks are all the same. Sam stayed home from school on Monday, on Tuesday everyone was back in school. The weather man said there was a storm coming our way. I went to the store and got prepared for a snow day, it never happened. But I am ready for the next one.
On Tuesday I was feeding the baby and I was watching the Today show. They were talking about women's health. Now here is were my week really goes down hill. I had to sit there and listen, BIG mistake. A week ago I tested my blood sugar, it was not a good test. I got a little worried. After listening to the lecture on TV about how women don't take care of themselves I decided that I was really going to have February be take care of Amy month. So I made a doctor apt. I got a friend to watch the 2 boys and I took Evan with me. My apt. was on Thrusday at 9:15 at 8:50 I got the boys out to the car and realized that they had shut the door and I had not grabbed the car keys. I went back to the door and it was locked. How many times have I told myself to get a spare key? There I was tuck in the garage with 3 kids and it was about 10' outside. Luckly I had grabbed my cell. I called a friend and told her to come help. As I was waiting for her I got really mad. Why was this happening I was trying to take care of myself? I really needed to get to the Doctor. I got got everyone ready we were in the car on time and now this. Then I saw it..... a huge wrench. I picked it up and wet to the door and beat the door knob off the door. Then I stuck a long screw driver in the hole and what do you know the door opened. My friend arrived and was in shock at what she saw. She took the boys to my other friends house so I could get to the Doctor. I called and let them know what had happened and that I would be late. When I go there they all wanted to hear my crazy story....and they got a good laugh. But everyone keep asking what I was going to do about the door? I keep thinking...what do you mean I am going to go buy a new knob and fix the stupid thing.
I saw the doctor and got yelled at. She really lectured me about what I am doing in my life. The bottom line....... was when she said to me, your kids are going to be orphaned. You will die and your husband will be in Afghanistan. Then will you find time to take care of yourself? I thought about that all the way home as tears are running down my face. What have I done? I am the mother of 5 kids one is a teenager, one is a pre-teen, and then 2 very active boys and a teething baby. I have no husband. I get up at 5 am(for good) and start breakfast and I don't stop until my head hits the pillow around 10pm. Then I thought in that day how often did I do something for me. Then answer is 0.
OK.........I am working on a new plan for my life. I will write more and let you know how it works out
.....................by the way I did fix the door knob all by myself!
Where to start Sunday January 30th we all stayed home from church. Sam had finally got the flu bug and with everyone else just getting better I thought it best to keep all from going.
We did have a short meeting at our house. I read to the kids the message that is on the post pervious to this one. I got out the Cpt. Moroni picture and a picture of Russ in his full battle uniform. We talked about putting on the whole armor of God and what that means. We wrote things on strips of paper that we thought we could do to protect ourselves from the world. The kids came up with Pray, read scriptures, family home evening, Honesty, strong testimony, go to church, stay away form evil, do what the prophet asks. Then Gage got to be our Soldier and we stuck the papers on him. We then talked about how Gage is now prepared to go into battle here in Evansville Indiana. It was a great lesson and the boys loved it. Thanks to Russ!
However it was a very long Sunday the kids got board. Brooklyn tried her best to help me entertain the boys. Later that night the kids were playing around and I heard a loud thud and Logan came running into the kitchen he had blood all over his face. I had no idea what he hit or where to even look for the cut. His whole face was cover. Asking, well yelling at Brooklyn to tell me what happened, found out it was his mouth. He had slipped on the tile and fell face forward knocking out his front tooth and cutting his lip. NO....his tooth was not loose. I got him all cleaned up and then he looked at himself and started screaming. He is way to vain, he then fell asleep crying about how ugly he looks. He told us the next morning he was not going to school until he had a new tooth. He is now OK with all of it but the other front tooth is loose and he will not let me touch it.
I was so glad when I woke up and it was Monday, yea a new week! Ya right, my weeks are all the same. Sam stayed home from school on Monday, on Tuesday everyone was back in school. The weather man said there was a storm coming our way. I went to the store and got prepared for a snow day, it never happened. But I am ready for the next one.
On Tuesday I was feeding the baby and I was watching the Today show. They were talking about women's health. Now here is were my week really goes down hill. I had to sit there and listen, BIG mistake. A week ago I tested my blood sugar, it was not a good test. I got a little worried. After listening to the lecture on TV about how women don't take care of themselves I decided that I was really going to have February be take care of Amy month. So I made a doctor apt. I got a friend to watch the 2 boys and I took Evan with me. My apt. was on Thrusday at 9:15 at 8:50 I got the boys out to the car and realized that they had shut the door and I had not grabbed the car keys. I went back to the door and it was locked. How many times have I told myself to get a spare key? There I was tuck in the garage with 3 kids and it was about 10' outside. Luckly I had grabbed my cell. I called a friend and told her to come help. As I was waiting for her I got really mad. Why was this happening I was trying to take care of myself? I really needed to get to the Doctor. I got got everyone ready we were in the car on time and now this. Then I saw it..... a huge wrench. I picked it up and wet to the door and beat the door knob off the door. Then I stuck a long screw driver in the hole and what do you know the door opened. My friend arrived and was in shock at what she saw. She took the boys to my other friends house so I could get to the Doctor. I called and let them know what had happened and that I would be late. When I go there they all wanted to hear my crazy story....and they got a good laugh. But everyone keep asking what I was going to do about the door? I keep thinking...what do you mean I am going to go buy a new knob and fix the stupid thing.
I saw the doctor and got yelled at. She really lectured me about what I am doing in my life. The bottom line....... was when she said to me, your kids are going to be orphaned. You will die and your husband will be in Afghanistan. Then will you find time to take care of yourself? I thought about that all the way home as tears are running down my face. What have I done? I am the mother of 5 kids one is a teenager, one is a pre-teen, and then 2 very active boys and a teething baby. I have no husband. I get up at 5 am(for good) and start breakfast and I don't stop until my head hits the pillow around 10pm. Then I thought in that day how often did I do something for me. Then answer is 0.
OK.........I am working on a new plan for my life. I will write more and let you know how it works out
.....................by the way I did fix the door knob all by myself!
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