The Trials of a Busy Mom

Category: General (Page 11 of 11)

Hey, That’s Kevin and Drew!

Well, Ryan and I are totally hooked on Amazing Race, so you know what we were watching last night. We were sad that the Black family was eliminated right off the bat, as they had spunk and worked together. I really can’t stand families who just yell and criticize each other; thus we really hoped the Paolo family would be gone. I don’t want to listen to them bicker the whole season. But I’m pretty sure they won’t last that long (I hope).

We also brought up all the Halloween/Fall decorations last night, and the kids had a great time setting stuff out. Speaking of Fall–This is the week to go for a drive and see the Beautiful Fall Colors. Looking out my windows at home I can see mountains all around and they are turning lovely colors. We’ve got to enjoy Fall before it’s wet and rainy and turns to winter.

These shoes were made for walking

Ok, I was a good girl this morning. I actually got out of bed when my alarm went off at 5:45, and met two other ladies for a morning walk. Or at least I thought it was going to be a morning walk. These ladies must have rocket shoes, they were going so fast. They had to stop twice to “wait up” for me, although they didn’t complain one bit about me slowing them down. I walked a pitiful two miles with them, and then bowed out for the other three (5 miles? Are they kidding? No they were not). Hopefully I can make this more of a habit than a one time event, but we’ll just have to see about that.

Sometimes life is hard

“Sometimes life is hard. I mean sometimes you have to get to someone to tell them something important and the phone is busy and you have to keep calling and calling and calling. That is hard.” said the 9 year old who is still in her pajamas at 9:05 am, who hasn’t done any of her jobs yet and hasn’t practiced the piano. After she does those things, the hardest part of her day will be finding a friend to play with. Wouldn’t you like to be 9?

Nothing much, how about you?

I can’t think of anything to say today. Nothing much is going on except the usual stuff. Kids playing with friends, trying to keep the house clean amid kids playing with friends, John taking every single card in the organized “Who wants to be a millionare game” out and throwing them on the floor. Stuff like that.

Right now I have three casseroles in the oven. One for us and two for people who could use a dinner without cooking, and I just made some carrot orange cookies to go with them (ate WAY too much cookie dough, of course).

As soon as my dear husband gets home I’m going to dash off to the city building to enter my kids’ artwork in the city art contest. There are 4 kids old enough to draw, and each one wants to enter 3 items….you do the math. I just hope I don’t drop a sculpture or something.

A good man is hard to find

Can I just say how thankful I am to be married?!
And not just married, but married to a wonderful guy, and happy with my marriage?
What brought this thought, you may ask? My friend, Robin, who is divorced, is living with us for the summer. And just seeing what it’s like meeting guys with on-line dating profiles, dating, and hearing about the kind of guys that are out there looking just makes me realize that I don’t want to be out there dating–ever! I wish her the best of luck and I would really love to see her and the other girls who are single out there find that wonderful guy (I know it happens), but it won’t be easy. So, be thankful for the man you have! I know I am!

Food?

Here’s a bit of advice:

You should probably not start Weight Watchers the same week as your houseguests arrive.

Enough said?

I’m wishing for a brownie.

Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens

Some things I like:

  • Sleeping in (it doesn’t happen very often, but I still like it)
  • Kashi granola type cereal–Melinda introduced me to this great cereal full of protein and fiber. It’s really yummy with yogurt and blueberries!
  • Blueberries
  • Holding my baby. Even if he’s getting closer to a two year old than a baby, he’s still my baby, and he’s still a snuggler. He likes to grab hold of a chunk of my hair (which is hard to do with this length hair) when he sits in my lap. Even when he wakes up at 3:00 in the morning and then I have a hard time going back to sleep, I still enjoy holding him.
  • Listening to my kids practice the piano. Yes, sometimes it gets old, hearing them plink away at the same songs, but sometimes I just listen and think, “Wow, they are getting so much better!”
  • Going to Book Club. There’s always yummy food and it’s pretty much like being invited to a party every month
  • Hearing from friends. With e-mail, cell phones, and all the things we have today, it makes it easier to stay in touch with friends. Of course we still have to make the effort, but it’s sure easier than writing a letter, finding an address, finding a stamp, and remembering to put the letter in the mailbox. In fact, I’ve got a letter to send to my mom that’s been sitting on my counter for a couple of days now.
  • Winning things! Winning anything makes me happy, but especially when it’s something I really really want or could use. Last Friday I won a Lagoon Seasonpass–how cool is that!? I won a set of cookware about a month ago, and I just won some ticket to the Lovin Spoonful (which is one of those things that I don’t really know what the contest is, I just start dialing when I hear them say “contest”, but it’s still fun to win.
  • Hearing John say “Thanks, Mom.” It just gets me every time, and I’ll give him just about anything he wants. He’s learning early that the way to get ahead in life is to be polite. Now if only my other kids could learn that lesson.

To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub

Why is it that in a dream all things make perfect sense, and it’s only when you wake up and try to explain it to someone that you realize you are sounding like an idiot.

Take, for example, the dream I had last night. I was with some friends in a cabin, and there was one friend in particular who was a combination of three people I know in real life–a semi-needy friend from High School, a semi-neurotic roommate from BYU, and another friend from High school who had a major crush on a certain guy (Well, let’s face it, we all had major crushes on certain guys at one time or another from High school, so that could be any one of you).

This combo friend was very worried about the behavior of her boyfriend, who may or may not have also been her brother. He had gone somewhere without telling anyone and for some reason that was very bad, and she was upset. In comforting said “combo friend” (in my pajamas with holes in them), I knocked over and spilled a very large scrapbook, thus upsetting the other girl friends at the cabin.

There was also a concern about a certain spider problem, and some kind of moth larvae. See, when you are awake, it makes no sense at all, and you must be thinking that I’m on some kind of funky drugs! (Actually I just took a Clortrimiton or something of that ilk because I’m having some kind of major allergy problem at the moment, but I promise I wasn’t taking any such allergy medication last night!) But when I woke up, I was worried and concerned about not only the boyfriend/brother, but also the combo friend. And which of the 3 people should I be concerned about?

Should I give them all a call and see if they are doing ok? Oh the pressure! and what are we going to do about those blasted spiders?

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