Month: March 2007 (Page 1 of 4)

One of my favorite bloggers, Carmen at Mom to the Screaming Masses told this sweet story on her blog today:
There were two boys who were the subject of an experiment. One was put into a room with every toy known to children. The other boy was put into a room full of horse manure. They were left alone for quite a while, and then the doctor conducting the experiment came to check on them. He found the boy who was in the room of toys, sitting on the side, looking dejected. When questioned, he said that the reason he was so upset was that there was no Nintendo DS in the room. That was his favorite toy. The doctor went to check on the second boy, and to his suprise, found him jumping around, dancing, singing, laughing and having a grand time. When questioned as to how he could possibly be so happy in a room filled with horse manure, he responded, “With this much horse manure, there MUST be a pony in here somewhere!”

That’s a nice way to look at things, isn’t it? Which reminds me of this . And while I was looking for that, I found this, which also made me laugh.

So, my message to you today is…have a wonderful day!

Well, it really did snow yesterday–finally.  I kept waiting around yesterday wondering where this nasty weather we were supposed to receive was.  It was dark and cloudy, but didn’t even rain until the afternoon.  Then last night it started to snow.  It is actually still snowing lightly here.  It’s the perfect kind of snow where it doesn’t stick to the sidewalk or road, but there’s a nice little layer (about 2 inches) on the grass.  I’m sure it will melt quickly, but I like it.  I know a lot of people could be complaining about snow after we’ve had such nice weather, but I am enjoying this little cold spell.  You don’t want it to get too warm too fast in the spring.  That’s one of the things I like about spring in Utah.  It could be wonderful and warm, and then it snows!  Diversity!

I guess I just like it cause I’m lazy.  I’ve got a lot of yard work to do out there.  I’ve already filled up two garbage cans with dead stuff I should have taken care of in the fall, and lots of little weeds.  On Monday I bought a huge bottle of round-up from Costco and sprayed all the little grasses and weeds invading my flower beds, and Ryan put the pre-emergent on the lawns, but we still have tons of work to do to get our yard ready for the warm weather.  So, if it’s snowy, we can’t work outside!  See, I’m really just lazy.

Oh, and here’s a picture of our two new little birdies.

They’ve been renamed Skyler and Sammy, and are really quite cute.  Megan is loving having them as pets.  One of them had an unfortunate incident where John caught him, pulled him out of the cage and proceeded to pull out all his tail feathers the other day, however.  Megan was a little bit more understanding when I reminded her that she did the same thing to Sundance when she was about his age (what is it with those tail feathers?).

Thirteen years ago I became a mother.  Wow.  My life has changed a lot since that day (mostly for the better).         

Cole has always been such a great kid, and he is growing into a young man we can be proud of.

He went on a campout this weekend to Goblin Valley, and although he got wet in a stream and tells us he had hypothermia, he had a great time.  I told him that even if he did have hypothermia, you don’t tell your mother those things, or she may not let you go camping with the scouts again.  We bought him a cool new frame backpack last Monday for the campout, but we’re not going to consider that a birthday present.  He did tell me yesterday that he had decided what he wanted for his birthday (the day before–thanks for the advance notice, kid)…a digital camera.  Well, thanks to Woot, we got one ordered.

No big party planned for him, since it’s not a party year for him, but he gets to choose where we go out to dinner tonight, and (the best part), he doesn’t have to go to piano lessons today.  So, I hope it’s a great day for you today, Cole.  We love you!

I finally found a saying I liked to put up on the wall over the kids’ pictures. I’ve been thinking about this for months, and was very excited to finally get it put up.

So my husband, who doesn’t care which couch I buy as long as he doesn’t have to haul it, has an opinion about my wall sayings.  He looks at it and says, “That’s kind of cheesy.”  What?  Doesn’t he know he isn’t  allowed to have an opinion!? Then, after he helped me get it up and level, he said, “It really should say something like: ‘All because One person fell in love, dragging the other person kicking and screaming into marriage and made her love him'”.  Whatever.

“When you look in the mirror in the days ahead, may you smile a hundred times more than you frown at what you see. Smile because you know that a loving, capable, sensible, strong, precious person is reflected there.” ~~Laurel Atherton

Has your van been “Mommed”?

I laughed out loud at this one.

Yesterday I won some money on a radio contest. How much money, you ask? Well, I don’t mean to be all braggy and everything, but since you asked…..about a thousand. Dollars. Yep! I was driving the soccer carpool home, listening for the song of the day, and there you go, it started playing. So, I started dialing while driving, and after a few busies, it started to ring. And then he answered it, and unlike my last almost big win, I was the right caller. Yes, I was a big DORK and sounded oh-so-stupid on the phone, but I was really excited! And, now, I’ll tell you all YOU need to know to win your own thousand dollars. This contest goes on for another 2 and a half weeks, and you just print out this calendar so you know when to listen, (like today from 10-12), tune your radio, then when you hear the song of the day, you just start dialing. If you have a cell phone and a regular phone, call with both. Even if you don’t like their music, for a thousand dollars, you could probably stand it for a couple of hours, right? Go ahead-try it! And if you win, I won’t even ask for a finders fee or anything, I’ll just be happy for you!