Who doesn't put science fair off to the very last second?

Not to be rude, but having Science Fair due in December is about the stupidest thing ever. Not that there is ever a good time for Science Fair. It isn't like all the parents sit around and say, " Gee. I have nothing else to do, lets do a Science Fair project."
The night before Cutie had to turn hers in, we started on it. Yes, she learned that lovely trait from me, just ask my mom. The subject of her project went through many revisions, germs, eggs floating in salt water, and then finally we landed on....dun, dun, duuunnn, blood spatter. Why blood spatter for a cute little 12 year old girl? Well frankly, because I had done it in the past with her big brother, and I knew we could knock it out in a few hours.

She was testing what everyday liquid substances that mimic the properties of human blood. That way it could be used to recreate a crime scene.  Here is the finished product. She got first place!

What was going on with the other 5 kids here at our house? They were doing what all normal, good kids do, driving me nuts!!!!! Seriously, BigD was hanging on me, nagging, and wanting to help. Just for the record, BigD could use nagging as a form of torture. Forget water boarding, send in BigD, they would give up all their secrets.
I asked my sweet hubby, who hadn't slept more than 3 hours a night, for the last 5 days, to entertain him. 

What was BigD doing?
 He was measuring everything in the house with a tape measure and writing numbers on a piece of paper. like he was some subcontractor preparing for the remodel of his life. It made me giggle, and it kept him out of the mess we were making. Guess what he is getting for Christmas?
Now we just have to get 2Cool's done before Monday. I might just kill him.

Cows giving milk

I just asked my oldest to please quit singing, (He has his headphones on and his brother has on the radio, no they are not listening to the same song, they are both in the same room with me.) He looked at me and said, " That is like asking a cow to not give milk". I just rolled my eyes. Teenagers. I have to admit I did laugh.

Conference Sunday

So, during the last session of conference, one kid got silly putty stuck in the couch and in Ken's shirt, and BigD locked a pair of real handcuffs to his leg, we can't find the key. Sigh... I wonder if his teacher will notice.
I went next door to our neighbors house, her son is a police officer. I knocked on the door and explained, " Does your son have a handcuff key on his keyring?' She looked at me like I was crazy. Just then BigD came clanking across the lawn with the handcuff fastened to his ankle. She just looked at him and laughed. Her son did have a key and I got it off. I have since hidden the handcuffs. I sure hope the kids don't find them again.

The thought of fall makes me all warm and fuzzy inside!!

The many hats of....me.

I have composed several blog posts in my mind this summer. I have wanted to post, but not taken the time. Again I blame the fact that I can't type well,l or quickly. So it takes forever to get anything up and going. Pathetic I know. Trust me you should hear my kids mock me about it.

The kids go back to school next week, yes, I am doing a happy dance, with a hat and a noisemaker. I LOVE mt kids, but I have gotten nothing done!! All they do is eat and bug the crap out of me and need rides everywhere. One thing I have done to earn a bit of extra money is make Visiting teaching handouts.

This is what August handouts look like. My friend Tausha gave me the opportunity. It has been fun coming up with the ideas and trying to sell them. I sell them at 3 local businesses. When school starts back, I will again be teaching art and music on Wednesdays, do my job as an alternate crossing guard, and work for Market Force, and go back to school to do my math. Hopefully I will pass this time.

I hope I can keep up with it all plus the kids.

My lifes theme song!!

I don't know how many of you watch Glee. Mom, I wouldn't recommend it for you, you would HATE it. But sometimes the music on that stupid show just moves me!!

Confession Stand

Red and I were just talking about sending him to the track meet, and whether he needed a snack or not. He said, " nah, they always have confession stands." Ha, ha, ha.... seriously, what do you get at a confession stand, 3 hail Mary's and an Our Father? I explained that it was a concession stand. Then asked If I could post it on Facebook, he said, "No, i will turn off your computer".
"Please let me put it on Facebook".
"No, but you can put it on your blog,  everyone who reads your blog I know. "

Cookies and Milk anyone?

The twins troop was having a cake auction to earn money. This is what I came up with. Who wouldn't want cookies as big as your head. I got the vase at the secondhand store and washed it really good. I hope it helps them to earn lots of money.

Food.......what do you spend?

We are looking at buying a house, so finances are keeping me awake at night. Thinking about this, I asked this question on Facebook.

I just figured out what I spent the last two weeks just on groceries....not gasoline, deodorant, clothes, food out, or any other thing, anyone want to guess? Or maybe share what you spend, just on groceries?

April 4 at 5:55pm
Craig Cuillard ~ ‎$1350.00. That's close to what we spend every 2 weeks.

Jana Martin Parker ~ Wow! Really? I must be a tight A**!

Misty Grange Vining ~Holy crap peeps!!!! You need to learn to be a krazy couponer!!!! You would save TONS!!!!! Bonnie come to rs wed night!! :)

Jana Martin Parker ~Of course if I figured in what we spend on eating out, that might even it up a bit. For the most part it is just my hubby and me so sometimes it is cheaper to just grab something cheap for the two of us than it would be to cook something.
Amber Ragan~ We spend about 100 bucks a week on groceries. But it is just the 3 of us!

Craig Cuillard ~We have 4 teenagers and friends that eat and eat and eat. Costco every 2 weeks and Fry's or Wal-Mart for the little things in between. I swear they eat from sun up to way past my bedtime.

Craig Cuillard~ Maybe I was a little high. It may be around $1000 - 1200. Some weeks are higher than others, for example higher during the summer and lower when they are in school.

Jana Martin Parker~ So Bonnie, are you a coupon shopper?

Tara Taylor ~Ummm, about $50! with about $450 value! Extreme Couponing!!! ♥ it! At the very least, ya gotta price match!!! :) (Family of 4 plus helping out older kids)

Jana Martin Parker~ I keep reminding myself the family size is totally a factor in all this. Even when everyone is home I am only feeding a family of four.

Debra Taylor Cryer ~ We spend about $1000 a month. When I wasn't working and was couponing, i spent around $600.

Jana Martin Parker~ Debra, what is your family size? If you don't mind my asking??

Debra Taylor Cryer ‎~7, 2 adults, 11yob, 10yog, 7yog, 4yob twins. the boys eat CONSTANTLY!

Jana Martin Parker ~Another question I might ask is does everyone shop on a regular day or just when they need stuff? Like for me I only shop when I need things like milk egg etc.... Sometimes I can spend way more than I would if I set aside a day a week to go get what I know I need.

Chelsie Overman Toyn ~I spend $30 a week..but my kids are still little

Debra Taylor Cryer~ i go twice a month to Sams Club and then once a week to the grocery store.

Jason J. McDougal ~I can't imagine with all those boys you have, I have one boy and three girls, and I think my teenage son eats more than all of them combined!

Melinda Van Haaften~ I ditto Misty... I just started couponing, because I was spending WAY too much on groceries.

Bonnie Bardwell Childress~ Craig, that is crazy!!! I can't even imagine. We aren't close to that.
 Misty, I have spent hours couponing, and no one(hubby) didn't appreciate the money saved and felt it was a waste of my time.
Craig, I will say that our house is not the teen hang out spot. I am sure it gets pricey.
Jana, I have done the coupon thing, but my hubby didn't appreciate all the extra work, so I gave up.

Stacey J. Miller ~Hundred a week but that includes a $15/week pop addiction and all shampoo etc. for 3.

Bonnie Bardwell Childress~ Jana, my hubby would like me to plan meals for 2 weeks and just go shopping once. The problem is, the kids eat EVERYTHING the first week. And I NEVER want to fix what is on the plan. lol.
Chelsie, that is crazy.
Stacey, wow. that is good.
Tara, I am impressed!!!
Jason, I keep telling Ken that since we added another teenager in August our grocery budget has doubled. He doesn't believe me. lol.
Deb, BTW, I think you do really well~!!! I hope your hubby appreciates it.

Stacey J. Miller~ Doesn't include eating out. We usually do that once or maybe twice a week. Remember Braden is only 10, I'm sure I'm in for it in a couple of years.

Jana Martin Parker~ Bonnie, that is why when I need something I go out for it. I had the hardest time trying to stick to a menu! I don't have to worry about my kids eating everything the first week as I would KILL them! If I buy something to use with a plan in mind and I go to get it and find it gone, they know they would be in huge trouble. I don't mind if they eat, but they do have to get permission first.

Kelly McAfee Richards ~I spend about $100 a week for the four of us. I try to only buy items when they're on sale and stock up when I can.

Dori Stauffer Mosher ~Always about $80-$100 for eight of us. That usually includes my paper product too. Sometimes I use coupons, but I like to purchase produce and "slow food" that I actually have to make from scratch instead of prepackaged, high preservative, high fat, high sodium foods, and there aren't many coupons for that kind of food. Also, all of the prepackaged stuff in small cartons just trashes the planet.

Diane Carling Garfield ~Your reason is two words: TEENAGED BOYS!

Bonnie Bardwell Childress~ Dori, I am impressed by what you spend. Good job!!
Stacey, I can't believe he is 10. Wow.
Kelly, That is kind of how I am too. I try to buy the cheapest, and stock up on things when they are having a sale.
Diane, it is insane!!! Seriously!!!

I spent $420.00 That includes my diet coke addiction. But it doesn't include eating out, or shampoo, or meds or anything. I figure I spend about $50.00 per person for 2 weeks.

Layton Gal ~Bonnie for all the mouths you are amazing. If I had more than the four of us mine would probably be more like craig's... If I actually was disciplined to track. Again Great Job Bonnie

Jill Ferrier~ You have several teenage boys, so I was going to guess that you spent eighty seven thousand dollars. (give or take a few thousand)

Bonnie Bardwell Childress ~LG, thanks!!!
Jill, me too!! You are cute!! I giggled when I read what you said.

Michele Horton Bohling~ Thanks for this post, Bonnie. I have been stressing about our $400-$500 per month grocery bill, but I feel better after reading some of the posts, especially since my amount includes paper/hygiene products, baby food, diapers and formula...ugh.

Bonnie Bardwell Childress~ It is good for me to realize where I am too.

So today I actually googled it. here I was shocked!!!
I posted this for posterity sake. I would LOVE to see what any of you think.

Would you like some carrots with that?

So, My hubby and i went to Hawaii, my dad paid for the trip. It was our first vacation in 17 years of marriage. sad huh. We had a great time and I keep thinking i need to post pictures, but.....I have over 2000 to go through and I can't decide which ones to post. Maybe I will get to it. It was wonderful there, if it weren't for the cost of living, I would LOVE to go back.

But yesterday, I got creative!!! It was fun to create, my craft crap all got moved down into the pit of despair,basement, so I don't get to use it anymore. (hubby moved it without asking me)

Any who, lookie how cute...

I made carrots for the Easter season, please ignore the mess around them

Now I need to make a cute bunny to go with. I will have to keep my eyes open at the DI.

This is what I used to make them, I took the Styrofoam cones and cut them in 1/4ths, tacky and hot glue, the $ store sham wows, greenery, Other orange fabrics and stuff I had around here. Oh, and I did use some wire of my hubbies. I LOVE how they turned out and it was a really cheap project.



Klondike

Every winter, the scouts go on a winter camping trip called "Klondike".
The past few years my hubby has been recruited to help.
Needless to say he does it in style. He borrows an old GP small military tent, from my dad, and the stove to heat it, from my brother. He then goes up and digs a hole in the snow, 18 feet in diameter, big enough to fit the tent in, so it is sitting on the ground. Pitches the tent and then sets up the stove.

This pic was borrowed from a web site that was selling the tent. 

 A couple of years ago one of the leaders set his gloves on the stove to dry them out. The men were all in their beds trying to sleep, and it seemed really smoky in the tent, but, they were all being so manly, trying not to notice, that no one said anything. Finally after they could hardly breathe, someone looked over at the stove and the gloves were on fire. Silly boys.

I am grateful that I get to stay home in my nice warm bed. I have braved the perils of sleeping out in the cold, so many more times then most of them ever will in their lives.

Anyway I digress.

As the boys were trying to get ready to go, I was laughing so hard.

Here is Red with his bedroll. Let me explain what that jumble actually consists of.

blue tarp

shelter half

a twin sized mattress (that I take to girls camp)

nemo fitted sheet

a foam pad

sleeping bag

a wool blanket that is backed with polar fleece

a wool blanket

Then he tied it all together, and tried to get in it. I was laughing.

Then my hubby tried to roll it all up and hog tie it. I wish I had the camera then, because it was like watching a calf tying!!! 

I hope Red stays warm. Last night they were supposed to get 2 feet of new snow. I hope none of the boys tents collapsed, and suffocates them in their sleep. Hopefully they will have some great stories to share.

Friday Funnies

The other day, when it was nice out, and not like now, where there is snow on the ground. My 2 oldest went out to clean out the garden and the yard. I think my hubby has some deal with 2Cool to get out of his grounding, by doing extra chores. LittleD just wanted something to do, since it was a nice day and I wouldn't let him use media as entertainment.
BigD went out to help them, he came in shouting,(because he shouts a lot, my hubby tells me it is my fault. It probably is, but I am not telling hubby that.)
"Mom, I am a "stuff muffin". (Holding his arms in a curled bicep position.) I giggle and said, "You mean stud muffin." he said "Yeah, stuff muffin, because I moved that big brown garbage can on the back yard."

I hugged him and said, "yes, but you are my stuff muffin."

I am pretty sure there will be no more stud muffin's at our house and only stuff muffins.

Yesterday I finished homework with BigD and asked him if he would go get me a pencil, so I could sign his sheet. A few minutes later he comes back in the front room giggling, I ask him to hand me the pencil and he giggles some more, and hands me a...........screwdriver. Please realize that first he is a little joker, he also told me last night, that I was his horsey and to giddy-up. Needless to say ,he didn't get far on this old nag.

We generally can't find a sharp pencil around here to save our souls. If some crook broke into the house, and told us he was going to shoot us unless we gave him a sharpened pencil with an eraser. I would just have to tell him to shoot me and quit prolonging the agony. But I found a bunch and sharpened them so my kids could do their homework.

 I can also never find a screwdriver, when I want one. I almost always end up using a knife.

Speaking of knives, I have figured out why the average woman doesn't need a tool box. Because we can improvise. All we need is a knife with a good strong handle. LittleD was trying to hang a picture in his rook the other day, and had looked all over the house for a hammer, I sighed and handed him a knife. He looked at it like, it was a banana holder or some crazy thing. I then had to demonstrate how to use it.

Please tell me I am not the only one. I try so hard to keep things in order and where we can find them, but some days I feel I am struggling in vain.

I hope these 2 little stories brought a small measure of happiness to your day.

Valentine's Dinner

Let me just say to begin with, my hubby came home from work and offered to take me to dinner, but, I had been cooking ALL day, preparing dinner, so I asked if we could postpone it until Friday.

I just wanted to share how I try to make Valentines Day special for my family. Mostly because I feel it is a day to tell all those you love, that you love them, in a special way.
I fixed pink aurdatch for breakfast, then I made strawberry filled cookies, with cream cheese frosting. Then tried to deliver some, and no one was home. Oh well, you snooze you loose.

Then I came home and made Valentines for my hubby and kids. Then started dinner.

Individual Meat Loaves

 Here is the recipe, I hate to type, because I am really slow at it. Yes, I realize there are spelling errors. Vinegar, is one of those words I always spell wrong. No matter what. Do you know anyone who can spell worcestershire correctly? If you have questions you can e-mail me. mom(dot)zoo5(at) yahoo(dot)com

They are really yummy and my kids seem to LOVE them.

What do you do to remember those you LOVE on this day?

For the love of........

Many of you won't know this, but BigD has an obsession with the Presidents of the United States. It started this year at school when one of his teachers read him a story about the Presidents of the United States. He then came home and told us about, " that fat President". No, we had no clue what he was talking about.
"Mom," he would say, " that fat President who got stuck in the bathtub."
Which instead of clearing the issue up, just made me more confused. But the cute kid persisted.
Eventually we figured out he meant William Howard Taft. Which apparently, was our fattest President. At 6'2", and in times of stress, weighing over 350lbs. He had a special tub made for himself, while living in the White House, that 4 men could fit in. BigD would also tell you, "He was kind of like and oval." (I so wish I could show you the hand movements to go with this statement.)

 Now how do I know this about him? We now own lots of books about the Presidents.

Our 2 faves being the 2 in front.

So this obsession of Taft has helped him to learn more about the other Presidents and he has now added James Garfield, (I don't know why he has fixated on him), Barack Obama, (I think it is because it is the first President he is really aware of, Tracy, I know your heart is swelling with love for this cute kid.), and as he calls him "that hitting President" which is Andrew Jackson. (Apparently he was quite the fighter, when he ran for President, his opponents listed all the fights, duals, shootings and brawls he had been in. There were 14 total.)  

So for Valentines Day, we made his Valentines box all Presidential. Pictures out of " SO You Want to Be President." You can see how thrilled he is.  

Do your kids have any odd obsessions? Truthfully I love this about him, it makes me smile, even though we read about the presidents almost daily, I don't mind.

LittleMan's box we made out of old children's books that were dead, and falling apart. I let him cut him apart, ( they were going in the recycle bin) and put the pics on his box.

Happy Valentines Day, for me it isn't about the love of one person, it is about showing all those around me that I LOVE them.

A little out of hand?

Do you think things got a little out of hand at the super bowl party?  I kind of laughed when I noticed this the day after. I guess that is what happens when you get playing rough.

Mothers Mite, Hindsight,Trials.

Why is it, I find that others who are struggling with their role as a woman helpful?
I think it is mostly because of the fact that I realize that I am not alone. Even though our trials may be different, it is helpful to know how they handle it, and apply it to my own situation.

What I learned this weekend.....
~In the story of the widows might, the actual contribution she gave was considered small by others. But the Lord knew that it was the best, and the most she could give. Did it matter that those around her thought otherwise?
Each of us as women, give our mite every day, in the little things we do, for those around us. If it is the best we can give, it is sufficient. The changes come, through lots of little moments, that add up to a lifetime.
There is a misconception, that our offerings have to be grand, to be great.  ~ Deanne Flinn

~ It is the small moments that prepare us for the great opportunities. ~ Jason Wright 
Hoping for the chance to be a super hero, and save others lives like his father. He learned that to have the chance to be there in those life saving situations, come about by being there to hold doors for women and helping women across to the pier. If you aren't there for the little situations, that prepare you, you won't be given the big ones.

~ Would you really want an easy mortality, what would you learn? ~ Dean Hughs
 Because it is in our deepest trials, that we learn what kind of person we really are. And grow to become a better person.
~ It is a lot easier to find the lessons in the hard times, when we see them by looking back. ~ Chris Belcher
As a recently blinded woman, struggling with, not only loosing her sight, but her eyes. She has learned, to laugh, even in the moments when she wishes the floor would open up and swallow her. She taught us that even though we are being tossed about by a ferocious wind, our Father was leading us to Him.

that is it I am going to Time Out!!

My mom sent me to "Time Out". I got to go to time out for 3 hours tonight, and it was bliss!!!!
Seriously, it was the best!!
At Christmas time, my mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. At first I told her, I wanted food  storage. But then I got thinking about that she gave me the year before and I knew I wanted to go to "Time Out for Women again!! So I asked for that. When I opened the little red box that had the tickets in it I cried!! It is such a good way to get refilled and come away a better person.
As I was getting ready to go this evening, the thing I was most excited about, not having to check the toilet seat for pee before sitting down. SO excited about that. See, I am not that hard to please.
I was a wonderful evening!! We laughed and cried!! I wanted all the women around me that I love to be there too. Because I knew they would come away lifted, and better ready to face the trials and craziness of life. Thanks mom!!!

Boys are Gross!!!

I know that most of you mothers of boys already know this.
I just wanted to share a couple funny/gross examples.
First, LittleD has been wrestling for months now. You need to be made aware of the fact that this is our families first exposure to the world of wrestling. Boy, has it been an eye opener.

Lets, skip right past the tiny, slick, revealing,  outfits they wear, I mean who thought up that kind of punishment. You can't tell me they don't have a wedgie 90% of the time.

But the "making weight" thing is going to put me right over the edge. 2 days before a tournament or dual LittleD is a freak! Seriously, he won't eat the, healthy low fat stew I made. (1 point per cup, for you weight watcher ladies, 100 calories, 2 grams of fat, 4 grams of fiber) No, he chooses to eat 4 clementines and an apple. While I will admit at least it is fruit, and we are making progress. (He used to eat a couple of rolls, and pick the outside off, because the roll weighed less than the stew, and the outside weighs more than the inside of the roll. See, what I mean, progress.)

The gross part, the part of loosing weight that makes me want to retch, is the bottles of spit sitting in his room. I don't get it, apparently spitting all your saliva in a bottle is a weight loss strategy, REALLY? Since when? That is just manky!!!!!!!(Adj. 1. Scruffy, dirty, distasteful, disgusting. ) Then he tries to get the little kids to drink it.  sigh   Gross, gross and double gross!
Number 2~ I figured this out the other night.
Cutie came downstairs to the pit of despair basement, I was talking to 2Cool. She turns to me and says, " Mom, I am not going in there." Pointing to 2Cool's room. "because the thing that holds his "bad spot" is laying on the floor." I am a bit confused, so I look.
Yep, there it is, in all it's supportive glory, his sports cup is laying on the floor.
Now, before you say anything about teaching kids the proper terminology for things. I have always called things by their proper name, but my boys have, chosen to be kids. Imagine. ( Again, I wish there was a sarcasm font)
So when one of them intentionally, or unintentionally hits the other in the crotch, ( yes, I have asked them not to do this. Yes, I have explained that it isn't nice, and yadda, yadda, yadda.) they come to me saying," Mom, so and so, hit me in the bad spot." Hence the name.
I giggled and said to her, "truthfully sweetie, I am not going in there either." Never mind the plates of congealing food, and cups of clabbered milk, I have asked him to bring upstairs.
I avoid the pit of despair basement at all costs, and generally don't enter his room unless I am fully armed, because it could be dangerous.
So boys, if you want to keep your sister out of your room, just make one of those beaded door decor things out of Sports cups and Jock straps. It should do the trick. But if you do, know that your mom may blog about it and embarrass you for life.

Toothpaste, noses and chisels.

Otherwise titled, "When did a chisel become a household cleaning tool?"
The other night, I am laying in bed unwinding from a day of, chipping ice out of the freezer with a chisel, because the kids left the door open just a fraction, and now it won't close.
Putting away all the Christmas stuff. Yes, I know, I should be ashamed, and I am.(just a little)
And cleaning toothpaste off the mirror, back splash, and  fronts of the cupboards, with said chisel. I mean really someone needs to come up with completely clear toothpaste, or a self cleaning toothpaste. How my kids get it in all those places, I have yet to observe.
When I hear across the hall:
BigD~ DON"T LICK PEOPLES NOSES, IT IS GROSS!!!"
BigD then appears in my doorway, "Mom, LittleMan licked my nose."
I sigh and think, "and why not, it is what we are supposed to be doing at bedtime. "
 But I say, " I heard, frankly, I think the whole neighborhood heard, but you aren't going to die, so go back to bed."
BigD~" He WILL keep licking people" as if there is a whole passel of people in his room for LittleMan to lick.
Me~ "LittleMan, please don't lick people".
Sadly, I wish I was astonished at having to say this, but I am pretty sure I have said it before. Along with don't lick the cabinets, books, and road, etc......
To which BigD has to add his 2 cents, " YEAH, cuz licking people is gross!"
To which I sigh, and wish for some duct tape, or for a tropical island somewhere.

Just one reason........being a mom is more difficult than I thought it would be.

A couple of weeks ago I had a complete melt down. I sequestered myself in my bedroom and spent a lot of time crying, praying, and reading. Why do you ask?
I am sure it had nothing to do with hormones, and being a girl. (too bad there isn't a sarcasm font)
I was feeling so suckish at my job of being a mom, completely unloved and unappreciated by the cretins adorable children, and mostly, the spouse that live here.
The sad part is, I feel like I am trying so hard, and failing.
Maybe all parents of teenagers feel like that. I was tired of my teenager always putting in his 2 cents, about how I do everything wrong.
Also, I wasn't feeling "cherished" by my spouse. John Bytheway says that is what all women need and I agree 100%. Maybe I don't deserve to feel cherished.
Needless to say it was a dark couple of days at my house.
3 things really helped.
1~I read a quote about never giving up. (Which was exactly what I was doing)
And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God. Moroni 9:6
You have not failed until you quit trying.~ Gordon B Hinckley.
~A couple of the cute girls who live by me brought me a gift basket filled with fun things. Diet Coke, chocolate, Calgon, candles, and much more. It touched my heart. Someday I hope to do the same for them.
~Then we also purchased a Wii for the kids for Christmas. One of the games we got was "Just Dance 2"
One of the songs on there, was one a friend of mine had posted on her blog a couple weeks ago. Thanks Danielle. The first time I listened to this song it made me sad.
But that Saturday, my kids went somewhere with my hubby and the house was all quiet. I snuck downstairs and put the game in, i knew I needed some exercise.
So I danced and cried to this song 3 or 4 times, and you know it really lifted my spirits. It is amazing what Heavenly Father puts in our lives to help lift us and get us through.
Here are the words to the song:
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again


Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in


Do you ever feel already buried deep
Six feet under scream
But no one seems to hear a thing


Do you know that there's still a chance for you
Cause there's a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July


Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y


Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gunna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own


You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow


Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed
So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road


So my thinking is now, how am I going to let my colors burst? How am I going to show my family what I am worth?
What do you do?
I haven't quite figured it out yet. But when I do I will share. Just because maybe, just maybe it will help someone else.

I need an intervention!!!!

I closed my facebook account...........I think I might actually die of marasmus. Which is a word my dad used to tell me was a lack of love and attention. That is how I choose to use this word.
This might actually be harder than Diet Coke withdrawal. lol
The reason for this abrupt closure of the account is, we are having custody problems with my nephew. (Trust me they are way too complex for me to explain here) I don't want anything I might have said joking, on FB, to be misconstrued, and to cause problems and come back and bite me on the butt! So for now it is closed. When this is all over I am sure I will be back, to ask thought provoking questions, and play lots of Bejeweled. Yes, I am missing everyone dearly, you might just have to pick up the phone and call.
Do they have a facebook support group?

Friends Young and Old

Last week, because of reconnection's through Facebook (yes, some people think it is evil, me not so much.) I got together with 2 of my very first, best friends. And because I knew I was going to be the fattest one there, I was trying to detract from my bulbous body by having great hair. My motto being, "if you can't be skinny great hair is the next best thing." (It is part of the denial I live in.) So I went to the beauty school in the area, and paid a girl $4.00 to curl my hair for over an hour!! Yes, it took her over an hour to curl it all. Here is the finished product from the back.

I might do it again another time, when I have nothing else to do, it was kind of fun.

I dug this picture out of my baby book that my sweet mom made for me. Mine is the thickest, because I am the oldest. Isn't it sad how that works.

Weren't we so cute, I look at this picture and wonder what happened to that cute skinny little girl.

I am the first one, then my friend Laurena, and then Nicki. Nicki will probably always be one of my dearest friends.

That bush we are standing in front of used to make a popping noise when it bloomed in the spring! So beautiful.

Here we are today, Nicki, Laurena, and I. It is amazing how 36 years changes a person.

Not only did we get together , but our mom's did too!! Can you guess which mom goes with which daughter?

It is funny to me how good friends, real friends don't have to see each other on a daily basis to be close. I would do anything to help these 2 great friends, and I know they would do the same.

icicles and e-bay....

So remember the episode of Aurthur where DW puts a snowball in the freezer.... well yeah, BigD just put icicles in the freezer and told me "they will be safe all winter long in there. For a LLLOOOOONNNGGGG time!"

Then tonight on the way home from a wrestling thing, we were listening to "Vinegar Man" ( I got this CD for Christmas from my sweet hubby. It is one I used to listen to on my mom's record player) and BigD piped up from the back and said, "I would sell those boys on e-bay, I would get a lawyer and sell them on e-bay!"
Which brings to mind the question of what he think e-bay is? lol.
No more telling your kids that if they are bad they are going to sit in timeout, nope, you are bad you get sold on e-bay.