Monday Morning Musings - Here's The Story, Of A Lovely Lady

For some reason, Addy is scared of Police. She freaks out when she sees them. She was outside playing the other day and came running in the house screaming because she thought she heard a siren and she was scared the police were going to take her to jail. I have had so many talks with her about how they police are the good guys. They aren't going to take her to jail. She shouldn't be scared of them. And I could go on and on...So on Friday when there was a carnival at the elementary school and the DARE officer was there, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to let Addy meet a real live police officer and see how not scary they really are.

This officer was so kind to her. He took a long time talking to her and showing her all the cool stuff in his car. He let her turn on the lights and siren and talk into the loud speaker (something he didn't let anyone else do). Her let her wear his jacket and gave her a sticker badge and told her that she looked like she would make a great officer and when could she come to work? He was playing with her and telling her that tomorrow wouldn't work because it's Saturday, but that if she could come down to the station first thing Monday morning, that would be great. We went on doing other things at the carnival, but every time she won something or if something interesting happened, she had to run back over and tell him all about it. At one point he told her that if she was going to be a police officer she needed more badges, because the one she had on her shirt would get messed up when she tried to take it off. So he gave her a huge stack of badge stickers and told her she could wear one to work each day when she went.

So you know what she did first thing Saturday morning when she woke up? She jumped out of bed, got dressed, put a new badge sticker on and came downstairs to tell me she was ready for me to take her to work. I broke her poor little heart when I explained to her that the police officer was just kidding and that she really couldn't go to work. She kept saying, "No mom, remember? He said I could go to work today!" Anyhoo, she's not scared of police any more!

I love living in Utah. I really do. So on Saturday night while the boys were at the Priesthood Session of General Conference, the girls and I went out for dinner. They wanted to go to Carl's Jr. so they could play in the play place. We pretty much had the entire restaurant to ourselves most of the time. Then 2 buses full of students all wearing the same black shirts came in. Following closely behind them were about 30 guys in white shirts and ties. It was great. I knew then that the Priesthood Session was over. It was kinda like the week before when I stopped by the grocery store on my way home from the Relief Society General Meeting and there was a traffic jam of ladies in dresses.

After Conference on Sunday, we took a walk. It was perfect weather. You could also tell Conference had just ended because there was a traffic jam on the trail too.

Aubrey and Emily wore their rollerblades because that is pretty much all they wear any more. Zac would have been wearing his, but he didn't come with us because he was busy making his movie with our neighbor. They are making an awesome movie and I will have to post it when they finish.

My silly girls. So the night before when we left Carl's Jr., we went to The Dollar Tree. Emily bought these fake earrings that you can put on your lip and ears and make it look like you have a ton of piercings. She also bought this blue hair that you clip to your hair. She wore about 6 or 7 "piercings" on her face and the blue hair. I'm sure all those people just finishing up with Conference thought we were outstanding parents.

Yes, she really is THIS cute! (Please note her police badge)

I have a ton of pumpkins that spontaneously grew where our chicken coop used to be. I am so excited, because none of the ones I actually planted produced anything. They are mostly still green, but we have about 4 or 5 that have turned orange. Well, today as I was walking by them, I noticed that my naughty chickens have been eating the pumpkins! I was so mad. And they couldn't just eat one pumpkin, they have eaten just a little bit off of about 5-6 pumpkins! GRRRRR.....Oh well, I guess they figure those are their pumpkins because they sprang forth from the pumpkins I gave them to eat last year and I'm sure the reason why they grew so well has something to do with all the chicken poop.

So I have decided that I am sick and tired of the shows my kids watch on TV. I have put a ban on Disney and Nick and I have started recording Little House on the Prairie and The Brady Bunch. My kids are really enjoying watching them. They love the Brady Bunch (The first Little House they watched was the one where Albert accidentally starts a fire and Mary's baby dies, so they thought it was a little depressing....) and we watch it all the time now. The first time we watched it, I kinda freaked them out with my vigorous singing of the theme song, but now they sing along with me. We fast forward through the commercials, but never through the song. Never. That's the way we became the Brady Bunch...

One of the first times we watched it, Mrs. Brady said "Oh, that's Groovy!" I felt the need to educate my children, so I paused the TV and said, "OK kids, when she said 'that's groovy', that is like in our day saying 'that's awesome'. I just wanted to make sure you understand the lingo." Then Zac said, "No mom. That's like saying in our day ninja or epic or sick or beast." So instead of me educating my children, they educated me and also made me feel really super old.

And BTW (see, I can talk like them there youngsters) I'm totally diggin' on the Brady's house and furnishings. I would so love to furnish my house the exact same way!

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