Current Song Stuck In My Head - Don't Spit In The Wind

I was driving home tonight and this song came on the radio. It reminded me of my dad.

PMA Update

I took Addison to the doctor today. She has ear infection #6 since November. She still has the poops and has just recently added vomiting to the equation. Just for the fun of it. She has lost a pound which now puts her down to 17 pounds. The doctor said if she loses any more weight she will have to go to the hospital and get an IV. To make things really fun my dryer decided to stop drying clothes. HAHAHAHA! Great timing. Thankfully I have wonderful neighbors and friends who are letting me use theirs.

If you can't be in the health you want honey, love the health your in. Love the health your in.......

Flashback Friday - Stir It Baby, Stir It!

My sister Farrah likes to stir things up. I told you about her anonymous Confessions Post a while back. Well now she has sparked a political debate over at her blog that is far more entertaining than my attempt at a debate. She is crazy and that is one of the reasons we love her so much. Here is a picture of her stirring things up long ago at a party we had at our house:

I have mentioned before that our house was the hang out house for all our friends. We had so many parties, I don't know how my parents handled it. I have a lot of fun pictures from that party that I thought some of you might enjoy. I was planning on sharing them here. However, my scanner is giving me fits and I am about ready to slam it up against the wall. I did get this one scanned. I will try and scan the rest later. Right now I just think the scanner and I need a break from each other.

Eddie, Kristy, Allyson and Kristen

YAHA!!! Spell check just worked!

Thursday Morning Musings - Why Not? I'm On a Musing Kick

We had an earthquake this morning. Actually it was in Nevada but I felt it all the way over here in my living room. Addison and I were the only ones awake. We were sitting on the couch in the living room. It felt like someone was under the couch and was trying to stand up, it was all wobbly. I thought one of the kids got up and was hiding under the couch or something. That doesn't really make sense because even though my kids are super skinny they still wouldn't fit under there. Oh well. Steve was upstairs in our bedroom and he said he could really feel it up there. Scarry! Our neighborhood is right on a major fault line. If there is going to be more quakin' I hope it holds off until we sell the house.

Steve is the only one still sick today. I never actually got sick. I think it was my PMA (positive mental attitude). My ear even stopped hurting.

I went a little crazy yesterday and there is a chance that we might all get Lysol poisoning. We'll see.

Zac has a Science Fair project due tomorrow. Humph. I guess we should get started on that.

It snowed last night and is still snowing now. We have snow in our forecast everyday from now until Monday. I am trying to have PMA about that, but it is pretty hard.

I am really angry at all cell phone manufacturers. I know they do this in order to make more $$$, but I really wish they would just be kind to the comsumers and make one universal charger. As I am going through the house and cleaning stuff out I have probably found 20 different chargers. Why we kept them? I guess we figured someday we might have a phone with that kind of charger again. I have since learned that no two cell phones have the same charger, so I might as well throw it out. I wonder, if you took all the worlds tossed out cell phone chargers and put them in one place, how many there would be.....If only we could get some celebrity to jump on the 'cell phone charger cause' band wagon, the world would be a much better place. (that was sarcastic, just in case you didn't know)

What's that picture at the top of my post, you are wondering? Why, those are people charging their cell phones, of course. I wonder how long that takes.

Current Ditty Stuck In My Head - Oh Yeah, Life Goes On

your welcome

i think i might be over my slump

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Wednesday Morning Musings - Take 2

This is what I have decided. I need to embrace it. So that is what I am doing. Embracing. Letting go of all the hate. The negative energy. (deep breath in, deep breath out)

So we're sick. Again. Pshhhh. Big deal. People get sick everyday. Like us. Everyday. We're not dying. We don't have a terminal illness. A degerative disease. (oohhh, big words, no spell check).

Embrace.

Be thankful for the health you have.

I have a new theme song. A little ditty (about jack and diane. two american kids doin' best they can)(gonna let it rock, let it roll. let the bible belt come and save my soul, hold on to 16 as long as you can, changes come around real soon, make us women and men)

That's not my new theme song. I just really love that song and once I start it is really hard to stop (in the name of love).

Apparently I am in a better mood.

Embrace.

Enough, here is my song: "If you can't be in the health you want, honey, love the health your in. Love the health your in."

I am embracing the vomit. I am embracing the poop. I am embracing the countless baths. The loads of nasty as all get out laundry. The 50,000 diapers a day.

I am so thankful I have clean running water to facilitate the clean up. I am thanful I have a washing machine and a dryer. I am thankful I have 50,000 diapers with which to put on my baby. I am thankful that my mother went to the store for me this morning and bought us the things we need to make it through this day.

I am thankful for lysol.

Embrace.

This is gonna be a good day. I can feel it in my bones.

Wednesday Morning Musings - Good Freaking Morning

I have been in a blogging slump the past several days. I think I might be on the verge of getting over it.

I am about to have a nervous breakdown because:

• I finished my antibiotic for my ear infection yesterday. Right now my ear hurts worse than it did when I went to the doctor. I feel like someone has stuck an ice pick in it. And it is still there.



• Addison has been waking up at night. When she does that it usually means she has an ear infection. If that is the case it will be ear infection #6 (or #1 that has just never cleared up) for her since November.



• Addison has the poops. Again.



• Zac and Aubrey both threw up in the middle of the night last night. They were both kind enough to do it within 5 minutes of each other so Steve and I only had to get up and clean up once.



• Steve, Emily and I all feel sick. So far we have had no outward manifestation of our illness. But you know when sometimes you feel like that would make you feel a lot better?



• We have been sick ALL WINTER LONG. No kidding. No exaggerating. ALL FREAKING WINTER LONG.

I really really really really really want winter to be over. I really really really really want to go outside. I want to take my kids to the park. I want to walk my kids to and from school. I want the FREAKING snow to melt and not come back. I want it to be spring.

I just about started to cry when I typed that last part.

I am really mad because my book club meets tonight and I don't think I will be able to go and I loved the book we read.

On a different, more positive note. I am so thankful for my husband and how hard he works so that I can stay home and be a mom to my children. I love you honey!

Will spell check ever freaking work again?

You will have to excuse my language, but that is the kind of FREAKING mood I'm in right now.

Flashback Friday - Hoppy Easter

(Before I move into my flashback I need to say that I guess my story I posted yesterday wasn't as funny in print as it was when it actually took place. Please read in the comments for yesterday's post for my explination.)

Easter 2003

Emily, Aubrey and Zac

David (Steve's brother who used to live with us), Emily, Zac and Aubrey

Stupid Cupid

Last night when I was helping the kids do their Valentines:

Me: Emily, have any boys asked you to be their Valentine?

Emily: No.

Me: Zac, have you asked any girls to be your Valentine?

Zac: (looking at me like I am stupid) NO!

Me: Are there any girls at your school that you like?

Zac: Yes. There is one girl I like.

Me: (trying not to sound too excited) Really. Who is it?

Zac: Garrett. Sometimes he acts like a girl.

I Say A Little Prayer For You

I think that most days answered prayers go by unnoticed. But every once in a while something happens to make you sit up and take notice and realize how blessed you really are.

Yesterday morning we were saying family prayer just like we do any other day. Zac was saying it. It was a pretty quick, to the point, let's eat breakfast now kind of prayer except for one thing. Right at the end of his prayer he said please bless dad while he is at work today that he will be safe. He didn't ask a blessing that anyone else be safe and I thought, hum...And then I went right along with my day and forgot all about it.

Yesterday afternoon Steve was working at our new house. He was up on the roof stapling plastic down. He was working really fast moving down the roof, spreading out plastic and stapling it. He would staple, back up, staple, back up. Well he went to back up and almost backed right off the edge of the roof but he was able to catch himself before that happened. Immediately the thought came into his head, "Your son prayed for you this morning".

Wow. It was a reminder to me that prayer really is important. Sometimes we don't have that much to pray about and prayers might seem, I don't know, like they get monotonous. Or rote. I'm not sure what word I am looking for. But we never know. How many time have we almost "fallen off a roof" and not realized it, but were spared because someone prayed for us that day? It also made me think about the power of a child's prayer.

I am very thankful for a Heavenly Father who loves me and my children. A Heavenly Father who hears and answers our prayers. It reminds me of Emily's favorite Primary song:

Heavenly Father are you really there?

And do you hear and answer every child’s prayer?

Some say that heaven is far away,

But I feel it close around me as I pray.

Heavenly Father, I remember now

Something that Jesus told disciples long ago:

"Suffer the children to come to me."
Father in prayer I'm coming now to thee.

Pray, he is there; Speak he is listening.

You are his child; His love now surrounds you.

He hears your prayer; He loves the children.

Of such is the kingdom the kingdom of heaven