A Few Days in the Life...

Monday...The weekend was great. Except poor W touched the lawn mower's muffler and got a 2nd degree burn on the pad of his thumb. He was so sad, but I think it will be fine. He has not fussed about it since about an hour after it happened. Thank goodness he is not a thumb sucker! He would be out of luck. And as my hubby says, he can lead a life of crime now since he burnt his fingerprint off.

The older kids had swim lessons this morning. They have been so excited. I call it Mormon swimschool and the kids have picked up on that. (I need to break us both of that habit before they say it in front of their teachers. Though, I am not sure if they would be insulted or not.) It is in the backyard pool of a lovely LDS family. They have 8 children and most of them teach swimming in the summer. Most of thier students are also kids from the local LDS church so I usually feel like the only non-Mormon. But I love hanging out there during lessons with all the big families. Except that it makes me covet all the children. I would love to have 8 kids.Anyway, the lessons are great, one on one and the kids learn a lot. Bean was learning the butterfly stroke today. Heck, I can't do a butterfly stroke, though I can't say I feel like I am missing out by not being able to do so.

Thinking about taking the kiddos swimming again when W wakes up. We'll see if I can gather the energy...
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It started to rain again so no pool for us!

So instead of swimming, I shaved R's head into a mohawk. I made it pointy at the back end and now he is telling people he has a knife on his head and trying to poke people. He is such a BOY!!!
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Final thought for the day:
Sweet vision of my crazy man. He feel asleep tonight on our bed in his camo shirt, tough boy mohawk (which he now thinks makes him look like a dragon), but snuggling with a small stuffed animal.

He may be tough on the outside but he is the sweetest guy full of love.

Donuts for Breakfast???

The weekend! Woo Hoo!Just giving W his morning milk, then it is off to do our weekend plans. Exciting stuff like doing our grocery shopping and mowing the lawn. B and I are going on a date tonight to celebrate our anniversary that was, oh, 3 weeks ago. We will drop the kids off with some friends in our babysitting co-op and then probably go get something to eat and find a place to go for a nice walk. We try to do that once a month or so depending on who is hosting co-op.Our church is doing some cool stuff this week. Instead of going to SS we are having an all church breakfast. I am wondering what they will serve, anything but donuts would be good. Breakfast burritos would be great...but if it is donuts I will be sad (and hungry ) Then afterwards there is going to be a family worship service.And it gets better. The church has rented out a local family swim/water center. We will get to go swim, do the water slides and lazy river. It is only our church there, and we have a fairly small church so no lines and lots of friends there. We all are looking forward to it.W is taking his time nursing this morning, singing and cooing while eating. So cute. But I am ready to go downstairs and eat a pancake that B and the kids just made. I have some apple butter I just made calling my name too...

Arn't They Too Young for This?

I am babysitting two boys today and I just heard a funny conversation between my 6 YO daughter and the 6YO boy I am watching:

Her- "do you want to come play in the yard with me?"
Him- "no"
Her- "do you want to play?"
Him- "no, I am tired, I want to lay on the couch"
Her- "do you want to sleep with me?"
Him- "sure!"

Made me laugh anyway.
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I suspect if I keep a true journal of my life, I will talk about food a lot. I like to eat and I spend half my time thinking about my next meal or next snack. I have so many friends that don't cook. How can you not cook??? I was in a playgroup once with a woman who ate canned veggies everyday for lunch and she and her family ate at a local Mexican restaurant EVERY night and had for several years. Now don't get me wrong, I love Mexican, but the same place everynight? Not to mention the waste of money. How hard is it to pour some beans in a crock then slap them on a tortilla with some melted cheese?

Tired Yet???

I am going to take the plunge and give blogging a whirl. There are many good blogs/journals out there, but there are tons of really boring ones too. So if my blog turns out to be boring (and there is a good chance it will given that my life not one of great excitement) then I will stop writing it. I would love to have something to record my days, but even I don't want to fall asleep whilst reviewing my life.

So, time stamp to get started:I am a SAHM in her mid-30's to 3 kiddos, ages 6,4 and 16 months. I am happily married and have been for 11 plus years.