Ok That was Gross

I am a mother for heaven sakes most things do not bug me. you can give me a snake, rat, frog, bug, for the most part I don't care. I have cleaned up puke, poop hairballs, dead things and so much more and again for the most part I don't care.

This morning though that was just EWWWWE. Baby spit up and erp all the the time but this morning it went right down my shirt and into my bra. YUCK It just felt ewe and ewwe and gross.

It's a good thing they are cute.

Today I would like to tie up my girls. I swear they have been into everything. They washed their hair in the sink this morning getting water all over the all ready stinky kids bathroom. Then they played with a marker and they were blue from top to bottom. My 2 year old refuses to eat anything remotely good for her ( not that we have junk food in the house) and does nothing but drink milk from sun up to sun down and cries when she doesn't get it. If that wasn't enough tonight my neighbors had their sprinklers on and I told the kids NOT to go in them, do you think they listened to me. NO the girls got wet and then got cold it isn't warm here today so they came in got their coats on and went back out and came back with soaked pants and coats. I want to strangle them I tell you. It is a very good thing that it is time for bed and they are really really cute because if they weren't I would be will to sell of the lot of them ( minus the baby) and start all over.

a question or 2 for ya

SO what does commitment meant to you? I was reading in the scriptures this morning and now that is the question that just will not leave my brain. Thinking about it , I am committed to obey the law but is that the same as being committed to paying tithing or saying your prayers. See for me the latter is more important. I think because if I am obeying Gods law then of course I will be obeying the earths laws.

WHat about other things though like a clean house or disciplining your kids? These are the ones I suck at. I can write down a plan of action and tell my self to follow it and do well for a week or 2 but the commitment to that is just not there. With the kids, not sure if it is the whole I just don't want to hear them cry at me when they have harsh consequences or what but I tend to go easy on my kids as far as bad consequences go, and then if I do I don't always follow through with the whole thing. Like if they get grounded for a week usually in 2 or 3 days they will know that I have either forgotten or that it is just easier not to keep it up and they are done being grounded. I know I need to be WAY more committed than that but just can't seem to get there.


SO tell me what do you do to help you stay committed to those things that just seem to bug the heck right out of ya?

rambling about kids.

Ok so I have at least gotten kind in the habit. I at least look at my blog every other day and about every 2 weeks I write something. Sorry people I really am going to try harder. Life is hectic with 7 kids though ya know. Speaking of which my kids are doing much better in school. being the evil mother that I am. I put them in summer school and information is that they are doing much better. Christine kept up on her work even while at girls camp and the boys have improved their reading skills. Sean and Janet really didn't need the extra school just Tyler and Christine but it didn't hurt to have them go either. Anyway they did well and tomorrow is their last day. Christine could have done a summer band program but quite frankly I want to know that she is serious about doing that before I fork out the money for the clarinet and the music stand and music to go on it. SHe is very talented and gifted in that regard but doesn't seem to be self motivated. She is motivated right now to a really cute all be it OLD band teacher. Mister Usher will retire in 2 years and then what. SO ya know I just don't want to keep doing that. On the other hand if she is going to get serious I don't want to continue to fork out 30 bucks a month on an instument for the next 5 years either. Oh the viscous circle .


My next problem is going to be what to do with them over the next month. Don't get me wrong it will be nice to NOT have to go anywhere but then there is the whole problem of them driving me crazy for the next month. Esspecially Tyler who, for all his trying, can't seem to calm down right now for nothin' I mean the boy is off the wall. I need to find a way to channel that energy and not have him fly offthe handle emotionally for doing it. Any ideas? Ok I have to go and get the prisoners from school so I am out for now.

Lunch with Kari.

I am so sorry it took me so long to do this. I swear I am the most dis organized person there is. Kari was so fun to meet. Her kids are so cute especially little Tyler, and Kari, well Kari is beautiful. Our kids had a great time together and even baby Kyla was a doll the whole time (not so much on the way home but I digress). Kari is really easy to talk to and we ( I thought) got a long really well. we talked about everything from the looks we were getting ( with 7 kids I get those looks a lot) to what a shock it was that our friend Kylie was gone, we even talked about what a great bunch of friends we have on our board. The time Flew and we had to go.

After we left she went to the Outlets and I, well I went where I go every time I go to Lone Tree COSTCO. The inevitable happened, Somebody ALWAYS asks if they are all mine. What do I say to that " no I stole somebody's kids on the way here." OF COURSE THEY ARE ALL MINE, what you can't see the resemblance in their looks. I usually say " yes they are" and then the "Whoa" or " god bless" or "I don't know how you do it" comes in to finish up the display of shock.

We headed home and got hit by a rainstorm in spots it was raining so hard that I couldn't see the road in front of the car and at the base of the mountain in Monument I wanted to wring CDOT'S neck. There was a Lake (ok a puddle the size of a small pond) ON THE FREEWAY . your going 75 and then in a heart beat have to slow WAY down and still the water is spraying up over your car and you can't see a thing, and you are praying that no one has had to stop suddenly in front of you because you are going to hit them if they did.

We did make it home though and all in all it was a great day.

ok starting over again.

I know I royally suck at keeping up with this blog. Well tomorrow my dd heads off to girls camp for the week and I have decided that this is the time for me to work on this small problem. I mean if she is writing in her Journal every day at camp why can't I find the time to do my journal here. so lets see if I can do this every day for at least this week, who knows maybe I will get better at typing even. I also might just get better at doing the whole journal blog thing. I have a diary as well so don't worry this is the more public Let you read it stuff.

So what should I write about tomorrow. I am thinking I should put the best part of my day and the worst part. sound good to you guys?

It's all Kylie's fault (not bad)

It is all her fault that I met another friend IRL. I knew she wanted so I planned a lunch with another gal from my fav board to meet half way and have Lunch. It was great talking Face to Face and I loved every minute of it. Her kids are so cute, esspecially Tyler (yes I have one of those too) I can tell some time in the near future he will be a handful ( my Tyler was and is). the kids got along famously and had fun even without the happy meals. The only real problem we had wasn't with our kids but with the gal that was cleaning tables. First she kept trying to reseat us to a smaller area (HA) and then she told the girls they were to old to be playing in the play house (all of the kids were 12 and under). They were all so well behaved and wonderful. I will post pictures later of our event.

because I miss my friend.

and because I want to think about the possitive in my life. I am taking inspiration from BIG FAT LOSER and it opening song. It mentions what have you done to be proud of today. I need to think of the good things that I do and I am going to try to do this everyday. SO for today this is what I have done that I am proud of.

I got the dishes all done up, I have not only fed my sweet little Ky to day but was also able to pump 5 ounces to boot, I made REAL fried chicken for the first time and I didn't ruin it. Oh and I got up this morning from what I have to consider a full night of sleep and cleaned the kitchen floor, and put the mats back where they needed to be and taped them down.

Go me

This is for you Kylie.

This has been a hard week.

you know about the Friday - Sunday thing. Well when things all settled and Monday was done my BFF called and told me that another dear friend had choose to end her battle with depression. I haven't slept well since then. I am just sad. It has taken this long for me to even get to here where I can write how I feel and not cry. The Kylie before depression was a bubbly happy bend over backward for you person. Even through her fight she would never let you tell her no. SHe would do it even if you didn't think you really needed it or that she had the money to do it. Once she put her mind to it you were getting it and no was not an answer. She had the deepest love for her family and husband and always said the rest of us should be sad because she got the best man in the world. She inspired creativity and and Ideas in all of us, and she rarely got mad when others took over. She had a sense of humor that most do not ( a little of color) but could always make one laugh and feel better about themselves. She was able to laugh about herself ( breasts and depression). SHe left a wonder husband, children, Family, and friends. I will miss her deeply but I know that where she is she is being loved and comforted. I know she was not herself and if she felt she could have kept up the fight she would have.

My dd's Nick name will forever remind me of my sweet friend wh0 helped name her.


I love and will miss you Ky

did you feel that?

That was the whirlwind that was my weekend. Lets start on Friday when my kids had their first board breaking clinic. Can I just say my kids ROCK Most of them broke their boards the first time but we still didn't get done till 8:30PM then my dh went and got movies and we were home about 9:15. Now I had been waiting on my parents all day long not knowing when they had left and they have no cell. so we get home there in the drive is a small white car. There seems to be no one in it but I know it is my parents for 2 reasons. A) the antenna is decorated to the hilt with streamers and American paraphernalia. SO I send my kids to the neighbors to see if they had gone in. my dd comes back and notices the seats are reclined and my parents are out like lights in the car. we talk until at least 11 and that included the kids. Get up on Saturday and eat a bit clean at bit and then get kids read for their sparring and demo team classes. head out of the house at around 10:30am. Classes get done at 1pm and we talk for a bit and head to a THE BABY IS HERE party at my friend Ayrlee's. Randy Manned the Grill and we cooked and played and ate and played and talked till way after things should have been done, but my mom and my friend got along GREAT and my dad and was great too and the mix of member and non member friends got blurred in a good way. we got done with that at around 7pm I think? then I had to go to the store and get stuff of after the blessing and we picked up Chicken and didn't get home till after 8:30 again. we went to bed LATE again and somehow managed not only to get everyone ready but out the door to church the next morning EARLY and we were able to save some seats for relatives and friends that came to see Kyla blessed. I bawled all the way through the meeting because the couple that lost their little boy (nonmember) came to the blessing and I know that things were said that touched them. I will continue to pray that things go in the that eternal direction. Any we came home after the blessing and had some sandwiches the kids and my mom bragged about Dr Phil so we watched that and then decided that since our TKD was as much family as anything we would go to another party for a little girl that got her probationary black belt. My parents at this point decided that we were just party animals and decided to stay home and clean up form the last party, which they did they they watched a movie and slept. WE got home from that one around 6 pm and I ind of got the kids to bed almost on time. they got up this morning and started their first day of summer school. I am hoping tings will fall into a steady pattern soon. If you got his far WTG see you another day. when I can slow down I will post pics of Kyla's blessing dress.