Most embarrassing moment

Since I spent the night being awakened every half hour with a vomiting child and feel like I've been through Chinese torture I'm going to focus on something funny. My most embarrassing moment, I know most of my family knows the story so this is for my friends. I was in charge of music time in my church for awhile, with the attention span of children I was always trying to find a new game. So I found this one where you have cards of different animals and a child gets to pick one and then we sing do as I'm doing like the animal would, like an elephant would swing his trunk, get it? So I have a child pick a card and I read it's a woodpecker and I asked the kids, not really knowing, what a woodpecker would do. All the kids start bobbing their heads like they are bobbing for apples and I say OK lets sing the song like that! I look over to my pianist and she was talking to someone so in order to stall everyone and get her attention I said in my bright, cheerful Pollyanna voice " OK Kids, get your little peckers ready!" It wasn't until after it was out of my mouth that I realized WHAT i had said and how terrible it was! There were some good friends on the front row as teachers who barely cracked a smile trying to support me but an older gentleman teacher in the back laughed out loud and laughs every time he sees me in the hall to this day! Needless to say I was taken out of Primary music a few months later and not put back in!

Foiled Once AGAIN

Along with my respect for Murphy's law is another law, one I don't even know the name of. Maybe it's a subsidiary of Murphy, he's a powerful guy you know. I was supposed to go on a night away with a bunch of girls from church, we were going to a cabin by a lake for the night eating junk and bonding, relaxing, no kids!! And OF COURSE emergencies happen at Kirks work so here I am making mini corn dogs and tater tots. Looks like I'll be here as a single parent all weekend rather then Kirk. It has happened like this our whole marriage, but it's never anything either of us can blow off. First it was important assignments in law school and now it's a case going to trial on Tuesday that needs a mountain more of work to do. Oh well, love my honey, gotta be glad he's got a job he likes!! And it pays for me to be a stay at home mom! And it paid for my new book and treats for me and the kids to ease our woes!!

Sublimnal encouragment

This is a picture of my fridge, it is my montage of pictures on my fridge anyway. I know that this collection really drives some of my friends and family nuts because its, well i guess it could look messy and random. But there is a purpose to it. It is right about the water spout, so whenever I'm feeling like yelling at a child or ripping my hair out, or running for Mexico where no one will ever find me, i stand there and drink a glass of water while looking at cute smiling pictures of my kids. And I think oh yeah, they can be cute and nice, lets try again. Priceless really. It's funny how those subliminal type things work. For instance above the toilet on a shelf in the main level bathroom I have a copy of the family proclamation, I'm not sure how it ended up there, but whatever. So one day Matt was explaining to me the injustice of how I was treating him, and he said well mom it is says in the proclamation that you are supposed to raise me with love and respect and I'm just not feeling that when you make me do jobs. I was like , What? Where did you get that from? He said well while I'm using the bathroom I stand there and read it, what else is there to do? (how about not get pee on the rim??) So as silly as it is to have the Proclamation in the bathroom, it seems to be working!

Fun Times in Alpharetta

I had a really fun time tonight doing something different. A friend at church suggested a card party where we all make 12 valentine cards and bring them and we swap cards. I haven't done anything crafty like that in awhile so I was a little rusty. I forgot how walking into hobby lobby gives me the desire to be crafty and I think 'self' i do say it, i've told ya'll i do, "self if I buy everything I will then be good at everything", but i know that isn't the case. For instance I tried using embossing powder on my cards, but i didn't want to buy the embossing heating tool, obviously if I was Kirk I would have bought the tool, because he has to own all the tools. Anyway I didn't and therefore the cards didn't look quite like I had hoped, but it was still fun. Mostly it was just fun to get out with some girls and talk books, actors (not actresses),movies, gross kid stories, you know. And mostly it got me out of the house so I missed a night of reading, which is a good thing! I am trying to baby step myself into reading less. I'm keeping track on Shelfari, in Jan for instance I read 18 books. And some of those I liked so much I read maybe twice. That's probably too many books, some of that time should really be used to... say, clean out closets or i don't know dust blinds. So I'm trying to slow down, so far in Feb I've only read 3 books so I think that slower... right? Although now isn't the time to slow down, Kirk will be gone a lot this month for court and then he goes right into pinewood derby time, heaven knows I'm a pinewood derby widow for at least a month. Talk about buying tools, the pinewood derby has cost me more money than all my scrapbooking supplies put together! At least we are down to only one cub scout this year, thank heavens for small graces!

My weekend

Well it's been an interesting weekend to say the least. Friday I had Matt and AJ home from school, mostly they just had a cold but Matt sounded awful and Aj looked awful. And I spent the day running around getting food and supplies for the EYO scouts to spend the night camping in our basement. Saturday we were up at the crack of dawn making breakfast for the boys, driving AJ to the first birthday party he could go to in at least 2 years since everyone seems to have them on Sunday, grocery shopping etc, you know how Saturdays are. By about 10 that night I was feeling really bad, horrible headache slightly ill and I thought about calling a sub to lead the music for me in church, but then I thought I'm stronger then that I can get up and do the music come home whatever. I have this irrational fear that if we miss a week of church the kids will love it so much they'll never go back, but I finally just said self, i say this alot, self just send an email if they get it great. So I sent out an email to someone to sub for me. Boy am I ever glad I actually listened to the prompting this time, as well all know I tend to not realize I've been prompted until I miss it. About midnight Elle climbed into bed with me and proceeded to vomit her poor little body into nothingness every hour or less until 7 am. It was a very long night! Kirk who has 2 major cases going to court in the next month and CANNOT afford to be ill slept on the couch. Which I understood, but at the same time would have liked for someone to take care of Elle besides me, since I wasn't feeling great myself. But he was great all day as Elle and I laid in bed the whole day and brought us water and played with the boys. Elle watched movies and cartoons and I read 2 slightly but not completely trashy romance novels, if we didn't feel so ill it would have been a great day! As I said earlier Kirk has 2 cases going to trial this month, one is local and one in FL. The one in FL was just moved to a week before our scheduled trip for spring break, which gives me flash backs of last year when the judge scheduled trial during our family reunion! Of all the weeks in the year how do these things keep happening on the one week he takes off?? So I have my fingers crossed that it will not be moved again! But just in case I am resigned to going and having a wonderful time in Florida with or without him, isn't that wifely of me?? :-)

Connors Invention

Connor created a system to water his plant. As you can see it involves my fridge, 2 bar stools, blocking the freezer and access to my kitchen from one side, so it may not last long, so I am immortalizing it by video and blog. The plant does not lack from water, but it defiantly needs a bigger pot, even I knew that without my plant classes in college. Thanks Dad for my college classes of course! I'm not sure I enjoy hearing just how young my voice sounds on the video, still don't think thats a reason for me to have been given a kids menu...

Lost teeth and Murphys Law

Another last for me!! My baby girl lost her first tooth! She wiggled it for days and days and finally pulled it out! Of course it was at 10 pm meaning she was once again to excited to sleep! I've told my kids about Murphy's laws, one being a child loses a tooth late at night and so won't go to sleep, or Connor and AJ getting sick the day before school starts after a long holiday, all of these are Murphy's law. Of course Brig showed the biggest evidence of Murphy's law by breaking his arm the day before going back to school, that may be a bit extreme. But he will learn to fake ear infection or stomach aches soon enough! AJ has something like a bladder infection and I admit I laughed as hard as he did when he had to tell the Dr that his "pepsicles" hurt. It was a funny moment and AJ's laughter is the most infectious of all my kids.