Our birds are parents!!!

Welp it's official! My birds are parents! We have had a confirmed sighting of at least one baby bird! We have not followed the websites advice and begun feeding it a bottle every 2 hours ourselves. Nature is gong to take it's course here. If the birds made the eggs they can take care of the babies. Will I be horrified and sad if they don't make it, of course!! But do I have the time and knowledge to feed a 1 inch pink baby bird a bottle? No, therefore, nature will have to do it's job. I do mine by making sure they have lots of food and fresh water!!

rah rah rah

My very best girlfriend group went on a girls weekend trip today. I've been looking forward to it and saving for it since April. But as you may not know, school also started today. I started getting a very strong feeling that I shouldn't go, that I should be here for their first 2 days of school. But then I would think, it's only 2 days!! It's the first days!! No homework, whats the big deal. But I made the hard choice not to go based on this feeling, but then all my friends called or texted me and I cried like a teenager breaking up for the first time, it was awful. So today as I waved off my kids and didn't have my bathing suit packed in the car, I felt really bummed and mad. I am trying really hard to have a attitude adjustment, I should be so proud of myself for listening to the promptings I had to not go. You probably know from many of my posts that I frequently miss those promptings till it's too late. Of all the times to catch the message!!! ARGH!!
yeah me i listened to the spirit and now will be home to clean my house and get ready to organize 15 binders for the various classes my 2 middle schoolers and hs student will have today and i will be home to send them off to school tomorrow and drive aj and elle to gymnastics and make them food and then clean the food and do all the laundry yeah rah rah rah. Whew that was all one breath thus no punctuation, so I wouldn't lose my momentum and feel sorry for myself again :)

Who tells their teenage grandchild that their nose is too big for their face??? I'll give you a hint, NOT MY Mom!! Who does that? That is already a horrible age, we are supposed to love them unconditionally and make them feel good!!! There is no excuse, I don't care if you're tired and stressed out, that is never ok. But if I say something, I will only get the lecture that it was for his own good for some bizarre reason and Kirk will find out I said something, then I get in trouble! What do I do??

Future possibilities

Kirk and I were telling AJ that it's time to go have the "talk" which is totally over due considering he already heard it in school, but better late than never. And Elle asks what the talk is, so I'm trying to generalize what it is. And AJ says "wait a minute, how old were you guys when you got married?" And I said I was 20 and Kirk says 23 and AJ thinks for a minute and says "that's kinda weird, that like a 5th grader dating a 2nd grader... that really opens up my possibilities! I thought I could only look in my grade?" LOL we said well, until college that's a little strange of a age difference, we wouldn't recommend it until then.

Moment

A funny moment on our road trip. Elle yells out that AJ spit on her, we happened to hear this happen so when he tried to say he sneezed not spit.... yah we knew the truth.

New cards rule

We were playing five crowns with the kids and Grandma Judy last night and I was doing really, really awful. And Mom says to me "well you know what they say, unlucky in cards...", and Connor says "means you suck". Not quite the quote ending we grew up with. I thought unlucky in cards meant lucky in live, apparently not.

Busy temple night

While Mom is visiting me here this week we wanted to go do a temple seesion, since she hasn't seen it since the rededication. We got ready to leave after a relly busy day and she realized that she didn't bring her temple stuff since this used to be a renting temple. I ran to a friends house who had some stuff but not everything, and we went hoping someone would have something there. We stopped to meet my girlfriends and eat dinner, one friends dinner never came, so byt he time it did we were running really late. We got half way there when another friend realized she forgot her recomend but we told her to drive anyway and someone could make a phone call. We got there and the front desk said he couldn't help her, but of course after some talking her realized he could make a phone call. Mom found a sister who hapened to have a extra dress I happened to have extra shoes, but then realized wwe missed the 7 session and didn't want to wait a hour.... so we did Initiatories. And what a wonderful decision it was. we had a peacful successful eveing filled with the spirit and I was so grateful we were there!!