I Am...

I am your parent;

you are my child.

I am your quiet place;

you are my wild.

I am your hush now;

you are my lyrical.

I am your peace on Earth;

you are my miracle.

-- From Maryann Cusimano 

"Love's You Are My Miracle"

I'm Tagged Again

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the Person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
5. Let your tagger know when your entry is up

Here is the blog of who tagged me: http://teresa-ofwhatalife.blogspot.com/
Thanks Teresa,

So I have been tagged and it actually was kind of hard thinking of things new to post about myself. I really am an open book to most people.

1.I have a dream to go back to school. I want to get a degree in Speech Language and Pathology. I would have to get a Master's to be able to practice. I could help Noah a lot more and lots of other kids also. It goes along really well with my other degree. It would be a perfect mom job. You could set your own hours if you practiced privately. Oh, well, we'll see what happens with that one.

2. My favorite computer game is Sims. I love building the houses and decorating. Then as you play your Sims, to see if they like it. I usually get bored playing the same Sim for awhile so I just go and build another house. I could waste a lot of hours doing this.. I also love Bejeweled and doing word search puzzles.

3. I really do dislike being late for things. I also really dislike being too early, I feel like waiting around is a waste of time. So in my ideal world, I am right on time for everything and so is everyone else.

4. I am very easily entertained. It really does not take much for me to enjoy myself. Sometimes this could be to a fault. I am quick to say I loved it. So it is good for me to step back and contemplate how I feel about something more than directly afterwards.

5.I get really frustrated with technology. It is just suppose to work. I don't like fiddling around with it. Once I have learned how to do something, I usually can do that forever now, I just don't want to take the time to figure it out. If someone will show me, that is much better.

6. I am a visual learner. I think that is why I excell at reading, colors, shapes and art. That is where my best grades were in school. Noah is also very visual. With his talking school, he does so much better if he has a queue.

So there you go, Some more useless information about the one and only me. Hope you enjoyed it.
Now I tag...... I know the suspense is killing you..... Amy, Lena, Nik, Carrie and Kieran

Grateful Sunday 9-14-08

Kersten: I had a glorious weekend, although Friday was one of my most frustrating mom day so far.  I was tapped out to the max and a bit sad, for I was suppose to go to my family cabin for the weekend.  And a bit relieved that I could stop packing. My sweet husband came home with some Gerber daisies,  new cordless phones and an order to get out of the house.  Oh sweet bliss.  I ended up reading my book in the car in a parking lot,  eating a cheeseburger.  But it was heaven with no other distractions around.  I came home happy to kiss my kids goodnight.  I also got a nap yesterday morning.  Kersten totally out did himself this weekend.  I am so spoiled.

Flight: I am also going to go visit my best friend, Carrie in a couple of weeks.  And early b-day present.  I am giddy and so excited to see her and spend 6 days with her.  :D  I really am so spoiled.  Sofia and I are going to have the best time.  Kersten even arranged the babysitting for Noah.  

Lagoon:  We went to Lagoon yesterday.  We got tickets for a third of the price. Kersten's brother Jason and Verity came also.  They were so patient with our restrictions with our kids.  Noah's favorite ride was the spaceships with the guns.  We took turns with the kiddos and went on the new ride Wicked and the spider.  We had a fun family day.  We came home tired and happy.     It was a lovely day.  I am so glad we went.

Talking:   We had such fun coversations with some of our siblings and their spouses.  Emilee and Gearold surprised us on Friday night and talked late into the night.  They brought pie and we just chatted until the wee hours of the morning.  So fun.  After we went to Lagoon we just sat and talked with Jason and Verity until late.  It was just so lovely to connect with family on a personal level.  Loved it.

Children's Book- Tops and Bottoms

I am starting a new series where I will showcase some of my favorite children's books.  I love, love, love children's books and have collected them even before I had children.  I am quite passionate about these books.  I really cannot say I have an absolute favorite children's book.  I have quite a few.  In no particular order of when I post these.

Tops and Bottoms  By: Janet Stevens

It is the story of a lazy bear and a Hare.  The bear owns all the land and Hare and his family are starving so they come up with a plan. 

"We can be business partners!" Hare says. "All we need is this field right here in front of your house. I'll do the work of planting and harvesting, and we can split the profit down the middle." Hare says soon afterwards, "So what will it be, Bear?" "The top half or the bottom half?" Hare doesn't mention what crops he will grow to bear, because, of course, he will plant veggies that bear fruit(or, well...vegetables) underground. Carrots, radishes, etc.

The next growing season, Bear will naturally choose the bottoms, but-again-he doesn't demand a certain vegetable to plant, so Hare plants vegetables like cabbage that grow above ground.

Finally Bear gets smart-or at least he thinks he is-and demands to have both the tops and bottoms of the crops; Hare agrees? This time he plants Corn so that he gets the middles.  Tricking the bear once again.  

Finally Bear gets so upset that he says he will do it himself.  Hare and his family get land for themselves and the message is that "Hard Works Pays off"

It is a Caldecott Honor book, so a lot of you might have seen or read this one before.  The pictures are incredible.  Rich with a lot of detail and new discoveries that make you look at them over and over again.  Hare wears a carrot Hawaian shirt and Bear always has a loose tie and big boots.    One very original thing about this book is it's format.  Instead of reading the book horozontally,  the only way you can read it is vertically.  

This book is clever, witty and humorous.  We love it,  and a plus is that Noah will read it sometimes even though it is not Star Wars.  

Noah's First Day of School-Age 4

Noah's first day of full school was this morning. Here he is with his super cool new Transformer backpack.  I let him pick out his clothes and of course it was one of his blue Star Wars shirts.  This was for meet the teacher day which was yesterday.  He wore his red C3PO and R2D2 shirt for today.  . He was really nervous and kind of shy. But his new teacher, Ms Amber was really smart and showed him all the cool places and toys in the room. He said he liked her. When Lily showed up they immediately started running around like crazy together and he was in his element. It helped make him really excited for today.

Here is a pic of his new teacher, Ms Amber, Noah and his friend Lily.  My camera has started to have this haze over each picture.  Time for a really new camera. He was so excited and nervous for school, he woke up at a quarter to seven this morning.  He ate breakfast and chocolate milk.  He watched the cartoon Iron Man while he got dressed.  He was so full of nervous energy that you could feel it vibrate in the room.  We were a couple minutes early.  So he had to kiss his baby like 8 times and give her squeezes so that she would not miss him and know that he would be back.  This spured on that a couple of the other kids had to also hug Sofia cause she was a cute baby and Noah was willing to share.  He had a couple of kids he knew from last year in his class.  When Camden saw him,  his face lit up and he jumped up and down and came and gave Noah a hug.  Camden's mom took their picture together.  We hung up his backpack, found his name collar, where he got mad that it said Noah instead of Anakin. He is also Iceman today so that would have been fine also.  But plain Noah was just NOT okay.  He waved goodbye and he ran to play.  I hope it turns out to be a marvelous day.  

Grateful Sunday 9-7-08

This week I am grateful for so many thing:

Weekend:  We had such a fun weekend.  It started on thursday where we went to the Utah State Fair.  On Friday we were going to go camping,  traffic was at a standstill so we went up Sat morn and spend the day on The Land, which was gorgeous.  I love being up there .  ( i will post later about the specifics of these events)

Noah: Or as he corrects you every time, his name is Anakin. He is working so hard right now on his words. Really, he is doing well. He is so snuggling and joyful most of the time. He wants to be good. And if you remind him of the reasons to calm down and be good. He works hard to do that. It is nice to see a bit of a silver lining with him.  

School:  I went to Noah's preschool orientation on thursday.  His new teacher Miss Amber is so enthusiastic and young.  She sounds very creative and organized.  Which will be fabulous.  I also started searching out all the options this week for Noah's education in the elementary years.  I feel like the Lord is opening doors and showing me where to go and look.  I want him to have what he needs to succeed even if he can't talk perfectly until high school (it could happen).  I am really excited and hopeful.

My Sweet Family:  Right now, I have been concentrating on just enjoying my children and my husband.  They kids are at such fun ages.  With Noah going back to school this week, there will not be as frequent quiet moments with all of us.  

Kersten's New Calling:  he grew himself into his calling as the bishop said.  He grew his beard, hoping to inspire no callings.  He is a ward missionary.  Which he is excited about and just right for him right now, with his work and school.  It is fun to see him excited about it.

In the Rain

It has been raining a lot this weekend.  On Sunday when it started to rain,  I was sitting on the floor at my in-laws.  When my son comes and grabs my hand and says "Mom, come"  waving his hand in a come this way motion.  

He had to show me the rain.  

 It was dumping water on everything.  The sound of the rain pattering on the roof was intense. Grandma Monika and Noah were standing on the porch catching the rain in their hands.  I took off my socks and Noah followed me.  We would run out into the rain and come back to make footprints on the pavement.  Over and over again.  As Grandma watched us in our silliness. 

Noah started seeing Count Dooku in the sky and started fighting all the bad guys in the rain.  He even tried to explain what battle he was fighting as Anakin Skywalker.  I really am lucky that I have someone talented enough to save me from all these bad guys that surround our house.  

I grabbed him up off the driveway in one big swoop.  And I started singing and dancing.  Of course, the song was "Singing In the Rain"  one of my all time favorite shows and songs.  Noah laughed as he lifted his face to the sky and water dripped down his face.  My heart knew that this was something I will always remember.  We finished off the dance with a big dip.  For that is how most great dances end.  My pant legs were soaked and my hair was all wet.  But,  all was right and good with the sound of laughter from my boy.

Thank you, my son for showing me the rain.  And for knowing that I did really want to see it.