Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Crazy Life and Crazy Me

Crazy Life, and Crazy Me
I feel like a lot of the time lately I am saying that I'm Crazy.  People ask "So how was your morning?'  I say "Crazy".   I seem to have  a lot of things and plans in progress.  So I have lots of little things to do but none of them are in completion phase and cannot be until  a later date.  For example,  Noah's Clone Wars birthday party, Taxes from 2004, paperwork to get the tango  and now I am working on a fundraiser for him so that he can get his Tango which is a communication speech device.  I don't have all the details worked out.  And since I have never done a lot of these things.  I am learning things the hard way and everything seems to take a ton of time.  

A week ago friday,  I was shopping at Target and suddenly did not feel well at all.  I cked my blood sugar and it was dangerously high.  The only reason I could think of was I had changed my insulin site earlier and it was not absorbing correctly.  I told Noah we needed to grab the groceries and go home so Mom could take care of herself.  Well I was by the cheese and squatted down to get a closer look and blacked out.  I woke up seconds later to a sweet boy kissing me to wake me up (that is how you wake mommy from a nap).  I could not form a coherent thought.  I at least knew to call my sister Amy.  She says our conversation was really odd.  I kept telling her we needed sweet and sour sauce,  I was going to go to the bathroom and put my kids in the car.  I did manage to get out that I had blacked out.  SHe yelled at me to not put my kids in the car and she would be there.  She contacted Kersten and he called and convinced me to hang out in the food court.  They both came to my rescue.  Got me home safe and my kids too.  I changed all my stuff,  gave a jolt of insulin and was better soon.  It took probably until last thursday until I felt like I could form normal thoughts.  I am perfectly fine now and I decided this was a way my body could remind me what it can and will do to me and I need to prepare me and my kids.  Sofia got an ear infection that night and was sick, up all night for 3 days.  So we rested and hung out together.  I was suppose to speak in church that sunday but ended up calling the bishop on saturday to ask to be excused.  So I guess that is one way to get out of speaking in church.  

This is being told because it is kind of funny now.  We are all happy and safe.  Noah was scared a bit but now he knows just what to do.  And it seems this  threw me off my game of all the normal mother, wife, housekeeper, daughter, sister, financial maintaintence person.  So everything went to down the tubes and I am playing catch up all day long.  So if anyone has planned an amazing Clone Wars party,  (I bought the invites because I knew that I could not get them done by when I need them,  I am a bit shocked and sad but it really does not matter in the long run.  I love making cards and invites that is why I am sad).  Or if you have ever planned a huge fundraiser  I could use all he advice and help in the world.  

Friday, March 27, 2009

Top Ten- Things that are Yellow


My favorite color is yellow.  I love it.  It reminds me of sunshine, happiness and cheerfullness. It's bright, noticeable and can be understated.  A soft yellow for me is really calming and makes me smile.   So here on my top ten list I thought I would list some things that make me happy all in yellow
  • Middles of Daisies
  • Lemons
  • Yellow M&M's
  • Yellow Spring shoes
  • Yellow Scarf
  • Yellow Roses
  • Sunflowers
  • Yellow purse
  • Yellow Wedding
  • Soft Yellow paint for walls
I always seem to come up with more than ten
  • Autumn leaves
  • yellow candles
  • yellow curtains
  • yellow end tables
  • yellow sundress
  • yellow backyard furniture
  • yellow dresser
  • yellow headboard
  • yellow dishes

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Visit from Carrie

My best friend Carrie is in town this week and we just hung out today.  It was lovely.  She and her boys came and played at our house.  We ate Crown Burger for lunch, managed the kids, talked and just were together.  I love this woman and it was fabulous just being with her.  
The boys
They played really well together once we found something they all wanted to do.
Sofia and Luke
Sofia watched whatever Luke did.  They sure had fun

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Children's Book- Mailing May

Mailing May   
By Michael O. Tunnell
Illustrated by Ted Rand


This book is about a young girl, May, who wants to visit Grandma in Lewiston, Idaho (you gotta love a book that references real places). Unfortunately,  they do not have the $1.55 for the train ticket.  She even tries to find a job to earn the money.  To save the day, May's folks come up a quirky and probably illegal (but still hilarious) idea to get her there--mailing her.

It's an adorable story that has all the magic of a little girl setting out into the big world via a train. There is a delectable sense of history and wisdom as she makes her railway journey, and the writing is personable and funny. I love the references to the post office. It shows some of the processes that they go through to get the mail where it needs to go. It is based on a true story and the author writes a note in the back about the real story in his family history.  I just love true stories and family histories so I was smitten,

The illustrations are 3/4-page watercolor paintings, with smaller paintings of postage stamps, photographs, tags, and railroad documents, thus adding to the story's sense of reality and historicity. They help establish the early 1900s setting, and develop the characters through facial expressions.  Ted Rand does and amazing job.  This book has got me looking more at  his illustrations.

Check it out,  Kids love it too.  

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wednesday Words 03-18-09


*Kersten was talking with Noah about Weapons.
This is a big deal at our house.
There are NO Weapons at school and 
Now Noah says school is boring because there are No weapons.
Boring is a word he also picked up at school
Back to the beginning.
Kersten asked Noah what his best weapon is.
He pointed to his head and said his Brain.
He learned that at karate.
Kersten asked him how he uses it.
Noah got a smirk on his face and promptly
Head butted Kersten.
We laughed for a good 10 minutes.
What a smart creative kid.

*Sofia is weaned.
It has been a week and a half.
She has asked twice but then resigned herself to snuggling.
It makes me a bit sad
She is my last baby. 
I won't get to do this again.  
I really do love breast feeding.
Even though it does confine you a bit. 
I love the closeness, the sounds they make, just everything.
This is very freeing and a little bit sad

*I am blaming my emotions 
on my hormones.
they are sifting all over the place.
I'll let you know more in a week.  

*My brother and his wife are in Disneyland
I am totally jealous.
I love that place.
It is the happiest place on earth.
I love the sounds, rides, sights and especially the magic.
I will now go look at our pictures of our vacation there in 2006

*The last episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is this friday.
Our family is freakin out in anticipation
Also a bit sad that there will be no new episodes.
Noah is very specific about his birthday party this year
I only do friend ones when they turn 5,8 and 12  maybe 10 we will see.
But it has to be a Star Wars: The Clone Wars party.
Not just Star Wars.  So  that will be so so exciting

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy St Patrick's Day 2009


Happy St Patrick's Day!

A little green man snuck into our house and turned our milk Green.   It was done by magic.  He also caused some mischief at school.  It caused a bit of concern for a little boy in our house.  We are going to go search for one of these men in our yard.  We heard if you catch one they grant you a wish and you can follow them to their pot of gold.  It will be a grand adventure.   Noah said his wish would be to get all the bad guys.   Sofia says her wish would be "Ggrr, baba, mommom, dadadada grrrrr".  Sounds good to me.



When Irish eyes are smiling,
'Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing.
~Author Unknown

Monday, March 16, 2009

Back from the Cabin

The Cabin was wonderful.
It was relaxing, productive and fun.
Complete with scrapbooking, flower making
and even some dancing and light saber fighting. 
We stayed up until 4:00am
Watched 7 movies.
Lots of musicals and girl movies. 
We ate to much junk food
Talked and laughed until our cheeks hurt.
Froze our buns off,  it was freezing at night.
Took pictures of all my favorite things at the cabin.
It was wonderful.  
We were not ready to leave when it became time.

Update:  about the meltdown,  I feel as if I need to clarify.
I just started weeping when the computer
would not print what I wanted.
As I said before it had been building up 
and the silliest thing made me weep.
It was good to release all those back emotions.
In my opinion everyone should do that more often.
We would all be a bit better off