Or "Try, Try Again"
Posted in Kids on Sep 10th, 2010
Heidi is learning to talk quickly now, picking up several new words a day. It’s a relief us and to her to be able to ask her a question and get answers we understand…most of the time. But one of her new “tricks” is to talk with her mouth closed. With her lips tightly sealed [...]
It’s nine in the morning and I’ve already missed an appointment! The plan was to go to the PTA meeting, but I hadn’t arranged with Colin to watch the kids and didn’t really think about it until 8:39 and by then the 8:30 meeting had already started and it’s a 15 minute drive away. Hopefully [...]
I thought it would be fun to archive a “typical” school day for an afternoon Kindergarten mom. Of course, this is only week three of Kindergarten, so I may not know what a normal day is like yet. Here’s what I got so far: 6am Exercise (I’m trying to make this typical, anyway) 7am Get [...]
Isn’t giving everyone the day off of work a funny way to celebrate the amazing work ethic of the average American? And I swear that when I was a kid I was confused by the name of the holiday and wasn’t totally sure we weren’t celebrating a second Mother’s Day. Degen asked me yesterday when [...]
Posted in Family, Primary, Religion/Church, Reviews on Oct 19th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday was C R A Z Y. I’d been playing with my sister since Friday, so my rhythm and schedule was off and laundry running out and…yeah. But it was a good day. At church, Colin gave a 25-minute talk in Sacrament Meeting on temples, springboarded from this talk by Elder Richard [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 20th, 2009
Degen and Maggie are dressed and fed, Heidi is dressed and fed and napping, Colin is at an Elder’s Quorum service project (dressed, hopefully fed, and surely not napping). The kids are baking me a “cake” in their pretend kitchen while I’m being a nerd in my pjs and watching an old John Bytheway Education [...]
Posted in Family, Religion/Church on Jun 10th, 2009
Last night Colin and I got to go to the Oakland Temple and work for a couple of hours. Kim willingly watched all three kids for us with very little notice. Yay Kim! Of course, the kids LOVE having their aunt babysit, and we’re always grateful for her generosity. It’s a strangely big deal for [...]
The other day was our 7th wedding anniversary! I wasn’t in the mood to write at the time, but it was a good day. Seven years is a good, solid number, isn’t it? We are still so happy, and I am grateful to be married to my good husband. An example of his wonderfulness (it’s [...]
Posted in Family on Dec 12th, 2008
Our host disappered with all our sites a couple of months ago, but Colin’s got us back up again. Yay Colin! I’m missing a ton of posts from July through October, but at least we have everything from before July this time around. Yay backups! So, what’s been going on here? Hmmmm… Thanksgiving in Arizona [...]
Posted in Family, Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2008
I noticed in my last post that I mentioned going out to eat on a whim (to Taco Bell) and planning to buy something unnecessary (a boogie board). And I did it with nearly no guilt. That’s a big deal for me, and I feel like I need to acknowledge this huge blessing of financial [...]