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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Today's Plan

It's Thursday. It's been a long week. Sam has been great. He's my iron man this week. He's at school. Ruthie has a bit of a cough, but not enough to keep her from preschool. Isaac finally has color back in his face and is starting to eat more. He announced today that he still needs to stay home but will be going to school tomorrow. Frankly, I think he's just bored. Daniel is still coughing his guts out. Actually it's phlegm. It also makes me gag when he coughs. Gross. He's in a hot bath right now trying to warm up. He still swears he's taking me out tomorrow night. Hey, I'm game! I have had a tiny tickle in my throat that just makes me cough a little. I also turn 38 today. Since I didn't sleep last night due to the continuous coughing of people around me, I am not turning cartwheels. Not that I would anyway. But a birthday is a day to celebrate. Right?

So here's my plan. Blog. Take some Excedrin. Take a nap. Maybe get up. Sit for a while. Take a shower. Watch mindless TV. Make a chocolate cake. (mmm) Dream about eating dinner out tomorrow night. Frost the cake. Take a nap. Have chocolate cake for dinner. Think heavily of the movie popcorn I will be enjoying tomorrow night. Have spaghetti for dessert. Watch the Office. Go to bed.

Daniel says he'll just be having dinner tonight. No dessert for him. For some reason he doesn't like spaghetti. But it's cheap, it's easy, I like it, it's my birthday. Please don't feel sorry for me. I can still go get myself a large caffeinated beverage away from home without needing to take anyone with me. Yay for me!

Happy Thursday!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

100 Days

Today marks 100 days of school. Has it been that long? How many more days are there left? In 1st grade, they get to bring 100 somethings to share with the class. Sam has been building a lid collection. He decided to use all the white lids. There just weren't enough red, blue or silver lids. I asked him if they were going to count to 100 100 times today. He said, "No way. That would take hours!" Then he suggested they might count to 100 100,000,000 times.

Sam hasn't missed a day of school. So today is really really his 100th day. Isaac has only been to school 97 days. He needs to get back in there soon. No fever so far today!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Oh No!

Guess who's sick?

Could it possibly be the kid who's playing on the Wii?

Oh Come on! He's beating his previous score!

Now it's true he should be in school right now.

But if you look really closely, his eyes are red, his face is pale and if you were to feel his forehead, you would definitely have warm hands.

Isaac has Infuenza A. So he'll be working on his Wii play for a few days. Although he may be surprised at how much homework he's going to have when I go see his teacher after school today.

No sense getting behind just because of a virus.

Now if only the rest of us will stay healthy! I mean, I have a date lined up for Friday night. He's really cute, too! I would really hate to miss this date on account of the flu!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Project Picture.

Another 7 days. Another 7 pictures. Enjoy!

Monday...Chinese New Year. I have gone in to Isaac's school class for the last few years to talk about CNY and our traditions and our trip to China 4 years ago. This year I got to go to Sam's class, too. I give each of the kids a pair of chop sticks, a fortune cookie (which is NOT Chinese), a red envelope with a gold coin in it and a dragon mask to color.

Tuesday...In China they put red banners around their front doors. I made my own. They aren't quite what you'd see in China. But we're not in China. The top one is Spring, the middle is Good Fortune and the bottom is Good Luck.

Wednesday...I made dinner for a new mommy in our ward. (CUTE!!) I made rolls to go with dinner. I love raising rolls. They look like baby legs!

Thursday...More CNY stuff. This is a good luck banner that I put on our wall. (yes, the banner is backward.)

Friday...And even more CNY stuff. This is one of our lanterns. It is up ready for the Lantern Festival on February 9.

Saturday...Abbie's Tea Party. The girls all got a suitcase of makeup. The older girls got the blue eye shadow out and, well, you can see what happened. Ruthie was too shy to put it on. The looks on their faces and the crossed arms are due to the fact that they are "Rock Stars".

Sunday...Sam is into making things out of paper. This is his paper crown. He then put his blankie over his shoulders and told me to take a picture. The look was thrown in just as the picture was took. Are those your angry eyes, Sam?

Happy Sunday!

Friday, January 30, 2009

It Finally Happened...

My family moved to Utah from Nor Cal in July of 1988. I was 17 years old and impressionable. I began my senior year of high school at a new school with no friends and no car. I did get a car later, but I shared with my overpowering sister. She's only overpowering when we're in high school and finally have a car and she wants to drive. And when we shared a bedroom and she wanted to watch TV late at night while I was trying to sleep. Otherwise she's pretty nice. I hated Utah. Really. Really. So when I graduated, I moved to So Cal to live with my grandparents. I ended up staying for about 18 months and worked and went to school. I came to the conclusion at one point that home wasn't California. It wasn't necessarily Utah. It was where my family was. My family was in Utah. So I moved back home.

Several years later, all of our extended family came for my sister's wedding. I had been back in Utah for that long minus another 18 months for a mission...in California. My aunt and I were talking and out of the blue she says, "You really sound like a Utahn". I was shocked and dismayed. Really. I had grown to love living in Utah. But I still made fun of the way Utahns talked. So I began really listening to myself. She was right. I did sound like a Utahn. I didn't say Fetch or You Bet or Oh My Heck and I certainly was over the big permed hair. But my accent had become Utahn. Did you know Utahns have an accent? Well they do.

Today I ran over to the school to drop something off for the upcoming kindergartners. The secretary was so excited and was thanking me profusely for what I gave her. As I turned to walk out of the office, she thanked me again. To my horror I answered back with a jubilant, "You Bet!". Seriously? Did I just say that? I have never said that in my life except to poke fun at all the Utahns.

I know I am a Utahn. I love my State. I love my accent, which I sometimes really overuse! But I suppose over 20 years of hearing the Utah way of talkin, it has finally risen to my mouth. Oh my heck! I just can't believe it. Fetch! I must be a true blue Utah girl.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

28 Days...

I realized this morning that I have 27 posts so far for January 2009. Today is January 28. So I am making an even number of posts. Welcome to post 28 on January 28. Am I starting a trend? Will I have 365 posts this year? No!!! I am an even person and this just makes so much sense in my warped brain! Rather than ending with that, I thought I'd share some cute sleeping pictures. Because we all know we love our children best when they are asleep!

Ooohh...