We May Not Have It All Together...But Together We Have It All: Brain Freeze

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Brain Freeze

I've had a blogging brain freeze. Simply put: I can't think of a single thing to blog about.

So as I was cleaning this morning, and I was trying to think of something creative (which is looking very unlikely to happen), this is what I was thinking:

We have 3 bathrooms in our house with 3 toilets, 3 bathtubs, and 3 sinks...

WHY can't the kids flush the toilet?

WHY can't every toilet flush in the same day and not have at least one of them be plugged and need to be plunged?

THEN after I've flushed and plunged, and go to wash my hands:

WHY oh WHY does either a bathtub or a sink or both have to be plugged and can't drain well every day? Does our house have serious plumbing issues, or do most households experience these same WHY's?

That being said...I am SO bragging (no complaints here).

I am SO thankful for indoor plumbing. Seriously, can you imagine freezing your keester off going outside in this cold (especially in the middle of the night?)

My parents have to pump their water with a small bike pump, through a filter in hot, sweating buckets as they do it. So their struggling with the question of should they drink the amount of water they need? If so...they need to pump it themselves!

So yep...I'm so grateful for my plugged toilets, sinks, bathtubs. At least I got 'em, and clean water to go in 'em.

So there you have it...the results of my blogging brain freeze. So next time you wonder why I'm not blogging...just be glad I'm not blogging my ridiculous thoughts as they happen!

My dad pumping water on his mission in the Marshall Islands. Go daddy...Go!

7 comments:

Amber Bradley said...: You can catch up my blog for me if you want! Love it! We do need to appriciate what we have!; January 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM
FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY said...: I have the same problem. Sunday I'd finally had enough so I took the sink drains apart and cleaned them out. You'd be surprised what accumulates in there! Now they drain perfectly. Nasty? Yep. Worth it? Totally.

Now I just need to figure out how to get into the bathtub drains. I did it before but can't remember how. Or I guess I could just buy some drain-o.; January 7, 2010 at 8:33 AM
Dave Lucy & Marley Gurney said...: I just can't understand why they don't stay clean for more then a hour!; January 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Drapers said...: I totally agree on the flushing thing. Why can't bathrooms just clean themselves?:); January 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM
tysonandmandimoser said...: I am thinking that if you are plunging that often there may be a problem, but I'm no plummer. Also, we (well Tyson) did what Kelly did and it was totally gross, but it did make a difference in drainage. ***Make Ira do it though, very very disgusting!!! Ya, very glad for running water. My brother in Honduras (mission) can now shower, after months with using a bucket. I don't think I could do that.; January 7, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Ann said...: I always love your blog posts Nicky! Thanks for the reminder to be grateful for my nice plumbing.; January 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Smullin Family said...: Nicky,
I've missed you!!! Since you went private, your blog no longer shows me that you've posted. Last I saw was your "Ode to Bear Lake". Yeah, it's been that long! I just assumed that your life got so busy, that your blog got put on the back burner. Yes, your life is BUSY, but I'm glad to now know what's been going on since Bear Lake. :) Miss you guys! Come see us.
We're doing something special next month... more details to come. (It's hush, hush right now.); January 9, 2010 at 1:11 AM

Kute Komments!

Jarin: "I've been waiting all day for Kamden to grow up...when will he grow up like me?"
4-2010

We were driving by a farm which was being fertilized. Jarin sniffs a big sniff and says, "Mmmm...that smells like my strawberry nose" (the strawberry nose was a yummy smelling gas mask from the dentist)!
Jarin: "Is is "fat man or bat man"?
Jarin "My heart is dirty and needs to be cleaned." Then I wash his face, and he says, "My heart is clean!" (He watched me put lipstick on once, and thought my top lips looked like hearts. Now he thinks that lips are hearts). Which makes me wonder what he thinks when he says, "The Holy Ghost makes our heart feel good."
Jarin asked with a great big smile that melts my heart, "Mom, are you being grumpy with me?" (yes, I was - but that started us both laughing instead!)
We were having a family home evening helping Emilie to prepare for baptism. We talked to her about making good choices and right vs. wrong. We were trying to prompt her to give an answer when Ira asked her, "What's opposite of right, (he asked it in the context of right choices), and she answered, "Left." (you should have seen the look Ira and I gave each other - it spoke volumes!)
Same family home evening... we were talking about the Holy Ghost. Jarin (being very tired and very sensitive at the moment anyways), started going balistic on us. Not only did he say he was scared of the Holy Ghost. And not only was he crying because he was scared, but he was SOBBING, and it continued for about an hour (which is when he fell asleep still crying)!! Then first thing out of his mouth when he woke up was that he was scared of the Holy Ghost! We think we are doing the right thing by teaching our children, but really - we have taumatized Jarin! I can only imagine what was going on in his little imagination. Did I mention that FHE finished earlier than planned?
Ira was feeling the baby move at a particularly active time. He said, "Is he moving furniture around in there?" (some days it sure feels like it!)
There was a baby being blessed in church Sunday, and Jarin saw the priesthood men in a circle, and loudly proclaims "Look mom, their playing ring around the rosies!"
Emilie asked me, "Since our eyes are blue, how come everything doesn't look blue to us?" I explained how we see through the black circle in our eyes. She said, "Then the blue is just for decoration?"
Jarin walks around the house constantly saying, and singing "I am a Child of God, and He has sent me here." And when anyones voices get too loud, he sings, "Love at home... Love at home..." I'm not sure he even knows the meaning of what he's singing, but it stops the contention and usually starts a few giggles.
Ira was talking about leap year, and Emilie asked, "What is leap year? Is it when we leap to school?"
Ira asked Emilie if you put plastic wrap or foil over a pan going in the oven. She said tinfoil. Ira said "Good thinking Emilie." She responded by saying, "No, I didn't think...my teacher told me." (thank goodness for teachers, so we don't have to think!)
Jarin asked me if he could have something, and I had told him no. He responded by asking again, then answering his own question as if he were me, "Of course you can sweetheart." (it's no wonder he gets whatever he wants - how cute is that?)
In church today, a half a second before the sacrament prayer was being said, (so it was very quiet in the room), Jarin observed that his dad was sitting on the stand, and calls out in his loudest voice, "That's my daddy up there!"
Brayden said, "I've learned to never mess with a pregnant person."
Today I told Jarin he was a sweetHEART, and he said, "No, I have a beautiful HEART, and mommy is beautiful too." (a comment like that, he can have whatever he wants!)
This one was said a year or so ago, but it was one of the best we've had ever - so it bears repeating! Emilie said to mom, "Someday I am going to marry my prince, just like you married your prince."
Jarin said, "We don't say 'monkey butt' do we?"
Jarin see's a bumble bee and says, "It's a bum-bum bee".
Emilie singing, "Loose, footloose, kick off my church shoes."

Hmmmmm...

I copied this from my sisters blog, but it's just too perfectly perfect to not be reminded of as often as possible!

Hmmmm....
There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.'Well,' she said, 'I think I'll braid my hair today!'So she did, and she had a wonderful day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head.'H-M-M,' she said, 'I think I'll part my hair down the middle today!'So she did and she had a grand day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail.'So she did and she had a fun, fun day.The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.'YEA!' she exclaimed, 'I don't have to fix my hair today!'Attitude is everything. Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

INSPIRATION

"A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation." Joseph Smith

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone. The things you do for others remain as your legacy."

"Fix it up...wear it out... make due...or do without!" - Gordon B Hinckley

"In righteousness there is great simplicity" - William R. Bradford

"The most important thing parents can do for their children is to teach them to feel The Spirit and recognize when it is no longer with them."

Elder M. Russell Ballard: "There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children...What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."

The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference."-Ardeth G. Kapp