We May Not Have It All Together...But Together We Have It All: March 2010

Monday, March 22, 2010

Time Out

Is this the expression a little boy in time-out should be making? Am I doing something wrong here?

Thursday, March 18, 2010

It seems like I am always having the funniest conversations with Jarin. He's just a great kid. So here was our conversation yesterday...

Jarin: I don't like to do jobs

Me: Me neither, but we have to do them

Jarin: You do too like cleaning, all moms do

Me: We don't like to clean, but we have to so our homes look and feel nice

Jarin: When moms clean, that is your play time.

Me: (speechless)...then UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER!!!!

So let me get this straight...when I tell my kids to get to work, they think that's my way of playing with them. Aaahhhh...I like this concept. I'm killing two birds with one stone - quality time with my kids, AND getting my house clean!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I took Emilie on a girl date last weekend. I decided to surprise her with it. So after school on Friday, I told her to pack her bags, and off we went. We went to Salt Lake City, and met up with Emilie's best friend, Lindsay. We went to their favorite restaurant, Golden Corral. (side note: I really DON'T like Golden Corral - too much food and not enough self-control = SICK!). The girls wanted to go to Toys R Us - where they ran through the aisles begging to buy toys. (the answer remains "Do YOU have money to buy that?).

Then Emi and I were off to our Hotel. We did all the fun stuff we girls do...getting lost at the hotel trying to find the hot tub, soaking in the hot tub (heavenly), jumping on the bed, and sleeping soundly through the entire night. Room service and a spa treatment would have been nice, but...we had to save something for the next girls date (just kidding Ira)!

And what do girls do best when we get together??? We eat and laugh! So that is what we did. We got the giggles when the guy sitting across the aisle from us kept doing the "farmer blow", over and over and over. It was so unbelievable, that it became hilarious. He even had a CLEAN paper napkin sitting on his table!

Then off we went on the Trax to the Disney On Ice show.

After the show we went to Temple Square, where we watched the movie on Joseph Smith and the restoration. I was so glad we went to it. I had seen it several times, but I think I really needed the message right now. I so admire Joseph and Emma and the early members of the church - for their endurance through all the trials they faced. It was a good reminder to me that no "sacrifice" is too great for the Lords work. And that anything I have been asked to endure doesn't even hold a candle to what those early saints endured. This church is not Joseph Smith's church. It is Jesus Christs church. However, I love Joseph Smith and his sweet wife, Emma. I hope someday to meet them and personally thank them for the things they went through so that I could have the knowledge that I have.

No girl trip would be complete without some shopping at a mall (personally, I really don't like malls - but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!...painful as it may be). We found this "gotta have it" hat for Emi. CUTE!!! (the hat's cute too :) ).

Also: a definent MUST on any girl trip...KRISPY KREAM DONUTS!!!! I haven't had one of those in many years - I think they have an entire days calories in one donut - but OH YUMMY! (so I had 2!!!!)

Thanks for the fun date Emi Girl.

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

Monday, March 22, 2010

Time Out

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Mom's "Play" time

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun