FINALLY

On Thursday, I was taking Alex to school and she said "I like school, we get to do science experiments and read lots of books". I have been working for four years to get her to enjoy school. YEAH! I'm so glad she is FINALLY enjoying learning.

Valentines weekend

Last night I went to the single adult Valentines dance. I was fun. the food was good and the company was great. I meet up with a few girls which I meet when I went to my first singles activity last year. This event let me know I am just not quite ready yet for the whole guy thing.

I had the joy of giving my kids valentines chocolates and watching thier eye light up. They were excited to have a babysitter. Alex wants to see me date so she can sing 'mommies going dating'.

I bought Peter his first suit. Not just any suit but a three piece, three button suit. Man taking him to church today made me realilize just how BIG he has become. Alex said "you look like a man." She was complimenting him.

radomness of litle girls

A child's view of life keeps a mother's mind sharp.
Before bed we say prayers and talk about the day and about Kimberly being pregnant.

It was 11:30 Wednesday night I was getting ready for bed and I hear movement upstairs. The kids do getup in the middle of the night and use the bathroom so I didn't think anything of it, until... Alex comes down stairs dressed and I look at her and say what are you doing?

She says, "I'm getting ready for Wednesday. I don't want to be late."

I laugh and tell her that Wednesday is over and it's the middle of the night. she laughs at me and thinking I am joking with her. I did get her back into bed.

As we were driving to school she says,"Mom, Kim needs get a girl." What? a girl....what is she talking about. I ask her. She says,"Her baby it needs to be a girl, because she already has three boys to take care of." Brennon-1 Parker-2 and.....oh Travis is three. I couldn't help myself. I laughed until tears were streaming down my face. I had to agree with her.

All aflutter

I was listening to my home phone voice mail (I only do this when trying to void doing something else). So to my confusion there was a message from Mary. Mary who you ask. I have no idea. So I listen harder. the message says "I was just calling to find out what you wanted you name changed to or if you checked that box by mistake. Please give me a call". Yes I was confused. What box and why is someone asking if I want to change my name? I was still in avoidance mode so I gave this Mary lady a call. When she answered her phone by saying county clerks office this is Mary it was suddenly clear to me. She was calling about my divorce papers. when I was double checking to make sure everything was filled out properly I must have put my pen on the box and it left a mark. I answered her question with a don't change my name.

I asked her how soon the divorce would be finalized she said " it is I just need to mail this paper work out to you now." Did you read that--- I AM SINGLE!!!!!--- and VERY happy.

I am going to celebrate by..... I don't know. I am sure thankful for being able to have that chapter of my life done. I can OFFICIALLY LEGALLY move on.

I'm singing and dancing over here.

Sunday October 26

Hopefully this will be a great way for me to write down those funny moments in time in my life. With kids there is always something and I am just a large kids still finding my way. So to all of you that have been doing this for a while I am now on the band wagon.

Today at church our stake had Elder Bednar come and speak. what a down to earth guy. He talked about being loaded down and what a great joy that is in our lives. We just have to be loaded down with the right things. And how blessed we are to have this difficult time in our economy so we can evaluate our load and see if it's really what we need to be dedicating our time and energy to. He very clear said that we have the time to do what every we want. It is our choice in what we spend our efforts doing. He talked about having family prayer and scripture study every morning before his kids headed to seminary and wondering if it was worth the effort. he learned years later that what the kids got out of it was consistency. Everything we do it line upon line.

So now I get (i'm trying not to say "have to" and look at this as an oppertunity) to look at my life and figure out what I should have in my load and what to get rid of from the back of my "truck". I have never been good at this "I want it all" has been my moto for a long time. Well as I go through my life I will see what happends and let you all know.