STOP I want off! NOW

Why does life get this way, out of control busy? It can't be that I have ambitions or a husband or 6 children and a DIL (can't forget her, she's the boom) or I'm a Mormon or a have house or a yard or a very small business owner or or or.......

I will breathe now and take a nap outside on this perfectly gorgeous day and remember that I signed up for all this and Life is Good!!!!!

I feel better already, yawn!

1 out of 3 children listen to there mother

This was a conversation that my children had while at the Korth Reunion (Kate, Heidi, Logan). This is not verbatim, but the way I remember it being retold to me by Heidi.
setting - Logan had a Gatorade in hand, Heidi a Poweraid in her hand while mingling with family at a campsite at Bear Lake, Ut Kate walks up.

Heidi - Kate do you want one? (referring to the drink in her hand or Logan's ) I have more in my car.
Kate - In a very serious voice Mom does not like us to drink gatorade or poweraid.
Heidi - OH really!
Logan - looking around Well have you noticed that mom is not here?
Kate - She says it is really bad for your kidneys unless you are really sweating and need your salt replaced. true statement
Heidi - Oh, well moms not here so you can drink one if you want.
Kate - Well no I don't want one.

Logan and Heidi are rotfl in disbelieve that one would consider the good advice of a mother, especially if they are not even present.

So Yeah, Kate stepped into the chosen child space this summer, knocking the old ones to the ground. BAM!

Mother and 8 year old Son Communication

Son: GI Joe comes out soon this week

Mother: Oh, would you like to see it?

Son: Sort of!

Mother: When I was a little girl they had GI Joe dolls. You know like a barbie doll.

Son: ROTFL No way not a doll!

Mother: yeah they did and boys played with them just like girls played with barbies.

Son: They were not dolls! Mom they call them action figures. (duh)

Mother stands corrected.

What to blog about?

I had a friend ask me, "what do you blog about?"
Well just stuff, not a lot about what I'm actually doing every single day. I have blog moments when I say "I need to blog about this" but only about 1/4 of those get blogged.
Well yesterday I had a great day so I am going to tell you what I did all day long.

• Went to the Post Office to get 3rd child a passport - just so he has one and then if he goes foreign on his mission he is good to go. We were back home in 20 minutes, Bonus! We all have passports now.
  
• Went to the DMV to get 4th child Learning Permit to Drive. She passed the test and we were out in about 1 hour.
  
• Took 4th and 5th children to friends house to hang out.
• Got my hair cut
• Went along with 2 & 3 child to the dentist. They told us that Carson had a cavity while he had his braces on but couldn't do anything about it until they were taken off so we had that checked out, but no cavity just a wire that appeared to look like one at the time. Another Bonus. Heidi just had a teeth cleaning.
  
• Went along with 2nd child to to an eye appointment, mostly so I could pay for the exam.
  
• Picked up 4th and 5th child from their friends.
• Feed leftovers to all children that were hungry
• Processed 10 quart bags of green beans for the freezer. I finally read in my canning book how to do this so I hope this year we actually eat the ones that I freeze. I now have to remember that I have them. When I get ready to fix dinner I go to the pantry first for inspiration. I need to go to the freezer also because I forget I have good stuff in there as well. All the beans are from our garden.
• A friend called wanting to set up a time to talk Vinyl lettering. woot woot
  
• Cleaned up the kitchen
• Did the newspaper Sodoku puzzle
• Off to bed.

It has been a very long time since I have been that productive in one day, a lot crossed off my list.

To day is a new day! I have high hopes for today too but it is wasting away quickly.
Ba Bye!

Quote for the day

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Mahatma Gandhi

Happy 18th Birthday Carson!

Well it was last Friday, I am just slow to getting it posted. He is the one that kicks off our Birthday Season and Kate ends the season in February, the rest of us all fall in between there.

Wow I can't believe that he is that old. He is one good Young Man and he will be missed in our home when he leaves to go to that VEry Blue Mormon School in Utah. So exciting for him and a lot of maturing will be done.

They took his braces off today. It was a good day for him!

Before


After



This picture cracks me up!!!! Where is his mother to comb his hair?
This is before braces and then after braces. He was 15 and just learning to drive and now he is all graduated and off to big stuff.

SURPRISE!

WHO Did IT?

YOU DID!!!!

Who ever did it has a great arm, it was on the top of the house and waaaayy UPPPP in the trees.

We have a good stash of lost rolls to use now. Heidi looks at them as found money after having to buy her own.

Martha Moment: I went to the Farmer Market in my backyard, John will be so happy. All of it was picked from our(John's) garden just this morning by me. It was so beautiful I thought I would share and inspire you to grow your own food. I left grapes, pumpkins, corn and watermelons in the garden. John also dug up a bucket of new red potatoes last week.

Can you guess all the different fruits and vegetables and how many there are in this basket?

The Game!

SO I have this game I play( most people play this game). Now I started playing this game like when I was 14 or so but it has been around a long time. It is also impossible to win and this week it has been really hard to even make any head way and some weeks I don't play it at all. My family likes me playing this game but they would rather not play with me. When I was in my mid 20s and 30s, at the top of my game, I could actually almost win until night fell and then I would have to throw the board in frustration and start over. Now I'm more mature and just stop playing when it gets too frustrating. My family then will beg me to play and they will even offer to help me with some of the strategies if I will only show interests again. I played this game happily by myself until I started not liking certain children because they made the game so much harder to play and did not even appreciate my efforts but demanded that I keep playing. So I taught them to play and now they play their own version.

This is the game that never ends
it goes on and on my friends.
You start playing it not knowing what it is
and continue playing it
because it is the game that never ends
it goes on and on my friends you ........

It is called "Wash, Dry, fold, Repeat" a.k.a as Laundry. As of late I have got the Wash and Dry down just can't get the Fold down. I have always had A Laundry Day and I do it all in one day once a week. Sometimes When I was at the top of my game, I would have 8-9 loads and get them all done and the ironing too, all before John got home from work. My kids are responsible for bring their laundry to me and sorting it and they put it away when it is returned neatly folded in their basket. As of late, it has been so hard to get it done every week and then to get it folded has been a task. I know most of you play this game too so if you have any new strategies I'm open, sort-of. It is hard to teach an old mom new tricks but I would still like to hear your suggestion of how you play this game.

I anxiously await John, Kate and Carson's return from the Trek. I can't wait to hear how brave and fearless they were while pushing the hand carts across Marriott Ranch. I know they got rain yesterday and it was hot and humid the day before so they had somewhat of a taste of Pioneer life.

Dreams!

Austin came in this morning and explained that he had a goodish/bad dream.

"Well it was a little scary!" He smiled. I knew it could not be that scary if he was smiling. He goes on to tell me that an Orc Army was after us(COOL). The leader would stop when he could smell human flesh, Fun. The scary part was the earthquake putting the neighborhoods house in our front yard, still standing. Then he woke up. The interpretation of this is his parents letting him watch ALL "Lord of the Rings" by the time he was 3, he is scarred for life?

Is there in any reality in our dreams? Are we responsible for what we dream?

I have a reoccurring dream of being half clothed or naked in public. The worst part is no one notices or cares, but me. What does this mean? Someone told me that it meant that I was hiding something in my personality. My first response to that is "What you see is what you get". I find it interesting that 9 out of 10 times when I have this dream, I am at church. So maybe I do have a Sunday best, but not really. Who knows? John has dreams that he is flying and saving souls and all kinds of cool stuff, so, he is cool like that!

What do you dream?