Thursday, July 16, 2009

Do you ever have days like this?

Do you ever have a day when...
...no one will listen to you?

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you spend nearly every waking moment settling fights?

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everyone complains about what you are making for dinner?

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your kids come across the parade candy they were saving and the baby gets ahold of it and sticks suckers to your furniture and spits tootsie rolls out on the floor?

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your kids say they are going outside to play in the sprinklers, only to come in 30 minutes later covered in mud from the mud fight they decided to have?

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while you are cleaning the above mentioned muddy kids up, they proceed to tell you that the big sister told the little sister to fill up a water bottle with hose water and drink it...and she did...AND YOUR HOSE WATER IS PUMPED FROM AN IRRIGATION DITCH!!!...we are seriously praying that she doesn't catch something totally scary.

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your baby (who is OBSESSED with being nakie and removes his clothes and diapers frequently throughout the day) decides to get nakie when there is poopoo in his diaper? AND he leaves it in the middle of the living room floor? AND his unassuming sister comes through doing cartwheels...and you guessed it...smears poopoo across the carpet?

AHHHH!!! What a day! Everyone is sleeping now and I'm regaining some sanity by sitting in my quiet house and checking my email...and I just learned something I never knew before and can't wait to try, but I'll have to wait, because I don't have any bananas. Seriously...check this out...how do you open your bananas? I always get a knife because, if I don't, by the time I get the top opened, the first 2 inches of banana is mush.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Treasures...

We had some exciting news to share with the littles, so rather than just tell them...because that would be boring...we took them on a treasure hunt.
In the treasure box, was this paper detailing our surprise and, of course, a whole lotta loot. (click to enlarge the pic if your having trouble reading it)
"In the eternal perspective, children-not possessions, not position, not prestige- are our greatest jewels." President Ezra Taft Benson
Needless to say...we are all REALLY excited!