Lessons in Primary

So Q and I were 'resting' yesterday afternoon and he was telling me a story. I asked him to repeat what he had said and his eyes started twinkling and he took his fingers and pulled them across his lips. I was kind of chuckling and asked what he was doing his reply 'I am zipping my lips and throwing away the zipper' which really made me laugh. I asked where he had learned to do this and he said 'in primary.'
Now, I know a few of the kids in the class (okay, I can think of 4, but one of them I just know the family she belongs to, not her actual name...the girls are all really cute and look a lot alike) so I say 'why did your teacher teach you this?' He said 'because we were talking too much' which again cracked me up. He isn't much of a talker at home. He talks, he just usually so much um, quieter than one of his brothers that he doesn't get heard a lot...so I asked who was talking. He rolled his eyes and said 'you know.' I was a bit confused because Ty was in my primary class, but I thought of a girl in the class, it was not C, and then I asked about a boy in the class and asked 'was it E-man?' He said 'yep.' I asked what teacher taught him this (because my kids do this a lot and it makes me laugh that he finally gets it after primary) and he said 'Teacher S.' :)
So, Teacher S, will you come teach this to a couple of my other kids? Well, just one.
And Teacher S, thanks for the laugh :)

Did you hear the good news?

"Watermelon is on sale at Albertson's"

Tyler just told me.

Quin W. in his class told him.

See the picture?

That could be Tyler.

He would be in Heaven :)

Lest I begin some crazy rumor

that my house is clean or that I am superwoman, because my boys will assure you it is in fact, not true...you all need to realize that for 18 months I didn't clean much more than the general picking up of stuff.

My kids rarely saw me outside of the store.

Our home was filled with contention and frustration (not all the time on the contention, just more than necessary.)

On a good day, our house looked like a hand grenade was tossed in...on a bad day, well...it wasn't pretty.

Things slipped that shouldn't have and in general, it was a really stressful time for us.

So now that I am free, I am soooo happy to clean and organize and toss and sew and play with my kids and do fun things.

Don't get me wrong. I loved the store. I did a good job with it. I just need to spend time with my boys and make sure we all are communicating well.

And truly, I wonder how anything ever got accomplished with me gone all the time...but I can tell you now, that I am so glad to know that my kids still love me, Jeff is glad to have me home and someday, my house will be clean.

PS all that got done yesterday were the bathrooms, 5 loads of laundry, our shirts hung up and a good start on my decor for the table for enrichment.

Good news!

Now I can't remember what the good news was...ha! I think it's my age showing :)

Let's see, last week I managed to:

Do the dishes more than three times.

Not severely injure any of my kids.

Get a few food storage items (my brother bought a couple of the crop tables and chairs and paid us with food storage...Broulims in rigby is having their caselot sale in case any one needs anything)

Took the boys to see Bolt.

Took the boys shopping for fabric because like an understressed idiot, I signed up to do a table for enrichment this month...(yes, LaTisha, I will still do two...it may decrease my stress because then I won't have to choose between two fun, totally different ideas, just let me know if you need me to.)

Worked on organizing my craft room (by organizing I mean piling items of the same category and wondering how in heck I acquired so much stuff...then realized that I have been doing this craft for 13 years and owned a store for three of them)

Read three books...I think my total for the year is around 7000 pages...but now I am out of money and have too much time (ha, I crack myself up...Billie, help! I need books)

Saw Twilight AGAIN...Jeff loves it. I am pretty sure I know what I am getting for my birthday.

Registered two boys for Little League and have the stuff ready to regiester the other for football...does anyone know if this is flag again?

Visited my friend Alicia at her cute store in Rigby. Got some super cute stuff...yes, I did need more scrapbook stuff, I jsut don't know where to put it...and I probably will do a yard sale this summer.

Tried to clean out a couple of my kitchen drawers...the junk ones...unfortunately this means I need to clean out the rest of my cabinets and drawers. Yikes.

Became completely overwhelmed by the amount of cleaning this house needs. Seriously. Baseboards need painted, holes in the walls need filled, kitchen sink needs caulked...not to mention the boys war zones...I mean bedrooms...they may come home from school tomorrow and have no idea where they sleep...yep, I may change them up again. Although I did like Ty's idea of just putting all the beds in one room and all the toys/dressers in the other :)
The laundry room is almost completely cleaned out...I do need to do the general washing of the room, but the clothes are pretty well hung up or folded and put away...I need to take the clothes that don't fit one the older boys and out it in storage until Q is big enough...so next week.
Jeff got my computer working (the one from the store, so now I can actually add recent pictures to my blog...)

AND I ordered a camera. I got an awesome deal and am still trying to decide what to do with this camera...it's still one of my babies. I am hoping it gets here tomorrow so I can play with it before the wedding in two weeks :) I really want to do some awesome pictures!

This week I plan to make a meal plan, paint my magnetic board, clean the bathrooms and set up some sort of cleaning schedule, clean my bedroom and clean out my closet. I will try to finish my craft room and get my table for enrichment finalized so I can relax on that :) Whew...

That may be all I get to...sad, isn't it!
Uh oh, sounds like the Qman is up and I need him to be asleep.
Wish me luck!

Wake Daddy up

The other day I was reading my friend Hilary's blog and her little girl had drawn a really cute picture of what would happen if she went to sleep in her parents' bed...her mom (Hilary) would climb in bed next to her and her dad would go to sleep in the guest room :)
Tonight, as we were getting ready for family prayer, Q pulls me aside and says "mom, when I have a scary nightmare, will you wake daddy up and tell him to go to my bed?"
What cracks me up the most about this, is the little man has been waking up almost every night between midnight and 4 and crawling into bed with us. I am usually too asleep to care, and he never kicks me (he can't he's practically on top of me) so I'm mostly good with it, except the part where I am contorted...
Jeff however, was not as amused as I was :)

I know

I know. It has been a long time.
There is a lot going on, a lot I need to revisit on this poor neglected space and a lot that needs to be accomplished before that can happen.
On the bright side...after this weekend I will have that time.
But I have a confession.
I am scared.
I am scared that I am closing and will still have to get another job which would totally defeat the purpose of me closing.
I am scared that I will walk out these doors the last time and become incapable of creativity.
I am scared that my house will never get cleaned.
I am scared of what I will do Tuesday next week when I have no where to go, but a ton to do.
So, I am afraid right now.
And I have a ton to do, so off to get to it.
Wish me luck.

I made it through

the week.
Now I need to get this month over.
Wish me luck.