Joy= small vanilla frosty = $1.07
God Bless America!
Friday, May 14, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Seriously?
Rob and I found a good deal, a sitter, and time to head to the ritzy Benihana to celebrate our anniversary Saturday night. We shared a table with a couple and their 9 year old son.
It was soon obvious that while we were both stay at home moms, our lives were very different. They had their son in about 10 different sports, so she had a full-time driving job, including driving him to Park City several times a week for race skiing. "It's a good thing that we started him at 3, because if we had waited until 4 or 5, he just wouldn't be able to compete." And I thought I take my kids to a lot of places because I take them to a museum a few times a month.
When the couple found out that we had two kids, they both looked at us and asked, "Don't you miss them?" I paused a moment trying to figure out what she was talking about... like on an extended vacation? Sure, after about a week. Miss them to go out to dinner? Rob and I both looked at each other and in unison, said, "No!"
"That's so great." They replied, "We should really do that. Our kid is at the age where he would love us to leave him alone."
Seriously? Your child is 9 and you have never left him with a sitter? 2 hours ago, my husband and I both sighed in relief when we left our very hyper children with the sitter. I love my children, I really do. But miss them while I go out or dinner?
Seriously?
It was soon obvious that while we were both stay at home moms, our lives were very different. They had their son in about 10 different sports, so she had a full-time driving job, including driving him to Park City several times a week for race skiing. "It's a good thing that we started him at 3, because if we had waited until 4 or 5, he just wouldn't be able to compete." And I thought I take my kids to a lot of places because I take them to a museum a few times a month.
When the couple found out that we had two kids, they both looked at us and asked, "Don't you miss them?" I paused a moment trying to figure out what she was talking about... like on an extended vacation? Sure, after about a week. Miss them to go out to dinner? Rob and I both looked at each other and in unison, said, "No!"
"That's so great." They replied, "We should really do that. Our kid is at the age where he would love us to leave him alone."
Seriously? Your child is 9 and you have never left him with a sitter? 2 hours ago, my husband and I both sighed in relief when we left our very hyper children with the sitter. I love my children, I really do. But miss them while I go out or dinner?
Seriously?
Monday, April 26, 2010
FYI
Did you know that roly polys have 14 legs, their eyes are right by their antennas, and they enjoy eating strawberries along with other dead plants?
That's what our lesson was about for FHE tonight. My kids, especially Kyle, are ENTHRALLED with bugs. He finds them and makes them our family pets, which is great with me because I don't have to clean up any poop or buy pet food. Although I do feel guilty everytime they find a new "pet". It's only a matter of time before they are killed with love.
That's what our lesson was about for FHE tonight. My kids, especially Kyle, are ENTHRALLED with bugs. He finds them and makes them our family pets, which is great with me because I don't have to clean up any poop or buy pet food. Although I do feel guilty everytime they find a new "pet". It's only a matter of time before they are killed with love.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
This week
Still carpe-dieming it. This week was busy getting loan stuff and things moving to buy the house. I took the kids to have lunch with Oma one afternoon. Friday we had a birthday party at my parent's home, and it was so great because Jared was visiting from Chicago. I seriously love my family.
Saturday morning, we left early for a home show at the expo center. My daughter completely warmed my heart in the morning by choosing to eat oatmeal instead of captain crunch. Woah! My son is the opposite. At the expo show, he was a sugar-master, going up to each booth and sweetly asking for a piece of candy, and then either stuffing it in his mouth or in a bag, like he was trick-or-treating. Working the system.
We then headed to my Aunt and Uncles for a barbecue and then to the Tulip Festival for Dutch days. It was so fun to hang out with the Dodenbiers and enjoy the beautiful flowers. My Oma brought a little Dutch dress, and Bekah dressed up like a dress girl. She even won a box of cookies in a Dutch dressup contest.
After that, we stopped at IKEA to have dinner, put the kids in the playland, and look at some of the stuff. Then we stopped at Grandma Bassett's to visit her another hour. Then Rob and I snuggled at home to watch NCIS before bed.
Best of all, thanks to free tickets (thanks Aunt Wendy) & sales, the whole day cost us $10. Doesn't get better than that, does it?
Last week
"Daddy, what day is it?" The kids asked yesterday."Saturday."
"Then why aren't you at work?" They asked all confused.
Yes, we have a Dad back. Whoohoo! And we have been carpe-dieming it every weekend.
Last weekend, my kids slept over at Gamma and Gamps for the night and we went to dinner with the Franklins. Fantastic.
Then Saturday morning, while the kids went to a museum with my parents, Rob and I went house hunting (and found a house we liked... miracle of miracles!), Then we picked the kids up and went to the Gateway to check out the new iPad and let the kids play in the fountains. So perfect!
The next morning, we headed to temple square to enjoy the beautiful flowers before church. Stunning.
Oh, and did I mention that we have a house under contract? An hour after seeing a house we
loved, we found out that they had received an offer. We put in ours, and won. So in about a month, we will finally have a house. And a garage (actually, a 3-car). We are thrilled. We saw the house on the same day that we got a letter from Rob's advisor that all of his edits on his dissertation were good, and he is done writing!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
How do you know when they love you?
Yesterday, my dad gave each of the kids a few teddy grahams and then asked them if he should have a few teddy grahams, too.
Kyle had been so hungry that he had immediately snarfed down his crackers. But when his Gamps asked about eating teddy grahams, Kyle misunderstood the question. Without saying a word, the hungry boy stopped, spit out the last partially chewed teddy graham and longingly handed it to my dad.
That's love.
Kyle had been so hungry that he had immediately snarfed down his crackers. But when his Gamps asked about eating teddy grahams, Kyle misunderstood the question. Without saying a word, the hungry boy stopped, spit out the last partially chewed teddy graham and longingly handed it to my dad.
That's love.
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