Our Sweet Life: November 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

Oh Holy night...sort of.

Okay, so I was driving home from preschool drop off today and heard on holy night on the radio. I had been thinking about our laundry problem (I haven't done any for 3 days! Yikes!) And came up with a fun song. Haley likes it!

Sing to Oh Holy Night melody:

Oh Holy Cow!

The Laundry’s Piled Up SKY HIGH~

What happened? How did this get out of control?

Long is today, while we wash and dry and fold it.

We will be here, ‘til the su-n leaves the earth.

The thrill of hope, when we find a matching sock pair

The liquid soap … it's cascading down the side.

Fall ….on your knees.

To find….the lost quarter!

Oh There…..is a dollar!

Oh yeah….oh happy day!

Oh the Laundry is done!!!! Oh, oh oh no, I missed a load.

Monday, November 16, 2009

John

Our very good friend John Chapman is in a medically induced coma fighting for his life after the H1N1 flu complications. We are praying for his recovery that is very two steps forward, one step back. John has been a great friend to our family in Seaside, I grew up with him around all the time. I can't imagine life in Seaside without him. Please remember this family in your prayers, his wife Karen and his 5 children are an amazing family. I will post his blog link on the sidebar in the "Blogging Buddies" section so you can monitor his progress or make a donation if you can. His family has no insurance and he's going on week 3 in the ICU. A lot of you reading this will know and love him as well. Keep fighting John!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sweet Assurances

This weekend was marvelous. Amazing, Beautiful, the answer to prayers. Wow, that's a lot for 2 days to live up to. I must put in a plug. If you have the opportunity to attend Time Out for Women in 2010 (tickets go on sale soon) then GO! My Grandmother and aunts try to attend every year together and make a weekend of it. This year they came to Salt Lake City, we rented a hotel room and had a blast. That was great, but not what I mean by life altering wonderful. Friday night Sister Nelson (Russel M. Nelsons wife) spoke to us, followed by Sheri Dew. They had such strong messages about being women, mothers and sisters today, in the final leg of the race. The theme was What do you Know....despite everything else, what do you know...what sweet assurance do you have that the Lord loves you. The talks touched my heart, and gave many answers to prayers I have repeated over and over for months. Saturday Sister Dew spoke again, Hillary Weeks played beautiful music, and Michael Wilcox gave us examples from the scriptures that I had never before pondered. Sister Belcher, blind from cancer recently, gave us a heartwarming assurance that no matter what we'll be okay if we walk with the Lord. Mary Ellen Edmunds talked about our Life Assurance Policy, it was hillarious and touching. The weekend had me laughing, crying, and relaxed. It gave me answers I was seeking, and a reaffirmation the Lord loves me through the sweet whispering of the spirit that sometimes get's lost in the hustle and bustle of 3 children. Again, I know this is a plug, but GO! It was just what I needed, as well as the 3300 other women there that day. Love ya!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Nakie!

So, for the past few nights Shawn has woken up in the middle of the night crying, and soaking wet and cold. Poor kid, so I change him, and the whole bed, but we only own 2 pairs of PJ's (the carts footie jamies-warm!) so I've been putting him in sweats and a shirt. At 6am he wakes up, I walk in the room and he immedietly throws the blanket over his head. I look at my 14 month old completly naked! Fortunatly there is no number 2 anywhere to be found. That would have been too much. Not that it hasn't been too much already! So, needless to say, we're off to buy more footie jamies today! I don't mind the nature baby, it's the looming doom of a crib full of....yuck...anyway....onto much happier moments. Haley is turning 5 on the 10th, this is surreal for me for some reason. Mark turned 7 in September and I almost keeled over! She wants a princess party, I told her she can only have 2 friends (she wants to take them to a movie for her birthday, and that's all that will fit in my car!) She also informed me that she wants to change her middle name to Ginger....why?.....we'll never know. Well, we're off to run in the graveyard, very quiet there...perfect opening to a grand day!

ER

Things My Children Have Said

Shawn: "mom, why is there a fire in the oven?" Completely calm while I panic and throw baking soda everywhere...
Shawn in the public restroom with me--"Mommy, you go poop! Yeah!" * thoroughly embarrassed at every store in the county!*
Haley--"Grandma, this week you can call me Gordon."
Shawn--"Mommom, you go away." Shawn caught raiding the cookie jar.
Haley-- "Mom hurry! We can't be late for my Dance Recycle!"
Haley---"I don't think I'll have a baby, I don't like to throw things up, and a baby is too big."
Haley--"Does anyone want a turn walking Shawn?" As she holds Shawns "leash" at the zoo.
Shawn 2--"This is tasty!"
Shawn 2--Yelling at his friend in church..."mama! I go to Kelvins! My Brother! My sister!" (believes he belongs in their family!)
Haley 6--Writing in a notebook.."Mommy, this is my diarrhea.." Mom--Don't you mean Diary? Haley--"No... Diarrheal."
Haley--6--"Mark, remember that movie, you know 'Michael Jackson and the Lightening Thief'?"
Haley, 6, listening to the radio about the House being in session. It said, "After tomorrow the house will leave for thanksgiving." Haley exclaimed, "The House is leaving! Where will we live!"
Shawn, age 2, when seeing snow for the first time, "Snow! Look Chickens Flying!"
Shawn to me when I'm bending over..."Oh NO! Your Undies!" At this he pulls my shirt down to meet my pants...yikes!
Shawn, "Sheet Down!" translation: (sit down!) to just about everyone standing.
Haley-"Mom, why can't other people hear the music in my head?"
Shawn..."What doin' yodi (jodi)" and any answer is "Yep" or "Nope"
Haley in the pitch black Redwood Forest, "I am totally freaked out!"
Shawn--looking at the Lewis and Clark statue in Seaside--"Dada!"
Shawn--looking at a man in the next campground with long brown hair and a beard--"Jesus!"
Marky--his first day of baseball, "Mom, why do I have to run around the bases, it seems dumb if I end up where I started!"
Marky--"I was playing rock, paper, scissors and Shawn cheated!"
Haley and Mark talking on the "Phone" (hands in ears) Haley--Helllo...is this Mark? Marky--No this is Brad....silence..Haley--Brad who?
Marky--"You know, in kindergarten Kashia really liked me....but we seperated in the first grade, she's in another class. Now Megan thinks I'm cute...Meeeeeggannn....ahhhhh she's cute. giggle"-heheheh
Marky after doing me a favor, "Yeah, I know I'm good. I just can't help it!"
Haley to Shawn, "You just don't understand!"
Mark and Haley Playing, Mark: "Haley, I am Harry Potter. (pointing stick at Haley) SILENCIO!" ..Haley just stares at him, Mark :"Good, now you can't talk." He goes on reading.
Mark--drawing a picture--"Look mom, these are fierce landscapers, they hunt birds and deer!" I reply.."Landscapers?" he says, "Yes! You know those people who hunt!"
Mark--"Mom, did you know that this used to be a lake?(salt flats) And if it were still here we'd all be under water? Wierd!"
Shawn--"What's this?" --to just about everything...;)
Haley, "Mom, I want to change my middle name to Ginger." -huh?
Driving down the highway(maybe in the twilight zone), listening to the news on the radio with my kids I started when suddenly it cracked then went silent. A voice came over the radio and said "Erin, Erin are you there?" Mark exclaimed. Mom! The car's talking to you.
Mark explaining to Haley what happens in a cemetery, "You die, then they bury you in a box, then you turn to dust, but you don't mind because your brain is in heaven!"
Marky in a Prayer, "We thank thee for Shawn that he could grown in mommy's tummy we really really like him, and want another."
Haley about the F-16 on display at the Aerospace Museum, 'Check it out mom! These are awesome!' (4 Years old?)
Haley about automatic flushing toilets at the zoo, "Those toilets freak me out mom!"
Haley during a prayer, "Please bless the baby in mommy's tummy that it is a girl!" (I am NOT pregnant)
I was rushing Haley home, she asked why so I told her I had to use the restroom. She replied, "Don't tell me...I'm not your mommy!"
Haley, telling Mark where babies come from, " A Mommy and Daddy get married and have a baby! Then they get married again and have another baby!"
Mark, explaining to Haley how to swim under the water, "Never go under the water without your air freshener!"
When asked what she was doing crawling with Nicoles baby "I'm playing livestock!"
"Glorious Chaos! Ha ha ha..."---Haley in a moment of insanity
"Haley is the most beautiful fairy in the world!!" -- Marky on Halloween
"Shawn is so furry!" -- Mark
Said during a prayer, "Thank you for Jesus getting baptized with his brother Jordan."--Haley
Said during a prayer, "Bless President Monson and his posse." -- Haley
"I want you to go to the zoo and get me a pet monkey for my birthday."--Haley
"Are babies always this loud?"--Mark
To Grandma: "You have to give our baby back."--Haley

Some of my Favorite Quotes

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern. ~Max Lucado
The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright
~Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' - Jeff Foxworthy
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.--Miss Piggy