And We're In!

And there are boxes EVERYWHERE... :)

So, we are back at our old phone number... the one we had at our old house. But unfortunately we have a really irratating buzz on the phone line... so if you feel the urge to call, beware!

I'll have to call the phone company and get it fixed.

In the meantime we have Stake Conference tomorrow and I have no CLUE where the stake building even is. I guess I could call and find out... but I'm too lazy. Well, either that or I'm reluctant to drag three young kids to church for what they would see as two full hours of sacrament meeting and not even the promise of the reward of primary/nursery afterwords. We will see what happens.

So anyhow... I'm all boring and whatnot in this post, so I shall stop wasting all of your time... and stop procrastinating unpacking more. :) Tata till another day!

Hangers Anyone?

HOLY CRAP... how DID I get so many hangers??????

While in the midst of trying to find stuff at the new house I opened a big black garbage bag to find it full of hangers.

No, not hangers and other stuff. Just hangers.

And on top of that it wasn't those big bulky plastic hangers. You got it, it was the little skinny wire ones. I think I filled our whole closet with hangers. And there isn't even any CLOTHES in there yet!

I guess they may come in handy for the MASSIVE garage sale I will be having this spring.... If I don't give up and truck it all to a charity shop. (Crossing fingers) I would really like to make some money off of all our STUFF.

Random, Randomness.... and Some Pictures.

So after spending a few hours trying to find all the essentials for living at the new house I gave up for a while and headed back to Grandma S's house.... well, giving up was part of it, the other part was the fact that Goober was going to be home from school soon and I had no clue if anyone would be home to meet him outside of myself.

Today was my In-Laws 30Th anniversary so my father-in-law took the day off, slept in, and followed my mother-in-law around on errands all day. Oh, and they managed to stop by Leatherby's for ice cream too :) Yummm.

After lunch and homework time Goober and Missy decided to go see if friends could play and the Energizer Bunny went down for a recharge. And I, for a change, resisted the urge to do something "productive" and also got a chance for a small recharge :) Yippy... I woke up to EG fussing through the monitor and as soon as I brought him upstairs I noticed Missy walking past the window on her way home, Goober was right in front of her.

I must say the timing was perfect. So nice to get a little well needed sleep. Especially since I've been suffering with a retched cough. And by "retched" I mean RETCHED. I've been sleeping in a separate room from Jer cause I feel bad for the poor guy having to try to sleep through my HACKING. At least it seems to be on the way out though. Maybe it's the obscene amounts of vitamin C I've been ingesting....

The Energizer Bunny has taken a great interest in blankets lately. LOVES them. No, I take that back.... He loves walking around with them draped over his head blocking all vision and causing him to crash into random objects regularly. :)

Here is a picture of him bringing a blanket to me so that I can put it over his head.... though he can do this himself, I guess I'm much more proficient at it.

He has also taken to sucking on his fingers..... er, finger mostly, sometimes a couple. Usually it's just his index finger shoved in his mouth as though he is trying to poke a hole in something. The whole finger sucking thing was something that I'd hoped he would avoid. Goober sucks on his index and middle fingers when he is tired, upset, or bored, and Missy sucks on her thumb (while at the same time sticking her index finger up her nose.... fun fun.). Anyhow, hopefully EG won't get too stuck on it since he has only recently started sucking on his finger while his siblings both started when they were really young.

Tonight Missy was being hilarious. I think that she must take after he mother... boy does she know how to pester and tease. It seems to come second nature to her. Image THAT?!?! :) Goober was trying to play Lego Batman and Missy was intent that he not be able to focus on it! He insisted on laying on him, poking at him, and squishing his cheeks till the both ended up in peels of laughter therefore fulfilling her objective. She did it again and again until bedtime. I'm so glad that they can play that way and not end up in a fight (sometimes at least). My kids crack me up. So fun to watch. I'm so glad they are such good friends!

And that is all for the random randomness for today :)

Grrrr... I'm Flummoxed

So when I gave Goober's friend Bee the nickname of "Bee" for this blog I had no idea how prophetic that would be.

Bee is an only child. Not that I fault her for that, just that it leaves her prone to not liking younger siblings of friends much, and it also leaves her more prone to thinking the whole world revolves around her.

Man that girl can give some stings.

Recently Goober has started to come home upset more and more often. Bee has been saying mean things to him. Now, I understand kids do this sometimes, and sometimes I don't get the whole story (like what Goober may have done to induce such behavior), but saying things like "I hate you" and "I don't want to play with you, and neither does Ken" (Ken is another friend).

The other day Goober and Bee decided to go to Bee's house from our house. Goober wanted to ride his bike. Jer was the one home at the moment, so he okayed it and Goober proceeded to get on his coat etc... by the time he got outside Bee was sitting on his bike. Goober told her HE wanted to ride his bike and she just looked at him. Jer then stepped in and told Bee that she did not ask and told her to get off of Goobers bike. Weeeeelllll, this made Bee mad. So she then yelled at Goober "I don't want to play with you anymore!!!!" and ran home (because she was mad a Jer). Goober was then upset because his "friend" didn't want to play with him anymore.

She tends to lie as well, saying things such as: "Ken can't play, he has a black eye", and when Ken, Goober, Missy My, and Bee are playing together they decided to go to Bee's house and she proceeds to lie and say that only one friend is allowed over. Then Ken promptly goes and Goober is upset cause they don't want to play with him.

I, as a mother, have NO CLUE how to deal with this. As far as I'm concerned Bee can go jump off a cliff for the way she sometimes treats my kids (which is becoming more often). I've been trying to comfort Goober when things like this happen, saying that good friends don't do things like that, and that we will find some good new friends in our new house.

But I'm not sure if I should bring this up with her mother or not. I know that eventually this kind of behavior is going to bite Bee back, and HARD. Maybe her mom can help her avoid that? Her mom is pretty down to earth and I don't think she would be offended if I pointed these things out to her..... but I don't know if I should step in or not....

Grrrr..... motherhood!!

Ok, ok.... I give.... kinda

Ok, so many of you have been asking to see pictures of "the house".... so this morning when i was there I took I total of three pictures... yeah, I'm lazy like that! :) I put two on here... but the picture of the outside is going to have to wait due to the house number being on it (yes, I'm COMPLETELY paranoid! If you don't know that then I have to wonder about you and your observational skills.) I need to edit those off... THEN I will put that picture up... M'kay?

Picture of the kitchen (I know, you couldn't figure that out, so I had to help you a insy bit....)

And a picture from the front room. Missy is on the stairs that go up the bedrooms and the entry is under the light you see hanging from the ceiling there.....

I will take more pictures once we are moved in and settled a little bit... KK? No? Well, too bad!!! Meh. :D

New Ward

So today we went to our (soon to be) new ward. Our house is supposed to be closing on Wednesday... guess I should probably start getting things like the phone etc switched over eh? Can we say PROCRASTINATION!?

Anywho, So we went to our new church today. It's an older building so I'm not very familiar with the set up... right after we sat down for Sacrament meeting I found that the lady that was sitting directly in front of us was the Relief Society President! What luck! She made sure I knew who the Primary President was so that I could make sure to get the kids where they needed to be. This was very handy to say the least :)

Sacrament was very loud.... due to loads of kids (yay, for potential friends for MY kidlets!) And it was nice because I wasn't so self conscious of how loud my kids were being. They really aren't that loud usually, but in my In-Laws ward the kids that sit behind where we usually sit are ANGELS.... and if you don't think five kids can sit REALLY quietly through a full hour and fifteen minute meeting then you REALLY need to visit my In-Laws ward. (Apparently, according to my Mother-in-law, their mom lets them have 3 scoops of ice cream for dessert on Sundays... but every time they have to be told to be quiet during Sacrament Meeting they loose a scoop.) It was nice not to be so paranoid about my kids being annoying to others.

Anywho. Everyone that talked to us seemed really nice. Though I noticed that very few of the ward members actually comment in Gospel Doctrine and Relief Society. And for those of you that know me... I can't keep my mouth shut for very long :) So I felt like I was commenting too much. Jer went with The Energizer Bunny to Nursery (he is officially in Nursery in two weeks). I told Jer that I would come back and switch or check on him during my meetings... he was fine with that, but when I went back to check on him neither he nor The Energizer Bunny was in the room. Hmmmm. I just figured that the little one got really tired and grumpy and Jer had to take him out. I was wrong :) which isn't too uncommon lol. Turns out that they have three different nurseries and they rotate them through three different rooms. One room is for toys, one for spiritual (lesson etc), and one for snacks. So this would explain why I couldn't find them. Missy was easy to find after church, Goober on the other hand was NOT.... I still don't know where he class ended up! But Jer found him by our coats so that is good.

It's so hard to tell what a ward is like at first glance. Hard to tell the dynamics. It would be so nice if all of that was apparent right up front, but it's all a learning game. I hope I can find some good friends for the kids near our new house soon though. Especially where Goober is going to continue to go to his school till the end of the year, even though our house is in another schools boundaries. I sometimes wonder if this is the best decision because school is one of the best places to make new friends, but I hesitate to move him mid year. I dunno, I guess we will see how it works out. If after a while of living in the new house Goober wants to go to the new school I don't think I would hold him back from doing that. I'm just too new at the whole school thing to have a really good idea as to what to do as far as pros and cons for keeping him in the same school vs moving him... ya know?

Oh well, I guess that goes a long with all the other uncertainties of moving eh? :D

La La Laaaaaaa!!!! (can you FEEL the JOY!?)

So we found a house...

AND after three previous attempts to purchase a house and having other offers come in before ours....

We got it.

YAY.

So the latest that we will be starting to move back into a place of our own is Jan 21st.

Yay!!!!!! I'm so excited to not have to worry about my kids bugging ANYONE BUT ME (and of course Jer when he is home, but come on.... daylight hours? they are ALLLLLLL MIIIIIIINE.)

The house is in a newer subdivision and it was built in 2007. So it's new, but I get the added bonus of not having to put a lawn in, not having to put a sprinkler system in, and having it already plumbed for a water softener - which I still have to convince Jer is not the product of the deviiiil. But that is not a nice thought and it's RUINING MY MOMENT, so I shall leave it BEHIND.

YAYAYAYAY. Kids, in own beds..... YAYAYAYAY!

Can you tell I'm excited?

You CAN!?!?

Well good thing then, cause if you couldn't I would wonder about your IQ level there honey.

Anyhow, I will post a picture when I get one :) Now I'm going to go daydream for a while :)

Random Deep Thoughts.

A while ago I saw a TV show that really got me thinking.

It was one of those "Discovery Channel" type shows. Kind of a documentary of sorts.

In this instance the topic was that of hermaphoditism.

For those of you that don't know what this word means, it is a word used to discribe those instances when a child is born as neither one gender nor the other.

Sometimes is is called "Masculine Feminization" or some other overly feelingless term.

I have at times reflected on some or the facts that this program brought to light. That some people really aren't born distinctly one gender or ther other (speaking biologically, or course).

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be one of the people. Or the parent of one of these individuals, who in some cases are forced to have a gender assigned to the child. How in the world could such a large decision be made by parents that are only human?

At times I reflect on this topic and wonder how it connects to homosexuality and/or transgenderism. Is there a connection?

So many people cut this as a black and white statement. You either are a women or a man. End of discussion. The things is, with me at least, this argument always comes back to remind me of that show I saw. If it is so definite, what about those that are born both genders?

There are so many things that define gender. Chromosomes, genitalia, etc etc.

It's something to ponder anyways. And something I have to reconcile with many things.

Do any of you find yourself wondering similar things?

And Here We Go Again....

She's ALLIIIIIIIVEEEEE!

Yes, I hate to inform you..... I know you will all be oh so let down...

I'm still alive.

That's right.

Still breathing. I survived the holiday season!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

somehow at the end of the holidays I'm supposed to come out with some new goals????

I think survival of the holiday season was a great goal! Accomplished. Already! Yay for me.

:D

Actually I do have some goals. errrr... a goal. It's the same as almost everyone else on the planet. CAN YOU GUESS!?!?!?

Yup, loose some poundage.

This is a must do this year. I honestly think it would do wonders for my state of mind. And hopefully it will boost the self image too :)

Hopefully, I can keep up the stamina to actually do it.....

mmmm, guess this means I probably need to give up my strange addiction to bread huh?

(Yes, CARBFEST) Plus, I think maybe if I limited to bread intake I wouldn't snack so much during the day....

Anyone have any ideas as to what habit I should work on acquiring to replace the bread one?