Your taking FOREEEVER

Apparently this is how long my children think it takes for me to get ready to leave the house. After 5 minutes of waiting for mom to finish feeding Little Li they both decided it was time for a nap.... on the STAIRS of all places.

Fingernail Polish and Bandaids

Poor kid! G is just having a bad day!!!

First preschool and not bringing anything for show and tell (nobody told me!), then Gma S paints Missy My's fingernails and G wants his done too (hope dad doesn't think much of it)... then he shuts his thumb in the car door!! ouch. thank goodness it is only going to be bruised.

Preschool

Today G didn't want to go to preschool. He hasn't wanted to go the last few times, but I make him go anyways. I don't want him to think it's ok to ditch just because you don't want to go to school. But then again, I don't want him to hate it because I make him go either! When I go to pick him up he seams to have enjoyed being there... I think maybe he thinks he is missing something fun at home.... the thing is that he isn't, and I've told him as much. I just hope that this isn't the start of disliking school before he has even offically gotten into school!!!

Thursdays

You know... I've decided I like Thursdays. They don't enough credit. Friday and Saturday always get the glory it seams. But Thursday isn't so bad! Yeah, it's not the last day of work for the week, but it is on the downhill side! And it's a day that you don't have to rush around preparing for the weekend quite yet... if your weekend involves anything big. Everything isn't demanding my time on Thursday. Mondays Are crazy and I understand why people dislike them. Tuesdays are still too early in the week to be too excited about. Wednesdays seam to me to be the days of craziness around here... with preschool, volleyball, naptime, Jer's scouts, and errands that need to be run. But Thursdays. Oh Thursdays, seam to be the day to catch up with things I haven't gotten done or relax if I have kept on top of things. And hey! tomorrow IS Friday... right??

The World We Live In

I did some research and i have decided that this is most likely a REAL story. What a shame.
Thanks Steph for making me aware of it, I think it is worth posting for all the moms I know. If you click on the title of todays post it will take you right to the news link for this story (it includes a video of the news report), if not, just click on the link at the bottom.

"I recieved this as a forward. It is a sad reminder to all of us. Our children are our greatest gift and we must protect them. Please be careful!!

**If you click on the link at the bottom for the full newstory you canverify that this is legitimate**

I know that it is very common that the Relief Society, Primary,Young Womens, Bishopric, Elders Quorum, etc. meet at the ward during the week for Church business. Due to busy family lives and schedules, it is standard practice to bring kids. Rightfully so, members of theChurch should feel secure in the ward buildings.
Unfortunately, in Laurel MD last week a predator who appears to be familiar with the LDS Church and the tendency to leave children unattended in the building while parents attend to Church business, sexually assaulted 4 children in the ward building on a week night, while parents were only several feet away behind closed doors having a >leadership meeting. The predator went so far as to actually remove the youngest child from the building, but she was recovered alone several hours later. Subject is still unidentified. Laurel, MD is a decent part of town not too much unlike Cypress. If you haven't received notice of this from Salt Lake yet, the ward leaders need to be alert so that they can take necessary precautions, i.e . lock doors, leave kids home, or bring an adolescent sitter (note that one of the victims was as old as 12). I hate sending this, as it is such a sad reflection of the times in which we live. "

http://www.nbc4.com/news/14424638/detail.html?rss=dc&psp=news

Procrastinating

Am I a pro or what? LOL instead of cleaning or preparing something for Family Home Evening, I decided to play with the kids and the camcorder! Oh the joys of little kids and the fasination of seeing themselves on the screen.

Iraq

In our Ward I help out with Activity Days. Basically this is an after school group for girls age 8-12 (though we only have the 8-10 year olds... there are too many girls in our ward to only have one group!). We have about 14 girls total though we usually end up with about 10-12 that show up! Needless to say...my new Codirector got a baptism by fire when I had to run and pick up one of the girls and she ended up with 10 hyper girls all to herself for a few. LOL Sorry Heather!!

Anyways, because Veterans Day is coming up I envited a dad of one of our girls to come talk to them about the military. This particular dad served in the National Guard in Iraq for 2 years. I have to say I think I enjoyed this more than the girls did! But I think by the time we were through they understood that they should be thankful for all of the blessings they have due to where they live in the world. And thankful for the military that continues to fight for those freedoms today.

Afterword I talked to our guest for a while asking more "Adult" questions that I don't think the girls would have understood, or would have been more graphic than they needed to hear in their young lives. So not everything in this post reflects what the girls learned :) I thought that I would list some interesting tidbits about Iraq that some of you may be unaware of.

1. An average Iraqi day is about 150 degrees F. And their nights run about 115 degrees F. WOW talk about hot...and to think that they haven't even heard about Air Conditioning!!! Yowsa!

2. Our military me and women end up carrying over 40 extra pound of gear around in this heat!

3. Iraq grows loads of watermelon but they have sanctions so they are not allowed to export them.

4. Our military is not allowed to interfere with their police or political people. They are only there to make sure that the Iraqi government has a chance to survive.

5. Terrorists come in from all of the surrounding countries. This includes our Ally Turkey.

6. Turkey pays for some of the most deadly Assisins in Iraq.

7. The Kurds love our military and do all they can to help them.

8. The Kurds have there own military outside of the Iraqi military and have had since before Sadam Hussien. They use their military to police there own land making our militarys job in there reagion easier.

9.The Kurds are not Iraqi. They are Gypsies.

10. Our military does not go near Oil Fields. The only time they have gone anywere near them was to protect the oil lines going out of them from getting bombed.

11. Though our military has had over 800 casualties this last year usually this in not put into perspective. California has over 200 a year and they aren't in a war zone.

12. Iraqis live in mud huts with dirt floors. They do have some "modern" buildings but are afraid to live in them because crooked politicians and police make people that live in them "disappear".

13. the serviceman that I talked to believes that Fox News is the channel that gets the most information correct and has the most reporters in Iraq, though they do mess up as well. He detests MSNBC because they assume our servicemen are evil and try to find the worst information possible to report. He said that he had some of their reporters ask him "how many babies have you killed today?" He was disgusted but still fought to protect them when they were in harms way.

ok, so that is all I can think of at the moment. I just found it enlightening to actually get first hand information from someone who has been to Iraq and doesn't have an agenda as far as the information he shares with me. I personally no longer trust the media (call me paranoid!). So I love it when I'm able to talk to someone who knows first hand. Wish I had more oporunities like this one.