Whoops Again!

Today, instead of Emily being up and ready REALLY early, she slept in. After a rush to get ready, she luckily made it to school on time. The poor kid just can't seem to get it right!

Whoops!

This morning/last night, Emily's alarm clock goes off. She gets up and showers. She does her hair and make-up. She brings all her school stuff upstairs and fixes her breakfast. By this time she is starting to wonder why Jared and I aren't getting up yet. Halfway through eating her breakfast she looks at one of the FOUR clocks in the kitchen, and sees that the time is 12:05, not 7:05 like she thought it was. She comes in and wakes me up to verify that it really is midnight, not morning. Luckily, she was able to go back to bed and sleep in a little, since she already had her hair done.
What a dork!

Mom of the Year

I am such a nice mom. Yesterday I told my kiddos to get all their stuff done so we could go ICE SKATING that night. They happily finished homework and chores and even helped make dinner. Emily had invited some friends to meet us there. Of course this wasn't done by phone, only Facebook. We bundle ourselves up and head to the Olympic Oval just around the corner. When we pull into the parking lot we notice some big buses so I send Emily and Lizzie in to make sure it is public skate night. I was quickly surrounded by more giant chartered buses, so I had to move the van. The girls come out and are searching all over for me through the crowds of adults streaming off the buses. They get back in the van and announce there is no public skating tonight. They informed me that they had asked the employee just inside the door holding a tray of drinks and greeting all the masses of people. When I asked Lizzie if she had asked the guy for a drink, she replied, "No, the drinks were green with olives, I think they were a little suspicious." Luckily, my sweet kids weren't too mad at me when we came home and watched American Idol instead. I do feel bad for Emily's friends who went to the oval, only to be turned away also because we couldn't call them because we don't have their phone numbers, only the Facebook info. Why have people's phone numbers if you don't have a phone to call them is her reason for this. I keep repeating to myself: "I will live through three teenage girls!"
The moral of the story: before you invite friends and promise your kids things, make sure the venue is open!

GROSS!

Last time I grocery shopped, the fridge was pretty bare, so I decided it would be a great time to clean the fridge. You know, take everything out to wash the shelves, plus clean up the spilled sticky substance at the back of the fridge. This Monday I had put some frozen chicken with some water into a large Ziploc to defrost. Dinner plans changed, and we didn't eat the chicken until Wednesday. I went to get the chicken/water/bag out of the back of the fridge and realized the bag had leaked, ALL over the backs of each shelf. Gross chicken water all over the spillproof shelves, AND the bottoms of any containers that happened to be on those shelves. I got to clean all the shelves again, plus clean all the containers that had soaked in chicken water. Not only that, but I got to mop the floor because the gross chicken water spilled while I was cleaning it up. Yea for me to get to do all this!
On the bright side, at least I hadn't been grocery shopping since the first cleaning, so the fridge shelves were getting pretty bare so there weren't too many containers to clean or food to throw away.

GROSS!!!

Continued Tradition

I can remember having a tooth fairy pillow that my mom made me. It was pink and had a little pocket for me to leave my tooth in, and the tooth fairy to leave some coins in. I loved having that special pillow. I was always worried for my friends who just put their tooth under their pillow. How could the tooth fairy find it? What if you were a wiggly sleeper and your tooth fell on the floor?

When we discovered Emily's first loose tooth we made a big deal about finding just the right fabric to make a tooth fairy pillow. Hers had to be pink Barbie fabric shaped like a heart. Man I struggled to sew the lace into a heart shaped pillow. She was six when the dentist had to help her with her first TWO teeth on the same day.

Lizzie's tooth fairy pillow HAD to be sparkly blue shaped like a diamond. Her first tooth came out when she was six. Two days later she made Jared sit with her until he had the other tooth out. It took 45 minutes of pulling and twisting. She was so insistent about it coming out that night.


Tyler's teeth don't like to come out. He was seven years old when his first tooth finally came out. It took quite some time for the other tooth to come out. He still has only lost five teeth. I think we have years until he can get braces. Of course, his pillow had to be BYU!

When Ainsley knocked out her first tooth 1 1/2 years ago, I debated about what to do for a tooth fairy pillow. I would have only had a few hours to shop and sew. Jared had just had surgery, so I was a little stressed to begin with. Plus, she would probably pick some baby fabric, and then we would be stuck with that forever. I opted to wait till she was a little older for her pillow.

A few weeks ago we discovered Ainsley's first loose teeth and began the hunt for just the right fabric. Ainsley's HAD to be pink sparkly, but it could be shaped like a circle. (I talked her out of the heart shape.) Last Saturday morning she showed me her teeth and I was able to pull the first one. The next day the second tooth came out. Two teeth in two days and she is five!

I love their tooth fairy pillows! And just think, they have been used 47 times, with only 33 to go!

Quick Wit

Tyler has the quickest wit of any of my children.

Yesterday Ainsley and I were talking about what we should do for the day. He instantly piped up and told us we should clean his room and make his bed.

He is always coming up with comments like this.

He is only eight.....do you think he'll get better at this as he grows?

Anniversary?

We are "celebrating" our third anniversary of Jared being so sick and in the hospital for so long. I try not to reflect on this time of our lives very often because it makes me so sick to my stomach to relive those days. Maybe if I journal all the good points I can focus on them instead. We did learn so much during this time, and we were blessed with too many blessings to count. Just to name a few blessings:

Countless friends and family who took our kids for hours at a time.

Friends who cleaned for me: my microwave, my laundry, my table, etc....

Friends and family who came at the drop of a hat to give Jared and myself blessings.

The uncountable number of visitors who cheered us both up even when we didn't feel like being cheerful.

The Dotsons, Bowens, Bakers, and our Moms; the people who called or visited Jared AND myself EVERYDAY for the 21 days, plus when we got home.

The nurse who hugged me while I was sobbing with Jared sitting on the toilet watching and crying.

A candle light dinner on our anniversary, the day Jared got home from the hospital....the best anniversary gift ever!

An employer who not only worked with Jared being out of work for so long, but saved a promotion for him when he got back to work.

My four kids who gave Jared inspiration to live even when he didn't think he could or would.

Two wonderful doctors who made the right decisions at the right time.



We have learned:

To never take our health for granted.

Health insurance is necessary

More about the health care profession than we want to know.

Everyone should have 30 grams of fiber a day.

Subway bread really stinks when you smell it constantly in the elevator.

Kids are very adaptable to constant change.

Thank you to EVERYONE who helped us at this time!