Socks

Yesterday was a bad day. It was just really bad. Bad things happened. It all turned out okay in the end, but you know just one of those days. Early in the morning I was out with the kids and Mae was throwing a fit. On the car ride home she was crying and I was crying. Poor Max was stuck in the car with two crying women. He more then rose to the occasion, knowing Mae's love of socks and shoes he took off his boots and handed her his socks in hopes that it would cheer her up. It didn't do too much for her in her anger, but it sure made me appreciate how special my little guy is and how blessed I am to have him.

Broken

So in the last three months we have had the following big items break. The car, (battery, transmission, front axle, front tires,) the plasma t.v., the PlayStation 3, and now the garage door. Seriously??!? I suppose I should be very grateful that most of these happened in the last month so that we didn't have to deal with the car problems in the snow. Now the warranty on the car covered most of the costs and Jeff actually fixed the t.v. himself, (because my husband is super awesome and is even more so with a soddering gun and when properly motivated.) I suppose I should also be grateful that this all happened durning tax refund/bonus time, but seriously this sucks. And let us not forget that during this time Jeff and I have had the stomach flu twice, and Mae has had two double ear infections. I am super paranoid about what is gonna break next. I just hope it isn't one of the kids.

I Didn't Know They Still Came That Way

If all goes well I will be kid free and in good health Friday morning. My goal is to clean my oven; cause my two year old oven is not self cleaning! Seriously why do they even make that an option? If you can all remember we were not allowed to move into the house until Fannie Mae installed an oven. We were not allowed to buy one ourselves and of course Fannie Mae chose the cheapest oven Lowes carries. Go ahead and go to Lowes check out the ovens and the cheapest one is ours. It is a total piece of crap! It cooks unevenly and had ruined many a dish of mine. Now you may ask, So why not just buy a new one? Well, it is hard to buy something that expensive if you don't REALLY need it. Long story short when our renters move out of our other house next year we will probably swap ovens, but that is a year away. So until then this Friday is oven day and maybe moping the floors if I can get it in.

Schizophrenic

Um yeah, Mae is pretty much a schizophrenic. For the longest time of late she has been a beast... as seen here.


For the last three days she has been a total doll. So squishy cute. When she was born my niece Liesl would say Mae was a cutie pie bubbles and the nickname has stuck in our family. These last few days she has defiantly been a cutie pie bubbles.



*FYI I would like to point out to my mom that Mae does not have a pacifier in either of these pictures, so proof that she doesn't always have one in.

Above and Beyond

I needed to go to my monthly doctor's visit last Wednesday and Jeff couldn't watch the kids having missed so much work already for our sick weekend. My lovely friends Dandi and Kristy offered to watch my kids and took them to the Gentry Animal Safari! Talk about above and beyond. I am told my kids were perfect, for which I am so grateful, but at the same time, why aren't they perfect for me? Is it just me or does that picture of Max just sum him up in one shot?

Spring

Planted some dafodils last fall just on a whim. Glad I did.

Instead

I have lots of things I want to blog about, but so many of them are very intense or at least detailed and when I sit down it is just too overwhelming. So instead of sharing I have decided to let them go or at least simmer until I really feel like sharing. But a few brief points

I would like to thank all my friends who helped me out during our current sick spell.

I am encouraged and discouraged by the progress of my yard. I have been able to do a lot during nap times and with the help of a young fella in my ward. Little projects are underway, but there is just SO MUCH TO DO it is overwhelming.

We have our renters paid up in full and re-signed for another year which is good cause there is NO WAY we could afford to sell the house this year.

Baby Spike is healthy and presumably happy set to come June 30th. I was given the option of the 30th or July 5th and decided to go before everyone left for the holiday. After our group sickness this weekend, Jeff and I are a bit terrified about how we are going to survive the delivery while taking care of the kids. I am sure we will get through it but it will be super tough.

Took Mae to the doctor for the 18 month checkup and she is 50% for height and 50% for weight, but I really hate the way they measure kids based on all the other kids. So if my kid is normal and all the kids in the US are obese what does that mean? Why can't they just tell me how my kid is doing and leave everyone else out of it.

Jeff's whole area at work has been rearranged and we are still waiting to learn how things will turn out. He is on a new team and will pretty much be the most senior person on the team, which will lead to excellent opportunities to lead, but also possibly more work. He doesn't have a new boss yet, so that is always a potential worry. He has always been the luckiest guy at Walmart ISD in regards to bosses and pager schedules, so being ever the pessimist I am nervous that his luck cannot last. Jeff, the optimist, is not worried at all. I am so lucky to have bagged such a happy positive guy. Sometimes I just want to point at him and laugh, "FOOLED YOU! You're stuck now, it would cost too much in child support to leave me." But that wouldn't be too nice so instead I just make sure he has plenty of time to play video games.