3 Weeks: Really?

This morning was not how I would have chosen to start it out.  The scaled jumped all over the place before it finally settled on a weight above what I thought it should be. There was no hot water for the shower (only 2 kids got their showers in last night).  Kids were squirmy at church, but that's nothing unusual. I decided to jump in the car after church and meet up with Jon so I could take his afternoon walk with him, vented a bit, and then had to hurry back for my missionary meeting.  I'm now home, in better spirits, and ready to face the rest of the day. And, I stepped on the scale and I was down from this morning's last weight, more consistent with yesterday's and the first weigh in of the morning, so I'm a little happier about that.

Tonight the mutual age kids have a meeting with the bishop.   He does this several times a year.  The youth get together and just ask the bishop anything they might have questions on. So, one more chase, and then we can look forward to a quiet evening.....

Jillian just came in with her toe bleeding. She said the floor smashed it and told me I could go get a Bandaid without her. Guess she was too distraught even to got upstairs and find a Bandaid.

2 Weeks and 6 Days: It all comes down to math

I hardly got any sleep last night. Every time I'd start dozing off I'd hear the kids or the cats or something would happen to get me back up again.  I finally got out of bed around 12:30 to get after Jillian for the last time and sent her to sleep in my room (like that was going to get me a good night's sleep). After chasing after her I was wide awake again and finally started reading, hoping it would put me to sleep. I think it was around 2:00 before I started dozing. Turned off the light, rolled over, and laid there wide awake for another 1/2 hour.  Finally started reading again, dozing, turned out the light and Jillian started crying and kicking me.  All said and done, I think it was 4:30 before I finally turned off the light for the last time.  I don't understand how one can be SO tired, and yet not be able to sleep.

Got up early to take Dani to her "MathMatters" competition. Had to drop her off between 9:15 and 9:45.  We barely made it there and then I had to run over to Jon's mom's to get the kid's piano books they left.  Stopped at Costco to get some noodles, then rushed back to pick up Dani at 10:35.  From there we went across the valley to an awards ceremony at the Salt Lake Community College campus.  We had a really fun visit.  She didn't make the top 10, but she said now she is more ready for next year.  During the ceremony, they had the dean of the Math department give a speech.  He went on for 15 minutes about how math is part of pretty much everything, and continued to give examples: it's in buildings, science, space, technology, statistics, medicine, etc, for 15 minutes.  Everyone was quite patient but at about the 15 minute mark people were starting to squirm and get noisy.  Fortunately he picked up on the clue and quickly ended by saying, "In conclusion, math is in everything we do and see....." yadda yadda.

So now I know, if I can just figure out the mathmatical problem, maybe I'll be able to figure out how to get better sleep, stop chasing everywhere, and maybe keep a clean house.

We got home in time to get lunch fixed before Shawn and Nichole showed up for piano lessons.  I had the kids washing cupboards but somewhere in the mix the kids disappeared and Nichole and I were left washing cupboards.  We actually had a nice visit.  So maybe I've figured out that math problem about getting things clean, invite company over and give them a washrag, kids are not part of the formula.

After piano lessons Nichole and Shawn stayed for a late lunch/early supper of chicken noodle soup and had a nice visit and laughed a bunch watching Julia Childs and Carol Burnett clips on the internet.

It's now late and my house is still a mess, kids need to be bathed, and I haven't figured out what math formula will motive my kids in that direction. Let me know if you can solve that problem.

2 Weeks and 5 Days?: All quiet on the western front

It's almost too quiet here.  The 2 oldest at school, the 4 younger at grandma's, and not a sound from the shoe elves indicating that they're cleaning up in the kitchen or doing laundry.  Sheesh.

Wish I could get more done at work, but I'm still having issues getting things up and running from my computer exchange recently.  But it's nice not to have more distractions than I already have.

So, it's Friday and I'm not sure what's happening.  I'll be picking up the younger ones soon and maybe we'll have a family night: watch a movie, play some games...  Guess I'll see what they want to do. 

It would be nice to have something else to report.  I could start listing all the things I need to get done over the next few weeks, but I'm sure that would be far from exciting.

For now, guess I'll be looking forward to a nice loud evening at home, once I get the kids.

2 Weeks and 3 and 4 Days: I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore

I think I'm finally getting over this cold.  Still not 100%, but getting better.

Yesterday was SLOW. I spent the day working and it felt more like 12 hours than 8. Actually, I felt that way at about 5 or 6 hours. I called the younger kids to see how they were doing and the girls said they've been watching lots of movies and Jacob said he was "being good". It wasn't a long conversation, but it was nice to chat.   I was granted another reprieve at 4:30 to go visiting teaching and spend the following 2 hours delivering birthday cards from the bishop to people in the ward (just in case you didn't know, I'm a ward missionary now and that's one of our jobs). Got home in time to run Ben and Sam to mutual and still not feeling wonderful, I decided to hit the sack early, where I laid in bed for hours before I finally fell asleep.  I should have been cleaning, but I was afraid I might pass out if I had to move too fast.

So, here I am, day 4 after the cold set in, and I'm doing okay.  I've hardly used a tissue today, although I am conjested.  However, even without the younger one's here my house looks like something after a tornado.  I haven't been able to do anything here since the kids left and it looks like it.  I'm so swamped with work I can't focus on much else, but perhaps tonight I'll convince the 2 older ones that "it's time". Maybe I'll even see if "it's time" to start exercising again too. I haven't done anything while I"ve been sick, but maybe a short walk will tell me how I'm really fairing. Of course, that's after I run Sammy to the orthodontist and run who knows what other errands.

2 Weeks and 2 Days: Another day down

Still under the weather. Not much to report. It's very quiet around here without the younger four.  I'm trying to get some rest and hopefully I'll get over this cold soon.  I feel guilty not exercising or anything but they way I'm feeling it would probably just make me worse.  I've almost forgotten what it feels like to feel good. Can't wait until I'm over this.

2 Weeks and 1 Day: Baby It's Cold Inside

Woke up today with a cold. Guess it finally caught up to me. I'm still able to get around, just don't feel good doing it.

The 2 oldest still have school so got up and got them out the door by 7:30 (The others are off track for the next 3 weeks). I took Jacob for testing with the speech therapist at the school at 9:00 then came back to work. Jon's sister JaNae called and chatted for a while to see how things were going and then Jon's mom came by about 2:00 to get the kids. She only took Jacob and Jillian because Dani and Deanna had play practice from 3:30 until 5:00. After their practice I ran them over to her house. So, it's just me and the two oldest for a few days.

I think I will hit the sack early tonight. Hopefully I can sleep much of this cold off. I can't wait to feel better. Seems I've just been feeling off for over a week now.

2 weeks: I might be seeing a light in that there tunnel

I didn't get to post yesterday, but for some reason it wasn't as quiet as I expected. I woke up around 7:15 but went back to bed around 8:00, really feeling like I needed rest. Next thing I knew it was 11:00, and I was STILL tired. But I had to get going and start getting things cleaned before Shawn came over for piano lessons. We spent the next hour or so straightening up the house, and the rest is sort of a ,,,blurr until after lessons. Kristin and I decided to catch a movie (Sherlock Holmes) and stopped at the store after to shop for Jacob's birthday and get a few groceries. Next thing I knew it was 9:30.

So that was my exciting day Saturday.

Sunday I was up by 7:00 to take Ben to the church. Then it was the morning chaos of getting out the door. Jon called before we left and said they had personal time most all the day and that he was suppose to take a walk for 1 1/2 hours after lunch and invited us out to join him (and for Jacob's Birthday). So, we spent the afternoon going for a walk then went and sat in the pool and hot tub (both nice an warm or hot) and just enjoyed each other's company.

Grandma B's coming over this evening for cake and ice cream and the kids are screaming hunger, so time to go.

Gaye and the gang