Pot Roast

Question?
Will the crock pot roast ever cook if I don't plug it in?
I think I'll have better luck with dinner if it actually cooks. ::flat hand to the forehead::

One Week Down

It's been one week of school and we are still alive! 

There have been no injuries to report or illnesses! LOL

Other than it now being time for everyone to get their eyes examined, the hum of the 

school year is upon us! 

Let the PTA meeting, Back to School BBQ's, and host of other school year festivities begin!

Karma or Consequence?!

Alright! If I didn't know any better I would think that Karma had just dealt me a bit of medicine. After re-reading my last post, I realized I may have sounded a bit boastful about my checklist of tasks that I was able to go through in my day. I mean it's not like I accomplished any grand feats or anything. The day felt like a whirlwind, all while being able to accomplish the things that were needed. 

Yet! This past weekend I have somehow managed to pull my hip and lower back out. Leaving me completely unable to get any chores done...for the last four days! This may not seem like a big deal, but in a family of seven, well, it's an avalanche waiting to happen.

So. One might say that if I hadn't felt so great about getting my two loads of laundry done before anyone woke(and posting it in my blog,) that perhaps I wouldn't now be seven loads of laundry behind for the week.

Well...I'm at least smart enough to know that it is not karma, but the consequences of my own behavior. Rather, the lack of my behavior that has put me in this position.

I know that when I don't exercise and keep my muscles strong that my back will eventually go out. Well, that 's exactly what happened. 

Here I find myself, the product of my own design!

The result of my own making.

Now, I must regrettably make the decision to..........................begin exercising again!!!!

Today

Today I woke up a little later than I would have liked.

I still manage to get two, count em' two, loads of laundry in, and a shower... before any kiddos get up.

I check my emails. For some reason I still have two email accounts...I need to condense(because I never really count my third account that I use for online junk.)

Made my replies and fed the boys. My two oldest are still at their cousins spending the night, we sort of swapped kids.

We have a couple cousins spend the night, which means I have five boys today.

They play the Wii and hide-and-go-seek!
The four year old needs help counting to fifty. One, two, three.....
I load the dishwasher, for the first time today.

I bathed a couple kids up. Switched some more laundry around and checked a suspicious ear ache for infection. It's now around 7:45am, I need to get a call in to the doctors office, but they don't open till eight! I tell myself not to let it get too far past eight or the day may run away with me. Wouldn't you know the ear infection hits on a weekend.

I make the call and they can fit us in this afternoon! Yay us!!

After I take the suv to the mechanic, pick-up the oldest, (I need him to watch the younger two,) I drop Grandma off. She was watching the little ones while I made the run to the mechanic. We all clean up. Which means a complete outfit change for the kid with the ear infection, and a discussion on why we shouldn't wear clothes with mud on them to the doctors office.  I leave reminders to be kind, and for the oldest to remember to give the little ones some lunch.=)

We head off to the doctors and... of course it's an ear infection!

This makes number seven in the past fifteen months, not including the four ruptured ear drums. Looks like another set of tubes for the six year old. Yay us!!

We pick up the prescriptions and head back home.

Now its around three and I realize as I check my email that I forgot to pick up my daughter. (Sends quick text to patient Aunt)

No big deal of course, everyone is having fun. 

Hubby calls and is on his way home...................early!!! Yay ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday is Date Night in our house! 

All-in-all, it's been a good day.

Quote

From a book by Sheri L. Dew

Living Up To Our Potential

It's not that I haven't read or seen an uplifting story before, it's just that today I decided to pass it on...via my blog.

I am grateful for those who not only believe in Jesus Christ, but regardless of the reason, strive to share the truthfulness of his gospel to others. I am a Mormon. I know that Jesus Christ lives. I am thankful for the opportunities to live up to my potential as daughter of God. I am grateful for the gentle, and not so gentle reminders of this. I am blessed. I am a wife and mother, a daughter(in-law), sister(in-law), aunt, niece and friend. I am loved by many and I am striving daily to fulfill Gods purpose for me on earth. 

I watched this video today via Mormon Messages, I wanted to share it.

Rachel

p.s. click on the link in the post below,as I haven't figured out how to embed it here yet.

Consistency Or A Lack Thereof

March has come and is almost gone. I can and can't believe it.

I never did get back to this blog!

In fact, I don't really have anything to blog about in particular other

than I really wanted to get this updated.

So here I am wondering why I didn't get my last blog in. 

I have no excuse really. Hence the title of this blog, 
"Consistency Or A Lack Thereof",

I think it's kind of like soup, some are rich and creamy 
and others are thin.

I believe my consistency was lacking a bit last month. 
I was running a bit thin. 

Here I sit today, feeling a bit more...creamy, if you will.

Hence the updated blog.   :o)

Sore Noses

I'm back! Almost. More than half the family has been down with bronchitis and sinus infections. Whew! It's been a doozy. Between the piles of tissues and sore noses, the aches and coughs, and everything else that goes with a good ole virus, we are up and running again. Of course our Doctors' office knows us by name and face. I remind them that their Christmas bonus is on us. 

We are still in recovery mode but, doing so much better. Energy is starting to pick back up and I'm feeling like doing laundry again. That's always a good sign in a household of seven. I am so happy to have a husband who jumps right in and gets the job done without blinking. It sure makes a difference to not have to play catch up on everything. 

As a side note, by way of observation; I love how when my children are sick they still seem to be pretty cordial. They smile, hug, and play. Whereas we "big kids" seem to crash and get a little cranky if you will.
Children never cease to amaze me, sore noses and all!

Feeling Icky

O.K., so I am feeling really sick.
I mean flu-like sick. I sure hope this doesn't last long.
Hopefully I'll blog later this week.

Where Love Is

I said I would have this post up by Wednesday and I didn't do it. 

I was hoping to have pics uploaded of the crafts from the evening. 

My camera battery died and I can't find the charger. Ugh! 

We had a nice time as a family talking about what love is, and how we

can show more love to each other. 

We talked about how love is being kind and thoughtful. 

My husband made me a valentine and the rest of us made hearts to 

hang up on the windows. 

We had rootbeer for our refreshment (in my house soda is a treat.) 

It was a simple night of quiet crafting and jibber jabber. 

The little ones(8yr.old, 6yr.old, and 4yr.old) laughed at their older 

brother making quite the cute and creative heart. 

This would certainly be a more entertaining write up if I had the 

pictures to go with the story. Sad little me. 

Where's the love, where's the love I ask you? 

Well, love was definitely felt 

around our table Monday night. It was nice.

Space Trip

I couldn't resist including a pic of my youngest sons trip to the

Dentist this week.

Our last visit to the dentist office for a checkup was horrible.

You could hear my little three year old screaming all the way out

to the waiting room (so my older kids informed me).

I was more than nervous about the return visit.

I brought in reinforcements.

My husband left work early to join us, just in case.

Our son, Joshua, had a cavity *ugh* that needed a filling.

Our dentist offers laughing gas for all his procedures.

He asked my son if he wanted to be like an astronaut

and take a "space trip." The little guy was so relaxed and calm

throughout the entire process.

He wore sunglasses to shield the light from his eyes, watched

a cartoon and enjoyed his "space trip", as the Doctor calls it.

Bla, bla, bla, and perhaps a little hope.

I don't like the rain much. I take that back. I don't like gloomy, gray skies, and muggy, humid weather. On days like these I think it changes my chemical make-up, or at least my hormones seem to notice the difference and I react accordingly. Bummed-out. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean I'm depressed or anything, not that I haven't been there. I generaly don't respond well to ill-fated weather reports. I wind up feeling like I'm ninetyfive and have arthritis; my bones start to ache.
If you haven't checked the weather in Missouri, well, not only is it raining, but it is gloomy.

Whoa! Wait a minute! Can this truly be? As I sit here typing the sun has come up out of the clouds in all its glory. The sky is turning blue. Oh let it last, let it last.