MALM- The busier week

Which week will be busier, last week or this week?

Last week
1. One doctor's appointment for a ear infection
2. A crafting visit with Rochelle
3. Voting
4. Primary meeting at my house
5. Elders Quorum meeting at my house
6. Book club
7. 2 kids home sick 3 days
8. A BYU football game
9. Elders Quorum party at my house
10. Primary activity for 150 kids
11. Dinner party with games
12. Christmas shopping
13. Putting up Christmas lights
14. All the regular shopping, laundry, parenting etc.
15. Flu shots for adults
16. Flu shots for 2 of four kids (the healthy ones)
17. Coat shopping for kids

This week
1. Singing in church at family's ward
2. Primary teacher interviews
3. Stake Priesthood meeting
4. Doctor's appointment for pink eye
5. Haircut
6. Babysit cousins for one night
7. Babysit other cousin for a few hours
8. Primary meeting at my house
9. Elders Quorum meeting at my house
10. Dinner for neighbor
11. Surgery for Scott
12. Relief Society Enrichment
13. Friends over for dinner
14. Appointment with attorney
15. Cannery assignment
16. Play at Hale Center Theater

It appears to be a toss up.

A spot of sun

Rachel left this for me and Matt the other day. It had been a long day with sick kids and lots of "things" to get done. I left the dinner table early to spend a little quiet and dark time alone on my bed. This was there to greet me. It was a huge ray of light from my little sunshine.


"Dear Mom and Dad.
I love you gise. I hope
you like this gift.
Love Rachel"

Halloween Poem

Dawn wrote this little welcome poem that hung on our door all October. Adorable.


"Get those costoo-
ms picked out. Cause
it's almost time! Carv
those punkins. And get
ready to scream! Witch-
es, goghsts and punkins to.
Get ready for me to t-
ell you Boo!

Happy Halloween!
By Dawn"

4 more days

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Things that WILL make me happy today, or soon

1. Listening to Andrew whine in his bed because I know that he'll learn not to indulge in his 2-year-old rage
2. Scott's coughing because I know that we are all generally healthy and he hasn't passed it to anyone else yet.
3. The phone ringing with yet another political call before elections tomorrow because I live in a democratic land.
4. Mounds of paperwork because I have the means to pay bills, brains to throw most of it away and lots of opportunities.
5. Kids whining about errands because I get to be at home with them to run them and they aren't stuck in a daycare watching TV or learning all sorts of useful things like sharing germs.
6. My dirty kitchen floor, because it means I've been having so much fun with family and friends that leave a little love note there and I have no time to clean it up.
7. Feeling sick because I can lay down and feel the slight fluttering of a life coming to be inside me.

Ahh. I feel better already.

Scott's bellybutton

Fresh out of the bath on Halloween, the night before he was supposed to acquire a flat new bellybutton, cough cough.

Cough, cough. What's that? Scott has a cold which saves his bellybutton for now. We'll visit the hospital in two weeks and try again.

Halloween 2007

All the treats with the tricks in the background (Matt's dropping spiders were the hit of the night).



I went with a web server, it worked.
I hadn't noticed how swelling-ish my tummy looks.