thursdays thoughts....

 lessons learned while josh is away...

what guy really loves me. before he left he gave me a little book that i could read. preston kept asking me if i had finished the book yet and when i said yes he ran to his room and brought up another book. such a sweet guy to think about me and my disorder of not sleeping while he is away. love you babe.

it is totally ok to go to the gas station in your slippers to get diet coke at 9am.

the little people can survive on cold cereal for 2 meals out of the day. as a matter of fact they kind of like it.

at 5am when the wind is blowing your wind chimes so hard that they could wake up all of north america it is ok to tie them together with walmart sacks. i know it is a little white trash but when you EXHAUSTED, freezing and they are stuck on the holder you are allowed to be a little W.T.

your children will not remember that you said a swear word at them at 3:25am. not that i would recommend this but hey it was a moment of weakness.

all the weird stuff happens while your single parenting. like getting parenting advice from someone who has ZERO control of his kids and they let the 2 year old run around the neighborhood naked. not a little bit naked BUCK NAKED for an hour. awesome huh?

sleep with your keys so that when someone breaks in to kill you just press the panic button on the car alarm and hope someone notices;)

LOVES!

Mckena on the issue of marriage...

Mckena- mom I guess I am going to have to marry Issac.

mom- really? how come.

mckena- well yesterday when I got to school. Issac and Kreed came up to me and Kreed asked Issac who he was going to marry and Issac looked at me and said I'm looking at her.

mom- wow

Mckena- Then he told me my eyes "sparkle" so i guess we are going to get married. Can we put my hair in a ponytail?

What the...?? Seriously what happened to reading, writing, and arithmetic?

I guess we skipped over the part when boys are smelly and girls have cooties?

Apparently Rico Suavea a.k.s. Issac has different ideas. Who taught him to be such a smooth talker anyways? I am pretty sure there is not a center about it in the classroom.  

So needless to say after the initial giggle entered my mind pure fear replaced it. The only conclusion I have come up with is home school!

I told Mckena that I hope Issac is a patient boy because she is not getting married until she is 74 1/2.

Good luck Rico;)

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LOVES!

toothless wonder...

mckena has been working on getting a lose tooth for quite sometime. so it was pretty much her best day when she ACTUALLY had a lose tooth. she worked on moving it back and forth for a few weeks and BEGGED josh to pull it out. when he felt like it was time he pulled out what the kids affectionatly call the

"tooth pliers"

yes, the are actual pliers and they are used sole for teeth. i know what you are thinking...SICK!!! my words exactly but hey they are not in my mouth so who am i to object??

heres the play by play:0)

1st- the numbing gel and the support crew

2nd- the pliers and the yank!

3rd- the crying and the cold rag

4th- the tooth!

5th- the new smile:)

6th- the note to the tooth fairy. loving written with the help from abbie if you couldn't tell by the p.s.;)

the tooth fairy came and left $2 under her pillow. what is up with that? the tooth fairy should maybe consult his accountant before any more teeth fall out:)
mckena you have the cutest smile!!

today....

today i take abbie to see dr donaldson. he better be nice to me. going to see an endocronologist is kinda like getting a "mother of a diabetic" report card. he was not nice last time as i pretty much got a d. he better be nice to me cause i might cry if he's not.

dr.d. could you please be on time today? it is never fun taking 3 girls to sit in the room for 2 hours. if you are going to be late could you please bring a diet coke? thanks

lowered the price on my house today. not happy as it makes me feel like i am being screwed. sorry for the potty words but thats how i feel. i guess someone is going to get a smokin deal and hopefully i get one in return:0) 

preston back talked me today. i hate when he does that.

today am looking forward to a little sun this weekend. that always makes me happy.

today while i was blowing my hair dry ella got her silky and a book and sat in the doorway reading her book to me. when i looked down at her she winked at me. seriously the cutest thing i have ever seen. it made me smile.

thursdays thoughts...

so at 8:27 this morning this is how my house looked. Abbie was just starting her piano practicing...

the list had been made of all the cleaning and chores that needed to be done today. josh left a little for us today. i love when he does that

then little miss had a temper trantrum and hit me so off to the corner for her and abbie decided she hates the piano and apparently i am the worst mother for making her learn how to play..... well this is going awesome!

so i started the HUGE list i had made for myself. which included the 50 million loads of laundry. they have been piling up all day. i still have 2 loads to go. i bet you can never guess what i will be doing tonight?

so on to other things...the house is offically on the market. i have mixed emotions. part happy and part increadibly sad and some serious anxiety. some of my own and some of the kids. ugh... we will have to talk about that later. i do however have a beef to take up with the realitor. he said on the mls and flier that the house was very well kept and super clean so bring your pickyist buyers. well if that doesn't put on a lot of pressure i dont know what does. doesn't he know i have already given myself unrealistic expectations?? i will have to have my therapist send him a memo. (could you do that today josh?)

i allowed preston to go to the movies today with a friend. they went to see clash of the titans. we usually preview movies like that before we let preston see them but i was so happy that someone called my lonley guy and invited him that i threw caution to the wind and let him go. probably not one of my best parenting moments but boy was he happy and he LOVED it!

my bff jennifer came to utah this past week. i LOVE when she comes. i always cry when she leaves. i miss having her right around the corner. she is one of those friends that i can tell everything to and she loves me just the same. there are not many people in the world that we connect with but we have and i cherish our relationship as one of my greatest blessings. someday in my fake life we will live by each other again but until then we will have settle for our little moments of fun!

 LOVES!