Wait!

I am drowning in a sea of laundry. I am experiencing a VERY busy week. I will try and post ---I have some pictures and thoughts about Thanksgiving that I would like to share--before Christmas.

Hold tight, I will return!

One bit of advice---If you see something at Costco that you want do not think that you will come back the next day and pick it up. If you do this it will not be there.

Today

*Tired
*Had a nice Thanksgiving
*crabby-became "Cruella" with my kids today
*tons of laundry
*going to bed early

Watch Out!

This was a much meaner "bug" than originally thought! It has also affected my Mother in Law, Sister in Law and her four children! That is one strong little germ!

We're Alive!

We all survived the icky, icky bug that attacked all six members of this family!

Now to repair the damage to my house that happened when everyone is laying around almost comatose-except the 3 year old!

Ewwh!

I have been a Mother for almost fifteen years. In all that time I have never gotten used to hearing "MOM, MOM" in the middle of the night followed by that horrible sound of someones guts wrenching loose. Last night I had three children and myself who were all spending time around the porcelain throne. Luckily, all of us mostly made it to the toilet. It is just the rudest thing to be heaving yourself and have to clean up the carpet.

The little guy started this Saturday morning---allover my breakfast at a restaurant. My #3 started at Grandma's(ick, she didn't make it-grateful for carpet cleaners). #1 and #2 started somewhere around 3:00 am.

This is where I want to yell out "Mom, Mom"

Explosion

I am walking around my beautiful home thinking to myself "wow, this is a really big mess."

Does anyone else's home just seem to explode on occasion? Mine does it much too often. So, I am going to try not to stress out and just think--

Baby Steps. Wish me luck.

I'm keeping it!

I have been MIA! It seems that I have been extra busy this week.

I have had an exciting week. I finally found and purchased a new dining table. I have been looking at tables for the past 3-4 years. Yes, I realize that most people make a decision faster than this. I am still working on my procrastination problem. Back to the table--I love it! It was delivered on Tuesday. I waited for the delivery with great trepidation. I am well known for my ability to love something at the showroom and then once it is brought into my house I hate it. I have sent not one but two SETS of living room furniture back. So, my sweet hubby would not even look with me. He told me to do it by myself! When I told him I found the table he told me he wouldn't hold his breath! I asked him to take the old table apart so there was more room. He told me "I better wait to make sure I was going to keep the table because WHEN I sent it back we wouldn't have anywhere to sit to eat dinner!"

Well, the table IS Not going back! I Love IT! It is a huge change from our tiny little table. We did not all fit around this table. Yes we could put six plates but that was it! There was not enough room to put the food! It was also a really light table. Pale pine on top with white legs.

My new table is HUGE! It can seat EIGHT! I bought eight chairs because there are already six of us. If we have anyone over to eat there would need to be more chairs.

Here is a picture of my new table!

Sweetness

As my little guy looked out the window this COLD morning he noticed the frost covered grass.

"Look, Mommy, there are stars on the grass."

Progress?

This is the mess that I have been looking at for much too long. Today I just couldn't stand it any longer!

Why does it seem that to clean up a mess we have to create an even bigger mess first? Is this part of the sickness of chaos? Do truly organized people never have enough mess to really make a mess in the first place?

As I have previously written, I started cleaning my bedroom--deep down, organize, dejunk, garbage, Deseret Industries(DI-like Good Will) all the unused and unloved items. Well, today after the kids and I went to dinner, I told them they had to go and spend 1/2 hour in their bedrooms. Well, Little Missy has a terrible time focusing. She is only 7 so I hope that she will improve. I ended up having to stay right next to her to get anything done. Well, it ended up becoming much more involved than I had originally planned.

This is a shared bedroom with her 3 year old little brother. Well, little brother is almost ready to move out of the crib and into a big boy bed! I decided that I might as well start the process along.

I had everything all torn apart(mostly vacuumed) when I realized that the little man was falling asleep sitting at the counter. So---that ended working in that bedroom for tonight. Hopefully, I will be able to put things back together tomorrow!

Check out the mess I made cleaning the mess!

Tina has a Blog!

I have added a new link on my sidebar. My sweet friend Tina has a new blog. She is showcasing her photography along with her family. She is the talented photographer who took our family picture. She is also the friend that I went to Germany with. Go and check out her blog. If you live in the Northern Utah area she is fabulous! Check out Tina Pierson Photograhpy! She is the best!

My Confession

Hello, my name is Rosie and I am a procrastinator. I have plans that never happen. I buy cute things to hang on my walls and they never get hung. I buy hooks and they sit in a box. I am in therapy for this disorder.

Today I made a huge step in my recovery. I actually got out power tools and hung up two hooks that I purchased many, many months ago. I got them cheap at Target. Cheap doesn't matter if they just sit on a shelf! Today-- I put two hooks up in my side of our closet. I have lived in this home for six years. I have needed hooks to hang my robe up for six years. Today---I DID IT!!!

(Now I have to remember to put all the power tools away!)

Baby Steps!

I am trying to focus on making little improvements in my life. Little "baby steps" that will develop into a much more organized life! (Grandious ideas, but trying just the same!)

My family looks at some of the pictures I take and all they can say is "why?" Case in point. My closet has been a mess. It is a constant battle to keep it fairly decent. My sweet hubby is more orderly in his side of the closet. The mess is all mine! Well, the other day I started sucking up bugs in my bathroom. This led to me deciding to really start to clean my bedroom. Unfortunately, my bedroom often becomes the graveyard for things that I just don't know what to do with. Usually the best thing to do with whatever "it" is would be the garbage!

So, I have been working for three days. Ok, ok, I have been working in shifts, here and there for three days! I am making progress!Here is the proof!

Some Days!

Some days go better than others.

Tuesday afternoon I had to pick up the dog from the groomers. So, the kids wanted to go to the gym. No big deal. The little guy and I will just play at the new park right next to the gym.

When we arrived there were no other people at the park so I let the dog run around. Well, after awhile some other people came. This little girl really liked our dog. So, I didn't worry. Then another man and a boy came, well, it was very obvious that he didn't like the dog running around without a leash. (Which I understand-dogs can be very scary) So, I went and put her into the car. It was cool so it wasn't a problem. Well, I called the kids to come so we could go home. We went to go and get into the car and THE DOG HAD LOCKED THE DOORS! I was the only person at the park when I got there. I left my keys in the car(dumb-I know). The dog stepped on the door lock button and locked the doors! Great! Lucky for me, I have a cell phone-that was in my pocket(it was almost dying-I had to talk fast) and my sweet hubby hadn't left our house yet for his meetings. We waited and froze while he brought us the extra keys.

Moral to this story? Don't leave your keys in the car, especially with a do inside! (a hidden key would be a good idea also!

Bugs, Bugs and more bugs!

Ewwh!

I hate box elder bugs! They are nasty, dirty little creatures that have been invading my house for weeks and weeks. I am so sick of their dirty little slimy spots all over my windows. I had to vacuum my bathtub today because there were so many. It was only a few days ago that I sent about a thousand down the drain.

While sucking up bugs with the vacuum I pulled my very large wooden blinds up- to be almost suffocated by dust. I guess that you know it is past time to dust the blinds when this happens. So, that is the fun we are having around here today!! Bugs and dust!

Fall Joy's

One of the inevitable realities of fall is leaves. Where we live there are LOTS of leaves. We don't have so many in our own yard but out Grandparents have millions in theirs and we live on a connected lot.

So, today was leaf cleanup day! The kids always complain and complain and then once they see the HUGE pile they are all smiles.

When I was at college in Hawaii I remember calling my Mom and complaining about there not being any fall leaves.(Imagine that?-what was I thinking--warm is always good) Well, my sweet Mom boxed up a care package with goodies from home and included a baggie full of leaves! I loved them! I carried them around and shared the smell with all my Polynesian friends and then kept that baggie pinned to my bulletin board. I still smile when I think of my Mom sending me leaves. It is one of my favorite little memories.

Go make some leaf memories today!

Halloween 2007

Happy Halloween!

It was a busy night! The middle kids were so excited to go "treating" with the neighbors that we didn't get many pictures taken! My good friend has her four-wheeler with a trailer hooked up behind it. The kids can sit on the trailer between stops. We live in the country so sometimes the distance is a bit. These kids had a ball. I think that it was one of the funnest years that they have had. The little guy went to Grandma's house and was happy to have a treat in his bucket. He then proceeded to take his costume off. So, for me it was a calmer night than we have had on Halloween in years!

This is not my "little lamb" but isn't she just the sweetest thing? I took more pictures of her than my middle children--they were too busy!