The Six of Us

Last night we were asked to come down to the church and Lee was extended a calling.  A calling that will be time consuming and I am kind of overwhelmed about it,  I am thankful Lee was worthy enough to be extended the calling and humbled that they thought enough of him to extend him the calling. Thanksgiving was good and so tiring.  Maybe it is that I am back to work or maybe it is all the family stuff going on.  I am so thankful this year for family and friends.  

First day back and everything went well.  Except I didn't get a lunch break although I did get lunch thanks to the attorney who bought us lunch.  Court took about three hours longer then it should have and I spend the majority of my day at the county court house.  Life is good and we are so blessed!

I am sick to my stomach.  Tomorrow I am going back to work.  I feel good about it.  I have amazing co workers and I am so thankful for them.  They will make the transition so much easier.  But that is not why I am sick to stomach.  We got a phone call and  it won't be resolved until Wednesday.  Until then I will just have to wait and stress more.  :)

We have the dates for all the family reunions and for the bike trip and now I get to plan and budget.  the bike trip is already budgeted for.  I have a certain amount of money taken out of my check every payday and set aside for Lee.  Now I need to start doing that for vacations.  I love planning vacations although most of what I plan never happens.  We are hoping to do Disney land while we are at the beach.   I do love the beach.  Sitting there for a week with nothing to do and nothing to see except being with family.  It is a wonderful week that I wish happened every year. 

I am sitting he with red dye on my hair job searching and reading what others have posted on a internet group I belong to trying to figure out just what happened.  People can be so mean on the internet.  Anyway I cut my hair way shorter then I planned and now I am going to dye away the gray in time for some family pictures and Thanksgiving.  Plus I am going back to working on Monday which is a good and bad thing.  Still hoping something will be part time soon.  I have said that so many times I know.  Anyway it was a long day even though I got a nap in.  Something I have only done a handful of times since Andrew was born. 

Today was draining.  One of those days where you wish you could just redo them.  Our family has been going through a trial which at this time I am going to keep private.  It started in July we figured it was going better and  now clear that it isn't going better.  I am not sure if it ever will. This is in addition to the cancer.    We are fighting through it but it appears to be a losing battle and I just don't have the energy to care any more.  Yes that makes me a horrible person but I really need to focus energy on good happy things. 

Right now I am listening to an internet course the hospital required.  I was unable to complete it when I was at the hospital last week because it was so crazy.  I have four of these courses to do.  I would love to be able to work from home and it looks like I may be able to.  The state has finally joined the rest of the world and will allow us to work from home.  This means I will be able to leave work early 2-3 days a week and still get all of my work done.  The washing machine can be running while I am typing notes.  I will only write notes when the kids are in bed.   Plus it also means that I will be able get work done every night. Sometimes there are notes that would be helpful if they go in that day but sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day.  I still have six months to find a new job.  I am looking forward to doing something new and something more acute.  If I can work part time at the hospital and then do in h...

There is something about the first snow fall of the year and i really think there is something different about Utah snow. I stepped outside tonight and took a moment to smell the air. I love the smell of snow of winter so refreshing and clean. We are heading home tomorrow to a tooth fairy visit and reality.

Snow kept me from going to SLC but we did get to go to the Air Force Museum now playing cards.

I wrote a post but somewhere in Idaho or Utah it was erased. We made it safe and I am so Looking forward to tomorrow. So glad for friends and family when we come to Utah I love visiting here but would probably never want to move here. I love the sanity of family who don't make all Utahans look crazy.

Between house guests, baby showers, parent teacher conferences, going out to eat and now one sick kid I ran out of time to post what I was going to post. So I will post life is good our future is bright. We are surrounded by friends and family. Kids are both doing well in School Although both have areas to improve on. both appear to be geniuses in math. Life is good. Tomorrow is a new day full of hopes and dreams. Full of love.

Maybe I just didn't notice four years ago.  After all we had a two and three year old.  But this year it makes me sad that so many people have turned this election personal.  Lee has an uncle who says that anybody who votes for Romney just is dumb and not paying attention to the facts. My father in law said those people voting for Obama have been fooled.  Really?  I did my research and I am either dumb nor fooled.  I get to vote MY concionous.  MINE!!! I am worried about the future of this country just like everybody else.  ( Well not everybody but that is a whole different post)I am worried about the country my grandchildren will in.  I assume I will have at least two of those but who knows.   I had a coworker post that she is voting for Romney because she is voting for somebody who cares about this country.  Ummm...okay.  Obama cares he just does things different then you think.   Here is my take.  I truly ...

I am so emotionally drained that if one more person asks for one more thing I think I will cry.  I made dinner for a family today in our neighborhood.  Potato soup and homemade bread.  Bread turned out well but the soup ...well in the end it tasted fine but getting to that point was stressful and left me in tears.  Then the big question was how much do I give them?  I so over thought the whole thing.  Then my sister called and needed something.  I offered it to her but it wasn't how my night should have gone.  I am annoyed with the whole situation and I refuse to be sucked in.  Today I think I found a day care.  It is horrible and the whole thing is difficult and emotional.  But I felt really calm when I was there.  Then there was the whole fast yesterday that although I didn't fast (Lee did) I was still in the spirit of fasting.  It was a very emotional day and a topic for another post.  Right now I want to g...

Amazing dinner with some pretty amazing people. Extended family who are friends is cool. I spent more time this week with Lees cousins then my own siblings. It feels good to be literally surrounded by people who love and care about us.

I have thirty minutes until the end of the day and I have to write something.  So here is my rant CANCER IS EVIL.  I hate how it makes my dad so weak.  I hate how it has effected every aspect of my parents life.  I hate how my dad can't do all the things he wants to do.  I hate cancer.  I love how family and friends have rallied around my parents,  I love how it has made me closer to my sisters.  I love how neighbors are keeping a better eye on my parents and people from our ward stop to ask me how my dad is doing just because they care about us. The End

As I loaded those pictures I was shocked all the things we did in October.  We had a great time.  No fancy vacations or major events just us having a good time.  I love spending time with kids and doing new things.  I love that we have the resources to be able to do extra things.  I know it isn't all about money but it is nice to be able to give the kids little extras.  I am grateful for that.  We could have skipped things and put that extra money towards bills but sometimes you have to spend some money to make some memories.  And sometimes you don't. 

We went to the Boise Idaho Temple Open House Dad holding Andrew at the carving So I got this great idea to go take pictures of the kids with the fall leaves.  Did not go as plan.  We got some cute pictures but not really ones I wanted.  The last week in October the dancers get to wear their costumes to class and the parents get to come watch,  Victoria couldn't dance well as a mermaid.  Here she is in normal dance attire with Miss Alexis who we love.  We got Andrew a Bumbo best purchase ever.  He really does love it and so do I.  The kids had a four day weekend and got discounted tickets at the pumpkin patch.  Goofy family.  Last day of practis Last game Blue lady and our favorite puppy trick or treating trick or treating A army man a puppy and mermaid Jumping on the tramp. Victoria made a new friend Jakes trophy at awards night

So I am going to take the challenge that failed last year.  The point is to blog once a day for the whole month of November.  Not sure how it will work when we go to Utah or when I go back to work but it is worth a try.  It is all for fun anyway.  So on to my post.  Andrew laughed and he had an audience of one.  ME!!!  I was giving him a bath and dumping water on him and he laughed.  He has been trying for a while but he finally did it.  He is starting to sleep better.  I work at the hospital tomorrow.  I know it is going to be an insane day when I get an email asking when I am going to be in.  I love the hospital.  I know I have said it before.  But it really has been a good experience for me.  Plus I think it has been good for me to be away from Andrew for a few days before I head back to work full time.  By the time the kids are out of school for the summer I need to be working somewhere else or par...