Water With No Ice

I have a really great frend.

I mean, you know... how many people can go out with you and order your drink and get it just right for you? Your spouse? Probably. Your best friend? Maybe. If you go out with them a lot. But how many people order water. With no ice? Me. I know it's not that big of a deal, really, but just a random thing that I was thinking, here. In the wee hours of the morning. When I should be sleeping. As the train is just going by. But I am actually working on a project. But instead I'm thinking of my really cool friend. Who ordered my drink for me yesterday. While I parked the car. You are so cool. Thanks Jamie!

Totally Random Thoughts ~ Day 6

Today I changed my mind. I can do that, right? Of coarse I can, I'm a mom! I was going to write about the idea I got yesterday while I was writing, but I'm still not going to tell you that idea, because I'm saving that for another day. Today I have been going about, saving the world, as only a mother can, and I've had several random thoughts that I decided to blog about. So here goes my total randomness...

~ I am sick to death of Michael Freaking Jackson.

~ I made 3 matches from the lost socks bin while doing laundry today.

~ My kids think they are entitled to everything. Boy do they have another think coming.

~ What do you get the husband for his birthday, who has everything? (Not really everything, just the impossible one to shop for.) This one worries me because I am running out of time. He is such a snoop that he finds out things that I am getting him, that I haven't even gotten yet.

~ Oakli wants to know "Where’s my yucky corner?", and she has informed me that her Ariel Blankie is a "her". (FYI, yucky corner is on the Ariel Blankie. And a 2nd FYI, Blankie is the 2nd part of the proper name of her blanket.) I think I failed that one. I was determined that none of my kids would be attached to anything. I was successful for the first 3. Then one day someone said to me, "oh, she's the baby, let her have it." It's been that way ever since. (Now I direct your attention back up 2 random thoughts.) Sigh.

~ How come today of all days, everyone wants to use MY iPod? Huh, huh? Can you tell me why?

~ The other day when I was on my walk, there was a dog that got hit by a truck. It didn't kill the dog, it just hurt one paw. I'm not a huge dog lover, so I wasn't that sad by this. The dog was actually chasing me, so maybe you can see why I feel this way. The owner was standing there watching the dog chase me and he did nothing to call the dog back. I'm not mad that the guy didn't call the dog back, I guess justice was paid in a sad sort of way. It is against the law here (I think it is in most places) for people to let their dogs run loose. My brother-in-law totaled a car a while back because he hit a neighbors dog. He ran into another neighbors tree, while trying to miss the dog, but still go the dog. The owner of the dog had to pay for everything, even though the dog was killed.

~ And lastly, I find myself saying to my kids, "leave me alone for a minute, I need to poop in peace." Huh.

Nothing in particular ~ Day 5

I'm sitting here trying to think of what I am going to write about today. Normally it's not a problem, but I'm trying to do a post a day, for a whole month. So, in my efforts to not break my streak, I am writing again, but don't have much on my mind. The good thing is, it just gave me an idea for tomorrow. Back to today. I am in the process of downloading (note picture, which I'm sure is hard to miss) Anne of Green Gables from my brother**, so I am excited to watch it with Ambri. She is excited (she's excited for anything new) and I'm excited to share it with her. I've always liked Anne of Green Gables. So that is what is up for this week. The weather is supposed to turn "bad". Anything that isn't VERY warm for July, is "bad" for me, so a nice long series should be just what we need.

** Sorry, said brother, as I read that post back, that sounded really bad. I'm sure you got the movies for your wife or something like that, and that I'm not downloading them "from" you, just that you have them for a noble purpose, or something like that, right?

Good Times ~ Day 3

Tonight I made Jell-O No-Bake Cheesecake Dessert for dessert. (Monday and Friday nights are "pazzert" night.) I think they call it a "dessert" because it's just glorified, flavored jell-o. Slap it in a graham cracker crust and ta-da. It sure does taste pretty good, nonetheless.



So the reason I bring this up is, back in the day, my best friend and I, Kristin, spent many a summer day, walking to Smith's (that's a grocery store for all you non-Utahan's). We'd pool our money and buy steaks and Jell-O No-Bake Cheesecake. We'd walk back home, usually to her house and make the cheesecake (dessert) and BBQ our steaks. If I remember right, her parents had a briquette BBQ. Awesome. I vaguely remember us pouring A LOT of lighter fluid all over the BBQ each time we'd start it. Anyway, after we had our steak, we'd eat the WHOLE cheesecake. Good times.

Happy July ~ Day 1

Happy July everyone! July is my favorite month. It's SUN, parties, SUN, birthdays, SUN, lounging, SUN, fresh fruit, more SUN, and just all around SUN... I mean fun! I just love July! Here is a great picture of our house. (I changed my color to red in honor of July. I think I'll go back to pink soon.)

Oops... not the picture I was talking about when I wanted you to see the view... (just kidding... story below.) Here's the house:

I want to start flying an American flag on the holidays. It is something that we did as a kid, and I want to do it for our family as well. I asked Doug if we could mount one of those (he thinks they are cheezy... as you can tell by the picture) brackets on the house that you slide the flag pole into. (I don't think he means to offend any of you that have them...I think for us, he thinks it would be cheezy. It would get lost on our hosue...) He looked at me, and asked where would we mount one of "those things"? I said I don't know, and I don't care, I just want to fly a flag. He said "OK". This is what I got! Isn't he awesome! We'll fly it for about a week, but as you can tell by the next picture, technically, we could fly it all the time. (See the next picture.) We won't though, because it blocks the view from the top window. Isn't he awesome?

This is our night shot.

So the story about Chase. Our kids LOVE to slip-and-slide. They go all the way down the hill, it is great! Chase was really tired on this day (a few days ago) and I took him in the house and put him down for a nap. He thinks he can decide when his naps are done and he gets himself up without sleeping. He did so on this day. Came outside (Doug claims he had underwear on, the proof is in the picture...) and well, there you have it. He was doing the slip-and-slide, "butt naked!" I had to take a picture, and then he got in trouble.

So today is my first official post for posting everyday for a month. We'll see how it goes. I was laying in bed thinking today about what I'd post (it's going to be a long day, I needed to do it early, we're picking blue3berries today) and I thought if this goes well, maybe I'd do a month where I post entirely about the kids ~ what they say and do. Tt would be fun, but I guess I'll just have to wait-and-see how this month goes.