I'm the Perfect Housewife until ......

Okay so SURPRISE, SURPRISE I have decided to finally post in the middle of the NIGHT!! Because I'm an IDIOT and don't know when I should go to bed.

That's partly the truth, the other part --- I've been working like crazy on my Bedroom. The place has become the home to many things called "homeless". It seriously was a JUNGLE in there. I can now see my floor, I ran my vacuum cleaner (which by the way I couldn't remember where to plug it in so I could clean the floor-- it's been that long) and threw two bags of garbage out.

You know how that accumulates. What?? Am I the only one who has this happen??? Well let me explain: You see I'm the perfect little housewife, until the mail comes in. Especially the days with lots of ADS, and darn bills. Then they get flung onto the desk with no care in the world.

I'm also the perfect housewife until the laundry needs to be done. Because I'm too busy or too tired to do the complete load so I just toss it over to the love seat once it's dried and there it sits obediently collecting wrinkles until I manage to "REMEMBER" to fold it.

And I'm also perfect until it comes to the DISHES!! I almost think I'm in silent rebellion from being a teenager and pre-teen that always had to do the dishes by hand and a lot of the time BY MYSELF. So who really wants to grow up, move out and WANT or LIKE (or my goodness maybe even ENJOY or LOVE) doing dishes by hand when you move into your own?? Well sometimes I do but mostly I DON'T.

But I'm also the perfect housewife until it comes to the bathroom, that doesn't get cleaned for a month or more at a time, yeah sure a toilet scrubbing here and there and especially before someone "non-family" needs to use it. But the sink area --- get real. I like having everything handy and in arms reach away... but maybe we could put the toothpaste up higher... because a nearly 2 year old and 4 year old don't mix well with toothpaste.

But I'm still perfect, right?

I give my kids daily hugs, and kisses, and say I love you to each of them at least once every day. But I also know I have to show TOUGH LOVE in the "mourning" by making them get out of bed, even though they'd rather be sleeping still --- and really I'd like to let them... but my freedom through out the day seems more appealing .... so my methods of getting them to wake up.... (well you'll have to stay tuned for that in another post) . But after waking them up, I don't always have breakfast ready for them to eat -- mainly because I barely rolled out of bed myself, not more than ( well how long does it take to run to the dryer and pull out that days clothes and "toss it onto the Mound building on the Love seat" and then run to the bathroom holding for all your worth to make it there without having an "accident" because all of the sudden your bladder says " I GOTTA GO, gotta go, gotta go R-I-G-H-T N-O-W!!!!!! ---- I think I could be the next spokes person. )

Where was I .... oh yeah, after the bathroom I head to their room and miserably fail trying to get them out of bed FAST. Because remember they would rather be asleep. So I never lose my cool with them, (because I'm the perfect housewife and mom too!) and eventually we get them up, and then we're flying through the house yelling asking where is this, where is that... until all are finally completely dressed. And then I get the "MmmmmOOOOOmmmmmm!!! Where is my ....(fill in the blank) ??? " And I 'm perfect so we always never leave when we're supposed to and get to school early never LATE!!! But before we leave I'm telling them to grab a piece of bread, grab a roll, an apple, bag of cereal (whatever might be available and very portable) because remember now, I have dishes that aren't done, so that means no clean bowls and no clean spoons so cereal is definitely out, and so is anything hot because let's face it I'm the perfect housewife.

Because really before :

• Mail
• Laundry
• Dishes
• Loving Kids
• Breakfast
• Being free of "illness"

I'm the perfect housewife.

And more power to you who are perfect despite my "untils". I'm trying to really enjoy being with my children NOW, because they'll be grown up before too long, and I want to CHERISH them while they are in my home and while I can influence them for GOOD. I don't beat myself up because of the things that "aren't done" (even though I used to) and make me less than perfect. But I try to improve a little each day. My most recent focus "choosing to be Happy " instead of "Naturally GRUMPY" ( a predisposition in my case) so it's extra hard for me!! But I've noticed a change .. not with my kids or family (because they hardly noticed anything different anyway) but with myself .... I found that I wanted to be happy and tried to do things to truly make me happier and I found out that doing some cleaning or organizing here and there really helped. But this too came to a quick MELT DOWN yesterday when little guy decided to not sleep very much at all the night before..... and I woke up in a bad mood --- BAD MISTAKE!!!! It took a few hours to correct my mood. So if I don't consciously make the effort to choose to be happy --- my family and myself will suffer.

So don't get down on yourself if you don't "measure up " to what your idea of PERFECT is, measure up to mine, and you'll feel really good about yourself, and it's a bonus if you get any of the other "tasks" done.

I'm sure I must be the only one that is perfect "until" this..... so tell me how you are the "perfect housewife, mother, sister, grandma, friend until this....." happens....

A lesson in History and other random oddities...

We've had a lot of fun stuff going on lately.


Just kidding ... not really fun, but a lot of stuff. (Some of it fun.)

I've been running back and forth to the school trying to get pictures and then making sure they turn out. So I can turn around and go through the process of uploading the pictures and then loading them onto the website to build the yearbook. No more running around, but just little corrections to make here and there. Good thing too. The deadline is TODAY MARCH 23!!

Thursday evening was our wards Quarterly Enrichment for our church. We were celebrating the Relief Society Birthday. And being in the Provo First Ward --- we have a great legacy of history. I am becoming more and more fascinated with history. (Not to be confused or associated with the wars and world history and such) but I really like the US history and my FAMILY HISTORY too.

There was a member of the Relief Society Presidency in our ward back in the early 1900's I believe that was present in Nauvoo, Illinois when the Prophet Joseph Smith organized the Relief Society. There were books kept of meetings, and testimony and we are so lucky to have such history.

We spent Saturday last, working in the yard, I worked on cleaning up flowerbeds, and trimming up Rose Bushes. I have a bush and half left to complete, but the beds are cleared and we've enlarged our garden with more enlarging to come. But then around 3:00 we headed south to Santaquin to my in-laws to help them prune the PEACH trees that we so LOVE to help eat in the late summer early fall. So we learned how to "properly" prune the trees, (which I hope won't diminish the number of peaches that end up growing). We were tired and exhausted, and ended up being there till 11pm because we were waiting for our "DINNER" to arrive. The kids were getting quite hungry and antsy but we fed them snacks like, bread, apples, cashews etc...

It made for a really long night for everyone, but I'm glad that we were able to go down and help prune the orchard.

Now onto some more not fun stuff but really has to be done. The dishes, laundry..... everyday kind of things that didn't get done on Saturday due to all the outside work that we did. So when I get the house in a better shape of organization than the blogging will again commence and I won't feel bad for not getting the cleaning done. And I have to hurry and do this because with all this SPRING time weather coming right around the corner, I'll want to spend lots of time outside enjoying it... so I'm off to get started..... oh wait... just a few minutes and I'll have to pick up the girls, better get something started for dinner and then come home and start washing dishes.

Oh the never-ending cycle of MOTHERHOOD.

Need I say more???

AGGHHH!!!!


Need I say more?? What?? You don't know what I'm agghh about?? Well, let me tell you ....

First off, my keyboard has decided that it doesn't want to work. Huh?? How am I typing then, a dear friend has lent us a keyboard for the time being. (I'm glad I didn't give it back so eagerly, now.)

Secondly, I have more "chores" in this house to do, that can't seem to just stay "done" once I've done it. So then I think, why bother. So I don't. Until I have too. Like, when I have no more clean silverware in the drawer, or there aren't any clean bowls, no plates.... and the list goes on. Guess it's time to just use disposables. (Maybe not. That can get co$tly.) So I have a big ugly mess of dirty, nasty, used a few nights ago, smelly dishes staring at me, and I want to run the other way and scream "NOOOOOO". But that isn't reality. At least the running away and screaming "NOOOOOO", all the other stuff is so true. (remember??? I don't have a dishwasher).

Thirdly, I don't ever seem to get "going" in the day till about lunch time, and then I only have a few hours to get anything done. I'm still trying to find some balance, with all the interests that I have, and the obligations that have become neglected. Thus, dishes apply here, as well as the 3-4 loads of laundry needing to be finished folding and then put away. But along with this, I have sewing projects I've been putting off, and more recently, wanting to learn all I can about digital designing/scrapbooking, reading (which I seem to do on a regular basis). Needless to say... there is never enough time in a day to do "everything" I want to do. So I pick and chose, and sometimes, I don't chose wisely. i.e. Lack of clean dishes, or an overabundance of dirty ones.

Forth, the darn yearbook!!! Yes, I enjoy working on it, but the fact that we have a deadline coming up on Monday and really only two of us have been doing anything with it, kind of stinks. I'm busy trying to get "club" pictures, and then upload to a website, where we build the book, and ...on and on.... so after Monday ... I'll enjoy life a little slower.

Fifth, not getting to spend time with "friends". I wish I had more time to split between everything. I get rejuvenated by spending time with friends, comparing recipes, thoughts, talking about our childhoods, our dreams, our interests .... etc...

Your trash becomes my treasure.....

Since my husband has had his hours cut back once again, today was the first "day" off without pay. (Because he can only be paid for 32 hours a week for now.) We enjoyed the day being together, mostly. I had a playgroup at my house, where a few of my friends from the neighborhood came to my house for a few hours. These two ladies and myself just had a great time chatting away while our children played. My husband was doing family history on our computer while they were over and afterwards we went to the Distribution Center that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owns, to buy him more Temple Pants. Afterwards, we decided to stop in at DI on our way home.

Bought a new little toy for each of the boys, and then while walking towards the big AS IS items we spotted this nice BIG LONG solid wood TABLE!!!

Okay so you may not think it's such a big deal, but WE DO!! Because it is replacing this one that has been with our family since we moved into this house 8 years ago. It was left behind by the previous owners and it was in better shape then the one that we did have so we just left it and have been using it all this time. But no more!! We were hitting elbows and fighting over space, and couldn't place the food on the table while we sat there to eat and when anyone came over there was never any room for guests, but not now!! And now with less room in the kitchen to "place other things" I'm hoping that the kitchen floor isn't a MAGNET for all things handled by "KIDS". I can pick up my floor 2 - 3 times a day and still have a huge mess by the end of the day. So just ignore that part for now. A good scrubbing is in the works for this weekend.

The best part, we bought it at DI ( a thrift store owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) for only $50.00 !!! It's AMAZING!!! We've been needing something bigger for a while and because we haven't quite discovered how to grow money on trees we haven't been able to buy a new one. So this is truly where somebodies TRASH becomes my TREASURE!!! Next thing to work on are matching chairs. But I'll just have to settle with all of my used DI chairs that don't match either. Oh WELL!! That's life in the poor house with a family of 7!!

And seriously trying to live off 16 hours less every two weeks is going to SUCK!!! This darn recession is going to kick our butt if we aren't careful!! So FRUGAL we still need to be, but now I can enjoy my at home meals better because of this new addition.

And this darned Daylight Savings Time Adjusting is kicking my butt at the moment too!! I better get off and go get some sleep before my kids tell me I didn't want to wake up in the morning.

So tell me, What is something that you recently came across and considered a "DEAL and A Half" and better yet, what used to be somebodies trash that you now Treasure???

What do you do with Dead people???

I read this today on a fellow bloggers blog, and I too was laughing after reading this. I just can't understand how some people or companies for that matter can be so "not there" sometimes.
Because Mom Said So... That's Why!

I thought you'd never ask....

A

- Available: Do I have to be?? Depends on what you might want or need. Oh yeah, and time is usually a factor too.

- Age: Old enough to have a 10 year old (almost) but young enough to have my Great Grandpa still alive.
- Annoyance: Yes I get annoyed easily. Especially by “RETARDS” who can’t drive right.
- Animal: My kids are animals – mostly a bunch of PIGS. But I love them anyway.
- Actor: Gets paid way too much money and only donates to charity for the publicity.
- Actress: I used to want to be one, and then realized I’d be better off ACTING like I don’t care at home.

B
- Best Friends: It’ll cost you!!
- Blind or deaf: I would love to have a mute button “sometimes”.
- Been in Love: I surely hope so, otherwise I have five little kids running around here calling us mom and dad, and I’d have no clue why.
- Been on stage: Did I get paid, NO!!! But I wish I could have been paid.
- Believe in Ghosts/spirits: Of course, why do you think you always lose just one sock, and things just happen to fall all the time. You certainly don’t think I did that, do you??
C
- Candy: Chocolate and nuts are the two main requirements.
- Color: Yes I have a color TV
- Cried in school: I’ll plead the 5th!!
- Chocolate/Vanilla: I tend to favor vanilla when talking ice cream, but when we’re talking pudding definitely chocolate.
- Chinese/Mexican: Like ‘em both.
- Cake or pie: Do I get to throw it at someone’s face??? You know I’ve always wanted to do that. Who wants to be first??
- Country to visit: I highly doubt I’ll be traveling to any county anytime soon, or EVER!!

D
- Day or Night: Umm. Ask me when I know a better, more precise ridiculous answer to this.
- Dance in the rain: Only in the summer and when the rain feel warm. But I don’t really “dance” I kind of just stand there, or I run like a crazy chicken with its head cut off.

E
- Eyes: What about them??? - Everyone has: farted in public --- don’t DENY it. Besides farting is healthy for you. If you don’t fart at least 14 times a day then you aren’t “digesting” correctly.

F
- First crush: Back in second grade
- First thoughts waking up: I just want to SLEEP some MORE!!!
- Food: for thought: I should go to bed now and finish this some other time. (I’m going to take that advice, seeing how it’s daylight savings tonight WHICH I HATE, and it’s awfully later than I wanted it to be)

G
- Greatest Fear: It’s a dumb one I know, but driving over hills and not knowing what’s on the other side --- I always think it’ll be a lake full of water that I’ll drive right into. Like I said, it’s dumb!!
- Giver or taker: Who’s really going to say they are a taker??? Duh Giver of course!! So GIMME Gimme!!
- Gum: I hate stepping on it, hate finding it on the bottom of furniture --- Nasty STUFF --- so please, who wants to give me a piece. (See there I go again, gimme gimme!!)
- Get along with your parents: Mostly I do, but… wouldn’t you like to know???

H
- Hair Color: Natural is the best way to be, so the minute I start going “gray” I’m busting out the hair color to keep it “NATURALLY BROWN, or maybe BLONDE)
- Height: I’m nearly 6 ft. Okay so minus about four inches. So what???
- Happy: Gilmore??? Love that show!!! Thanks to Amy who had me watch it back in college.
- Holiday: Can everyday be a holiday??? And not have to work and still get paid, oh wait --- I never get paid on real holidays … never mind.
- How do you want to die: Happy and peaceful. Oh get real; I want to feel the “BURN”. (I’m just kidding!!)

I
- Ice Cream: Frosty from Wendy’s with hot French fries. YUMMY!!!
- Instrument: panel on my car works just fine, thanks.

J
- Jewelry: Don’t really wear it, mostly because when I do, it gets lost!!! That’s probably why my wedding ring is a FAKE!!! He knew it all along – I would be clumsy and absentminded and lose things like JEWELRY.
- Job: Never-ending. Uncertainty.

K
- Kids: Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
- Kickboxing or karate: Really? I mean, come on, it’s not like I have any spare time or anything.
- Keep a journal: Sure, add one more thing on top of my mounding loads of laundry and sink full of dishes, and crying kids and needy husband that I already have to take care of.

L
- Love: Makes the world go round. Why can’t we just all love each other? - Laughed so hard you cried: Me when I’m extremely tired, EVERYTHING becomes ridiculously funny then. - Love at first sight: With my glasses on or off??

M
- Milk flavor: Is there seriously no such thing as “regular, normal, ‘straight from the cow’” Milk?? Does it have to be flavored anymore for anyone to enjoy it?
- Movie: I live my whole life for the next great movie. Like come on, I have 5 kids and all I get to see anymore --- is nothing I want to really watch again for the 18th time.
- Marriage: Not many take it seriously anymore. What happened to it being a sacred union between a man and a woman???
- Motion sickness: only while “ I’m riding up and down in my little red wagon….”
- McD's or BK: I always wanted a pair of British Knights shoes.

N
- Number of Siblings: is all just relative.
- Number of Piercings: Like how many times my skin has been pierced for a sampling of blood and not with “Fangs”??

O
- Overused Phrases: I don’t know how you do it.- One wish: More sleep PLEASE!!

P
- Place you'd like to live: Know anywhere I could live for FREE???
- Pepsi/Coke: Ever hear of carbonation doing harm to the kidneys. I don’t like either.

Q
- Questionnaires: If I’m reading them about others I sometimes get bored, because you know I’m ALL about myself. (ME MYSELF AND I!!!)

R
- Reason to cry: Tatiana leaving AI. That girl was amazing, and so sweet and genuine. (Couldn’t pass up the chance to leave the same answer that my friend Alyssa put)
- Reality T.V.: Used to think it was a waste of time and wouldn’t watch it, now I just watch it and waste my time happily. - Radio Station: Don’t listen to it except out in the car – and I’m dumb because I don’t know what station I like the best.
- Roll your tongue in a circle: I think I just might be dizzy if I tried. Could we try something a little less "dizzying"?

S
- Shoe size: It’s in the double digits.
- Salad Dressing: Then let it dress already. Give it some privacy.
- Slept outside: Not by my choice.
- Seen a dead body: There again, not by my choice. - Sing well: Have you ever seen Happy Feet??? I can be compared to that. It’s absolutely a wonderful awful noise that I make.
- Stuffed Animals: My kids have way TOO many!! Now I should make the rule that they only get a stuffed animal if they kill and stuff it themselves. Maybe they’ll stop being so darn attached to them.
- Single/Group dates: For me a single date is with my Husband and a group date is the “WHOLE FAMILY”
- Strawberries/Blueberries: Fields Forever.

T
- Time for bed: So goes all the stall tactics of such a daily event from ever happening smoothly.
- Thunderstorms: Let’s play ball!!! (Vampire Style.) - TV: Better get the house work done so I can watch TV tonight.
- Touch your tongue to your nose: I can even touch my toes.

U
- Unpredictable: My MOOD!!!

V
- Vegetable you hate: I love em all!!! Doesn’t everybody??? (Just kidding there are a few that I really don’t like at all… wish I could remember which ones??)
- Vacation spot: Sitting in the desert in 120-degree heat – sounds like loads of FUN!!!

W
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: It’s hard to say, cause I’m practically perfect in every way. (Come on, if you believe that, I’m an even better actor than I thought)
- Who makes you laugh the most: When he isn’t making me Upset, he’s making me LAUGH!!! - Worst feeling: Thinking that this is never going to end.
- Worst weather: Extreme heat or cold!!!

X
-X-Rays: No I never dated any Rays. Sorry.

Y
-Year it is now: Better go look at my calendar ... my brain doesn't function so well without having one.
-Yellow: Submarine, yellow submarine. We all live in a YELLOW submarine…(oops case of ADD catching up to me again.)

Z
- Zoo animal: No I don’t own any.
- Zodiac sign: Taurus (it’s easy to remember because I have a car with the same name)

TAG!! You're it!

Total Randomness

Lots has been happening lately. I've been busy with Parent Teacher Conferences this last week, which by the way I HATED!!!. Can I say that again, I hated them!!! Not that I don't mind hearing how my kids are doing, but that it takes so much of my PRECIOUS time to take care of these things. Well, finally they are over and I don't have to deal with them again, until next year.

But let me go back to last week, my oldest daughter "sleeping beauty" was in a show portraying some of Utah's history. She got to play the part of a "pioneer" . They had a lot of fun songs that they sang, and really shows how well they are paying attention in class. I was most amazed with the song that they sang naming all 29 counties in Utah. She also had a test on these just the week before this little program, where they had to name not only the counties but the county seats as well. I'm still not sure how she did on this one, but she was reciting this stuff for a long time, hopefully it proves to be a BIG HELP.

The next night we had our ward talent show and the Primary aged children got up and sang "Book of Mormon Stories" --- there weren't too many kids, but it was fun to watch. There were a few other acts as well, and we were entertained for the time we were there.

It was fun for the whole family. Then this last week we also went to watch our 1st grader in her class play called Shipwrecked, and it was fun and cute to watch her. The cutest thing I saw and overheard, was my friend's son come up to Heidi before the play and say, "Heidi you're beautiful!! " It was so cute!! After the play was over, Heidi came up to us and said, I was HORRIBLE!!. Which of course, we didn't think so, call us biased if you must. We had fun dessert afterwards. But..... even before this play we had to help out with Activity Days for the girls that are 8 - 11 in our church. We have two daughters that are part of this, and they were learning about family history. For some reason my husband and I got conned into doing this... maybe it has something to do with the fact that we enjoy doing family history. It really is quite interesting sometimes.

And during the week I've been trying to pick up the clothes, wash the dishes make the food, you know the normal day to day stuff, but I also found some time in there to try my hand at "making" some of my own pages, and try my hand at doing some of my "own" layouts.

This is so much fun, plus I am working on another page that will go along with this one.

More updates in a day or two.

Because I don't know what else I want to do.....

So I haven't posted much in the last few weeks, but here's something I wanted to participate in because my friend Tricia tagged me (or at least I'm assuming she meant me) and even if she didn't I'm doing it anyway.

1. Go to my documents/pictures.
2. Go to my 6th file folder.


3. Go to my 6th picture.


4. Blog about it.


5. Tag 6 people to do the same

So this was taken back in April of 2007 right after I got my first digital camera. This is of my oldest son, and his "blankie" because he is a blankie baby. He's starting to phase out of needing this everywhere, but please, oh please I never thought I'd have a boy that was so completely hooked onto this blanket. I love this little boy. (Along with all my other kids)

So I now tag : Alexes C, Amy M, Lorie M, Amy R, and Aja F. To do this as well. Have fun.