Monday's Rant

Coming back to the daily grind of the weekend is always an adjustment, especially when it has been a four day weekend. I did well this morning getting to the gym and getting the kitchen cleaned before taking the girls to swimming this morning. We came home and I started looking for something for lunch. That's when the realization came. I hate making lunches.

Lunch is my least favorite meal to make of the day. Dinner is a given that I have to do something for it, that's why I make menus and buy all the food we need. Breakfasts are easy too, cereal of the hot or cold variety, occasionally eggs or pancakes. But lunch? And you never PLAN things for lunch, you just figure you can find something, leftovers or something quick. Since I don't plan my lunches I don't buy anything for them. It doesn't help lately we usually we only have leftovers of things our girls don't like, otherwise it would be all gone. So what's for lunch? It's a daily crap shoot.

Thank goodness for the power of excitement with children. It's the only way we get through lunch. Daddy's surprise, which consists of eggs, ground beef, and what ever noodle leftover are in the fridge. Mommy's surprise: Leftover noodles, leftover sauce of some sort, add cheese, mix in leftover mac and cheese or anything else that might be in the fridge at the moment. Not my favorite meals to make or eat, but the kids seem to like it, although it's beyond me as to why.

A Bunch of Sissies

I asked Abi if she was going to go upstairs with her sissies to play. She said, yes "and I a sissy too. And Grace a sissy and Scout a sissy and my friend a sissy too."

Random Kid Quotes

In the car on the way to the Mordecai family reunion:

Scout: "When I was a baby I didn't know if Grandpa's were crazy or not!"

In the car on the way to the 4th of July party at Amy's house:

Grace: "I'm sad that President Hinckley died"
Scout: "I'm sad that Jack died"
Grace: "I'm sad that Jack and President Hinckley and his wife died"
Abi: "I'm scared of Lions."

During the opening credits of The Neverending Story, upon seeing the title for the first time:

Scout:"Oh no! This is going to take forever!"

My Sidetracked Stay-at-Home Mom Confessional

Somehow, in my upbringing, I missed learning the basic maintenance skills like how to keep a house clean (or a room, or even my own self for that matter). I grew up waiting till the last minute to do anything and then got really good at grabbing everything and dumping it somewhere no one will see, usually my room. One thing I have always been good at is keeping my closet clean. The trick is to drop it in the middle of the floor instead of stashing it in the closet. So here I am admitting the gross inadequacies and horror stories of my life in hopes of being cleared of them and starting over.

-I stopped using Tupperware after throwing it all away because I was always afraid of it, sitting in the back of my fridge for who knows how long. Now I use plastic bags.
-Every morning I "crisis clean" my house because it's a complete disaster by that night. I of course don't deal with it during my alone time in the evening so I have to deal with it in the morning.
-I am guilty of searching the dirty clothes for a "clean enough" pair of socks, of smelling the laundry in my washing machine to see if it smells too bad to put in the dryer, and of putting on perfume because I am not sure when the last time I showered was but I didn't have time to do it right then.
-Not only have I stashed dirty dishes in the oven, I have also put a whole bucket filled with dirty dished into an EMPTY dishwasher.
-I write wonderful Christmas cards to all my family every year but have never gotten around to sending them. Although I have thought about just sending them despite it being the end of January.
-I have to have Internet access because I don't keep up on balancing my checkbook.
-When I get really fed up with a messy house I rearrange and Jared comes home with half the furniture moved and a pile of junk in the middle of the room with me nowhere in sight.
-I spend hours making grocery lists and don't remember to bring them with me shopping. This also applies to every other kind of list I have too.

Weekly Log... Just skip it, I won't blame you.

Things have been pretty crazy this last week. We started some of our summer activities. All of my girls really enjoy going to the kids cooking class at Macey's. They especially love going with Amy and her kids. We missed getting to the library to start the summer reading program there but we did get over to Scout's school to get her started on the summer home reading program that has continued from the school year. It's really nice having other people just give you the books that are on your kids reading level. I have been having a hard time finding interesting ones on her level at the library; it takes a lot of sorting to find ones that are just right for her and not so long that she gets tired of reading it.

We went camping on Thursday but got rained out so packed up on Friday and went to Pocatello to stay the night with family. Grace loves "Emily Elizabeth" and the entire drive home she kept saying that she doesn't want to leave. Grace even said that "Emily Elizabeth is my best friend, and that is the best name ever. I'm going to name one of my daughters Emily Elizabeth." Scout said with a shy giggle that she is going to marry Joe. That's the first time she has decided that, so obviously she liked him a lot. I think when she gets a little older she is going to realize it's not going to happen, but it's nice to see they are friends. Like always we didn't take pictures but there were some cute set ups. Abi loved playing with Will. Will cracks me up, everything he said made me laugh, either because of what he said or the way he said it. I will take a little boy if it can be Will.

Saturday we went to Rexburg to watch Micheal in the Special Olympics. He did a great job and we were glad to have the chance to see him. We spent the night in Sugar City with Deb's family. We weren't sure at first if it would be fun for our girls because they have mainly older kids, but they LOVED it! They spent all night and half of the next day dressing up in all the costumes they have from their singing group. I even heard Travis talking to Scout, which very well might be the first time I have heard him speak. It was really nice to spend time with their family with just us there; I'm just not talkative in larger groups.

Sunday we went back to Pocatello to say goodbye and then headed home. We got home and Jared had to leave to get the dog from the kennel. We didn't get the car unpacked until after Jared left for work on Monday. That wasn't my favorite thing of the week, unpacking the car by myself with everything wet and muddy. With the cooking class, party errands, and laundry, I didn't get around to setting the tent up. Didn't get to it today either because of everything that needed to get done for Scout's party. So tomorrow I am apparently setting up our tent, hopefully it doesn't rain because I'm not sure but I don't think you are supposed to let your wet tent sit in the bag for a week.