WTH???? What is WRONG with some people

Now I know I am far from a perfect mother and I have a lot of work until my patience is where it should be. But I try to give myself a time out before I reach a point where I can hurt one of my children. I'm very open about how frustrating things can be with small children and I think it helps to have other people admit that their patience is tested as well with small children. However, this is horrible and never should have happened. How could you do this to your child???

Here is the link to the story if you want to read more

In an unrelated side note. I have to shake my head at the irony. I watered my lawn yesterday because it was drying up and the rain the meterologist said would come kept never coming. It's raining now.

The new treadmill

Well, for those of you who don't read sushiboy's blog, go take a look and it will explain a lot. Sushi has been feeling self conscious about how much weight he's gained this year and he ran accross this great idea that involved a treadmill. He thought I would laugh. I didn't. I thought it would be a great idea. So we looked at our local online classifieds and found a treadmill for $100.00. It is a 7 year old nordic trac treadmill and in great shape. So, today we will look for a TV wall mount to mount a monitor on and a few other things and we are in business for hopefully under $200.00. Not too shabby and it's cheaper than a gym membership that sushi informed me he would never use anyways. I guess I'm the weirdo who likes the gym, not him.

Almost done with the day

I'm tired, I have too much to do today and not enough time. That is all.

The ox in the mire

Normally we try not to do yard work or anything like that on sunday, other than church we try to keep it a day of rest. We do things like visit family or just spend time together with our little family. However, when I got home yesterday from church I noticed that there was water everywhere coming from our roof in the back. I grabbed sushi and told him he needed to climb on the roof and see what was going on. When he got up there he noticed the rain gutters had filled up with gunk even though I had cleaned them this spring. Thankfully water wasn't gushing from the swamp cooler. We decided since he was up there already he could just winterize the swamp cooler (that may be broken, the motor seems to be having issues) since we probably won't need it again this year. We may have a day or so that we wished it was still working but we'll deal with it. We've also had a problem with wasps on our deck all summer. But we couldn't find the nest. So, sushi starts cleaning gutters thinking they may be the problem. He gets over to an s-curve that leads down and got stung about 5 times. Apparently, that's where the wasps nest was. So we had to spray the nest and string a hose up there and cut branches away from the roof and clean gutters out thoroughly, wasps nest and all. Now we just have to watch it carefully for the next few days so they don't build another nest. I really hate wasps. they're just pest in my humble opinion. At least a lot got accomplished. Too bad we had to pull the ox out of the mire.

I should be. . . .

Cookie's party is tomorrow, I should be preparing for that, you know, cleaning the house, finishing laundry, that sort of thing. But I really don't feel good today. I just feel light headed and short of breath and exhausted. So, I think I'll rest for a while. The six year olds won't care if I got the toilets cleaned.

Doctors visit today

I had a doctor's appointment today. All is well. However, I am measuring big. I am currently 27 weeks along. I'm measuring 30 weeks. The doctor scheduled an appointment for another month and if I'm still measuring big they'll schedule another ultrasound. I just think I have a freaking monster huge baby in here. My guess is that it will be at least 9 lbs if not 10 lbs at the rate it seems to be growing. We'll see how things are in a month!

Running, running, running, I just keep on running

Whew! I think we are finally getting into a semicoherent schedule. The last few weeks I have been running and running and running. I feel like I'm not accomplishing things but I suppose I am, just not things you can see around the house. In other words, it looks like a bomb has exploded in my house, just when I get things picked up and cleaned up, another bomb explodes. Sigh, one day I will have a clean house, it's just so stinkin' hard to keep up right now. Well, lets see, lets get all of you caught up on the exciting events of the last few weeks. Cakes had her first day of preschool on September 3rd. She loves it and it is great for her to be going to preschool. I love that I get to take a shower three days of the week without any burning microwave muffin incidents.




I decided to sign up for WIC again since sushiboy has cut back on hours and we could use a little assistance. The lovely thing about WIC is that they use the BMI charts to measure whether you are a healthy weight or not. These don't work for me. So, according to WIC, my prepregnancy weight put me into the obese category. NICE. They also told me I needed to only gain 15-20 lbs the entire pregnancy and since I've already gained 30 I needed to try not to gain any more weight. Well, since I've eaten pretty healthy and I don't think I look obese and my doctor tells me my weight gain this pregnancy has been good and I'll probably gain another 10 or so these last 13 weeks or so I think I'll listen to my doctor and not the nutritionist at WIC. It's always lovely to hear you're obeses, especially when you're not. Now don't get me wrong. There is definitely a few pounds to lose on my body mabey 10-15 more, I don't think that makes me obese. Probably just normal.

Cookie's birthday was on sunday. I can't believe it, six years ago I became a mom for the first time. The time really has gone by quickly. I'm so glad to have him for a son. On sunday we also had a huge regional conference for all 134 stakes in this area (a stake is a group of wards, a ward is a group within a certain area for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). It was obviously broadcast to all the stake centers from a building in the area. We had some speakers from the first presidency and quorum of the twelve speak. I was looking forward to it. I try to do the right thing and take my kids to church every sunday and teach them about the Savior and His life and to try to be like Him. However, church has been difficult lately. Cookie has been terrible. It's like I'm dealing with a two year old. He will make lots of noise, or bug all of us or just be a general skunk. It has been difficult. We've been taking away video game priviledges when he behaves this way. Sunday was the WORST. He lost priviledges for a full week. I guess it's time to change tactics because this obviously isn't working. My mom had some great ideas and we'll be trying those. I sent Sushi to take cookie to get a two wheeled scooter on Saturday afternoon and also something from the toy store with the money his grandma gave him. Sushi went nuts. He came back with two sets of legos plus the two wheeled scooter and another set of legos that cookie chose with grandma's money. He also came back with a small set of legos for cakes and a barbie for cakes. I just had to laugh. At least the two had fun. On sunday night we had one of cookie's favorite dinners, roast with mashed potatoes, corn, green salad, and scones. After dinner we had cupcakes and icecream. I think cookie had a good birthday other than losing video game priviledges for a week. He certainly got spoiled plenty! His friend birthday party will be this friday. I'm sure I'll have plenty to post about that day.





Well, that's the major things that have been going on, I hope life has been simpler for you!