Our beloved President Hinckley

It is a bittersweet feeling. I know that he is with his sweetheart again, but my heart still hurts.

Here is a wonderful tribute to our prophet by Glenn Beck

sick and sick

Sore throats, coughs, and runny noses. No church for them today. I wish they looked more disappointed. hmmmm.

Snuggle Saturdays

Saturday mornings my non-huggy Raspberry crawls up on to my bed, snuggles up next to me and says, Mom, do you have to get ready for work? Nope, I say, today is Saturday. Good. Let's snuggle Mom. It only lasts for a few minutes, but I love snuggle Saturdays.

Fire in the Hole!

This is Raspberry's new game at dinner time. She puts the fork on the edge of her plate, then places food on the fork. She yells "Fire in the Hole" at the top of her lungs and smacks her hand down on the edge of fork. Her food goes flying! Her brother laughs so hard he's practically crying. Of course she thinks it's hilarious so it has become a nightly ritual. Here's a sample of her dinner antics...

My Saturday.

After work yesterday I was so tired (long week), so I sat down on the couch and watched Ghost Whisperer and Moonlight. I had no motivation to do anything else except make dinner for raspberry and cc. So this is what I get to do today.

-Get all those Christmas decorations back into bins and into the garage. If I don't do anything else today, this has to be done. I can't stand it anymore.
-Clean kitchen. Friday's dishes (both breakfast and dinner) are in the sink. Oops.
-Do laundry.
-Go to store and buy detergent for laundry.
-Put away laundry (from today's washing and the loads on Thursday, and I think Wednesday's load is still sitting on my floor.)
-Clean out the car.
-Clean the bathrooms.
-Clean my room and move ALL of raspberry's toys back to her room.
-Make my kids clean the basement and the toy room.
-Supervise cleaning of previous listed items.
-Finish young women lesson.
-Sweep and/or vacuum floors.
-Get off the computer and get to work.
-Collapse, go to church tomorrow and then work on Monday.

What I really want to do is fly to Florida and go shopping with my sister.

My Daughter. Kate Bullseye.

The Update

1. Christmas-great. Especially the drive from brother's house to church house for Christmas party in a blizzard. Took over an hour (20 min. drive). Raspberry slept the entire way, CC gripped the door for the entire ride. Freeway was fun, it was pandemonium. No lines, packed snow, cars everywhere. We slid our way downtown and had fun with the relatives.

2. Traditions. Mostly accomplished. 8 books instead of 12 (read previous posts). I'm going to wrap them and give them again next year. They will never remember. :)

3. MoTab Christmas concert. FABULOUS! PERFECT! WONDERFUL! I think I already wrote that...

4. Gingerbread houses. Turned out great. We ate most of the candy over the next week and got sugar highs.

5. Christmas cookies. Never baked. Don't have a clue how come. Actually, I never said that was a tradition, so that doesn't count.

6. Giving Day. PAINFUL and LONG. Grandpa actually helped because the kids went to a Christmas party with their Dad. If he hadn't helped I would still be sorting. Ended up well though - gave away 4 full bins of good toys to DI. Toy room was clean, for about... oh, 2 days.

7. Tree. Still up. I know, I know... BUT!!! decorations are off, sort of. I took them off and raspberry put them back on in the bottom corner. She's still in denial that Christmas is over. The kids are trying to talk me into decorating it for Valentine's Day. It's a standoff.

Other stuff...
New job. Nope. Too bad for me. It's okay though. Wanted the extra income, but not the job really. Like my own job. Would have helped secure us to stay in our home, but we will work it out.

Weather. I'm officially sick of snow and having the cats under my feet. If I put them outside they would freeze to death. I have been known to lock them in the garage until they are freed from captivity by Raspberry.

Raspberry and CC. Back in school (not so happy about that). Still wonderful and fabulous.

Work. BUSY! Which is why I haven't posted in over two weeks. Sorry!