Our Prophet

So yes it was a shock to hear about Pres Hinkley's death, but I wasn't sad. And the more I read about what all of you are saying it was making me a little guilty. I realized though that I wasn't sad because I was happy for him. This is a sad occasion I am not putting it down, I am just overjoyed that someone so wonderful as him has finished his work on the earth and he was called back at the right time and there is no wondering at all about his future. I was also excited to see who will be the new leader and to find out what he will focus on. Each prophet has his focus on something and I am excited to see what that will be. I am not sad about the situation even though it will be hard to get used to not seeing him at conference. I hope every can find the joy in it as well.

Exhausted

So I like to work in small amounts of time, and even an 8 hour day is ok (some adult time from kids, yeah), but when you are combining 3 jobs in one and then the mother full time one on top of that it gets pretty hectic. So yesterday, I worked 8 hours because of a scheduling problem that I was willing to help them out with. Then when I got home I had an hour and a half to clean up the house from 2 days of not doing house work with kids in it, and do the whole dinner thing. Then when Nathan went to his class I locked Dai in her room to sleep because she was beyond cranky. I had a short time for her to get there before a Pampered Chef client came over to close a show. This lady is a little older with health problems so it took longer to explain things. I worked with her for an hour to get the show done. Then I had another half hour to get Avi settled and in bed before my math student came for an hour. Needless to say I was TIRED!!!
Dailynn being the wonderful alarm clock she is decided this morning we would start an hour early. So from the exhaustion from the previous day, the early morning, and the list of tasks that had been put off for 3 days, and Dailynn missing her nap it wasn't a very good day. Maybe I will get to bed tonight. HA HA HA

Feeling Rushed

Ok, so doing these tax returns is harder than I thought. Yes I worked at an accountants office in Ephraim for a tax season, but the returns got to my desk, I worked on them for as long as I needed to, then a few days later the people came and picked them up. Well at HR Block, I get to do the return with the people watching everything I am doing. So not only do you have to do it in front of them, you feel so rushed so that you are not wasting their time. I did my first return today, and the girl had only about 45 min to do it in. So my first return, not sure what to do with one item, the girl is frustrated that she didn't get back as much as the year before, and I didn't know how to get her something that HR Block sells. I was lucky though because she had to leave before all the forms printed, there are a LOT of form that print here, so I was able to spend the next 15 min figuring out what goes where without someone breathing down my neck. I survived, and I think this will be fun once I figure it all out.

Shakes

Some friends call us the shake people, and there are a few groups that we get together with that can't leave until they have had theirs. So the way this came about is that we would invite friends over and give them a shake and they would never finish them, no matter how small they were. We received these hideous and huge cups for our wedding, and weren't using them for anything so we decided to make them the shake challenge. Finally people were drinking all of their shakes even though they were 2-3 times bigger than the ones that we had been making earlier.
One day a group of friends came over with the makings and Edward (our tall African American football player friend) wanted to try a double challenge. Nathan, being the primary shake maker at the time, didn't know how to scale it down to just a single challenge per blender so he ended up making a full blender, 2 challenges, for him. Edward drank his single challenge, the additional blender full, and half of his wifes challenge as well. Needless to say he was sick. To remedy this he went out on the lawn and tried everything he could to get more sick so that he could take care of the problem. He was jumping around, on his hands and knees shaking his tail end, dancing around. Finally he was successful and came back to join us. The remains were on the grass for a few days until it finally rained.
So why am I saying all of this, it's a fun story but we were reminded of it on Saturday when we were having shakes. We and some friends had just finished watching Stardust and were trying to convince Nathan to make us a shake. So sitting in his recliner he decided that the shake he would do is to shake his whole body. I finally convinced him that I don't have the shake shake down so he had to finish making the shakes by doing the shake shake so that the blender would work. Sorry that makes no sense unless you have seen it before. He finally did it, and we all enjoyed our shakes.

Grouchy Kid

Dailynn is having way too much fun waking up all hours of the night. I think (not sure because I was so tired) the last 2 nights Dai has come in and slept for a short time on our floor. Of course I do have to wake up in the process because Dai always wants me to know what she is doing. So that I don't mind too much, it is when she wakes up a short while later screaming for no reason. That means double awake. Then of course Dai doesn't sleep past 7:30, no matter how exhausted she may be. I don't mind the 7:30, I am usually waking up about then, it is the 6:30 when she is opening and closing my door trying not to disturb me or something that irks me. Then of course by about 10 she is so exhausted she can't think straight and thinks that I am a punching bag. I tend to be out doing errands at this time, so it is hard to rebuke the horrible behavior of hitting me in the face, clawing my face, pulling my hair and anything else she can do to inflict pain while I am trying to strap her car seat. I swear that sometimes people are walking past my car thinking she is a holy terror. So I guess the only thing I can really try is to just go home the instant she acts this way and throw her in bed. The last 2 days she has taken her nap at 11 (not falling asleep until 12) and it seems to work. She wakes up about 2 and is a much happier kid all day, and even goes to sleep a little earlier at night, it is a little less work and time. I still would prefer to have her sleep through the night so that I can.

Working

So I started working at HR Block this week, and strange enough I kinda like it. I know I am a freak because I like doing taxes, but I think that I like the social aspect about it a lot and the taxes don't bother me. So I worked for 3 days, and wore my eyes out, and found that I like being home too. I do understand a little better when husbands come home and on their day off they just want to relax for a while because it is nice to just sit. That is what I have done most of the day, but then I started feeling bad. Nathan is a great husband that works so hard to support us so that I can stay home, the least I can do is make the house presentable when he comes home. It also helps that someone was coming over this afternoon, but I always feel better when the house looks good. But when the kids are following you around the house, it is a bad thing. Those are the nice times for the movies or cartoons that can occupy them long enough to hide everything that you are putting away. I am teaching them that they need to clean, and rewarding for it, but sometimes it is just easier to do it myself. Boy I hope this job doesn't make me lazy at home. We shall see.

Learning

So I am not too good at all the technical stuff yet, I am having a hard time spelling, please forgive my typos. Just more of the fun of letting myself out into the world. Keep on top of me so that I can someday learn to do things right.

My Goal

Ok, so I thought it would be harder than this to post. So I was at a meeting tonight and I got pumped up and realized stuff too. First off, I have set a goal, and I am going to try to actually reach it this time. Many of you know that I am a Pampered Chef consultant, but do you know that I have done pretty good in it, but not as good as I would like. My goals that I have set for myself on this is to get a promotion to a director by June 1st. This is really scary for me because it means that I have to get out of my comfort zone and work a little harder. That is another reason I am writing this because the first step for me it to talk to everyone about it.
My second goal is to earn a trip. I would love to make it to Paris next year, but I will be pretty excited about going to Miami beach. Luckily if I meet my first goal of becoming a director, that will get me half way to my second goal of the trip. (these trips are all paid for by PC) So I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew what my goals were so that you can all hold me accountable for them. If you want to help me out, let me know.

Sleep

Why do kids think sleep is over rated. It really isn't!! I quite enjoy it when I have the time for it. At bed time Dailynn has mastered the art of stalling. Of course she does have to keep her parents on track and ask for the vitamin pill, drink, and brush teeth. That I don't mind most of the time it is the insistence of having 35 books, 10 stuffed animals, 20 toys, blankets, and anything else she can get in the bed with her. Avi has calmed down with that a little, she just has 4 blankets 3 pillows, 3-5 stuffed animals and as many books as mom or dad will give her. Dailynn just does it so that she can stay up longer and not go to sleep. Her favorite bed time phrase is "I can't sleep". Avi on the other hand will be konked out in 5 min if her sister would just stay in bed. There have even been some times when Nathan and I have fallen asleep before Dailynn. Any hints on getting them to stay?

Lost Bowl

I know I am a perfectionist on some things, that includes dishes. So while I unload the dishes, I count my bowls, plates, tinsels, and occasionally the cups. Then as I load up the dishwasher (because I don't unload until we are completely out of dishes) I keep counting. I do this so that I know how hard to search the house for my missing dishes.
For the last 2 weeks or so I have been missing a bowl. It is rather nerve racking especially when it is a favorite. (yes we have favorite dishes) So of course I checked all the normal places for it the computer desk, the shelf behind our chairs, under the furniture, and in the couch.
Yes I did say the couch. The couches we have are very good at hiding objects like a vase, shoes, gloves, and the traditional crayons, toys, socks, and anything that easily hides. Not money though, imagine that. Our bottomless pit of couches have not yielded our missing favorite bowl, so the search continues. If you find a missing blue bowl, let me know we truly do miss it.

uncommon is good

Hello everyone, so I am the type that will wait until everyone and their dog gets into something before I will. So everyone has been blogging for ages, and I have just started reading them within the last 2 weeks, and they are so fun. So now the next step is to actually try to do this myself. Oh boy, look forward to some uncreative and strange things from me because that is how I am.
So I have been reading things on everyones blogs and found that I love families. They are so crazy, uncontrollable and uncommon that it makes life so great! If things were easy it wouldn't be as fun to be here, so when I am having one of those days I just need to remember that my family is great!
So now the fun of trying to figure everything out, so strap yourselves in for a bumpy ride.