I'm still here!!!
The hurricane didn't get us.
At least, we didn't lose power.
And the day full of contractions didn't put me in the hospital (as I had hoped that it would!)
I'm feeling a bit...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Handling Fears Effectively
Recently, I noticed that Guy was experiencing some new fears. I wasn't quite sure how best to help him work through them...until I received my Friend magazine in the mail.
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Friday, October 26, 2012
"Nothing But Sincerity As Far As the Eye Can See"
Is it just me or does this Halloween costume rule?!
I wore this to my friend Jenn's (awesome) Halloween party last weekend, and we all had a good laugh over it. One little girl was seriously confused, since her mom had just had a baby, and their baby never did anything like that! I found the idea on Pinterest and had Steve manufacture it for me! (Thank you, honey!) I'd point you to the pin, but the photo of it actually disturbs me. Mine is the "niced-down" version, I guess.
Anyway, another funny: I was volunteering at school today (not in costume) and one little boy in Scarlett's class pointed to my belly and said, "You look like the good pumpkin!"
Have a great weekend, and remember to go enter the 25 Days of Christ giveaway. Just go here and guess when my baby will arrive to win!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
25 Days of Christ Giveaway
Christmas is coming.
The goose is getting fat.
(Or is that just my jolly, round belly?)
Now, I hear a lot of people complaining about Christmas decorations showing up in stores extra...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Four Years Ago Today
Four years ago today, this stunning creature entered our lives!
Happy Birthday, Autumn Frost!
We love you!!!
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
"We're Thankful for Imperfect FHEs..."
Family Home Evening was funny last night. Not funny ha ha, at first, not funny wild...just funny at the very, very end of the night when Steve said in our bedtime prayer, "We're thankful for an imperfect FHE...and that we just keep trying."
At that point it became hysterically funny, to me anyway!
I'm like, "Honey, what wasn't perfect about FHE tonight?"
Here's how the evening went. You be the judge.
As we finished up our dinner, I bribed the kids with pumpkin pie to get them to actually eat the main course.
Guy mentioned that he wasn't very hungry, so I said, good idea, let's save the pie for after YOU give our lesson....to which Guy broke out in hysterics.
We all sat on the couch watching our lesson-giver for about five minutes weeping and wailing and gnashing his teeth about wanting to eat the pie right now!
MOMMY offered Guy a mix of unsavory but very real promises if Guy didn't stop crying immediately and give the lesson.
When that didn't work, I conceded that pie had a tendency to bring me to tears also, and that I understood his plight.
I hugged him back into his happy place just before the other kids started to lose their interest.
Guy gave the lesson, reading to the girls about what we should do "When Scary Things Happen in the World."
Then Daddy, who had actually come home a bit early from work because he was feeling pretty sick decided that for our activity, we would all play "Princess Yahtzee, Jr." a game that Autumn got for her birthday this weekend.
As a stall tactic to getting down on the hard floor to play a game that sounds rather ridiculous, I instead grab my camera to snap a picture of this happy little family all down on the floor together playing a board game.
After a few minutes, Daddy tells Mommy to put the camera down and just play with us. "Alright!" I say slightly agitated. "I'm coming!"
It is then that I realize that no one can figure out how to play this ridiculously simple game.
Sick and groggy Daddy can't decipher the instructions, so he passes them to beach-ball-belly Mommy, who really has no desire to figure the rules out, who passes the instructions to six-year-old Guy who deems the game unplayable.
"Let's play Uno," Guy suggests.
"Let's break for pie," rules the Mom.
The girls burst out in cheers. However, I notice they each have a handful of playing pieces from the game, and Autumn, in particular, looks ready to toss them in the air.
I say, "Don't you dare throw those pieces! You'll lose them, and then we won't be able to play."
Apparently, that was the green-light that she was looking for.
Giggles and Princess Yahtzee, Jr. pieces went flying through the air and landed kamikaze in the dining and living room areas.
We make them pick up the pieces, before we can have pie. The pie is delicious, but everyone complains because Mommy, who ate her two pieces for lunch earlier today, also consumed the last of the whipped cream!
"Sorry," I say...not feeling very sorry at all.
Meanwhile, Daddy is on a mission. He is looking up the rules to Princess Yahtzee, Jr. on the internet, determined not to let that infernal children's game win.
Back to the rug. We are going to play this game, although most of us would rather move on, and Mommy is voicing this rather insistently.
Daddy notices that pieces of the game are now missing...surprise, surprise.
I say, let's just play something else.
Daddy says, "Autumn, if you don't find the missing pieces, you'll lose the whole game, I'll have to throw it away, because we won't be able to play it anymore."
In a sweet voice, three-year-old Autumn responds, "That's ok, Daddy!"
Which only irritates Daddy even more. (Mind you, Daddy, is doing a really good job of keeping cool, even though he is sick, and Mommy is not being very sympathetic, only trying to move us along from this infernal game.)
I tell Guy it's ok to start playing Uno with his sisters, instead.
Guy doesn't want Autumn to play...not as her own team anyway. Yelling and irritated voices ensue.
I take my "typical hands-on approach"...I place my hands on the piano and start to quietly strum through some hymns.
I see Daddy slip out the back-door for a little quiet time of his own. What did he do out there? Pray? Breathe? Count to ten?
I don't really know. But in the meantime, the music seems to melt the moods of everyone in our home.
Steve came back in, offered to play some kind of rendition of Princess Yahtzee with Autumn while the other two happily resumed their Uno match-up.
Peace was restored. And we stayed that way--Guy and Scarlett playing Uno on the couch, Daddy and Autumn playing at the table, Me & Baby Bump playing softly at the piano--for a good 20 minutes or so. And everything was as it should be...again.
Now, you tell me...what wasn't perfect about that FHE?
A beautiful sermon was taught without a word.
And the kids were able to see how Mommy and Daddy deal with their own off-days...and that prayer and hymns really can bring the spirit back to quickly turn a situation around.
I'm ok with that kind of lesson.
By the way, the kids are now waking up...and I think at least two of three of them are getting sick!
PS - Check out That Good Part for a slightly less hairy FHE report, I'm sure!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
C.L.E.A.N. Talk
I didn't get a chance to tell you about my Friend magazine tip for September, so here it is!
As children return to school, it's important to remind them of the kind of language that is acceptable...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
What Does Mormon Life Look Like?
What does Mormon life look like? That is the question that Everyday Mormon Writers were asked to write about recently in their "Four Centuries of Mormon Stories" contest.
If you read my...
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Book of Mormon Party
Last night, we had our "Book of Mormon Party" in celebration of the fact that we finished reading the Book of Mormon together as a family for the first time!
October is a month of celebration,...
Monday, October 8, 2012
Columbus Day
After a wonderful General Conference weekend, we're just having a lovely day together at home...all together, because of an "in-service" day for the teachers!
I've got to say that there...
Saturday, October 6, 2012
It's About that Time...
It's General Conference time...and we are excited...EXCITED.
I told the kids "No crafting," until it's time for General Conference...No writing on your special notebooks...nada. They aren't...
Friday, October 5, 2012
it's Debatable
I was very impressed with Romney's performance in the debate this week, and I thought about talking about the presidential debate in my post yesterday, but I refrained...Little did I know that what...
Thursday, October 4, 2012
General Conference Predictions & a Baby Chain
The election is just a month away...and that means that my due date is also just one month away!!!!
So what else could we do but begin the countdown by making a chain. You know we love...
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