I'm back!!!

Ok, I guess I will say something.  I don't know why I have been absent for so long.  Partly because my daughter made me a facebook.  Before that August was full of things like girls camp, helping Kim with Amy's baby shower (which turned out me mostly doing it), moving Amy and Mike up here for a week before helping them move back to Provo, and attending BYU education week (one of my favorite things)!  School has been going well for my last two teenagers.  One is highly dramatic and (the youngest is just the opposite).  Sometimes when the house is fairly calm he will blurt out, "will everyone just calm down, calm down!" (He never says that when he is down in the basement pounding away on his drums!)  Then if I drive him to the bus stop we will just be sitting there in the car talking,  waiting for the bus (which we can see coming from a block away) when he will exclaim, "Oh no!!!"  Then he jumps out of the car and runs to the bus.  I heave a sigh of relief (that I don't home school them), JK,  and drive back home.  

What do you cook?

I think my dear friend and favorite blogger, the motherboard (from her blog crazyland), is sending people to comment on my last posting so I will feel like I can move on, since it has been so long since I posted anything. : ]  (Thanks for all your comments dear blogging friends!)  I'm trying to write this with an eye migraine.  I don't get a headache with it, just a flashing squiggly disturbance in my vision that takes 20 minutes to disappear.  So that no one worries- I've talked to the Doctor about it and had my eyes checked in the past and It is okay.  And thanks to drummer boy who used the computer right before me in a wet swimsuit without warning me; my bum is now wet.  Anyway I just wanted to say that I actually enjoyed making dinner last night!  It is a big deal because I hadn't wanted to make it for a while.  Cooking use to be one of my joys but now it is a chore and so I was thrilled to have fun cooking last night.  I made homemade mac and cheese.  What do you like to cook when you don't want to cook???

A constant battle

I dread cutting  my boys hair!  It has always been a battle.  When they were young they wouldn't sit still- now they just complain the whole time; that is if I can actually get them in the chair. Sometimes I actually break down and pay someone else to do it.  I don't want to discourage my younger friends (who struggle with their two year olds) but the struggle never goes away. To make things worse they even get too big to pick up and carry over your shoulder. In-fact when they are teenagers they pick you up and carry you over their shoulder!  No joke, Chris did this to me once and ran outside with me.  It was embarrassing.  Anyway the battle is over for today with whammy boy at least for another few weeks but watch out drummer boy you are next.

Well done!

It has been so long since I posted, I almost forgot how.  My daughter Amy and her husband  Mike just graduated from NIU. Amy earned her masters in marriage and family therapy  and Mike his bachelors in accounting. They are excited to be done and are looking forward to the arrival of the twins! For pictures of the twins go to Amy's blog thurstythoughts.

 

My American Idols

Here are three of my top American Idols!  I might be partial but I think they have amazing voices; not to mention musical talent!  As you know our oldest son, Chris, came to visit last month.  It was fun to see my three sons play music together.  It seems like yesterday Chris was in high school and Drummer boy & Whammy boy were just 5 and 3.  Now ten years later I wonder where the time went.  Watching them play together is like seeing my life flash before my eyes!

What is your fear?

It was scary but I did it- I cleaned out my fridge.  I have been putting it off for awhile; which made it even worse.  I hate wasting food so I postpone tossing out my leftovers even when they are to old to eat.  There is this battle going on in my head between "is it still safe to eat" and "but I can't throw it out because that would be wasteful".  I know a women who never saves the leftovers. When I first heard that I thought that she was crazy but now years later I think about all the food I had to eventually toss out any way and then wash and sterilize the containers from the mold- She was smarter than I gave her credit for.   

Chicago

I haven't been to downtown Chicago for... well I can't remember the last time.  Anyway, a friend invited me to ride with her to Chicago for a eye doctor appointment.  While she saw the Doctor I went shopping.  The weather was great!  I went to the Crate and Barrel store and found a cute top at the Ann Taylor Loft! We ate lunch at Ed Debevic's where the waiters are rude for the fun of it.  I had a butterscotch malt and turkey reuben sandwich.  It was a fun day.