out of the mouth of Logan...

This afternoon I was trying to get Logan to do something for me. I had asked him a few times and it was just not happening. One last time I asked him to please listen to me and do what I asked. He looked me in the eye and said, "Mom, I have to listen to my teacher all morning, do you really expect me to come home and have to listen to you, too?" I informed him that he indeed did and he was not very happy about that, but I got him to do what he needed to do. It is also good to know that he is listening at school.

After 6 Years of Marriage

I have been married to my husband for 6 years today. We have known each other for 13 years and started dating about 11.5 years ago. We met at church camp when we were 14 and 15. We were from different states and only talked for 4 days before going back to our young lives in the states we had come from. We kept in contact for a few months and even thought of ourselves as dating, then the calls and letters got fewer and fewer. Then about a year and a half after we had first met I wrote him a letter. Things were happening and well I have no idea what brought me to writing that letter, but I did and 4 days after writing it I got a phone call. We talked a lot on the phone and 6 months later he came to MN to spend the weekend with us. My parents were adding on to our house and he got put to work right away. 16 months later we had our first child. Todd was a senior in high school and I was a freshmen in college. About three months before our son turned four we married. We were young when our journey started and we waited to get married because we wanted to make sure things were going to have there best chance of working out. Nine months after we married we had our second child and a year after that I graduated from college. Since then we have moved out of MN and to SD. My husband grew up in SD, not the part we live in, but we moved to the middle of where our families are. We have also had two daughters and a lot of adventures. We had different plans in the beginning of all this, but choices and decisions have brought us to where we are today... still happy and still very much in love. Happy Anniversary, Todd. I love you and thank you for putting up with me and my crazy ideas.

I have yet to get my wedding pictures scanned in, so here is the most recent picture of the two of us... I really need to get those pictures scanned in, they are much better then this.

DO NOT FEED THE MONKEY!

I need this saying on a shirt for my youngest daughter. She is a begger and trys to get anyone and everyone to feed her, but she is allergic to wheat, oats and milk. At this point in time she can only have gluten free food that does not have milk in it. Right now breastmilk works best for us, she does not react to it, unless I over do food intake in one of those catagories, and it is easy for us. My kids are learning that if you feed sister something that you did not ask mom first, sister becomes very crabby and you miss out on that attention. I try to keep Malia friendly snacks in the house and so if some do get on the floor they will not hurt her. It is much harder when we go to other peoples houses and other people hold her.

I have never had this before so this id new for me. There are so many things in it that have wheat, oats or milk in it. I am hoping this weekend I can make it out to Whole Foods and get her some Malia friendly food.

Rain Rain Go Away!

It is cold cloudy and rainy out. While changing Malia's diaper this morning she peed all over my bed. I have to wash the quilt and blanket and washing I do not have a problem with, but my dryer is still broken. I have to hang them outside, but as mentioned above, it is raining. I hope it stops long enough to dry them, it is not sunny, is very cold (~50) , but it is windy. Wind is the only thing I have going for me right now. I have had my heat on, I am seriously debating on whether or not to turn the heat on or not. It is freezing in my house. If I did not have a baby to be chancing around I would be snuggled up in bed with Logan and Hailey, I am so jealous right now. This rain, cold and wind is suppose to last till Tuesday. That mean now laundry till Tuesday and I am leaving for Minnesota on Wednesday... I really hope they are wrong and I am able to get some laundry done before them.

Randomness

-I want to plant my garden... I get one this year and need to get it going. It will be little as the landlord has allowed a little part of the yard to be used. Just need to get it tilled so I can get planting.

-I have many sewing projects
*curtains for sister's basement
*blanket for Malia
*blanket for Grady
*quilt for Brendan (I need to find Yankie fabric that is cotton)
*baby wipes
*a t-shirt quilt for my brother

-We have one computer in the house. A few months ago that was fine. I had the computer during the day while Todd was at work and Gabriel was at school, but times have changed and Logan has started playing and summer is coming. I now have to sneak my way on the computer and hope nobody notices. I really need to start saving for another computer, like a laptop that I could take outside with me:)

-Malia in the last week has reached so many milestones. My baby is growing and it kind of makes me sad... no more little baby stage:(
*she crawls with speed
*she stands up to anything she can get her hands on
*she has three teeth (two on the bottom and one on top)
*she is eating baby food twice a day

-I started reading again. I am hoping Gabriel sees this and starts picking more books up himself. I think it would help more with his dad also read as he loves to do anything Todd is doing. I love to read and it drives me crazy that he is neither of them are more into it. I am reading books by Terry Pratchett right now. There are many books by this author, so I will probably be reading them at least through the summer.

Word of the Year-2009

I like this idea much better then resolutions. I seen this idea at Tip Junkie. My word for the year is MOTIVATE. It means so much to me this year. I need it to reach my goals, my kids need it to keep them moving in the right direction and my husband needs it, so he does not get bored. I need to be physically motivated as my mom wants to run a 5K for her 50th birthday and I would like to run with her, along with my youngest sister and both my brothers. I need it mentally to keep me going, I tend to relax too much and nothing gets done, this will help me organize my life(there are many things included in this and I thing the list would be way too long). I also need motivation spiritually, I have always been a church goer, but in the past three years (since moving to a new city) I have not been to spiritual. I would like to get back to that. I have lots of words I could come up with, but I think this word includes lots of what I want to accomplish this year.