Beginning 2010

Tomorrow is the last day of 2009. This last year has been long, happy and successful. Overall it was a very good year. I hope to have a even better year in 2010. My resolutions for this New Year are:

1) To send birthday cards on time

2) To use more coupons when shopping

3) To be a better friend

4) To read The Book of Mormon every week

5) To thank my Father in Heaven every day for the life I have been given

As 2009 comes to a close tomorrow evening, please think about how you will do things differently next year. We can alway better ourselves.

Happy New Year!!!

Right now in my life I clip coupons, make cards, hang out with friends, do service with a full heart with friends, entertain my lovely girls, adore my loving husband and have a simple testimony of Jesus Christ. Amongst the screaming and crying, I still love my life. I may not show it all the time, but I would not want it any other way.

Mom's Marathon

Yesterday was such a wonderful day. The kitchen was cleaned, the bathroom was cleaned, the under cabinet CD player was installed, the play area was vacuumed and supper was made by 5:15 p.m. I felt like I could do even more, but I decided I had done enough for one day. I love the days that I marathon clean. Right now they come every once in a while. Someday I hope they come at least once a week.

2 sump pumps, 1 battery backup and a guy with a bucket

After my husband and neighbor fixed our front sump pump to working condition and determined the problem with the battery back up. We felt that we were all set. Boy were we wrong! The water from the ground below started to quickly fill up our crawlspace. The back sump pump could not keep up with the rising water. We looked at the water and knew at that moment the only thing left to do was pray. We knelt down and asked our Heavenly Father for help. (I should give a little history that we have had water in the basement three times now in the last six months. One being just a week ago, so we were out of ideas as to any more fixing.) We felt that we needed to bail out what water we could. I am not sure exactly how long it was, but it was long enough that my arms are exhausted and my quads are trembling. So needless to say, we had both sump pumps running AND the battery back up running and we STILL had to bail water. We know that the back sump pump needs to be replaced with a faster pump and eventually the front one as well. We will be taking care of this ASAP!

Transfer from brain to blog

Okay, when I first signed up for this I was motivated to write an entry a thought everyday. Well so far I only have one entry. Not that I haven't had any thoughts. Those of you that know me, know that I think all the time about everything! I just haven't written anything, well because I am lazy! At least I am not lazy today! So here is my thought for today!

I have been "trying" to lose weight forever. I have signed up for the Weight Watchers at Home program and lost 8 lbs. Then decided not to do it anymore! I have signed up for the 11 Day Diet and lost nothing! I have had 2 babies since all of this and have even more weight to lose. I have even started a group with my church friends to be a support group. And I haven't done very well. I am lazy! It is hard work to lose weight. So I thought, until now! I woke up Friday morning and said to myself, "If you are going to do this, you have to be serious about it. NO more laziness!" I have been watching what I eat. And no, not just watching food go in my mouth. I have had self control! GO ME!

This will be a long, hard process, especially now with the holidays are coming up. Thanksgiving is going to be at my house this year and I will be serving what I want to eat. Have any good recipes?? I know I can do this and I need to support myself in this journey! I have a goal in mind. A reason to lose weight. A mind to do it! I am determined!

Finding the joy of rainy days

When we awake to a drizzly, foggy, gray day, it leaves us wondering if we should be happy that we can stay in our jammies all day or if it should make us sad because the cold and wet make it almost impossible for an outing to take place. The rain helps remind us that there are sunny days to come. For every rainy day that comes there are usually two to replace it just around the corner. (Depending on what part of the country we live in, I suppose!) So when a rainy day gets us down, just smile at the day laid before us and take it on!!