then (11.23.10) and now (1.12.11)

(Originally written on 11.23/10. It wouldn’t post.)

I don’t love change but I hate blogging on blogger. therefore, I am trying windows live writer. I don’t know what I am doing or how this works. I also got a new cell phone but am still using my old one because I hate change. My old one is broken. I hate change that much. anyone know any tips/tricks I should know in using this new (to me) live writer??

we just got back from a quick trip to utah. it may have been a really long drive home. the children may have been needier than ever before. we may have been really tired when we got home. my car looks like someone dumped an entire bag of chex muddy buddies on the floor and stomped on it. probably because someone (or 4 someone's) did. I also can’t use my side mirrors because they are covered in utah snow residue. utah snow residue is dir-tay.

my christmas decorations are out today. the kids are home from school starting in 20 minutes clear until monday. I am going to make them hot chocolate when they get home and maybe start hanging decorations together. I hope that makes them excited. ryan is working late and it’s partly to mostly cloudy and only 60 degrees or so out today. brrr… cozy! I think that is a perfect scenario for decoration hanging.

piper got second place in the 4th grade science fair. I won’t bore you with the details but it should suffice to say that mc d’s, in ‘n out, and wendy’s hamburgers should, at some point, decompose. but they don’t. flies should be attracted to them. but they aren’t.

motherhood is flying by way too fast. i feel like there are too many un-savored moments and that thought gives me a stomach ache. although science fair projects are not those moments. like ryan said, ‘science fair projects are why we are only having five kids!’ did that make anyone else laugh? I did. I love these babies.

Piper might be growing up into a young lady and changing and refining every day but I find comfort in the fact that her dimples will be around until they turn into wrinkles. which will be a very long time and I do love those dimples.

Today 1/12/11

That day (11.23.10), I didn’t hang any decorations or make hot chocolate. I never could get live writer to work and i recently took my new cell phone back because my old one started kind of working. it's broken again. Today is a lazy day. It shouldn’t be because I have a lot of stuff to do. My house has fallen apart. There is a mess at every turn. It stresses me out when it gets like this. ryan is out of town and I am really tired and pelvic-ly (totally a word) challenged. One who is pelvic-ly challenged experiences a great amount of pain in one’s entire pelvis whenever one walks, sits or does anything but lay on one’s side and watch television or read books while eating ice. I think I might also be iron deficient because of said ice addiction. if anyone in the reaches of my blog-voice are going to be stopping by Bajio’s today, please bring me 10 giant cups of ice. I will pay you a million dollars. They have the best ice in the entire state of Arizona and maybe the entire universe. I don’t really have a million dollars but I will pay you for gas, time, pain and suffering…

Back in November we barely survived Piper’s science fair project and now it is Crayton’s turn to (kill us and make us wonder why we send our children to school because we hate this kind of homework more than anything else, besides pink eye and vomit) learn the scientific process, have a life changing experience and benefit in beautiful ways from this ever-so-time-consuming assignment that will bring him memories and joy forever and always from this day forward. Assuming today is the day he swabs the inside of his cheek and lets the bacteria we will be studying do it’s thing. 5th grade science fair 2011, here we come. The week our baby is due. blech.

We all got to see Cinco’s little face yesterday. His hand was blocking his eyes and he is so squished that we could only see his nose and mouth and chin. But I’ll tell you what, when our eyes all adjusted to the black and white fuzz on the screen and his baby face appeared we all melted and declared him the cutest baby ever. Dr’s opinion is that this babe even has a head full of hair. They said the same thing about our baldest baby, Crue, so we’ll see about that…

I went grocery/Costco shopping yesterday so my options of lunch fare just got a lot more exciting than the chips, trail mix and chocolate I have been eating. I’m off to eat a brown rice cake with almond butter and agave. also some fresh cherries and maybe a cup of ice and a cup of tea. then I will hopefully take a nap with crue. and hopefully it will be uninterrupted by the man who is trying desperately to serve ryan with another $200 traffic violation ticket. this man is a giant who beats on our door for 10 minutes at a time with the force of the incredible hulk. then when no one answers, he sulks out to his honda accord and leaves until the next day or 9:30 that same night. Who in their right mind would open the door to a door-banging gigantic stranger? Not me. Not my children. They should really teach these people how to not be scary. I think they would be more successful at sucking people dry for driving 9 miles over the speed limit. Just saying. over and out.