Every once in a while I like to record exactly what I did that day just for the record. Just so I know what my days were like when my fauning and appriciative grandchildren ask me, "What was it like when you were growing up?" Because, really I'm still growing up. And you think I'm all grown up you should have seen the tantrum I threw on Wednesday as I told the bishop of another ward what I thought about his ward switching the night of our joint-ward trunk-or-treat. I'm still not ready to repent of not sustaining my leaders...though techincally he's not my leader since I'm not in his ward so...
Back to today. I've been trying lately to find delight in the Sabbath in a way that helps my children delight also but that doesn't just turn into the same old, daily routine, only replace Fancy Nanay with Nephi. And that also lets me in a on a bit of the resting part of the Sabbath. I think I got it today. Hopefully we can repeat in coming weeks.
6:30 am: Alice comes into my bed and in the process wakes up Henry. I sitck Alice under the covers and go back to sleep.
7:30 am: I decide to finally stop ignoring Henry and get him out of bed. We tickle on the couch for a bit then make pumpkin bread together. He also helps me put a roast in the crock pot. Then we make hot chocoalte for Rex and Alice as they wake up.
8 am: I eat breakfast and feed Henry, but forget to feed Rex and Alice. Oops.
8:30 am: I do the morning dishes and some other light cleaning.
9am: I get out the scriputre stories and gospel art book and the older two and I pick out a scripture to ponderize this week (Doctrine and Covenants 9:6). Then we write one thing we learned from ponderizeing last week on the scripture from last week. I've decided to make a little book out of our ponderizing. I'm going to use it for Personal Progress. Two birds with one stone--what?!?
9:30 am: Greg wakes up and gets breakfast, at which point I realize I haven't feed Rex and Alice, so Greg gives them cereal and Henry too, because Henry is a fat kid. Meanwhile, I finish the dishes (our dishwasher is broken, so it takes extra long to get stuff done), make the beds, tidy up bedrooms, put laundry way etc and get super annoyed at all the slobs living in my house so I decide to lock myself in my room for a while. I thought about going back to sleep but remembered that since I don't really get a chance to think about the Sacrament during the Sacrament, that I would take the time to do it then. So I read some scriptures and finished reading another book.
10 am: I stop being annoyed with the kids/Greg has to get ready for church, so I go back to the living room to play with them. I played farm with Henry and the pigs had just finished kicking the humans off the farm and were going to organize the animals to do the work of the farm when a giant turtle named Rex came and sat on the farm. Then we all played farm for a while, but the pigs were never able to re-establish their government.
11:15 am: Get ready for church. I always get me ready first so the kids have less time to mess their outfits up.
11:45 am: Henry is nearly dead from lack of food so we have lunch. I pick food as I feed the kids, get their snacks for church together and pack Greg's lunch.
12 noon: Finish getting everyone ready.
12:30 pm: Leave for church. Henry falls asleep in the car! Hallelujah!
12:50 pm: Arrive at chapel; put Henry in the stroller and stow him away in a dark and quiet classroom--he sleeps throught the first two speakers. Woot woot. I then try to enjoy a peacful Sacrament but Alice is hungry after only eating half an orange for lunch. We sit in the lobby and practice being reverent for a while.
The rest of church.
4 pm: Be an amazing Young Woman leader: give one girl advice on colleges, scholarships and boys and then help another with a talk for next week.
4:30 pm: Arrive at home. I change and Henry and I make mashed potatoes and carrots while Rex and Alice go on a honey badger hunt.
5:15 ish: Dinner! I love fall and the cooler weather so we had a pork roast with mashed potatoes, steamed carrots (covered in brown sugar and cinnamon), homemade bread (yes, I'm that awesome), and gravy. Sometimes I just really like meat and potatoes.
6 pm: The weather was perfect so we went out back to ride bikes, play red light-green light and dig in the dirt.
6:30 pm: Bribe the kids to clear the table and then had pumpkin bread with pumpkin whipped cream for dessert. Also very tasty. As Rex said, "It has pumpkin in it, of course it's good."
6:45 pm: I practiced my new mantra of being "patient and postive" as we cleaned the house and got ready for bed.
7:15 pm: Read stories to the kids while Henry tried to replace the stories with one he preferres (each child gets to pick one story). Then we talked about our new scripture to ponderize this week, followed by a scripture story and family prayer. Greg then put Henry to bed while I cuddled with each of the bigger kids (Alice can't sleep she claims unless she's had a long cuddle).
7:40 pm: Brush my teeth and go potty then spend the next forever hand-washing all the dishes from my home-cooked goodness. I regretted my decision to make so much food.
8:30 ish: I continued my efforts to be more spiritual on Sunday by working on Personal Progress but then I opened the computer and spent who knows how long on Facebook. Oops.
10:06 pm: Now I'm finishing this blog post and will probably go to bed, because that is also one of my new goals--go to bed earlier.
And now for some pictures from this week.
Alice, Rex and I were playing in living room when Henry realized we'd left the forbidden little Legos on the table. He took full advantage of the situation and actually played quite nicely for a while.
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