Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
If you think you're invincible. don't.
my BIL had 3 strokes last week, they were not the kind from high blood pressure. but were the kind from blood clots in the artery to the brain that broke off and went three different directions.He is 34 years young. Please Pray For Him!!!
we (most of us) think we are "young, so it wont happen to me, or we are healthy, or i am righteous so i will be spared those trials." please please please, lets all take extra care of these fine bodies we have been given. yes i mean be healthy. but i also mean...listen to your body. pay attention to how you feel, and if you don't feel well and especially if you feel pain, your body is telling you that something is not right. If you take care and maintain good health, when the unexpected does happen you will be better prepared for a swift recovery.
because eventually the unexpected will happen.
we (most of us) think we are "young, so it wont happen to me, or we are healthy, or i am righteous so i will be spared those trials." please please please, lets all take extra care of these fine bodies we have been given. yes i mean be healthy. but i also mean...listen to your body. pay attention to how you feel, and if you don't feel well and especially if you feel pain, your body is telling you that something is not right. If you take care and maintain good health, when the unexpected does happen you will be better prepared for a swift recovery.
because eventually the unexpected will happen.
Monday, July 14, 2008
For fun.
I like posting random things. Like I have recently. I don't knwo why. I think because its light hearted, or something like that. but this is the stuff that fills my head latly so this is what you get.
first. a few things that might surprize you about me.
I don't hate potatoes any more.
I swear in my head everytime I stub my toe (not proud of this)
I usually like cleaning other peopls houses. their dirt is not as dirty as mine.
I am scared of the water, the dark, and the unknown.
my dream vacation starts with going to sleep at like 9 or ten and waking up at like 6.
that leads me to the wrest of what I wanted to post.I have been thinking about my dream vacation at night as I am falling asleep. And here is it.
We go stay some place, preferably someone elses home, that is emaculatly clean and they will clean it, for me, oh and it is extremly organized too. my kids go to sleep at 9pm or maybe even 8pm. that last sentance is a major aspect of our vacation, if not the high light. Dev and I get some time to stay up together without the kids and either play video games together (we never get to do this becaue lily gets jelouse and takes over), or watch a movie and have some romantic time. but go to sleep by like 10pm. thats another hightlight. then my kids sleep through the night. I wake up at like 5 or 6 feeling completly rested. again that never happens. I have always wished I could be a morning person because they are so productive. but I have never woken up before 7:30 and felt good, let alone been in a remotly good mood. any way back to my vacation. I get in the shower, get to put on clean clothes that match, style my hair, put on make up and make breakfast, all before my kids wake up. once they wake up we eat, and get them dressed, brush their teeth and comb hair before 8am. then once all that has happend....I don't care what we do the rest of the day. they can plan that part.
*ok so there is a reason its a deam vacation......IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. its impossible. mostly because I am expecting rationale resonable things from a very independant and wild two year old and a baby. And by the time they are old enough to do the things I expect of them for this vacation to work...they will not want to be there or they will but they will want to do something else or this one will be missing her boy friend and the other one will be mad cause that one took her spot, and so on. Or else I wont sleep becaue they will have snuck out to meet some boys and I will have no idea where they are. I say that because thats what I did every time we went on vacation when i was a kid. oh well. gues I will have to move on to planning somehting else like my dream house or something.
first. a few things that might surprize you about me.
I don't hate potatoes any more.
I swear in my head everytime I stub my toe (not proud of this)
I usually like cleaning other peopls houses. their dirt is not as dirty as mine.
I am scared of the water, the dark, and the unknown.
my dream vacation starts with going to sleep at like 9 or ten and waking up at like 6.
that leads me to the wrest of what I wanted to post.I have been thinking about my dream vacation at night as I am falling asleep. And here is it.
We go stay some place, preferably someone elses home, that is emaculatly clean and they will clean it, for me, oh and it is extremly organized too. my kids go to sleep at 9pm or maybe even 8pm. that last sentance is a major aspect of our vacation, if not the high light. Dev and I get some time to stay up together without the kids and either play video games together (we never get to do this becaue lily gets jelouse and takes over), or watch a movie and have some romantic time. but go to sleep by like 10pm. thats another hightlight. then my kids sleep through the night. I wake up at like 5 or 6 feeling completly rested. again that never happens. I have always wished I could be a morning person because they are so productive. but I have never woken up before 7:30 and felt good, let alone been in a remotly good mood. any way back to my vacation. I get in the shower, get to put on clean clothes that match, style my hair, put on make up and make breakfast, all before my kids wake up. once they wake up we eat, and get them dressed, brush their teeth and comb hair before 8am. then once all that has happend....I don't care what we do the rest of the day. they can plan that part.
*ok so there is a reason its a deam vacation......IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. its impossible. mostly because I am expecting rationale resonable things from a very independant and wild two year old and a baby. And by the time they are old enough to do the things I expect of them for this vacation to work...they will not want to be there or they will but they will want to do something else or this one will be missing her boy friend and the other one will be mad cause that one took her spot, and so on. Or else I wont sleep becaue they will have snuck out to meet some boys and I will have no idea where they are. I say that because thats what I did every time we went on vacation when i was a kid. oh well. gues I will have to move on to planning somehting else like my dream house or something.
Friday, June 27, 2008
random poems I wrote 5 years ago.
March 2003 (I just found this on an old pay stub of mine dated 03-28-2003, I use to write a lot of poetry, I would have to write it down as soon as it came to me or it would be lost. then I would put that papaer some place to be filed later and lose it. thats all the explanation there is for this. I have no idea what its about spacificly.)
Pain behind the eyes, a smile I fake.
Hiding behind a mask I make.
Holding back from letting go.
Hidding Pain and you don't know.
April 2003
Silent prayer like falling snow
settles in a waiting heart.
All is still , "Conform thy will, to God the Father and His Son."
This one was on a letter to a dear friend on his mission, whom I have since lost contact and connection with. I was trying to go on my mission and really working hard to be in tune with the spirit of God, and have faith that the things that were happening were for a purpose. that was a time in my life that it seemed like everytime I took one step forward, it was two steps back.
Pain behind the eyes, a smile I fake.
Hiding behind a mask I make.
Holding back from letting go.
Hidding Pain and you don't know.
April 2003
Silent prayer like falling snow
settles in a waiting heart.
All is still , "Conform thy will, to God the Father and His Son."
This one was on a letter to a dear friend on his mission, whom I have since lost contact and connection with. I was trying to go on my mission and really working hard to be in tune with the spirit of God, and have faith that the things that were happening were for a purpose. that was a time in my life that it seemed like everytime I took one step forward, it was two steps back.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Things I love and or make me happy!
1. when lily randomly kisses me and says..I got you!
2. How mikelle sings her self to sleep by repeating the same note over and over again.
3. when Devin teases me.
4. the kindness of a perfect stranger the other day at the bread store.
5. The People who answered my prayer. (you know who you are.)
6. strangers who seem not the type but who quickly humble me with thier kindness and humility.I know thats almost the same as 4. but its not. It seems to happen to me a lot. I will be some place and the tired, old, often dirty and homeless person will help me lift, bend, or find things, and not accept anything in return. I love those people!
7. summer nights after the sun has set but its still light out side and its cool enough that I actaully injoy being outside.
8. cold seedless watermelon.
9. real mail. not adds but a real letter.
10. going to the temple.
2. How mikelle sings her self to sleep by repeating the same note over and over again.
3. when Devin teases me.
4. the kindness of a perfect stranger the other day at the bread store.
5. The People who answered my prayer. (you know who you are.)
6. strangers who seem not the type but who quickly humble me with thier kindness and humility.I know thats almost the same as 4. but its not. It seems to happen to me a lot. I will be some place and the tired, old, often dirty and homeless person will help me lift, bend, or find things, and not accept anything in return. I love those people!
7. summer nights after the sun has set but its still light out side and its cool enough that I actaully injoy being outside.
8. cold seedless watermelon.
9. real mail. not adds but a real letter.
10. going to the temple.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
wednesday.....
This is part of a conversation with Devin on messanger, but after reading it I felt like it was very discriptive of how I feel today. and I don't have much else to talk about.
"just so you know, because if i have to deal with it you have to listen. or something like that. i am so tired, i feel like i just had a baby, my head hurts, i am fighting off the urge to be totally pist off because of it, at everyone. did i mention my head hurts? lily must feel the same as me because she is tearing the house apart, and throwing a fit, pretty much non stop. also i am covered in throw up and all its puky glory. mikelle has puked A TON today for some reason, and she is so fussy. well she actually just fell asleep. but wont let me put her down. so i have not even cleaned the last throw up mess off of me because she fell asleep and I don't want to wake her up. Yup, thats right I am letting it dry on my arm. and The house looks like a tornato hit,BUT...................even after all that. I am so thankful to have our girls and be their mom."
"just so you know, because if i have to deal with it you have to listen. or something like that. i am so tired, i feel like i just had a baby, my head hurts, i am fighting off the urge to be totally pist off because of it, at everyone. did i mention my head hurts? lily must feel the same as me because she is tearing the house apart, and throwing a fit, pretty much non stop. also i am covered in throw up and all its puky glory. mikelle has puked A TON today for some reason, and she is so fussy. well she actually just fell asleep. but wont let me put her down. so i have not even cleaned the last throw up mess off of me because she fell asleep and I don't want to wake her up. Yup, thats right I am letting it dry on my arm. and The house looks like a tornato hit,BUT...................even after all that. I am so thankful to have our girls and be their mom."
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
All things Hall
well, we have been keepin busy. Lil just turned 2! she seems so big to us, but everyone else thinks she is small. Well size wise she is. but she is so big in many other areas! She is nicer to her sister now. witch is good. she loves for kelle to sit on her tummy and play.
Kelle is rolling and almost sitting, she needs just a little assistance. She is 5 months. She loves to laugh at lily. Only her sister can make her laugh so hard. It is adorable.
Devin is plugging away at work. then comes home and plays with the girls. they sure love thier daddy.
we just had a small birthday party for lily. played in the pool and sugared the kids up. It was fun. I had fun too! I was worried that I would not be able to have fun with lily on at her party but we had a good time. I have not been doing much other then mommy jobs. I have found that lily does SO much better if I forget the house work and church work, yard work, laundry etc...and focus strictly on giving her and mikelle my attention. she is so much better behaved. If I try to get her playing by herself and then try to get that stuff done, she is mean to the baby, and in general acts out way more. so I have been spending all my time playing with blocks, reading books, and playing dress up, having tummy time and dancing with my girls. I LOVE TO DANCE WITH LILY! we turn on the radio and we get movin. It's great fun! I would post picutres or video but if she see's the camera she stops and wants to hold it,and I don't think you all want to see me dancing, or more importantly I don't want you all to see me dancing. Its all baby moves, stompin feet, clapping hands, twisting my waist and then shaking my booty. you would have a good laugh. but sorry not gonna happen. during this last general confrence elder ballard said something that has really stayed at the forefront of my mind..." I am impressed by countless mothers who have learned how important it is to focus on the things that can only be done in a particular season of life." he later went on to quote another auther who wrote about that very thing...she said "I wish i had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing...i wish i had treasured the doing i little more and the getting it done a little less."( anna quindlen) so that is what i have been trying to do.
Kelle is rolling and almost sitting, she needs just a little assistance. She is 5 months. She loves to laugh at lily. Only her sister can make her laugh so hard. It is adorable.
Devin is plugging away at work. then comes home and plays with the girls. they sure love thier daddy.
we just had a small birthday party for lily. played in the pool and sugared the kids up. It was fun. I had fun too! I was worried that I would not be able to have fun with lily on at her party but we had a good time. I have not been doing much other then mommy jobs. I have found that lily does SO much better if I forget the house work and church work, yard work, laundry etc...and focus strictly on giving her and mikelle my attention. she is so much better behaved. If I try to get her playing by herself and then try to get that stuff done, she is mean to the baby, and in general acts out way more. so I have been spending all my time playing with blocks, reading books, and playing dress up, having tummy time and dancing with my girls. I LOVE TO DANCE WITH LILY! we turn on the radio and we get movin. It's great fun! I would post picutres or video but if she see's the camera she stops and wants to hold it,and I don't think you all want to see me dancing, or more importantly I don't want you all to see me dancing. Its all baby moves, stompin feet, clapping hands, twisting my waist and then shaking my booty. you would have a good laugh. but sorry not gonna happen. during this last general confrence elder ballard said something that has really stayed at the forefront of my mind..." I am impressed by countless mothers who have learned how important it is to focus on the things that can only be done in a particular season of life." he later went on to quote another auther who wrote about that very thing...she said "I wish i had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing...i wish i had treasured the doing i little more and the getting it done a little less."( anna quindlen) so that is what i have been trying to do.
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