2007 April 20

I have a few minutes and thought I'd just journal my day. Today I went to the Methodist yard sale after getting the kids off for school and preparing Heidi's primary lesson. I liked a double stroller that I saw, but I called Rich and he looked up the brand on the internet and gave it a thumbs down. I did buy Ian a fire truck, Heidi some ballet slippers, and Scott Monopoly Junior. I then picked up Heidi from school. Tanner fell asleep, so I didn't get to the track for a run as planned. Instead I read the newspaper, cleaned up a bit, made and ate lunch, then went and picked up Scott from school. Heidi and Ian played cheerfully with Ian's new fire truck and all the Little People. I had to interrupt them for lunch. Heidi is pretty creative and seems to get along well with people. She and Ian play well together. We listened to Harry Potter on the way home from school. After dropping Elizabeth Ericksen off, I took Heidi and Ian over to the Murdoch's home. I had to wake Ian up, and he didn't want to stay and play. I drove home. Ian didn't want to get out of the car and wanted instead to go back and play, so I drove him back. He likes to be in charge of decisions. I don't always let him make them so inconveniently, but this one wasn't too bad. I cleaned up a little and then played Monopoly Jr. with Scott. I won and he got emotional, but wanted to play again. I took him to gymnastics and then went and picked up Heidi and Ian. Ian just played with the girls anyway, so Josh didn't really get the benefit of having a boy over. We drove to Juan Diego so I could do a track workout, but it looked like they were having a soccer game. We went to the Treehouse where I ran 2 1/2 miles, did ab work and stretches, and swam a mile. I then picked up Scott from gymnastics, and made dinner. We had a pork stir-fry with pea pods and peaches that I didn't like, cauliflower, zuichini with garlic salt, strawberries, grapes, and celery with peanut butter. We had left over birthday cake for dessert.
The kids and I played monopoly jr. after doing dishes while listening to Harry Potter. Scott lost both times and was upset.

Tanner is saying some cute words. "Go side" for go outside, "I whan wa-wa" I want water, "kees" for keys, "Mom!" quite loudly, etc. Ian likes to make up silly things-- "What if we ate our house?" Heidi kept comforting Scott during the game. She also says things like, "You know, blah, blah, blah" at appropriate times. Scott loves school and gymnastics and can hold a handstand against the wall for 6 minutes.

Rich and I filled out a survey on forgiveness in marriage. Luckily there's not much to forgive Rich for as he's such a great husband. I'm so thankful I'm married to him.

I got a call from Chase Home Loans looking for Tom. I'm guessing things went south on his apartment complexes. It stresses me a bit to think about it, so I don't really. Bonnie's doing terrible and that sickens my heart. I wish she would get some help.

12 April 2007

Laura Murdoch mentioned that she keeps her journal on her blog and it's encouraged me to write a little more. Today was a busy day. I went shopping at Costco and Harmon's after taking Ian to preschool. He is so funny. He was in a pretty good mood before going to preschool and talked about going. When we got there though, he wouldn't go in. I warned him that once we left I would not take him back to preschool. (By the way, I'm listening to the pre-race meeting for the Antelope Island duathlon so if my grammar is off, that's why). I backed out of the driveway, and then Ian said, "I have an idea! I can go to preschool and then you can pick me up and we can go shopping then. Isn't that a good idea? I'm so glad that I thought of it." Ian is really the type that wants to make his own decision.

I was late getting home from shopping, so Ian ate a piece of bread with sprinkles on it (Scott gets to eat treats if I'm ever not home). Tanner was cute shopping with me. I would ask him if we should get something, and he would usually nod "Yes."

Heidi came home from school. I tried to feed the kids lunch (Ian said he wasn't hungry) and then we went to gymnastics. I visited with Lisa Clayton and Laura Murdoch and wrote a little to Bonnie. I'm really trying to write her more just to keep her up with things happening in the extended family.

Katie came home with us and then I quickly cleaned in preparing for scouts. Today for scouts we dipped strawberries in chocolate, practiced a cheer, practiced a skit, made a poster showing good citizenship, wrote down jobs to do at home, and made airplanes out of a straw. I was really tired after scouts. I didn't sleep very well last night and woke up almost on the hour for some reason. I sleepily thought it might be because I wasn't well hydrated (left over thoughts from Dave Harward's clinic). I made a garlic chicken stir-fry with brown and white rice and we also had fresh lemonade, swiss chard, and broccoli.

I then went to Julia Ross's house to pick up my assignment for the preparedness fair that is happening Saturday. After I came home we had scriptures and put the kids to bed.

I talked to my mom, Jenny Flinders, and Grandma Thuet today. GG really sounds good. She is keeping herself busy serving others. We are going down in 2 weeks for a triathlon.

Oh, today Heidi was discussing what a joke was with Ian. Her example was, "Why did the orange stop in the middle of the road?" "Because he ran out of juice."