We Recorded Some Things…

I remember back when I was your typical bratty teenager, seeing moms who had their hair pulled up in a messy bun, with no make-up, wearing sweats and an overwhelmed look on their face – usually pushing a stroller or grocery cart with baby, trying to multi-task, and dragging a whiny toddler behind them. I…

To all three of my devoted readers – I feel so horrible that it has been SO long since my last post. I’ve kept this blog up religiously for the last five years or so, with updates about every two weeks. It has been the only decent journal I have ever kept in my life.…

Click to embiggen [sic]… Editor’s Note: I don’t know if it was really hot when Jake gave this to me, but my eyeballs were slightly sweaty… His story is awesome to me in many ways:

I’ve decided four kids is a lot. Two to three seemed average. Four crossed over into the “lot” category. Where I can tell sometimes people look at me like, “get your tubes tied lady.” Such as today when on the way out of the gym Lindsay had a complete screaming crying melt down (mainly because…

1️⃣ One year ago, my Grandpa Finlayson passed away. It was quite sudden. On Memorial Day he went to a church breakfast, came home to get ready to go shopping for a new car, got in the shower and collapsed. I miss him. 2️⃣ Tami has been called as our wards’ Primary President. For those…

Only my closest friends will understand how truly momentous this is (cue 2001 Space Odyssey music here): Yes everyone. Finally, I have left the dark ages… and retired my purple flip phone. It had no internet, no keyboard, no games, no GPS, no apps, no nothing. It was just a phone. And I received much…

After another rough night of not much sleep, I dragged myself out the door and into the car to take the boys to school this morning. And what did I find? A big fat flat tire. Oh joy. Strangely (or maybe not, I’d say I’m an optimist in general) – my first thought was not…

This morning I woke up, rolled over, and discovered Lucky Charms in my bed. Yep, this is the life I lead. I am sleep deprived and I smell like spit-up. And I have no clothes that fit. But at least I’ve got these pictures to show for it: Pretty sure these will go down in…

It’s been over a month! Blogging has been pretty far down on my list lately. Four kids will do that to you I guess. All things I enjoy – like writing, shopping, showering, sleeping, brushing my hair – seem to be put on the back burner these days. Mostly due to this little troublemaker: But…

I finally am feeling almost whole again. Thank goodness! A little more sleep and a few more regular trips to the gym and I’ll be back to my old self. Being sick for three months sucked. And really sapped my energy. But I’ve never been so happy to be healthy. It’s left me wanting to…

So, I’m sick again. I had one healthy week which included a crazy busy and kinda stressful weekend of planning Josh’s baby blessing, and Lindsay’s 3rd birthday party (doubled up). Everything went off without a hitch. We had lots of company, perfect weather, ate lots of food, and cousins had a ton of fun playing…

Josh decided to celebrate his sixth week of life by setting his new record and sleeping from 9:30 at night until 5 in the morning. Not too shabby! Needless to say, Mommy was in a fantastic mood today. It didn’t hurt that the scale also moved down a few notches, I’m finally feeling better, bought…