I AM RANTING!

NO ONE HAS TO READ THIS--IT REALLY IS ONLY FOR ME
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE DAYS!
FROM THE TIME I WALKED IN THE DOORS AT WORK TO THE TIME I WALKED IN THE DOORS AT HOME

MELISSA IN ORTHO: HAD SURGERY LAST THURS--STILL NOT WELL ENOUGH TO WORK--DOWN ONE!
LAURA IN ORTHO: NEPHEWS IN CAR ACCIDENT OUTSIDE PHOENIX--ONE KILLED--OTHER IN
IN SERIOUS CONDITION, NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE. DOWN TWO!
JESSICA IN OB: DAY OFF--LEFT ONE PERSON TO COVER PHONES!
GLORIA IN OB: CALLED IN SICK--NO ONE TO ANSWER OB PHONES! DOWN THREE!
GABBY AT SWITCHBOARD AND GREETER: BOYFRIEND KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT(SEE LAURA ABOVE.)
DOWN FOUR!
CORINNA AT SWITCHBOARD: PREGNANT, ON BED REST, DUE ANYDAY-GENERALLY COVERED BY GABBY.
DOWN FIVE!
GAYLENE ORTHO, OB AND GREETER COVERAGE TO THREE DEPARTMENTS--CAN'T DO IT.
DID PART TIME IN ORTHO, PART TIME IN OB AND ANSWERED PHONES ALL DAY FOR EIGHT DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, WAS YELLED AT BY A FEW PATIENTS, FORGOT TO DO A FEW THINGS, AND LEFT A HALF AN HOUR LATE FROM WORK!

HOT TUB: NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!!!
CALGON TAKE ME AHHHHHWWWAAAAAAAAAAY!

SLEEPOVER WEEKEND AT NANA's

I told the kids that I would have a sleepover with them on the weekend after school was out.

Austin, Ashlynne, Andrew...all of them bugged their mom about what time I got off from work, when I was going to pick them up, what were we going to do 'til she got there...all of the 20 questions that come from waiting.

I finally got there and they were all playing and I had to round them up. What the heck--I thought they were waiting for me. So we got pizza, rented a movie--Tangled-- and all but Austin fell asleep before 8:30 p.m. Now that's my idea of a sleepover. None of this staying awake all night. Then Austin fell asleep at 9:15. Wow! Could it have been any better than that?


The next morning they got to eat what they wanted--Pickles, Bagels, Rootbeer, Toast, Potato Chips...whatever they could find, they ate (oh my stomach hurts just thinking about it). I think one of them actually asked for Milk--oh yeah...Andrew!

Then it was off to the School playground to let them run free, exhaust them, played with the neighbor kids, played basketball, and let mom and dad take them home completely worn out.


Then the phone call. Mom had somehow hurt her back and could not walk, RJ had a meeing he had to go to, so I packed up all three kids, took them and Kassie and headed for West Bountiful to see a chiropractor that would see her at his home.

After the return home, we had to wait for RJ to finish with his meeting. By the time they left it was 3:00 in the afternoon. I hadn't had a shower, I got nothing accomplished and I just couldn't get myself in the groove to work on the house.
Afterall, according to Scarlett O'Hara, " Tomorrow is another day."

I took a shower around 5:00, put on my pajamas and popped in a movie and that was how I spent my Friday and Saturday!!!

MISSING YOU!

Last night the kids had Kassie call me and check to see if they were still having a sleep over on Friday night.
My reply was: "Yes, we are still having a sleep over, why?"
Kassie: "Oh they just didn't want you to forget."
Me: "Let them know I haven't forgotten and let them know I will come over after work to pick them up."
Kassie: "Oh, and Austin wants me to let you know how much he misses his Nana!"
Me: (bawling my eyes out!!!) "Tell him I miss them too!"





Suffice it to say that I like it better this way and I can enjoy them more and miss them more when they aren't running around under my feet. I really do enjoy being with them, but only on a limited basis. I either can pick up and go home or Mom can pick them up and take them home.

It just works out better this way!!!

A friend sent me this quote the other day and it is very appropriate right now in my life. And these days with the rain, it is VERY appropriate!

"We are basically paddling to stay afloat the best way we know how. With no two of us mustering in the same way, how we do it is more to be understood than criticized.
---Emma Lou Thayne

MATTHEW 24:36

Once again, the so called "prophet" Harold Camping was wrong. The Rapture, the Apocalypse, the End of the World did not happen. However I did have a haircut in case it did come to pass ( I would have had one anyway--it just happened to fall on the last day of the world). But my house was nowhere near clean enough and my laundry wasn't done and the yard work is always screaming for me to work on it.

I have no doubts in my mind that the Last Days are here, but again Mr. Camping, NO MAN KNOWS WHEN! (it is apparent that he doesn't know his Bible very well)

Wars, Rumors of Wars, Seasonal changes, flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, disease, famine--you name it, it is happening and all prior to the Second Coming--but again people--unless you are God--you don't know when it will happen.

So all we can do as inhabitants of this Earth is to be good to all men (and women and children--no exceptions!!) keep the commandments, live a good life and and follow the admonishion of Paul---hope all things, endure many things, and hope to be able to endure all things.

That is how I see it and to heck with all of those other goofballs!!

BITTERSWEET

Kassie and RJ have been looking for a place to live and they found one. They move out this weekend..

I have, for the most part been, thrilled that it was going to happen. This way I don't have to fight for the washing maching, trip over children's toys lying around the house, have a kitchen table free from back packs, diapers, and winter coats, and the list goes on and on.

Now I can get on with my life--clean thoroughly, move furniture, have a T.V. room, and a computer room, find the kitchen table, and have a little more privacy...well, until mom gets home anyway!

When she let me know that they got their place I was thrilled and then I cried!

When she told Austin that they were moving, he cried too!

Those kids have been at our house early everyday for 6 1/2 years--Andrew doesn't remember living anywhere else.

But there is a time and a purpose for everything and it is now time for them to move on, me to move on and mom to move on.

The thing that is making me laugh is that she is very concerned that I will be alright by myself. OF COURSE I WILL BE ALRIGHT--I will just be enjoying the peace an quiet and when they visit--they can go home!!!!

I LOOK LIKE A "BOY"

PICTURE 1: My heart broke when Austin took the scissors to Ashlynne's hair in November, when Kassie and RJ were in Mexico.
PICTURE 2: Haircut after the shock in November.
PICTURE 3: (in maroon dress) Just before her 5th birthday in March (growing rather quickly.
Today Kassie had a dentist appointment and my brother-in-law, Keith, came down to watch Ashlynne and Andrew while she was at the dentist. When she came home, he presented her with a plastic bag full of hair and said he found the two kids in the computer room with hair all over and that Andrew had cut her hair. We couldn't understand why she had just sat there and let him cut it--then the truth came out!!!
PICTURES 4 & 5: After blaming Andrew for cutting her hair, she came clean and told Mom that she cut it so it would grow faster!!!
I asked her what she thought of it and her reply was "I look like a BOY!"