Life is good, I think? Is that a positive statement, I am not sure anymore. Life throws a lot of things at me, but it just doesn't seem to ever throw lemons,so I can't make lemonade. Three more weeks until school is finished and four more weeks until the dance festival and then freedom! The weather is clearing and I need to start thinking of getting the garden in, but thank heavens for procrastination, because the people that already planted have had to replant twice because to the rains.
I keep pulling out my box cutters in my Post Offices and one of these days someone is going to throw me down on the ground and then kick me out. But it is Pink and it is easier than using my teeth. Oh rules, rules, rules. At my Toy R Us stores, they just think it is a toy.
Buying another bribe today. Keeping my last child in school with good grades is a lot harder than the first ones.
Well life is good, I think and with that I am going to start the day!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Mothers Day is over, does that mean they don't love me anymore?
Oh that wonderful day Mother's Day, when flowers,cards and gifts end up at our feet and we are told we are wonderful and get to do whatever we want to do (at limits) for one whole day.
I woke up and they all said, I think I am sick, I think I am sick. When you are down to just two people at home to spoil you, you start thinking, does this mean I go to church alone, fix my own breakfast, make my own homemade card, find the flowers that Michael has given me for the passed 28 years:I do think they may be the same flowers recycled, but I know I get them, there was one year I checked the neighbors roses.
But no one got up but everything was there the beautiful flowers were there, the breakfast was passed, but the homemade card sat there and was a beautiful from a 15 year old as it had been from a 3 year old. The phone calls came in and the information that my gifts would come during the week, just like their mom, sometimes time ran out before the great ideas and thoughtfulness.
So it is Tuesday and all the cards and gifts are here and it is beautiful and I am full for a day or two. And then at noon, my sweet husband called and said, I am having my $2 lunch at Walmart and all the flowers are half price wouldn't you like some more flowers. Sure, that would be lovely. Now why do I want half price flowers, because this is the man who has gone from having lunch at Costco sample area to Walmart $2 lunch,he is coming up in the world and he wants to bring me more flowers in the same week. How far he has come. Hanging onto these moments for the days he drives me crazy.
Well the week speeding by fast as all weeks do these days and the phone call from my missionary still is clear in my ears, he is still serving and loving it. That is all a mother can hope for.He is still worried that I can't live without him, but I am going to let him always believe that, because as his brothers before him, he is a sweet man.
How grateful I am that I listened to a wise and great man who said I needed to be at home 23 years ago. No I will never be interviewed by Ophrah or be on Saturday Night live,or be a Rock Star,except at family parties, but I have lived the life. I am a Rock Star to Five children and now to three beautiful grandchildren. What could be better. Only I should have done is buy stock in Diet Coke!
Happy Mothers Day! Carleen you and all the moms, You done good!
I woke up and they all said, I think I am sick, I think I am sick. When you are down to just two people at home to spoil you, you start thinking, does this mean I go to church alone, fix my own breakfast, make my own homemade card, find the flowers that Michael has given me for the passed 28 years:I do think they may be the same flowers recycled, but I know I get them, there was one year I checked the neighbors roses.
But no one got up but everything was there the beautiful flowers were there, the breakfast was passed, but the homemade card sat there and was a beautiful from a 15 year old as it had been from a 3 year old. The phone calls came in and the information that my gifts would come during the week, just like their mom, sometimes time ran out before the great ideas and thoughtfulness.
So it is Tuesday and all the cards and gifts are here and it is beautiful and I am full for a day or two. And then at noon, my sweet husband called and said, I am having my $2 lunch at Walmart and all the flowers are half price wouldn't you like some more flowers. Sure, that would be lovely. Now why do I want half price flowers, because this is the man who has gone from having lunch at Costco sample area to Walmart $2 lunch,he is coming up in the world and he wants to bring me more flowers in the same week. How far he has come. Hanging onto these moments for the days he drives me crazy.
Well the week speeding by fast as all weeks do these days and the phone call from my missionary still is clear in my ears, he is still serving and loving it. That is all a mother can hope for.He is still worried that I can't live without him, but I am going to let him always believe that, because as his brothers before him, he is a sweet man.
How grateful I am that I listened to a wise and great man who said I needed to be at home 23 years ago. No I will never be interviewed by Ophrah or be on Saturday Night live,or be a Rock Star,except at family parties, but I have lived the life. I am a Rock Star to Five children and now to three beautiful grandchildren. What could be better. Only I should have done is buy stock in Diet Coke!
Happy Mothers Day! Carleen you and all the moms, You done good!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
I feel achey, but it's nothing six to ten Tylenol can't cure
I remember when I thought it was so terrible when those women would say, they wake up and felt so old and they were 30. Then at 40 they would say they woke up and hurt everywhere. Then a fifty they had something wrong that hurt, I should have been sympathetic, instead of thinking they were big babies. Because now at almost 60 my body hurts. I should have gotten in on what they were doing to ease the pain. But, finally I have to say I found the cure, One Diet coke, 2-5 Tylenol and I am good to go. Bring on the pain, I can't feel anything. But those other women they found this out years earlier and because I thought they were whiners they never shared the cure, so to anyone else now you know the cure.
I remember the women in my ward that was twenty something that went on the chocolate chip and diet coke diet after each baby and lost all her weight. I bet she was downing Tylenol with each diet coke.She never mentioned pain or anything, she was happy all the time and thin and eating big chocolate chip cookies.
Well the day is going good so far, Matthew went to school and all is good, this is all I require in life right now. I have not had enlarged veins in my eyes today nor has by blood pressure hit the ceiling, so this is a good day.
I found a new bike at the gym yesterday that is made for me. It pedals easier, big seat and I am away from the bikers that stand up and pedal the whole time and make me feel uncomfortable. They make me think I should be going faster, stand up and not be counting the minutes until I can go to the treadmill and watch the Home and Garden Channel. I know I have problems when I even like the channel when I forget my headphones. I can just pretend I know what great advise they are telling the people. And everyday I say I am going to go home and redo a wall or copy something I saw and I go home and can't remember what they did or any clever thing that they did. But tomorrow, I may take notes while I am watching and walking. But then again, while I was cleaning yesterday I watched, they Wedding Planner, for maybe the 20th time and I had forgotten it and that doesn't seem to bother me.
Well just a few more days until Mothers Day, that is a big calendar date to a Hallmark Rep.,because after this date we don't make much money until Fall when the resets start and then nothing until after Halloween. Oh well I have paid for the strollers and no one else is pregnant so I am safe except for my spending problem.
So it is off to work, then the gym, then check out the new pizza place at the country store, which I know is not weight watcher friendly and then off to Matthew's play and then it starts all over again.
The kitchen table is full,because I am down sizing the office, which means I am throwing away all the junk I wasted all my money on over the years. I should stop, but the deals, I can't pass up the 10 for a $1 sales, even when I only need one.
Oh well. Life is good the Tylenol is kicking in and I feel great!
I remember the women in my ward that was twenty something that went on the chocolate chip and diet coke diet after each baby and lost all her weight. I bet she was downing Tylenol with each diet coke.She never mentioned pain or anything, she was happy all the time and thin and eating big chocolate chip cookies.
Well the day is going good so far, Matthew went to school and all is good, this is all I require in life right now. I have not had enlarged veins in my eyes today nor has by blood pressure hit the ceiling, so this is a good day.
I found a new bike at the gym yesterday that is made for me. It pedals easier, big seat and I am away from the bikers that stand up and pedal the whole time and make me feel uncomfortable. They make me think I should be going faster, stand up and not be counting the minutes until I can go to the treadmill and watch the Home and Garden Channel. I know I have problems when I even like the channel when I forget my headphones. I can just pretend I know what great advise they are telling the people. And everyday I say I am going to go home and redo a wall or copy something I saw and I go home and can't remember what they did or any clever thing that they did. But tomorrow, I may take notes while I am watching and walking. But then again, while I was cleaning yesterday I watched, they Wedding Planner, for maybe the 20th time and I had forgotten it and that doesn't seem to bother me.
Well just a few more days until Mothers Day, that is a big calendar date to a Hallmark Rep.,because after this date we don't make much money until Fall when the resets start and then nothing until after Halloween. Oh well I have paid for the strollers and no one else is pregnant so I am safe except for my spending problem.
So it is off to work, then the gym, then check out the new pizza place at the country store, which I know is not weight watcher friendly and then off to Matthew's play and then it starts all over again.
The kitchen table is full,because I am down sizing the office, which means I am throwing away all the junk I wasted all my money on over the years. I should stop, but the deals, I can't pass up the 10 for a $1 sales, even when I only need one.
Oh well. Life is good the Tylenol is kicking in and I feel great!
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