Busy Busy Mom

My daughters have let me know that I am not a good blogger since have I not posted in over 4 weeks. Hello, I don't just sit at the computer all day while they are at school working their little fingers away doing school work! Maybe they just think I sit at home watching t.v. and eating chocolate to my hearts desire.

They forget that just because I am no longer working outside of the home I do have things to do. A church calling, buying things at the store from that list they seem to always add things to. And the biggest job of all it seems lately is trying to get that oldest boy of mine all that stuff for his mission. What about going with only purse and script. Boy did the first missionaries have it easy! Books, clothes, first aid kit, luggage, shoes(which by the way he took over a month to decided on and finally listened to his mom and bought what she suggested) and then the shots that they need to have. We lucked out it was only one extra more that what they are suppose to have. Thank goodness. Oh, I forgot I still have to get him to the doctor one more time for the final check on his back. We are down to the big count down of just 10 days to go.

I will change my slothful ways and hopefully by Sunday have loads of pictures of what I have been doing for the past 4 weeks and then will get my daughters to post something if I can't get it done myself!

Natural Disaster

As we were driving round (before I took the kids to school) looking at all the water the following conversation took place in the car:

Jensen: Mom did you know that home owners insurance doesn't cover floods?
Kelly: yes, I did know that.
Kaden: Do we have flood insurance?
Kelly: No we have renters insurance, it covers our belongings. Besides that it would have to rain a lot to damage things in our house.
Kaden: Well if we had a flood I'd make sure I took my batman car.
Kelly: I think that there are more important things that we should take like pictures, important papers...
One of the kids:Scriptures
Kelly: Yes, and the computer. Beside that if there really was a threat of the flood we could move lots of stuff upstairs.
Kaden:But what if the water got upstairs then I would loose my legos.
Kelly:That's why we have renters insurance. The chances of it flooding that much is very slim unless Mt. Baker blew it's top and there were tons of snow.
Kyla: It would take a natural disaster to flood our house to the upstairs.
Kaden:Like me?

I have never told Kaden he's a disaster, just that his room can be. Kyla and Mackenzie were busting up laughing the rest of the way to school.

Water, water everywhere

From winter wonderland to water as far as the eye can see. The first picture is a day or 2 before the rain started. The second is one of the houses that we had hoped to get in to. We would have been right across from the red barn on the right. The third picture is just over by where we used to live. Down the hill is the other house we wanted. I think we had a little blessing when things didn't work out with either house.

The last two pictures are the business across the street from us. Usually they have two small ponds instead of the huge lake/river from the house to the corn field on the other side.

Risng from the ashes

Really it's from my bed. The flu ended up hitting full force Friday morning. What fun and joy. I was blessed with a "lady in waiting." Kyla was so sweet to get me anything that I needed. She even laid in bed with me and watched movies. On the other hand Mackenzie came in on Saturday and asked if I was contagious, I told her more then likely I was. She spent the rest of the time at least 10 feet from me and if she had to come in my room she would cover her mouth when she would talk to me.

Monday the kids went back to school and I thought I was feeling pretty good. I guess it was wishful thinking cause I was back in bed by 11:00. Tuesday I took it easy and by Wednesday I was well enough to take the girls shopping in Bellingham because they canceled school due to flooding.

Being sick is the pits!

My first post of the year and it's all about me and how crummy I feel. Last Sunday after we dropped Craig's sister at the airport and were heading home I got the worst tummy ache. I finally spoke up about a mile from our house cause I was about to loose my yummy lamb dinner that Craig had made. It hurt about as bad as when my appendix had to come out. Craig reminded to me that could not happen again.

With the crummy tummy I got a big old cold sore and the final icing on the cake...the dreaded UTI! Thank goodness for my beloved Dr. Claypool, he was great and called me in a script.

I did ok the rest of the week and the flu part is gone, but now I have the runniest nose in the west. How is it that you nose can be stuffy and running at the same time?

Happy New Years to everyone!