dun, dun, da-dun....Make each day a NOTEWORTHY day! Not really sure how to accomplish this, but I was sitting here tonight listing all the things that need to get done, yet realizing how much time I can spend doing nothing at all really.
--DISCLAIMER: CARING FOR CHILDREN DOES COUNT AS DOING SOMETHING, (But it's not a feel-good-because-I-checked-a-task-off-my-list something)--
Anyway, doing something noteworthy to me means things like cooking a nice dinner, or mailing a card to a friend, or getting down on the floor and giggling my head off with my boys, or organizing a shelf, or making the dreaded calls on my to-do list, or taking the kids to the park or for a walk. Basically anything that is more than being on the computer, watching tv with the kids, reading a book (although that's better than being on the computer), or just the mundane tasks involved with caring for two active boys.
So, to bore whatever readers I may have out there, I'm going to start posting at the end of the day just what it was that made that day NOTEWORTHY. Now, you may not always agree with my judgement, but I guess that's what makes us all in this world different. What may be hard for me may be easy for you and vise versa.
Today's NOTEWORTHY accomplishment: Setting this goal and actually putting it in writing by posting it for the world to see.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The cute expressions of a 2 year-old
Some of the cute things Seth says:
1. "Taint too, Momma". (Thank You, Momma.)
2. After naps, he comes down the stairs full of smiles and announces: "Seth's waking up!"
3. Mom or Dad says "Who's turn for prayers?". Seth says "Seth's turn...Jesus, Amen!"
(We have gotten a few longer prayers out of him, but not too many.)
4. "Baby a stinker bug?" "Seth a stinker bug?" "Mommy a stinker bug?" "Daddy a stinker bug?"
5. One day when measuring everything under the sun, he'd measure it, and say "Tunty-nine" or 29 for everything. Not sure where he got that number. Today he saw the temporary permit numbers on the back window of our car, and said "Tunty-nine!".
6. Mom says "Seth, go get your bottle." (Yeah, I know, we're horrible parents to let the kid still have a bottle.) Seth says "Mommy's turn get it."
7. Just a few minutes ago, he came up to me with his bottle in one hand and milk jug in the other, and said "Seth's bottle milk..me!...Micro-ave".
8. When he's trying to lick our faces (a fun game he created), and we're turning away, he'll say "Wait minute. Hold Still!".
9. "Too heaby", for anything he can't lift. The other day I put him down to walk after crossing a parking lot to the store front, and he kept saying "Too heaby" but I couldn't figure out what he was saying. I would offer my guesses, and he'd just yell "Too heaby" louder. Finally I guessed right, he said, "Seth too heaby?" "Yes, Seth's too heavy." (I've often told him he's too heavy for Mommy to carry, so if he wants carried, Daddy can do it.)
10. "New Batties, Fix it? Where scew-dwiber?". He has discovered that when an old toy doesn't make music/noise, that if I put new batteries in it, it works. So he'll help me find the screwdriver to fix it. This was cute until one day he wanted me to put batteries in a toy that didn't take batteries. I tried to explain it, but he saw screws on the bottom and wanted new batteries. I finally had to take the thing apart to show him there was no where to put batteries.
11. "Guk, Guk, Ding!" This one's my fault. One day we were playing with his little garage with a gas pump, and I took a car, held up the gas hose to it, and said "gugugugu DING!" to mimick putting gas in. I did this ONCE! He picked up on it, and repeated it over and over with his cars. For awhile, we'd stop to get gas, and he'd say "Help Daddy, Guk, Guk, Ding!". Then it migrated to "Guk, Guk, Ding, Gas!". Now he interchanges the two.
...more to come as they come to mind...
1. "Taint too, Momma". (Thank You, Momma.)
2. After naps, he comes down the stairs full of smiles and announces: "Seth's waking up!"
3. Mom or Dad says "Who's turn for prayers?". Seth says "Seth's turn...Jesus, Amen!"
(We have gotten a few longer prayers out of him, but not too many.)
4. "Baby a stinker bug?" "Seth a stinker bug?" "Mommy a stinker bug?" "Daddy a stinker bug?"
5. One day when measuring everything under the sun, he'd measure it, and say "Tunty-nine" or 29 for everything. Not sure where he got that number. Today he saw the temporary permit numbers on the back window of our car, and said "Tunty-nine!".
6. Mom says "Seth, go get your bottle." (Yeah, I know, we're horrible parents to let the kid still have a bottle.) Seth says "Mommy's turn get it."
7. Just a few minutes ago, he came up to me with his bottle in one hand and milk jug in the other, and said "Seth's bottle milk..me!...Micro-ave".
8. When he's trying to lick our faces (a fun game he created), and we're turning away, he'll say "Wait minute. Hold Still!".
9. "Too heaby", for anything he can't lift. The other day I put him down to walk after crossing a parking lot to the store front, and he kept saying "Too heaby" but I couldn't figure out what he was saying. I would offer my guesses, and he'd just yell "Too heaby" louder. Finally I guessed right, he said, "Seth too heaby?" "Yes, Seth's too heavy." (I've often told him he's too heavy for Mommy to carry, so if he wants carried, Daddy can do it.)
10. "New Batties, Fix it? Where scew-dwiber?". He has discovered that when an old toy doesn't make music/noise, that if I put new batteries in it, it works. So he'll help me find the screwdriver to fix it. This was cute until one day he wanted me to put batteries in a toy that didn't take batteries. I tried to explain it, but he saw screws on the bottom and wanted new batteries. I finally had to take the thing apart to show him there was no where to put batteries.
11. "Guk, Guk, Ding!" This one's my fault. One day we were playing with his little garage with a gas pump, and I took a car, held up the gas hose to it, and said "gugugugu DING!" to mimick putting gas in. I did this ONCE! He picked up on it, and repeated it over and over with his cars. For awhile, we'd stop to get gas, and he'd say "Help Daddy, Guk, Guk, Ding!". Then it migrated to "Guk, Guk, Ding, Gas!". Now he interchanges the two.
...more to come as they come to mind...
Monday, October 6, 2008
A nothing post...
...it's really late, and I'm really tire, but just realized I haven't posted in over a month, so I thought I'd check in and assure everyone we're still alive. And well...just REALLY busy! We got a used double burley bike trailer for a steal off craiglist and the kids love it. We've gone on 3 rides in the past week. Today we biked about a mile and a half each way to Wal-Mart to get lights for my bike since I can't find mine in the mess of boxes. I stood gaurd of the bikes and trailer since we don't have a lock yet, and Daniel took the kids in.
There's soooo much more to write, but I'm too tired to do it any justice, so hopefully I'll get there soon.
---Stephanie
There's soooo much more to write, but I'm too tired to do it any justice, so hopefully I'll get there soon.
---Stephanie
Sunday, August 31, 2008
In, but not Settled
Ahhh, the life of moving. When I married Daniel during his first year of Optometry School, I had no idea what a ride this last year would be. Quick recap for those who didn't catch our happenings:
August 2007--Moved our belongings to storage unit in Idaho, then moved to Bethel, AK.
November 2007--Picked up belongings in Idaho and moved to Mesa, AZ.
December 6th, 2007--Talmage Harriman Wright joined our family nearly 3 weeks early and weighing a whopping 10lbs 6oz. We spent the next 3 months consoling him due to colic.
January 26th, 2008--Seth turned 2.
February 16th, 2008--Moved to Utah (on my birthday).
May 2008--Daniel graduated and we moved in with his parents in Saint Anthony, Idaho.
July 2008--Moved into town home in Idaho Falls, Idaho while negotiating with a doctor there.
August 14th-20th, 2008--Dropped everything and drove to Phoenix, Arizona to work out job details since the doctor in Idaho Falls wasn't working out.
August 27th, 2008--Moved to Chandler, Arizona in 110 degree (or something like that) weather.
Technically that's 7 moves in about a year! Hopefully, we'll stay put for at least a year or two, and then the next move will be local.
With all that moving, you'd expect us to have it down to a science. Well, in some ways we do. Daniel and his Dad have gotten really good at cramming all our belongings into a 24 to 26 foot moving truck. We finally learned to break the longer move into 2 days with a hotel stop in the middle. On this last move, we figured out how to rig the laptop to play movies in the suburban for both kids to see. I learned to pack a little box of things I'll need immediately and to plan clothes for the first couple days after moving.
But, what I haven't figured out is how to make the boxes magically pack and unpack themselves, or how to not feel exhausted for the week or two following a move. With this move to Arizona, due to the heat, we had to get all the boxes inside and out of the HOT garage. So, we have boxes EVERYWHERE. I should almost take pictures. I can't see the kitchen table or counters, and can barely fit in one of the bathrooms due to all the boxes. Laundry is already piling. Babies are screaming. Mommy is just shy of pulling her hair out!
The one really nice thing about this move has been having our good friends Dan and Jenny living so close. Seth loves their son, Patrick, and Jenny took Seth for us the morning of the move while we signed paperwork and ran errands. Then, knowing we probably hadn't found our kitchen yet, they had us over for dinner and games tonight.
Well, I'm tired and closing my eyes and going to sleep makes the boxes go away, even if just momentarily.
--Stephanie
August 2007--Moved our belongings to storage unit in Idaho, then moved to Bethel, AK.
November 2007--Picked up belongings in Idaho and moved to Mesa, AZ.
December 6th, 2007--Talmage Harriman Wright joined our family nearly 3 weeks early and weighing a whopping 10lbs 6oz. We spent the next 3 months consoling him due to colic.
January 26th, 2008--Seth turned 2.
February 16th, 2008--Moved to Utah (on my birthday).
May 2008--Daniel graduated and we moved in with his parents in Saint Anthony, Idaho.
July 2008--Moved into town home in Idaho Falls, Idaho while negotiating with a doctor there.
August 14th-20th, 2008--Dropped everything and drove to Phoenix, Arizona to work out job details since the doctor in Idaho Falls wasn't working out.
August 27th, 2008--Moved to Chandler, Arizona in 110 degree (or something like that) weather.
Technically that's 7 moves in about a year! Hopefully, we'll stay put for at least a year or two, and then the next move will be local.
With all that moving, you'd expect us to have it down to a science. Well, in some ways we do. Daniel and his Dad have gotten really good at cramming all our belongings into a 24 to 26 foot moving truck. We finally learned to break the longer move into 2 days with a hotel stop in the middle. On this last move, we figured out how to rig the laptop to play movies in the suburban for both kids to see. I learned to pack a little box of things I'll need immediately and to plan clothes for the first couple days after moving.
But, what I haven't figured out is how to make the boxes magically pack and unpack themselves, or how to not feel exhausted for the week or two following a move. With this move to Arizona, due to the heat, we had to get all the boxes inside and out of the HOT garage. So, we have boxes EVERYWHERE. I should almost take pictures. I can't see the kitchen table or counters, and can barely fit in one of the bathrooms due to all the boxes. Laundry is already piling. Babies are screaming. Mommy is just shy of pulling her hair out!
The one really nice thing about this move has been having our good friends Dan and Jenny living so close. Seth loves their son, Patrick, and Jenny took Seth for us the morning of the move while we signed paperwork and ran errands. Then, knowing we probably hadn't found our kitchen yet, they had us over for dinner and games tonight.
Well, I'm tired and closing my eyes and going to sleep makes the boxes go away, even if just momentarily.
--Stephanie
Saturday, August 30, 2008
craigslist pictures. please ignore post
If you didn't read the title, this post is mainly for the purpose of html coding pictures for a craigslist post to try to rent out our town home we were in in Idaho Falls. Since we have to pay for it until it rents, I figured good pictures would help. And for those of you who care to view the pictures, maybe you can commiserate with me for having to leave such a nice location. It was really pretty there. I LOVED it!
-Stephanie
-Stephanie
Saturday, August 23, 2008
And, we're off.....AGAIN
Okay, not quite, but soon. I'm blaming my lack of keeping you all in the know on the computer keyboard's issues with c's and the space bar, and that I've been sick, AND that we just made a drop-everything-and-drive-to-Arizona-to-interview-for-a-job trip, and now we're packing furiously to be ready to start loading the moving truck on Monday.
CRAZY! Wouldn't even begin to describe it. INSANE! is a little more on.
Oh, and to add to it all, Daniel and I have been asked to speak in our new-soon-to-be-former ward tomorrow! The topic is on forgiving one another, so I guess I shouldn't start griping about anything or anyone right now.
No, really, this move is a good thing. It's just, well, ANOTHER MOVE! Can I tell you how tired I am of moving!
And, I'm really really sad to be leaving this wonderful land of Idaho Falls. I love our apartment, love being close to family, love our ward, love the new neighbors across the street with their twin 2 year-olds.
Well, I guess such is life. My life anyway. If I add up just cities I've lived in since I was 18, (and not counting the mission cities), it comes to at least 18!
That makes me tired thinking about it. Better go to bed so I can get up early enough to put my talk together.
CRAZY! Wouldn't even begin to describe it. INSANE! is a little more on.
Oh, and to add to it all, Daniel and I have been asked to speak in our new-soon-to-be-former ward tomorrow! The topic is on forgiving one another, so I guess I shouldn't start griping about anything or anyone right now.
No, really, this move is a good thing. It's just, well, ANOTHER MOVE! Can I tell you how tired I am of moving!
And, I'm really really sad to be leaving this wonderful land of Idaho Falls. I love our apartment, love being close to family, love our ward, love the new neighbors across the street with their twin 2 year-olds.
Well, I guess such is life. My life anyway. If I add up just cities I've lived in since I was 18, (and not counting the mission cities), it comes to at least 18!
That makes me tired thinking about it. Better go to bed so I can get up early enough to put my talk together.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Not a Real Post
I was going to do a real post tonight, but then decided I should go to bed instead. So, guess I'll sit down and do a nice post tomorrow. Sunday is a great time for a nice, long, update everyone on my life, kinda post.
Until then....
Until then....
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Commitment---Renewed???
So much for my new commitment on the last post. Life has been pretty insane around here lately. We moved on July 9th (and 10th and 11th) to a town home in south Idaho Falls. We're still trying to get settled in. This time we didn't have Daniel's parents stay for a few days to get things done. It's just so hard with 2 little ones under foot.
This last week was really busy and crazy. On Thursday I worked all day and through 7am Friday morning decorating Ashley's (sister) wedding cake. Then we went to the wedding Friday afternoon where I was the photographer. (on 1 hour sleep, no less.) We drove into Oakley, Idaho that night getting in just after midnight, only to get up at 7am to watch the Goose Creek Run-Off runners come in. (See http://goosecreekrunoff.com/ for what in the world that is.)
Went to a family reunion Saturday afternoon, then drove to Pocatello for my niece's 3rd birthday party. Left there in time to get home around 9:30 that night with my 4 year-old nephew Tyler in tow. (He was actually in tow since the wedding.)
I still feel like I'm trying to play catch up on the sleep thing.
Gotta go edit some more pics and head to bed. That's all 4 now. (The rest, concerning Daniel's job negotiations, will have to wait.)
This last week was really busy and crazy. On Thursday I worked all day and through 7am Friday morning decorating Ashley's (sister) wedding cake. Then we went to the wedding Friday afternoon where I was the photographer. (on 1 hour sleep, no less.) We drove into Oakley, Idaho that night getting in just after midnight, only to get up at 7am to watch the Goose Creek Run-Off runners come in. (See http://goosecreekrunoff.com/ for what in the world that is.)
Went to a family reunion Saturday afternoon, then drove to Pocatello for my niece's 3rd birthday party. Left there in time to get home around 9:30 that night with my 4 year-old nephew Tyler in tow. (He was actually in tow since the wedding.)
I still feel like I'm trying to play catch up on the sleep thing.
Gotta go edit some more pics and head to bed. That's all 4 now. (The rest, concerning Daniel's job negotiations, will have to wait.)
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
New Commitment
So, I've just decided that I've been horrible at journaling lately, and since I never quite have my jornal at my fingertips (unlike the computer, which is often at my fingertips--literally!), I would start jotting down simple daily things here. Not the deep, special, spiritual stuff--handwriting is always better for that for me--but the daily, Talmage-cut-his-4th-tooth-today kinda stuff.
So, Talmage cut his 4th tooth today! It the second one on the top, he's missing the two middle top, and has two on either side of the middle, and the two middle bottom teeth. He's been crabby all day.
I spent the morning at the dentist having a root canal done and 3 fillings. Worse part was my stuffy nose and struggling to breath through it. Interestingly enough, to stick with my exception to the rules lot in life, the canal had what is called a "pulp stone". Like a gallstone or kidney stone, but in the pulp of the canal. He said they're rare, like 1 in 100 root canals have one. Figures! Get to go back tomorrow for another root canal and fillings.
Gotta sleep!
So, Talmage cut his 4th tooth today! It the second one on the top, he's missing the two middle top, and has two on either side of the middle, and the two middle bottom teeth. He's been crabby all day.
I spent the morning at the dentist having a root canal done and 3 fillings. Worse part was my stuffy nose and struggling to breath through it. Interestingly enough, to stick with my exception to the rules lot in life, the canal had what is called a "pulp stone". Like a gallstone or kidney stone, but in the pulp of the canal. He said they're rare, like 1 in 100 root canals have one. Figures! Get to go back tomorrow for another root canal and fillings.
Gotta sleep!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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