Lost

It seems I have lost it...My patience that is. I don't seem to have much patience when it come to helping Allie with her reading. I know she can figure a word out so I say "Allie what is this word?" She glances at it for a whole 2 seconds and shrugs her shoulders and says "I don't know". "Sound it out" I tell her and she makes a half hearted try and throws her hands in the air, flops her body on the ground and starts crying. Some where in that cry is the words I don't know what it says.  So I help her sound the word out and we move on. Once again there is the 2 second glance and the shrugging shoulders and those three words I am really starting to hate "I don't know". Once again, sound it out. and the small try and the tears. REALLY do we need to cry over every word we sound out? My temper starts to flare and her tears continue to fall. I know that it is more reasonable to stay calm and she will  figure it out, but it drives me crazy that she is so willing to give up that easily. Eventually the tempers calm down on both our sides and once we are finished I pulled her to me and put my arm around her and told her that I know she is a very, very, very, very smart girl and that she needs to try not to give up or she will never learn. I give her a hug and kiss and send her to bed. I just sat there for a few minutes thinking about what had happened and how I could have handled the whole thing better. It makes me wonder if I was as emotional trying to learn new things when I was younger. or maybe she gets it from Chris lol. Next time I chat with my mom I will have to ask her.

Labor Day Weekend= Domestic Work

Usually Labor Day weekend is reserved for camping with family, going on vacation, or just getting out of the house and doing something fun. It seems that every year we end up staying home and I bake, or can, and/or do laundry. Once again we stayed home...Don't get me wrong we had every intention of doing something fun but in the end we postponed/canceled our plans. So this year the kids got to play on a slip n slide in the back yard, watch movies, and play with friends. Gracie loved the slip n slide adventure. She loved it so much, her siblings were yelling at her and pushing her out of the way so they can have a go. Like always running through sprinklers and playing on slip n slides are short lived and Allie was ready to go play with her friends. Trevor always askes if he can go play with allie's friends too because he enjoys riding his bike in the church parking lot but is to scared to ride fast and he is stomping on the brakes every 5 seconds. I give him til next year then he will probably be flying on his bike and I will be yelling at him to slow down. I have done oodles of laundry today and picked 14 onions, 3 tomatoes, and 3 green peppers from my garden and kind of pulled weeds. I have sliced up all the onions and as we speak they are in the dehydrator drying out. I also have 5 mini loafs of pumpkin and cheese spice bread in the oven. I am in love with pintrest and found this recipe and have wanted to make it for a while now. I just hope it tastes as good as it looks. I have also had every intention of working on my next cards for my card group but so far the idea is in my head but nothing down on paper. Maybe I should put the computer down and start on my cards. I hope every one has a wonderful holiday!

Darling 1 year old

I just posted this on facebook and thought oh this needs to go on the family blog so that sometime in the future Gracelyn can look back at laugh at all the torture she has put her dear mother through.....As I was sitting in sacrament  meeting enjoying the wonderful testimonies and basking in the spirit, my beautiful 1 year old decides she wants to sit on my lap. I am feeling very loved until I look down and see a HUGE brown poop mark she just smeared on the front of my crisp WHITE skirt. Oh the Humiliation. I speedily packed up our kids and diaper bag and rushed out of the chapel with a blanket strategically covering the poop so those around me don't gag. As we are making our hasty retreat, I look down and that same beautiful 1 year old has her poopy diaper hanging around one ankle and smearing more poop through the hall way. I, being the smartest mom in the whole world, of course forgot to pack wipes in the diaper bag so I had to use said diaper to try to remove the skid marks in the hall way. How embarrassing!!

Fall & Hot Chocolate

I am so looking forward to the fall season. I love when it cools down and and pumpkin patches open up and hot chocolate becomes more prominate. I have been wanting hot chocolate lately. I feel like a dork drinking it in the summer, but it is one of my favorite drinks in the cooler seasons. I need to invest in a coco latte machine. I had one and then one of my precious kiddos ruined it by dumping syrup into the motor. I might just have to go make me some now.