I will Never know what day of the week it is!

At least not during summer vacation!
Keep thinking I am a day further into the week than I am. We are going camping with the ward this Friday to Saturday and Moga and I bought food for it today, I located a tent I can borrow tomorrow afternoon and we stumbled into two sleeping pads and a life vest to borrow. Things are shaping up!
Finished our visiting teaching this afternoon, I need to talk SO MUCH LESS it isn't funny :-o I know it is because I lack adequate social interaction but sometimes it is ridiculous - and Way embarrassing!
Spent tons of time this afternoon with Matey, to include a bath tonight that left me as wet as he was, so I am NOT feeling guilty about not working out. I am more exhausted than when I DO the step aerobics on wii ;-Þ (plus my weight keeps dropping so I have incentive to repent and get back on board (punny) tomorrow!

This would not post last night so I put a copy in OpenOffice and this morning it went on like a dream!

LeAnna will still have birthdays and celebrate them with Enthusiasm!

Happy 31 st Birthday LeAnna Joy
I have to find the cord to put the photos on... brb
xoxoxox
Found it!

Moga will be an amazing mother!

I took Matey to church with me today and he was amazingly well behaved. End of Sacrament meeting he had discovered a miniature Thomas the Tank Engine on the floor - he Loves Thomas - and had barely played with it when the owner returned. The last 3-5 minutes of the meeting he was miserable repeating 'train' over and over watching it 2 feet away from him in someone else's hand. But then we went to Primary, but sharing time was first and 3/4 the way thru he started talking out loud to break the boredom, so we went to Nursery. We arrived as they were sitting down for snack time! I stayed 20 or so minutes and he was playing happily so I left knowing that 2 of the nursery leaders know where my classroom is and I told them I wasn't the one teaching today so come get me if he needed me. I was there about 15 minutes when I had the distinct impression I should go back to the nursery. My co teacher was in mid story so I waited 2-3 minutes until she finished and quietly left. Sure enough he was sobbing his little heart out. Apparently he was fine until he "fell down". No more details than that. I picked him up and hugged him, told him I loved him and had missed him and was so glad to be with him, and sang along with the teacher for 3 more songs, including 'head, shoulders, knees and toes' which he knows. He was hugging me and not crying but not "joining in" either. THEN singing time was over and the teacher said "Let's put away the toys and get out the Bubbles". That is the magic word - BUBBLES. He was up and clapping bubbles with the best of them. In my absence he had colored a picture. We were the last ones to leave because the teacher's daughter had come in and taken over 'bubble duty' and we could NOT leave if there were bubbles! So, we changed his diaper on the new bathroom floor (the changing table has not been installed yet) and went out to the car and home and he Never pitched a fit for his mom the entire time. Happy day!
So back to Moga. A friend called (1444hrs) and invited us to dinner (1730) and it is someone I wanted Tiney to meet and her baby is due any day so a raincheck didn't seem smart (even tho I knew our own dinner was prepped). Tiney made a salad to take (an amazing salad) and we went and had a wonderful dinner and talked for a couple hours and suddenly it was 2030. As we left Tiney followed Matey out the door and he was spinning on the lawn and smiling and babbling a mile a minute and she informed me he was thrilled she had come outside to play with him and she hated the reality that when we got home it would be bedtime so there would be NO outside time and he would be devastated. It is .4mi to our house and we had his pedal car in the van so I said, why don't you walk home with him? She replied Why don't you? I said you drive the car home and I will. Then she announced that I was mean and now she had to or she would be a bad mother and I should open the hatch. So I got the car out and they walked home and I coasted along beside them the .4 miles. She was moving at a steady 3mph pace and she was NOT walking fast. (small things amuse some peoples mothers!)
She has been tired and it was later than she thought but she spent the time walking with her boy and he was SO happy. I hit the garage door opener and they parked in the garage ahead of me ;-} Once home she changed his diaper, he said he was hungry and he and I got out the little Hershey's mixer and his chocolate milk from Sizzler yesterday and remixed it and he drank it all! He ate half the peach he asked for and massaged the other half , What?! I was washing dishes and his mommy was on the computer. Then he went happily to bed with his mom After she washed his face, hands, tummy - all the peachy sticky parts.
This morning I made cinnamon roll dough but after rolling it put it into 8 mini loaf pans and Tiney baked them because I ran out of time :-o After church Buh drove and I delivered a mini loaf to all the children in my class and my co teacher. Except one little girl who I believe is out of town, hers is in the freezer. My one little boy who hasn't been in a while has a younger sister who is a bit miffed he gets visits/messages regularly and she doesn't so I made one for her too. As we got to the turn for their cul de sac I realized the little urchins playing in the water by the road were the two of them so I told Buh to stop rolled down my window, said Hello and he recognized me and jumped out of the ditch. I called him over and said I needed his little sister too. Each received a bag with their name on it, I told them what it was and that I missed them and as they ran towards home he called back "I miss you!" Being kind is so easy and I don't do it often enough. People need to know they are important.

I will get a sunburn with my grandson ;-}

I was sorting a box on the back patio to keep an eye on Matey and then we were blowing bubbles and time flew by and suddenly it was lunch time and we were both pink! Tiney took advantage of the time to wipe out all the hand wash dishes I hadn't got to yet while she made a brown sugar pie. We took a walk this evening, Matey in his really big car he and Grammy found at Savers, and wore me out if not him, although I haven't heard a sound from their bedroom so I think it got to him too. Walked to the end of the block, crossed the street, back to the end of the block, crossed the street and back up to our house. Tiney was passing our house by but I was out of steam~ pulse 168 after sitting a couple of minutes in my rocking chair to cheat and slow it down! Might have been lower, Tiney counted the 10 seconds and I think she went long. Might have only been 144 ;-Þ

Father's Day will slide by unacknowledged - Yeesh!

I Did try to find my Dad's phone number and call when I thought he or his wife would be home but it was just a lousy day. Living thru it seems to be the height of my success.
SO- Happy belated Father's Day to my Dad, my ex (the father of my darlings), my son-in-law, my ex son-in-law, and Uncle Larry.
I love you all for your various contributions to the joy in my existence.
My beloved Husband I expressed love and gratitude "on time" ;-}
xoxoxox

titles will be self-writing for blog posts!

We survived our first real day altogether in Matey's new to him HOME. We went to the Idaho Youth Ranch and Savers and now have enough toys, books and CARS to make good use of Grammy's/Our backyard! You should see the amazing car mommy got for $15 - as soon as I get a picture of him in it - she probably won't leave Grammy and Matey alone in Saver's toy section ever again, just sayin'!
Opps! Time for me to get ready for church, Where does the time go??? Well there was Ddonn's blog and CakeWreck's Father's Day Sweets...
xoxoxox

I won't even think I know what is coming next!

We just got home from WA, about 2245. I flew out last Saturday morning and was due to fly home Monday night ~ the very short version is Tiney and Matey are spending the summer here with me (and Uncle Buh)
Their belongings are in a storage unit (in my name, Tiney doesn't have a driver's license so the lady didn't know how to rent her a unit) in Lakewood. Sunday evening I cancelled my flight home and Tuesday Tiney called Buh, "Come rescue me". He left within the hour (made good time til he got to the rock blasting on Snoqualmie) and Wednesday he survived loading Tiney's storage unit ;-} with Aunt Sandy (she is a slave driver!!!) (i.e. she gets things Done)
Matey loves the fish in his new bedroom!
So, Saturday Aunt Sandy picked me up at SeaTac 0830, we picked up Tiney and Matey, went to Olympia, moved her out of the rat infested unit at Cambridge Court Apts (13-103) with help from her ex thePirate, two friends of his and Aunt Sandy (who was the whip cracker), turned in the key at 1345, unloaded the stuff at her ex's and dropped Tiney at a motel at 1600 to have time alone to enjoy turning 24 - albeit technically homeless.
I kept Matey that night and it was quite the experience, NO ONE got any sleep to speak of. Next night (Sunday) was better, Matey and Mommy had the trailer and a tv of their own to watch movies on (Cars, Finding Nemo, the GOOD movies Aunt Sandy and Uncle Larry might not think to watch)
Sunday evening was when the decision to "vacation" in Idaho for the summer was pretty much decided. It had actually been Plan A when Tiney asked me about living with her and Matey (her lease was up in May, mine ends 30 Sept) but our plans have been revised so many times we lost count.
I am happy to have more time to get things in order, I am happy to have them here for the summer and look forward to finding out what else is headed our way!
It'll give me lots to blog about :-Þ

My youngest child will graduate and leave home

-which is a good thing, just didn't happen quite like I envisioned.
No farewell party, no mad dash to see all his friends before leaving, no sentimental reflection on the past 18 years, no, it was 'this is Brandyn's this is Alyssa's this is Toesy's' (apparently I am in charge of returning the items) and 'anything I forgot I can get from you later, you'll only be 2 hours away.'
Hug, 'bye Mom, get in your car and go home now.' Seriously. In the parking lot last night following his first test for black belt. He Did tell me he was hungry so I was delaying him getting dinner, but the "Go home now" (repeated more than once) was on the Cold side!
I wasn't even clinging or weeping or carrying on in the least, just there to support his black belt test [from afar, you (family, friends, etc) are not allowed to be present for that test]
I started to regret that I had not manufactured a teary 'scene' expressing my inability to face life or even the next hour without him near -Tremendous need for Distance with this one!
He is happily on his way to WA with his Dad this morning and I am hoping he will find a good job, get his license, save lots of money for his mission and spend time and $ $ $ enjoying the next six months as he gets to know his dad and tries out the real world without the parameters he has known the last 18 years! I am believing he will find some of the guidelines are still useful, that he will tweek other guidelines to fit what he wants to do and be, that he will develop a more complete sense of self, enjoy the young adult ward, enjoy institute, enjoy having a car and license- he is a good driver, still learning but has a good foundation, I couldn't afford insurance so the solo stuff is calling him loud and clear now!- and make good use of his opportunities to take more control of, and responsibility for, his life and decisions.
YAY Drox!!! Oh the Places You'll Go! You are on your way ;-} xoxoxox