Mom Remembers

1. My primary lesson on Sunday went really well.  The bishop has given me permission to leave my little harp at the church so I will be able to use it in my lessons every week!   And  I'm going to bring food whenever I can.  With food and the harp, I  am more able to keep the kids' attention.  This Sunday was especially good, though, because Scott came to our class as a special visitor.  He taught the kids about how baptisms are performed.  He is a really excellent presenter and the kids were really drawn into what he talked about. 2.  Now that I am free from the pull of Dragonlance, I have been able to catch up on housework this week.  I think the nice weather is also very inspiring.  The whole world is clean and fresh and so is my home. 3.  On Sunday, I told Carl the story of Jesus calming the storm during the sacrament.  He really liked it and asked me to tell it over and over again during the meeting.  He has ...

1.  I read the whole Dragonlance Legends trilogy this week.  It was phenomenal!  Hooray for Raistlin and Caramon! 2.  I wrote a lullaby for Soren on Monday about  Haumea , his current obsession.  He was thrilled to pieces about the little song and has asked me to sing it every night.  I'm actually really proud of the song and writing it got me excited about composing. 3.  Emily Becker is the one that inspired me to write a song for Soren.  We visited her on Monday morning and she really lifted my spirits.  The boys played with her kids, watched Charlie Brown, and ate lots of dinosaur chicken nuggets. 4.  The end of our Hollow Earth campaign was really fun.  Scott finished up the game on Tuesday night with an epic battle between a giant stone robot (piloted by the party) and a horror from beyond the stars.  The group really enjoyed the game and is excited to start a new game in a couple of weeks.  So I'm goi...

1. Spring break!  Scott has had very little work to do this week and we have all enjoyed having him around more.  I love watching him play with the kids and they love to be around him. 2. Pi day!  We had a pi day party on Wednesday.  Not very many people came but it was a wonderful excuse to make lots of pies.  I made pineapple and key lime as well as a quiche and 2 chicken pot pies.  Scott made an amazing berry pie.  There were tons of left-overs ... and still are.  But we're not complaining! 3.   D'Aulaire's Book of Trolls .  This is quite possibly the best picture book ever and Carl has been loving it.  It's fun to read with beautiful illustrations a rich, mythic feel.  I figured it would be pretty good (given how much we enjoy D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths ) but I didn't know it would be even more awesome! 4.  We have a couple of extra kids at our house tonight and I enjoyed watching my sons interact with them....

1. Carl has been emotionally volatile this week.  He has been throwing very angry tantrums and taking a lot of  breaks  with me.  Now that doesn't sound much like a favorite but hold on a minute, hear me out.  I have been thinking a lot this week about when Soren was 2-1/2 and remembering how stressed I was about his frequent and powerful rages.  And it passed, in part because of our constant effort to teach him emotional control but mostly because of the natural passage of time.  Remembering that has, in some weird way, made Carl's tantrums not only more bearable but also a little sweet to me.  I know that this is a part of him growing up and I am excited about helping him through it.  He is becoming a little person and just realizing that, while he can do many things and make many choices for himself, he can't control everything.  That is a huge thing to learn and I am glad to be his mom and to be there for him. 2. Scott ran Hollow E...

This post is very late. Friday is actually a horrible day for me to blog. So I missed last week entirely and this week ... I decided that late was better than never.  That said: on to the favorites! 1. Soren didn't wet the bed at all last week.  That is HUGE. 2. He has figured out that he can get out of bed to go to the potty whenever he needs/wants.  On Monday night, a friend came over to play games after the kids went to bed.  Soren got up to "use the toilet" every five minutes so that he could see what was up.  He would just stand there, pants down, leaning over the toilet, and watching the game for as long as he could get away with.  Then I would send him back to bed ... until the next time he "needed to pee".  It made me laugh. 3. Michelle and I exercised five days in a row this week!  I am feeling pretty good.  Sherise joined us halfway through the week, which we have been trying to convince her to do for weeks now.  I w...