is life in fast forward?! how is it already thursday?! seriously i feel like just this morning i was comforting a crying abigail because she was sick and we had to stay home from church. well, both kids are just as sick as ever (luckily it doesn't seem to bother either of them too much and brady is making up for it in sleep) but really... how does life move so fast?! i'm being to wonder if i'm losing it. i honestly feel like i am.
anyways, this morning we went to the library and met up with friends. heaven forbid should our day not include hanging out with elle. we returned this stack of books to the library because we're either bored of them, they're weird (obesity appreciation, girl with divorces parents celebrating seder, y'know), or it's actually a dvd and our dvd player is broken.
well, i got online tonight to check our book count and realized i had A MILLION AND ONE things that were due on the 10th. colossal fail. seriously, i swear i JUST renewed everything. so now i have almost $10 in fines i need to pay off. which brings my library fines total for the past 2 years up to maybe $15. not bad considering we've probably checked out thousands of books (the nerd in me wishes there was a way to track those stats... but mostly a way to keep track of a comprehensive list of the books and movies we've checked out) and really, this is just a nice opportunity to give back and donate a few bucks to the library, right? even if we paid $15 a month, it would still be worth it. although i love that that's not necessary. this is a fine i'm happy to pay. but really... did the last seven days actually happen? i am so weirded out right now i'm having trouble finding words for it. obviously.
brady was so excited to get this ball, he crawled right out of his pants. that's what happens when skinny babies army crawl on their belly. abigail never army crawled so i'm just kind of wondering how long it will be until he starts using his knees. don't think i don't try to teach him correct posture. it doesn't work though. the second i touch him, he collapses in a fit of giggles. most ticklish kid ever.
things for my calling have been so busy lately. it's just "lds exhausted cont." all the time. last week we had conference weekend... all ten hours of it. monday was family night... i can't even remember what we did. tuesday night christopher had a presidency meeting. wednesday night christopher met us at a park for family pictures and then i stopped by home for two seconds to drop off kids before i went to my presidency meeting. thursday night my honey was out of town so i dropped off my kids with a friend while i went to the church for stake auxiliary training and didn't get them in bed until after 10. friday night i left the kids at home with my honey for a few hours while i went to the church for young women volleyball. and saturday i found myself waking up at 6am and being gone from 7 - 2 for the youth temple walk. i totally thought things would be so much easier once the temple walk was done on saturday but that's not quite the case yet.
monday night i spent about four hours doing training. tuesday i started planning for our ward halloween party and we had young womens at the church that night. this morning was great because i took the kids to the library and the park and i was a great mom because abigail got to play a ton with elle and brady got to eat woodchips but then i dragged them around the dollar store for something like two hours (while abigail ran around like she was on crack and shattered a glass snow globe with glitter water all over the floor within five minutes of being there... although thankfully brady slept part of it and was in an exhausted coma zombie sort of state even when he was awake) while i scoped out prizes and did all sorts of math. it is really a shame i could never get anything but straight C's. raise your hand if you hate math! alwaysandforever.
but happy day, if that isn't perfectly staying within a $50 budget then i don't know what is. sadly, i got home and went through everything for the girl who i'll be turning this over to (don't you love when you get to hand over stuff like this?!) and realized that none of the whistles work. so now i gotta go back tomorrow and convince the cashier to take those back and let me have something else (dollar store doesn't do returns so i'm interested to see how this will play out) and get that all organized before i drop it off at the girl's house.
we just hope this girl appreciates my over the top organizing skills of all of these prizes and the games they go to and who is running the games in which rooms and who will be bringing the games, and on and on. just kidding... i know she's grateful. i'm pretty much wrapping this neatly with a bow and placing it right in her lap. she actually offered to make me baked goods to help return the favor. i assured her i'm only doing it for the intrinsic value.
i always feel so heavy like i have such a weight... and this week, tonight especially, i feel like i am personally amputating my own arms, and both of my legs as well... the weight is lifting and i'm getting lighter but at what cost? it's painful, a surreal, and life changing in a way i can't yet wrap my head around.
so, the next few days are doing to be awesome. equal parts busy and awesome.
thursday- wrap up my part in this halloween party planning and go on a doubled date to the avs game! the avs are one of two teams that are undefeated right now so let's all cross our fingers and toes that they pull of another win for us tomorrow night!
friday- not sure yet what fun the morning will hold, but that night i'm going to time out for women. this is a first for me and i'm pretty excited!
saturday- time out for women until later in the afternoon. hopefully we can do something fun together as a family that night... i cherish that time with just the four of us.
sunday- i've got byc but then i won't even get to be in our ward (three weeks in a row since it was general conference and then the kids being sick and now this...) because we'll be in my in law's ward for mark's homecoming talk! i'm so excited for this. of all my brothers in law, mark is the one that feels most like an actual brother to me. he reminds me of my own brother, we have a sibling feeling relationship, and he even has the same birthday as my brother... i love him to death. and ever since he got back from mexico, he speaks english with an accent and spanish voice intonations... just like walter did when he got back from his spanish speaking mission in san francisco. anyways... all day hillier family fun.
and then it will be monday again... and i love mondays. life moves fast. i feel like i'm trying not to blink and yet somehow i'm still missing it! just gotta soak it up as best i can.
ps- something else inevitable? i finally had the opportunity to be THAT parent. tonight while my honey and i were talking, abigail locked herself and brady in the upstairs bathroom. try as i might, my efforts to describe to her how to unlock the door were not at all working and i didn't really want to send my christopher spidermanning on our roof in the pitch black, especially since i knew that window to our bathroom was locked. so after a few minutes of abigail telling me the door was broken, i went got a wire hanger from the downstairs hall closet (tender mercy that i hadn't thrown them all away like i had previously wanted to) and worked it in the door handle. miracle of miracles it actually worked and opened the door almost instantly! i am still shocked... i've never been able to successfully break in like that... using a bobby pin might as well be an urban legend or something hollywood made up... and it actually worked! i am so grateful for this and not really allowing myself to think of what would have happened if that didn't work. what are you supposed to do when your three year old and your baby are locked in a room? call an after hours lock smith? just kidding... is that a job for the fire department?! seriously... i'm so curious about this. it's not like we could break down the door since brady was riiiiight there. close call. i'm one step closer to experiencing every parent horror story i've ever heard.
Depending on the door knob, you can take off the door handle. Emily fell asleep in our bedroom one night when I was babysitting, but I didn't know she was asleep. I remember banging on the door and yelling at her. No answer. I called Bishop Evans and he came over and took the door handle off so we could get in the room. :) One of many favorite memories of him.
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