home, home again

man, i am so excited to be home and sleeping in my own bed. not that lacey wasn't fun, but, wow, my bed. and my hubby. good to snuggle again. and kev, coming in to greet me with a big hug last night. well, here are the prego pictures (it's IN there!)


this is the sunday before i left.

this looks like it should be at the end, but it was near the beginning of the visit.

ahh, lazy sundays.

my next post will be about the kilted leaf rakers.

out here where the time is always wrong to call people

so, i came to seattle to see Kerry and braden last wednesday, and it is a wednesday again. i leave next wednesday, dec 13th to come back home. so, i have seen all my children within one month. pretty cool. i would just like to report on the facts: kerry is pregnant. i took pictures, but my hookup is at home, so you will have to wait another week to see that there is a bump where concavity once reigned. i can tell, although i can see why some people can't.

we are just hanging out, taking it slow. although that is also because we haven't a car to gallivant around in. I got my ticket here for free from capital one, but they wanted about $350 for renting a car for 2 weeks. nuts to that. especially because if we gallivanted, we would have to rest the next day, so we'd be paying for 2 days for every one that we used it. i am trying to go to seattle, well, bellvue, to go to the temple and to beehive clothing while i am here. hopefully friday.

love to all,
i miss you'uns and love ya too.
mom

yeah, well...

So, this has been a month of real surprises. on the 19th, we were in Cincinnati for joel's b-day and kennedy's blessing. very fun.

then we drove back, arriving exhausted and needing a bathroom badly on sunday night. there was a plate of muffins on the step to the kitchen with a note and a sign that said, "halt!! do not proceed further until you have eaten a muffin and read the note and do what it says." I said, nuts to that, i've got to go to the bathroom, and then i'll check it out. a few moments later, i came back. i wondered, well, the quists took kevin to church, presumably, and sr. quist likes to make muffins, so maybe they were from her. but why the note. maybe she was mad that we didn't talk to her directly about the ride, but we wanted kevin to take some responsibility.

so, we opened the note, and read a poem that i noted was in ryan's handwriting, but thought nothing of it, just that that was curious. it was about how we must miss our son, etc., and what a baker he was. i am at this point still clueless. the last part was that that dad and i must hold hands and chant, "muffin man, muffin man, come give me a hug!". then out jumps ryan from the living room (he had to hide when i went to the bathroom unexpectedly). I was soooo surprised. i did not GET it until that moment. how cool it was to see ryan, whom we had not seen since last march.

Swartwood reunion

So, everybody save the dates of June 16-23 or 4 for the great reunion. we found a house with 7 bedrooms for all grandchildren and great grandchildren and me and dad. check out www.vacationhomes.com/23547 the living room is small, but there is a large common area downstairs. also, one covered and one uncovered deck. the latter is very large, overlooking the lake. right below is a public beach that you can steeply get down to, or drive 3 minutes and park at. grandpa saw a park across the street from the house with slides, swings, etc., but no one else saw it. a block a way is a park with an old artillery piece, a gazebo, and lots of green space, good for games. if you follow the link, you'll see what city it is in for you google earthers. the # is 103 plum st.

please, please plan to come.

love,
mom

Whoa! Big changes.

We had a special meeting today for the North Olmsted, 7 hills, cleveland, lorain, and westlake ward, in the which they severely changed all the boundaries.

Our ward now consistes of North Olmsted, Westlake, Olmsted township and falls, and north ridgeville.

Westlake ward is no more...they imploded into us, avonlake went to lorain, rocky river bay and fairview park went to the new Lakewood ward.

Strongsville, berea, brookpark, middleburg hts broke off from north olmsted and went to the new strongsville ward. this also includes , north royalton, brecksville and broadview hts, which came from the defunct 7 hills ward.

7 hills also joined with the cleveland first ward, which consists of cleveland, parma, parma hts., brooklyn, brooklyn hts. and garfield heights, 7 hills, independence and valley view.

wow. next week, we meet as usual. in two weeks, we meet as new wards. this affects our bishopric (2 counselors), primary entire presidency, elder's quorum presidency, high priests' group leaders, young women presidency. should be interesting, but i know it is the right thing to do.

i'm alive, really I am

So, you see that i am here, even though i haven't posted. do you like the green color of my text?? i have been away visiting cincinnati, well, not so much the city as the wonderful people at ...i was going to type the address, but then i realized how stupid that was. my children and grandchildren. i was very excited to be asked to help, although amy saw through that right away and only said, "goodbye" and "goodbye, grandma" to me. scott and joel and kennedy and i had a good time. well, joel stopped liking me by saturday when he realized that if i was there, then mommy would maybe leave. on that day, every time he saw me, he ran away to find mommy to make sure she wasn't leaving. Scott made my day on saturday when he said, with no prompting, "I'm going to miss you, grandma!" yeah, baby, that's what i live for. it was cool to see a blessing work right away. David blessed me that i would not be in pain (although sometimes i needed drugs to achieve this) and to be able to serve as i desired. that was cool. then i got home, and immediately went into a flare, which i am still in. that systemic yeast stuff. i mean, imagine never having any sweets or grains (or fruits) ever again. that's what they say i have to do. can't do it, baby. i could probably cut down, but i can't completely give them up.




So, you can see that they really enjoyed me. well, to tell the truth, this is saturday, and joel had figured me out. plus it was naptime. and amy is far away from me, so she's ok.

Aren't they cute. someone has a nose issue, however.

and we are so cute together.

love, mom

randomocity

so, i see i haven't blogged in awhile, so i am starting, and hoping that something will come to me as i type.

My foot is doing well post-surgically. i see the dr for my 4 week checkup on friday. unless i spend humongous times on my feet, no probs. i have even driven with it.

I believe that I have my NANO theme ready to go. It involves something dear to my heart, though i will have to fictionalize it somewhat. This, for those who don't know is trying to write a novel in one month, november, i forget how many words. ryan knows all about it. i wasn't sure if i could do it, as i didn't have a theme that stuck. i would love to do a murder mystery, action thriller without sex, but i really don't know much about police procedure, fbi, seals, cia, etc., so i would only be going from all the gazillion books with this theme that i have read.

Dawn and I are going to check out a place on Marblehead for the reunion, after i call and see if it is available. it is www.greatrentals.com/OH/63o2.html hope the link works. i forgot to originally include the www, so if it doesn't work, put the www in.

kevin already hates mcdonalds, but we told him that he can't quit without another job in place. he is especially griping because this is his first week at real "full-time", and as they have him on nights, he misses a lot of activities. He says, "i'll never have any time off!" all those of you who work full-time know the adjustment it takes. i did tell him that education is the only way out of mindless, boring jobs that are awful. if you like what you do, at least it makes it more bearable to work full-time.

so, kerry is gone from today til the 28th, working 11+ hour days at a great translating opportunity, and something else to put on her resume. I ask you all to pray for her, for the fatigue factor of pregnancy will make it even more difficult. don't expect to hear from her or see her blog till probably october. braden, however, has all our permission to blog.

ah, dreams

the stuff of fantasy and weirdness..

so, i meant to blog sunday about my dream saturday night, but sundays there seems to be a mad rush to the comp, and i rarely get on.



i dreamed that the church called kerry on a mission. braden had to stay finishing school. but they called kerry as a missionary because they needed her special skillset. no one would do but her. then they called me as her companion, so that if she went into labor, i could deliver her (probably so the church wouldn't have a medical bill :-).



so, we walked around all the time missionarying. I don't know where we went on the mission. i assume it was spanish speaking. i remember that kerry was the senior comp.
the end.

the saga

saga is a texttwist word, for those in the know

this is the story, or once upon a time, there was a rhododendron bush sleeping away in a plant store. it looked great! it said it could live in part shade to shade.

so, this lovely rhododendron bush was lovingly purchased and planted in the bedroom garden of a home in north olmsted. it got lots of sun in the spring, and bits (but only bits) of sun in the summer. but, hey, it likes shade. and the maple tree shaded it well, lo, these many years.

poor rhododendron, to go to a home where gardening is a hit or miss proposition. why, oh why, was it planted where said maple tree stole nearly all the moisture from the soil, and blocked the rain from hitting the ground in said garden.

it lived. but barely. it never grew. it had some leaves, but it didn't look healthy. then it started to die.

in the meantime, said unaccomplished gardener decided to make a hedge to block the view into the back yard. rhododendron plants are supposed to get big. just this one hadn't. so,

like the parable about the seed in good ground, the gardener decided to move poor rhododendron plant to the sunny, quite wet location of the new hedge.

LO!! i mean, LO!! the leaves started to look healthy, and there was one beautiful pink blossom within a week or two. how did the gardener rejoice!!

then, the rhododendron died.
the end

oh what awful feet


but, actually, this is my awful foot. the others are kevin's after his ingrown toenails were fixed.

to whomever cares

so, i had my surgery done on wednesday. i am still alive, i love my pain pills. i lay around with my foot up and don't have to feel guilty. no crutches...hooray!! that probably would have done more damage than the surgery. i have a special surgery shoe that i wear for protection.

"It's the end of the world as we know it"

I was listening to NPR this morning. They mention that Newt Gingrich is an advisor to the Pentagon. First of all, he is crazy. i mean certifiable. note his antics as speaker of the house. he resigns under a cloud of illegal activities or suspicions. Somehow, he still has a job.

anyway, he was quoted about his advice about Iran, and the probs with nuclear capability which they won't give up, possible supplying weapons to hezbollah, blah,blah,blah. His advice? REGIME CHANGE!!!!! if he wasn't certifiable before, surely this makes the case. we shouldn't have gone into iraq, IMHO (i know your views, braden, leave me to mine), we fight a mounting insurgency, we haven't enough troops there, recruiting is down, so let's do the same thing in iran. luckily, the white house vetoed his advice, saying diplomacy would be better (a hard lesson learned). of course this was after they sat down and looked at the consequences of such an action, nuclear bombing of israel, destruction of our bases in the area, possible bombing of american cities, inciting WWIII, armageddon, etc.

sheesh

why i haven't blogged

Hello, everyone. for most, my name is mom. for others, christy. that's in case people have forgotten me.

No one ever wants to really know how you feel, so i have not blogged because i am in a tremendous flare since beginning of january. i also have had reactions to several different herbs and/or medicines which have given me severe diarrhea, cramping, or impossible headaches. Not to mention, i have been under a vow of silence to one person who would have killed me if i had spilled the beans about one of the things i have been thinking about lately.

today, i feel ok. so, HI!!

the weather today is better than that heat wave we have been experiencing along with most of the country. yesterday was 76, today it is 70 at 10:30 am. grateful for the break from the dog days.

i am soooooo excited about being a grandmother for the 4th and 5th times!!!! yea!! this is one of the reasons i so want to be healthy....i want to have an impact on my grandchildren's lives. i want to be able to sit on the floor and play with them. i want to be able to hold them for periods of time. i want, someday when they are all a little older, to have cousin camp, where we take all the grandchildren for a few days to a week and do cool things with them while their parents have a break. or hang out together themselves.

i love my family. hope you all know that. that's why i want to live close by in order to interact. i am willing to move once i have money. or why, when i have money, to assist in building my children's homes in order to have a mother-in-law suite so i can visit for periods of time without getting in people's faces.

i guess that's my post of today.

family pictures

To the left, patrick, greg, jared, pam wil (hasn't he grown), mitch, mark,
and jessica aubrie, karene, and jake


Alan, laNice, and aunt helen Dave, jackie, candace, rebecca, rick,
(aunt helen is grandpa G's sister.) and sarah.








these are the individual pictures. couldn't find the big family . note the family resemblance. alan, rick, david, pam, and mark. especially the high foreheads. pam just has some hair covering hers :)

so, i got some pictures up here, but it was never so easy as dan said. no button just appearing when i go to blog.

some about the massanutten reunion

this is david and kevin holding the scottish (old) and american flags at the start of the Va games.

This is one of my favorite just our family portraits because of carolyn futiley (sp?) trying to get away from the gnats. they were awful. somehow i don't see the big family picture in my pictures. oh, and i have a better one of us from the reunion. this was just funny.

David went with some to monticello. says he didn't get enough time there, which is probably true. there was the drive to get there, and then back for dinner. i told him he just should have been late to dinner.

Well, this isn't the reunion, but it has to do with scottish games in a way. we took ( i am using we in the queen's way) down the rusting basketball hoop. while kev and dad were in the process of getting the bolts out, we very scottishly (read, use what you have) used ryan's caber to hold up the backboard until it was ready to come down.

This was at monticello, and we all agree that it is the coolest tree ever.

so, i got pictures up...still wondering how i did it.

love, mom

great grandchildren

someone else is giving grandpa great grandchildren....

dan, the only buttons i have are for bold, italics, color of text, links, a pair of opening quote marks, spellchecker and "edit html"

THE MACKENZIE!!!!

Yesterday was the day for the Ohio Scottish Games. Although I have Irish ancestors, I do not believe that there were any Scots. But, being married to a Scot works. We had an enjoyable day, temp about 75 after having thunderstorms for the previous 3 days with flooding. but not our PERSONAL flooding, thank goodness.

This is the guy we call Gimli (for some reason) showing Kevin how to put on a REAL kilt. you lay it on the ground. leave a piece, whatever your width is, then start making folds of it on the ground until you only have a width size left. then you lay down so that the bottom is just above your knees. oh, sometime, you slipped a belt under the folds on the grass at whatever the length to your knees are. you pull the far side over your front, the near side over it, and buckle the belt. then, you stand up. the piece that now falls in front is longer than the one underneath. you can pull this up over your head if it is cold and rainy. you can connect the corners to put plaid on your front and back. or you can tuck in the corners and leave the back long. that's what gimli does. he said that those people who had their kilts with sewn-in pleats were not wearing kilts, they were wearing " catholic school girls' skirts"!!

This is Kevin at home wearing his catholic school girls' skirt MacKenzie Tartan and waving his footlong dagger. It is a dress dagger, he found out.

David in the Black Watch Tartan which was military, and you could be any clan when you wore it. Kevo in the MacKenzie.

A closer view....
This is a great traditional shot, missing only Ryan

We saw caber tossing, the march of the clans, the bands. pretty cool. david checked out a kids' game area to see how to adapt the scottish games for the reunion. oh, the vendors. kevin bought a mackenzie kilt, a dagger, and a (phonetically) skahn dee. you'll see.....

am missing my fam. wish you were closer.

love, mom

The wanderings....

So I went wandering down to cincinnati last thursday to last monday. i had fun. the kids were pretty open to me, and i got to play with all of them. of course, if carolyn is in the room, all bets are off with joel. i went swimming on the way home, so i could get some exercise.

we get a new garage door today. i am waiting for them. this is because the city likes our neighborhood and cited many of us for peeling paint on garage doors. we were also cited for the trim on the house needing painting. this is all true. so david is doing outside stuff until it's done. then, back to the basement.

kerry and braden get internet acces on friday. that's cool. maybe we can IM or have them finish their blog.... i love to know what is going on.

see ya soon. esp those going to virginia.

love, mama

oh, where, oh, where has my ryan gone....

i suppose when he gets in his apt in june, he will be more able to communicate, but i haven't heard from him in a while, and i miss him. hope all is well.

flattery will get you everywhere

we (the missionaries and I) were teaching this lady about the gospel. she looked at me and said, we're about the same age. since she had an 8 year old and a 12 year old, she's probably 15 years younger than I am. but, what the hay, think that aaaaaalllllllllllll you want.

Well, they're gone

Well, they left about 11:30. kerry and i put up brave fronts. on to a new adventure.

momorama

so, i heard it is time to blog about my boring life. it has been raining so much we are considering an ark. but today, so far, is sunny.

spent wednesday and friday helping kerry and braden pack. ya just gotta dig in and start somewhere, even if it's not a "plan".

went to kerry's graduation. very proud. i was the only one who saw her march in, because the program and kerry said that the graduation was at 2:30, but le universite started at 2. so, while we thought we'd be there early and get a decent seat, we were up on the bleachers (yuck) and without a decent view. but we were there, we saw it, and she is gradjiated.

Started a new set of sim2 characters, trying to encorporate grandparents, and extended family. yes, i know i didn't need the comma there, but i would rather write this whole sentence than go back and change it. kerry has been born, though not dan. i am currently married to w. dave, at least till dan is born, then we'll divorce. i still have to get all the aunts and uncles together, although rick does like jackie, and larry and anne have met. i have this expansion pack that lets you pick 2 things that your sim is attracted to, plus one that turns you off. so, i like men with brown hair and glasses. also, if a sim is angry with another sim, then in the relationships bar, they have a red covering their faces. when they cool off, it goes away.

oh, well, it's a post, anyway.
love the fam.
momorama

I hate the day after naet

ya see, i can only eat certain very limited things, and have to stay 7-8 feet away from others. last week it was metals. no swimming(chlorine), had to wear gloves so i didn't touch anything metal, nothing cooked in a metal pan or pot. luckily, i passed, even though dad said, about 7:30pm, "what about your glasses?" then he masking taped the metal, which was cool and sticky, not to mention gorgeous.

yesterday it is salts and sodium. so today is, in a way, cause i must avoid until 5:30 tonight. i just saw that one of my meds has sodium laurel stearate, or some such. we will have to see.

i admire ryan's reading of holocaust victims. we really should "never forget", although i think we do, as in darfour, nigeria, etc.

kerry's big day is coming up...don't forget her tomorrow afternoon.

love, mom

I went swimming in my birthday suit!!

that is to say, the 100% polyester bathing suit that i got for my birthday, but only received a few days ago. talking to the water therapy people, they said that the polyester is the way to go. it is resistant to chlorine, suntan lotion or block, doesn't lose its color or shape. it is royal blue, and i look stunning in it. well as stunning as possible for me at this time.

the wall in the storage room has been painted, and we can now put the shelves back in. that is great news for 2 reasons. one is that i might be able to find where i put things. the other is that i may get my car back in the garage. yea to both.

whoever started the contest on "see how long you can hold off posting", knock it off. you win. i lose, along with carolyn and ryan. you know who you are.

it is a gorgeous spring day today. we have tulips and daffodils, grape hyacinths, regliar hyacinths, bleeding heart all going at once. and it's a lovely temp also..about 70.

Kerry has her case study defense on thursday at noon. since she isn't posting it, i will, so that everyone prays for her.

i love my fam!!
mom

modern conveniences

so, if you could only have one modern convenience, what would it be?? my last post was hoping for replies.

i like water

water is good, water is cool,
gather it up into a pool.
or drink it betimes with a terrible thirst
'til again satisfied. go eat a wurst.

sorry, it's hard to rhyme thirst. if i had to give up all but one modern convenience, clean water through the tap has to be it. yes, it would be uncomfortable to use an outhouse. walking wouldn't get me far. lights are better than candles. stoves and refrigerators are up their on the list. but can you imagine having to go to the nearest creek everyday to gather enough water to drink, bathe, cook, etc.? And if it's the River Sidon, get your water upstream. ya never know what someone upstream has done to pollute the water you gather, i.e. bathing, washing, peeing, dead bodies, etc.

so, here's to water!! yea!!!!!

IMHO

IMHO, middle schoolers are oversexed. now, i know that it is not entirely their fault. TV, movies and other media are constantly bombarding them with sexual messages, making it seem like everyone who is cool is "doing it". and sometimes, parental laxness contributes. But to constantly be on the hunt for someone to make out with, or being anxious to lose their virginity....COME ON!

Now, it only gets worse in high school and college. but those people who are actually trying to be chaste have a very difficult time and are often misled by predatory males/females.

rant over....ryan, do you approve of my expressing my opinion??

Ryan says........

Ryan says that I should blog about schtuff if my life is so boring. meaning, of course, that he totally agrees with my sentiments.

my only thoughts today are that it is incredibly dreary. dark clouds, periodic rain. it makes me want to sleep all day. somehow i must make it to the exercising pool.

have you guys noticed the increased fervor about missionary work at church lately. great, it's my worst area. well, maybe not my worst. i have a few sins to work on as well.

schmoops

like i have something to say. every day i look at the blogs, which i love to do, and think, "i should blog". unfortunately, i lead the most boring life in the world. i have meetings, pain, play comp. games, snore, etc. so what's a body to do??

today i restart the no sugar, no refined flour, potato, etc. i despair that i will ever find a reason for the fibro, let alone a cure.

upcoming birthdays!!!! yeah.

Excitement

well, i spent my christmas money yesterday! i am finally the owner of my very own.............laptop!! i am so excited. i kept seeing it across the room and thinking, oh, ryan's home....no WAIT!! that's mine!! haven't done too much with it yet. another cool part of it was that i bought a different laptop, and the "geek squad" at bestbuy had to check it out, and get the bestbuy stuff off of there because it turned out to be the display. they said they'd call me in an hour/hour and a half. after 3 hours, i just went there, figuring they must have lost my phone no., but no, the comp kept freezing when they tried to reload the gateway stuff. so, they told me to look for a comparable one. of course, there were none, except for pricier. so, they gave me a better one for only a little more. i am sure glad that i didn't get the first home, and discover it was crap (probably after 14 days), since, of course, i couldn't afford the service plan which was $300 more.

i got a call at 8am yesterday from grandpa, waking me up. he just wanted to tell me he slept well, ate breakfast, had a good bm (tmi), and was reading the paper. then, about a minute later, he repeated the exact above statements. now, i'm glad he's fine, but he really doesn't have to wake me up to tell me that he is ok. if he's not, call me. but not if he's fine. at 8am. and the bm part was too much. next, he'll start telling me the color of his pee.

ryan, i tried a bunch of times to respond on your blog, but it rejected me. sounds like a good book, but probably too technical for a non-history buff.

hospitals stink

Hospitals stink! or did i say that already. for those of you in the know, which is no one who reads this blog....grandpa S was in the er on wednesday, and admitted. this is friday. if the darn doctors would show up when called, he would have been home yesterday. but noooooooooooo, they have to putz around for 2 days thinking about whether they want to see him, and if it should be at 10pm or not. he is still waiting today for 2 doctors. i was there in a chair for 12 hours yesterday and then died. what a massage i needed. i just wanted to be there to talk to the docs, cause grandpa is forgetting things.

the diagnosis is a probable TIA, or ministroke, no residual side effects now. and too quick withdrawal from a medicine that you get "habituated" to. they told him to stop it for a week before his sleep study, without warning him that he would have to wean down. grandpa in withdrawal. scary.

he was very out of it and confused on wednesday, a very very scary to watch deal. but now that they gave him back the med, he's ok.

kev is in the talent show tonight. he looks well. and sings well. we will go tonight for the real deal.

love you all
mom

today is tuesday

momorama
well, another lost day yesterday due to migraine. thanks, dad. that means today must be the exercise day. tomorrow is naet.

kevin is in the oboba (talent show at school). he is singing acapella (sp?) or without accompaniment. the show is friday...i guess that will be our date.

grandma says, "no balloons around necks, please"

love you all.

really booooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrring

momorama
alright. so i knew the last post was boring, but you ask me to post about my life, and....there it is. how do i know?? because only ryan posted a response, and that was to an incidental comment at the end.

yeah, makes me wanna post

momorama

momorama
I live such a boring life...what to blog, eh?? just a little canadian for all of you.

I went to NAET on monday, as someone had taken my regular time of wednesday, 3pm. i fixed them, though, i scheduled all of march on my wednesday. I passed sugar, and now have been treated for vitamin B, in all its many forms. My diet for 25 hours post treatment was.....FRENCH FRIES!! gross. i could only stomach this once. french fries are better WITH something, not by themselves. why french fries, you ask? because i could not have meat, dairy, bread, fruits or vegetables. i could have had cauliflower or deep-fried fish, but i need my cauliflower dipped in something, and the fish needed to have no breading. so, i would have to do it myself, and i can't go into the kitchen after these treatments, cause i would be within 4 feet of things i can't have, and that's a no-no. Obviously, it should be well known that you can't count french fries as a vegetable, since anything of nutrition in it is killed by the high heat of the oil. i am sure the government counts it as a veggie, along with ketchup.

It has been interesting to read ryan's blog and the things he is eating. he will definitely have probs if he moves back home and is vegan. i can hardly feed him as a vegetarian. sorry, carolyn, but i have to plan for you, also, and you don't stay for a whole summer, or we would have issues also.

yesterday was my water exercise day, since my monday got taken up with naet. i spend an hour in the pool, doing walking frontwards, backwards, and sideways, also moving my arms as i walk. then 2 laps, one breast stroke and one back stroke. then i go to the warm toasty pool ( i do the above walking and swimming in the regliar pool.) and sit on a foam tube and just keep moving. walking in deep water, or using styrofoam weights that i push down in different ways, twists, and leg out to the side (s). i also go to the shallow end and sit on the ledge in the water and stretch towards my feet. all this, for that hour. then i go to the hot tub and melt. i feel okay until about an hour and a half afterwards. then i die for the rest of the day and part of the next....today. i still am trying to go grocery shopping, as that only takes an hour. some other shopping i will try to do tomorrow.

also tomorrow, i will try to put sheets over all the junk in the basement. that way, on saturday, i won't have to worry about the dust getting on everything. when all is done, i will (or will have someone else do) fold up the sheets, dump them outside, and wash them.

i love amy's picture... i want to marry it.

love, mom

ramblin' rose

momorama
So, i thought i should blog because i so enjoy reading what everyone is up to. well, not everyone, since some people blog every month or 4 months or so.

i made it to the gym twice this week for water exercise. yea, me. i like it while i'm there, but it's the getting there that is hard. i figure it takes over 2 hours per time when i go.

i have had 3 migraines in one week's time. boo, hiss. i hate headaches. you just can't pretend they aren't there. and migraines knock me out for the whole day or longer. which makes my exercise record even more impressive.

i am going visiting teaching today. then, again, hopefully get the last 2 next week. have you ever noticed how annoying it is to need to get in contact with someone who has neither voicemail nor an answering machine, and who seems to never be home??? and i feel that she is the one we most need to visit teach and befriend.

i teach an inservice this weekend for the teachers and leaders of youth. i am using the february ensign article about teaching from the ensign (and new era). then next week i start a "teaching the gospel" course for eight weeks, interrupted by other inservices, conferences, easter, etc. but i still plan to go to cincinnati for either scott's b-day or dan's 3oth. muahhahahaha

love y'all

Jabber-wocky

momorama
So, just jabbering, cause i haven't much to say. I had an hour massage last friday. it felt great till about 3 hours later when i was in massive pain. but by mid sat, i felt ok.

I am currently waking up several times a night having trouble breathing. david says, oh, yeah, i heard that too. when i'm through exhaling, i have this moaning, squeaky sound. but it's not there all the time. so ya know, if i go to the dr, she'll say, sounds clear to me. and i 'm very congested. but, not VOMITORIUM VOMITUS at least. (Kevin just commented that the house in cincinnati would be a great side show...Carolyn's house o' vomit)

kev had finals last week. hopes all classes are passed and he has only ONE more semester in order to gradjeate.(sic) (not sick)

i made chicken tortilla soup yesterday. well, actually david made it. and i only mention it to make kerry sad that she never comes to visit.

i love my fam

talks

momorama
so, i forgot to tell you that kevin and i gave talks yesterday in church. this is only the second talk he has ever given, since, after the first one, he refused every invitation. his was AWESOME. you had to be there. mine was disjointed, but that was my fault. he worked hard on his, and said that it was like he could hear this voice in his head telling him what to write. coolness, droolness. i said to him, you know that was the holy ghost don't you.

rattling my cage

momorama
okay, so i still after a month or so have nothing to say, but i will take up some time writing about the nothing (Batian, say my name......) in order for people who want to see my nothingness can.

there is a big Q on our door...i.e. quarantine. after my month or so, kevin got evil death illness, and still is coughing and hacking, even though he is better. david has been sick since saturday (alright, he was working on a cold for a week before), death-ray sick. he had to take the first 2 days, so far, of vacation for the year. I am taking every immune booster supplement known to mankind to not get sick again. this smells.....rotten.

haven't been simming too much, except i had to have ryan divorce melissa to marry cassie. oh, and the elder scott watson just had a baby. well, really, megan, his wife did.

we had a new year's gathering (traditional) at my dad's house. dave, dawn, joan, jim, grandpa, me, ryan, kevin, kerry, and braden were there. david was home sick, and i hear that charlie had partied too much the night before.

kev and ry and i are STILL trying to see harry potter. we tried last week and it was sold out (!). i told the kids, who couldn't understand it that all parents get sick of their kids about now, and since they couldn't send them sledding, they sent them to the movies. we are going to try again today.

i haven't spent any christmas money yet....except in my head, which is almost as fun.

love you guys.....