Sleep Tight.

Laying in bed with Anita at the end of a difficult evening, after the unexplained crying has ended, I finally feel myself relaxing. She must have felt it too because she put her sweet little face next to mine and wrapped her arm around my neck and said, " It's ok mommy I'll keep you safe."

I'm so glad that I have forgiving children and no matter how short tempered I've been, some cuddles and quality time seem to heal all the hurts I inflict.

I've been doing so well the last week, we have been using positive labeling. Which works well but requires lots of control on my part, but Anita responds well to it.

But I really need to get it together this week because Matt is leaving Wednesday night for a meeting in Calgary. He will only be gone for a little more that 24 hours. I'm sure we will live.

I need to read my scriptures more.

I'll do that right now I think, now that they are sleeping.

So sleep tight, and I'm glad that some one will be keeping me safe while I sleep.

Thanksgiving!

Whew what a week!

We had a wonderful visit with both sides of the family. The girls saw almost all of their living (great) grandparents, we spent some good time with Duncan who just came home from his mission, the girls weren't too shy of him (this was J's first time meeting him) and had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with my older sister and family.

I am so thankful for our new car so we can go and visit people, and that Matt has a job so that we can afford to go and visit people.

I'm thankful that my brother is marrying a great girl with a great family!

I'm thankful for my children and our health.

I'm thankful for our friends and our ward.

I'm thankful for my wonderful husband, who is so willing to help and so patient with me.

I am thankful for the Savior, the Atonement and the Gospel.

And I am thankful for prayer.

This is the short list, maybe I'll add one thing at the end of each post that I am thankful for each week. There are so many other things. It was a great week away, and I'm looking for ward to Christmas.

Picture update

I need a good camera. The other night the clouds looked like they were painted onto the sky, it was so pretty but also looked completely unnatural!

I also took some pictures of my coat! so here they are...

I am so excited to wear it. I just need an occasion!

Since I was putting pictures on the computer I thought I'd share a few more. Here is anita's birthday from June.

I thought that these cupcake flowers were so cute! I even came up with it all by my self!

I found neon food colouring, it gives much more saturated bright colours, not so pastel as regular ones.

I am excited to get some Fall/Halloween decorations. There are so many cute things I could do!!

The bad and the good.

I will start with the good.

Yesterday we went garage saleing*. We LOVE garage saleing. Matt got me a super old but pristine copy of 'Gone with the Wind' which is one of my favorite movies, but I have never read the book. And I found a beautiful long wool coat with a fur collar. for $3!!!

Today was Stake conference and I probably heard half of it which is a lot more than last time.

A friend stopped by this afternoon with some cookies and treats.

The bad news is that our van died yesterday, and it looks like it might be for good.

I can barely walk. My back started hurting this morning and has gotten steadily worse, might be making a trip to the hospital tonight.

A few more things on the positive note, Matt has been SO great tonight, he made supper and cleaned up everything. We also borrowed Auntie C's van till tomorrow and another friend has offered to lend us one of their vehicles for a few days too.

Hopefully my back feels better by tomorrow.

(* Saleing - I don't think this is a word but oh well. I couldn't think of how else to spell it. Maybe sale-ing?)

Apples Fall

Fall seems to be in the air. On saturday we went over to Auntie C's house to pick apples from her tree, the kids played in the yard and I climbed up the tree to get as many apples as we could. Everyone else used the ladder or picked from the deck or ground. We even held a blanket under the tree as we shook the apples off and fried to catch them. There were a few injuries, but I think the apples got hurt more! We finally picked all the apples we could reach but there were still a couple branches we couldn't get too. So we cut them down!!

It was lots of fun, and there a tons of apples!

Hopefully we will make lots of pie and dried apples!

A list

OK my friend posted this on Facebook and I think it is SO great!! A list I will use.

Find it Here. I think I'll put it on my fridge.

Could you pass the motivation please?

How do I motivate myself ?

I have NO idea. One of the many things I lack is motivating myself to do something I don't want to, like cleaning for example. I know how to clean but would rather do about a million other things.

I can make the house look presentable in half an our when there are people coming over, but I can't invite guests to our house every evening, we would all be tired of that after a while.

I have tried pretending there is going to be company but that never works either. I do love the feeling of a clean home and the satisfaction of accomplishing a lot in a day, its just tough to get going.

So what do I do? Work harder is the only answer I can come up with. Maybe I should get some good energetic music ( flight of the bumble bee anyone?) maybe that would work.

And just doing it. It seems that seems to be the answer to a lot of things, just do it and it will get better and become a habit and maybe even enjoyable.