I didn't finish NaNoWriMo this year. I got like 15K words in, and life got busy, but mostly I got tired. Awake enough to do things that don't require me to think but too tired to think about what to write. Also, I'm at a pretty emotional part of my book, and it's kinda hard to write, so there's that, too ( Read more... )

Andrew wrecked his car on Friday. Poor guy was on his way to play sports with some guys from work and rear-ended a lady on the way. I felt bad for him because he was so excited to go. He's been taking the van to work this week, and his parents are going to let us borrow a car until we can get a new one. We just heard back from state farm today ( Read more... )

There have been a couple of times since being a mother that I have found myself without a husband on mother's day due to work-related situations. The last time it happened, I wallowed in self-pity and didn't enjoy my day at all. This time I decided to take a different approach ( Read more... )

I ventured out into the world today with all four kids in tow to get black ink to print off stuff for Evan's GT project. We got back and realized we were out of color ink, as well.


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I've recently discovered that I'm not as disgusting as I once thought, nor are my children. I mean, yes, they're children, so they're naturally disgusting. But we're not as disgusting as I thought we were. I finally decluttered my house entirely a few weeks ago, and while my house is not always in pristine shape, it is generally in decent shape ( Read more... )

Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without

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I've never read those books, but I'm guessing if I did, it would be about our life lately. At least, that's what I feel like. I'm feeling pretty negative at the moment, though ( Read more... )

Y'all... I am so tired. I forget how tiring a newborn is. You'd think that as much as they sleep that I would be getting rest, but no. No. Not at all. She actually does pretty good at night with a few exceptions, but it's just waking up repeatedly and not getting a long stretch of sleep that catches up to ya. I had my mother-in-law here for ( Read more... )

I remember thinking up a topic to write about the other day, but I've since forgotten what it was. It was really good, though. Pretend I wrote it, and you loved it.

I've been thinking a lot about my use of social media. My brother spoke in church yesterday and quoted from Elder Bednar's talk "Things as They Really Are," which was already one of ( Read more... )

I really just need to stop reading mom blogs. And I don't mean the funny ones. I like those. The ones where they laugh about something funny their kids did or make fun of themselves as a mom. I mean the ones that are like, "We need to stop judging each other as moms" or "Dear mom with the iphone at the park" or "You thought you were doing your ( Read more... )