Dough-not touch my donut

Once a month, I get the kids up early to go get groceries. This is mostly to beat the crowds, but also to eat donuts! We don't eat a lot sweets, well compared to some we probably do, but I think to have one as a "sometimes snack" is okay. I let the kids pick out their own, and usually they are nice enough to share half with me. This eases the pain of being out in the cold early, and it's fun! And usually on the way we have the disney tunes blaring to wake us up-we were listening to Newsies this morning and it made me wish all my siblings would come watch it with me today. That's kindof a family classic, but I only like it about once a year. Anyway, I am down here blogging when I should be up watching the inaugaration. So more later...

Confessions of a Choir Queen...

Will I ever learn???! I was asked to do the stake choir and now I am wondering what I got myself into... No not really, I actually really enjoy leading; it is kindof like ballet, except without the leaping across the stage; except last sunday I did feel like leaping OFF the stage. The hardest thing is that I don't feel like people realize how tricky it is to keep that many people all in sync, so you get a few that are really critical and basically you want to kill by the end of practice. Mostly I just want to say, firstly, if you think you can do a better job, come up here, and secondly, would you say that to me if my MOMMA was here? But the end product is going to be beautiful, and it will not hurt me to swallow my poulson pride and take advantage of the opportunity to learn some new things. I think mostly I need to learn to not go into things half prepared so I can see how much they are really going to expect of me and just do everything 1000%. And I can learn to have compassion for others who are struggling in callings or other areas and just be patient. So yes, I will learn from this, and even if I have to bring my Mom to protect me, It is going to be my hap-happiest choir experience yet!!!!:)

Grandma bought this car for Christmas for all the grandkids to play with. So now we just need to get all of the grandkids here! :)

I found it!

Today I was cleaning up the basement and for some reason I decided to look in this little twenty-five cent tin that I bought from the d.i. a few years ago. It was filled with legos and to my suprise, Joel's work phone that has been missing for a month or so. Joel swore he had left his phone on his desk, so when it suddenly went missing, we turned the house upside down looking for it thinking it can't be far. But when you have a two and 18 month old, where do you even begin? We were frustrated and Joel finally told his boss that he had lost this expensive phone; so you can imagine his suprise when I called him at work today and demanded I get the "best wife of the year award" for finding it. The thing that was so confusing is that we kept calling his phone, and couldn't hear it, so that's why I started to think that he had left it somewhere or dropped it in the snow. Anyway, if I can learn anything from this, maybe it would be to get rid of that stupid tin, (or a kid, haha:) but also that every prayer no matter how small matters and is answered in Heavenly Fathers own time. Now if i could just find the millions of binkys that I have lost...