Things to do for Summer

Things to do for summer:
Beach
Teach
BBQ
Keep the garden lookin new
Work on writing
Work on math
Play some pingpong
Have some laughs
Basketball
Go on walks
Stay up late and talk, talk, talk
Read some books
Watch Glenn Beck
Temple trips
Deal UNO decks
Sing some songs
Karate
Watch some movies
Play, play
Pray.

Whatever happened to blogging?

I don't know why I stopped writing. Pinterest maybe? I have had so many ah-hah moments lately that involve journaling, I fell I should write something. I have a journal....but I would have to leave my computer to go get it and this somehow seems easier. Also, I don't have to find a pencil. I have spent the last 4 hours looking back at the blog I started when Sam was young. It was something I could do while nursing her to stave off the boredom. I feel very homesick for those crazy days when my kids were so little and fit just so in my arms. I am so ready...to be a grandma. In July. Of course she is too far away to hold for very long. A couple of visits and she will be grown up. Lately the pressing forward of time seems to be, well, pressing. Of course anybody who knows me knows I have a hard time writing anything down that may be incriminating or embarrassing, (especially with big brother watching and recording)  so as journaling goes this will be pitiful, but still. I wanted to write something down. Something to say, I am still here. The one thing that really hit me when I read the blog was how long ago it was that I made the last batch of quilts. I am on another quilt binge, but I thought it was just last year that I had made them. No wonder I have so much fabric. I buy it like I make quilts like my mother...constantly. mmmm how to rethink this. My kids are so growing up. Chaz will be baptized soon. Sam is already 6. They are with me all day long and still I feel like I am not with them enough. I don't talk one on one, eyeball to eyeball. I spend more time monitoring and correcting. I have meant to take one of them with me everytime I do an errand. Sam always insists that be her. So do the other kids LOL. How does the Lord stand letting his children have agency? am I still a baby in his eyes?

Literary Analysis

http://literary-devices.com/frontpage?page=8
remember to test the kids on these terms

Power of Moms

I have been reading David Allen "the art of getting things done" and Tamara sent me info on someone who has put it together for moms.

dreammakers
file
send Tasha's rent
call library
call visiting teachers companion
create budget
figure out scanner
carbonite new computer
max haircut
dad Neville haircut

hem pants for Jesse and Dad Neville
Change the date for Jesse at BYU
Love Dave

2 by 4

Lord just blessed me. I have always felt disappointed and less knowledgeable because I only attended 2 years of seminary. The seminary resources are all online now. The big AAHHHH=HUH I can "take seminary" myself for scripture study every morning using those resources. I will be studying the Old Testament next year so I could study that, or the Book of Mormon or what the kids are studying in Seminary. So many options. Need to decide which one!