How is it having six kids?

My sister asked me how it was having six kids. I said it depends on the day. Later I wrote this to her:  no regrets! If I could go back, I'd have her all over again! I love her spare tires and rolls and smile!        
      Last week of christmas break:  We survived this week with sick kids. The words of a song come to mind "and mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again!"  Bless the person who came up with the idea to make schools!  We had lots of crabby, sick kids stuck in the house all week with lots of movies, reading, and playing with new christmas toys. 
Love you ladies!!!

Heart attack

Abbey heart attacked her first boy over Christmas break.  By heart attached, I mean she taped a bunch of paper hearts with messaged on them to his front door with one of her girl friends.  The young man and his family were out of town. So they came home to a heart attack and messages written in chalk all over their drive way.  I still kind of wish she was shy and quiet and awkward like I was when I was her age, but she's not.  She's very  confident when it comes to interacting with the young men.
     Amelia rolled over for the first time this last week.  I love her chubby legs!

I'm like a gazelle

     My favorite line from Carson this week was "I'm like a gazelle."   "Huh," I asked. "How are you like a gazelle?"  He  went on to explain that he's half cheetah, half wolf, half gazelle,  and half gorilla. He's like a cheeta because he's so fast, wolf because they can run long distances like marathon runners, gorillas because he likes to climb trees, and gazelle because he's agile.  He went on to expound about under what circumstances he uses each speed and sometimes combines creature abilities because of the conditions.  Love that kid!
     I also loved what William said.  "When I get married, I'm going to ask my wife if I can name the boys and she can name the girls."
     Sacraments are getting rough between Amelia and Bradley.   Amelia is out of that new infant, sleeps a whole lot through anything faze.  I'm spending more time in the halls and mother's lounge than in sacrament.  If you haven't had to try to breastfeed your baby while your four year old boy tips the other rocker so far back it falls to the ground with him on it, you are fortinate.  Don't forget spinning the chair around and around.  They say I'm going to miss this someday.  Hmmmm. 

Daughters of God

I am a mormon woman!  I love it! 

Looking through Windows

So True!

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey. Delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."
-Gordon B. Hinckley

He's a Keeper!!!!

     Out of the clear blue, Eric took some time off from work today and while out running a few errands with the kids, he pulls up to this salon and informs me that I have a pedicure appointment in a few minutes.  I jump out shocked and he drives off with the kids. 
      It's been a rough ride this last month with a very resistive bacteria causing bronchitis, pneumonia, ear infections, and/or upper respiratory infections in every person in our home.  More than one kid required three rounds of different antibiotics.  I fear it became the norm to have me walking around with a look on my face of being at the end of my rope.  So Eric dropped me off to be pampered.  He's a keeper!  No doubt about it!