Tag Tuesday Week 2

This is great! I saw it on my sister's blog. I did it right but now I want to cheat! Maybe the next tag will be doing it again but using the song titles that you want!

You Are What You Listen Too

Here's how it goes:
1) Set your iPod on shuffle.
2) Answer the following questions with the song titles.
3) No skipping!

How does the world see you?
How To Save a Life-The Fray (I am touched!)

Will I have a happy life?
I Need You All The Time-Blackhawk (apparently I am co-dependent or a stalker)

What do my friends really think of me?
Chiquita-ABBA

How can I make myself happy?
You Could Be Mine-Guns and Roses (I think this means that I need to shop!)

What should I do with my life?
Make Her Fall In Love With Me Song-George Strait (this is very unclear!)

Will I ever have children?
Maybe We Should Just Sleep On It-George Strait (open to interpretation-I’m thinking it means no!)

What is some good advice for me?
Ding Dong Merrily On High-Enoch Train (Don’t Worry Be Happy? or else I’m crazy)

How will I be remembered?
Living In America-James Brown (that is reassuring)

What is my signature dancing song?
Multiple Jacks-Pirates of the Carribbean 3 (I guess I am a mover and shaker)

What do I think my current theme song is?
It That Was A Lie-Blackhawk (absolutely no idea here!)

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Pretty Women-Sweeny Todd (Thanks I think!)

What song will play at my funeral?
Tequila Loves Me-Kenny Chesney (Ok that is pretty funny!)

What type of men/women do you like?
Away in a Manger-Betty Raymond ( think that means I like babies)

What is my day going to be like?
Little Wonders-Rob Thomas (ok on a purely spiritual level I think that is good right?)

Smorgasborg Saturday

So because there are many things that today can be I decided that it will be Smorgasborg Saturday and then write a few different thoughts on a few different Saturday musings.

My sister Suzanna suggested Saturday should be Sucky Saturday and that we get to complain about something so in honor of that but not to wallow in my pile of self pity here is my one sentence complaint for this morning.
I want my neck to stop hurting!!!
Now I allow any of you reading this to write one sentence-not one page or paragraph-but one sentence of complaint and then we will cheerfully move on to the other ideas I have for Saturday.

My next thought is Survival Saturday. Here is where we write about something that we have done this week to get prepared. That could be anything from purchasing something for our 72 hour kits or food storage, using some of our food storage in an attempt to rotate, finding a new recipe that we can use our food storage in, or learning a new trick or technique for preparedness. If we have not done any of these things then I think even if we have thought about any of these or read other blogs about food storage and preparedness then it counts. Maybe this will stimulate my brain into thinking about this stuff more because I know that I want to write about it on Saturday. This is what we have done this week in part because of the horrendous outcome of the election and because we try and do it anyway.
1. I used my food storage at least twice-now when I say food storage I am talking about the big #10 cans and not just the cans of spaghettios and boxes of cereal in my pantry. I made chicken and rice with my #10 can of rice and I made pumpkin wheat blender pancakes with whole wheat.
2. I looked into purchasing another freezer. We have the big stand up one and an extra fridge outside in the garage but I want the big deep freezer so I can have like a case of butter and those big 25# bags of flour and stuff like that that is hard to store in the upright freezer.
3. We are looking into getting more guns and ammo-should I write about that? With the way things look it may turnout that most of us will be unable to afford guns and ammo in the coming months because they will be taxed so high. BTW-When Don looked on the Cabella's website they were running low if not out of alot of ammo. Hey I have been gathering all this food storage and I dang well better be able to protect it. That's all I have to say about that.

The last part of Saturday's post is called Service Saturday. Here is where I want to remember service that has been done for me and what I have done this week to serve others, what I have seen others do for service or ideas for service especially with the holidays coming up.

There have been many people who have given service to me or my family so I will have to be write about just one at a time and this is not neccesarily in order of importance-just thoughts that come readily to mind. Now that I want to have this post then I can try and remember better and pay more attention.

I remember when I had my gallbladder out that my grandma came down and stayed for about a week to help out with the kids and the house and stuff. It was September of 2000 and Caleb was only 15 months old, Connor was almost 3 and Cody was in 2nd grade. My mom had to work and couldn't come so she sent my grandma instead. Mawmaw would get up every morning and send Don off to work with a hot breakfast. She would iron his work pants for him after she washed them. She then made breakfast again for my kids and got Cody off to school. When she made dinner and I did not feel like eating what she was making she would make me something different-usually grits but one night she made the family BBQ chicken and I did not really want that so she made me fried chicken instead. My mawmaw is awesome-she is always busy and doing something-whether that is cooking or sewing or knitting or making Christmas stockings for the kids, grandkids and spouses, and the great-grandkids. I can't even imagine how many stockings she has made over the years. She has even made some of us 2 of them because like mine that she made me 30 years ago is tearing up and I don't want it to get destroyed. Mawmaw still works at the MTC and goes down to the cannery at least once a week to dry can food storage. Mawmaw is amazing and my "Saturday Service Spotlight"-hah I just came up with another name!

What have I done for service this week?
I took flowers to a sick friend, took dinner into a woman who had surgery, and tomorrow I am subbing for Primary.
Family service for the week-my boys and husband are all around the corner at a older couple's home picking pomegranates for them. Don went on a campout with Connor's troop last night-major service in my opinion because I do not enjoy camping!

So now all of you blog-hoppers pick one or all of these ideas and post them for yourself or for all of us to read! Happy Saturday

One more thought-tomorrow will be Spiritual Sunday-here is where I want to remember the promptings and feelings of the spirit, something new or something I learned more profoundly this week, thoughts on scriptures or conference talks or Sunday lessons or Sacrament meeting. This may turn into a private post on my other blog-the one that is private-but I think that depending on what I write I can atleast post a spiritual thought for the week or something like that. You can too!:)

Flashback Friday

Most of my photo albums are in totes in preparation for the big move that never happened so in honor of Flashback Friday I grabbed the top photo album out of the box and started flipping pages. This album was actually from 2005 but this photo of Caleb for whatever reason was in it and in the wrong place. So because one of these things is not like the others I will use this picture today. Be very afraid for next week when I try and find some pics of me or Don from many moons ago.

This pic of Caleb is from October of 2000. He is 2 years and 4 months old. I love that little smile! If you can see the scratches on his face they are courtesy of Connor who constantly had to be digging or scratching someone and since Caleb was the slowest he usually was the recipient of said assault. I think that there are lots of pictures where Caleb has battle wounds. I guess it is just rewards that Caleb has gotten to be so much bigger than Connor. I love looking at pictures of my kids when they were little-they were so darn cute even though I was a walking zombie because no one ever slept through the night-ok Cayden started sleeping through the night when he was 2 months old because he found his thumb. This helpful habit is costing us thousands in Ortho care for Cayden but I will gladly pay for it as there were many nights of blissful sleep to the squeaky wet sounds of baby thumb thucky.

Thankful Thursday

I think my plan with this post is to just write about one thing that I am thankful for in detail as opposed to just listing what I am thankful for. I have been thinking all morning what I am thankful for today-of course there are many things but hopefully since this will be a weekly post I won't run out of things to be thankful for.
I am thankful for my husband.
My husband is such a great man. He always puts my needs first no matter what. I am so glad that he is in town this week. He drove me to my procedure yesterday and babied me all day after that. He made dinner last night and brought me dinner in bed. He played chauffeur to the kids last night and tried to keep them out of my hair so I could rest. He tries really hard to see that I don't overwork myself and he will help with the housework. Before he goes on trips he tries to get as much laundry done for me as he can so that I have one less thing to do while he is gone. He is very considerate of my feelings and always says that he is having a good day if I am having a good day. He works hard and is always trying to do more and be more so that he can show his value to the company so that he will be last on the list of layoffs. He takes his role very seriously as provider for our family and has always done his best so that I can stay home with the kids. He is always concerned for my comfort. If I am not feeling well he wants me to go and lay down so that I can feel better. He has no problem babying me which I suck up most days and let him when he is home. He is a very thoughtful and generous person. He would give the shirt off his back to anyone in need and is willing to go in the hole to help others. He does not complain-that is my job and he is always a glass half full kind of person. He is much more patient than I am with people in general and with the kids. He likes to play around with the boys and is a great dad. I could go on and on I'm sure but will stop now. I am always grateful for him and I thank Heavenly Father every day that he is my husband.

Wish Wednesday

I should have posted this yesterday but I had to go and get more injections in my neck and really did not feel like typing so here it is.

I really wish that I did not feel so guilty about leaving my kids and going and doing things on my own or for my self. Case in point-I just can not miss a Mayday. Every year I want to go to Women's Conference at BYU but every year it falls over Mayday. I know lots of ladies who have no problem going but I just can't miss my kids doing their dances and stuff. My husband assures me every year that all will be well and to just go but I can't do it. My anxiety riddled brain tells me that the one year that I do go will be the year that my kids will be telling their therapists about in 10 years. Don and I always talk about going on vacation together but we just never do it. I feel guilty leaving my kids and when we have gone on trips in the past I have been a nervous wreck and have no fun getting to our destination. I am great once we are there but getting there is hard to do. Even to go to Vegas and spend the night is hard for me to do. It's not that I think my kids will not be taken care of or that something will happen to them or us-ok that is a lie I do worry about something happening to them or us but that is not guilt but pure anxiety-I'll discuss that in another Wish Wednesday post. I even have issues with not being home when they get home from school. If I have to go to Vegas or something then I try and make sure that I am home by 3:30 when they get off the bus. If there are days that I can't make it home by the time that they come home I make sure that for the next few weeks I am home every day when they get here. I also have serious guilt issues about being a crappy mother. Most days I would not get the award for Mother of the Year. Forget about college or missions-my kids need a savings account just to pay for their future therapy appointments. I really hope that they have selective memory and remember that I was at every Mayday Dance and school program they ever did. That I was the room mother for at least one of them every year and that I brought in really creative treats to their classrooms if I could not actually be in their rooms playing games with their classes. Hopefully when all is tallied up and measured the scales will tip in my favor just enough to get me into the celestial kingdom and my kids will say "we did not doubt our mother knew it".

Tag Tuesday

I have not done this one before so here it is. I have had a few suggestions about the Wednesday and Saturday posts. Wednesday is Wish Wednesday-thanks Lori and Saturday is Sucky Saturday-thanks Suzanna. Sucky Saturday may not be implemented all the time as that would defeat the purpose of Thankful Thursday but I am sure that it will come in handy.

Crazy 8 Tag

8 TV shows that I watch:
1. Good Eats
2. Cold Case
3. NCIS
4. 3rd Rock from the Sun reruns (hilarious by the way)
5. Law and Order Criminal Intent
6. Life
7. Psych
8. 24

8 Things that I did yesterday:
1. Loads and loads of laundry
2. Made banana bread
3. Made Apple Crisp
4. Took dinner to a sick lady in the ward
5. FHE
6. Mopped my floors
7. Blogged
8. Only ate one piece of Halloween candy

8 Places I Love to Eat
1. Texas Road House
2. Red Robin
3. Sonic
4. Chang’s
5. Cheesecake Factory
6. Ruby Tuesday
7. Chic Fil A
8. Apollo Burger

8 Things that I am looking forward to
1. Don coming home
2. My neck not hurting
3. My new nephew
4. Colder weather
5. Thanksgiving
6. Christmas
7. Twilight Movie
8. Christmas food

8 things on my wish list
1. Peace on Earth
2. John McCain for President-lesser of 2 evils
3. A Jag
4. Lose 10 pounds
5. No house payment
6. Rain
7. A Big Diamond
8. A trip to the Caribbean

8 people I Tag
1. Mom
2. Suzanna
3. Anne
4. Cydnee
5. Serena
6. Lori
7. Tara
8. Kati

Memory Monday

So this is my new idea. Each Monday-if I can remember I want to post a memory that I have of holidays or events or something like that. You can copy me if you want! :) My friend Serena wanted us to start this sort of thing like last year but write out our memory and then print it out and put it in a binder so it would be a journal. She would give us monthly prompts and so now I guess I will finally do it now that she has moved far far away. This will be different from Flashback Friday because there will not be any pictures because that is just way too time consuming for a Monday.

Halloween Memory
A memory that I have of Halloween is when I was about 11 I think. We still lived in Lindon and my parents allowed me and a group of girls to go trick or treating all by ourselves. We were out a long time and we walked around our block and then up the road to the yellow church and back along the canyon road where Mark Nixon lived. Then back down the north road that took you to the church basically making a square. I think I was with Wendy, Raylene, Hollie and Lori. I was dressed up as a punk. I had big huge earrings-it was the 80's go figure!-and as many necklaces that I could find. I also had a pair of pink sunglasses on a pink lace around my neck that we had gotten when we were in Tijuana during the summer. Somewhere along our route I lost those glasses and I was so bummed! I remember that it was cold-like usual in Utah on Halloween. I also remember that there was at least one group of rotten boys that ran around trying to steal candy. I think that someone in our group got their pillowcase ripped out of their hands and stolen. Maybe I am confusing that with something else although I do remember that my brother Chris did get his candy stolen on Mawmaw's street one year when he was little. I told Don about that and he said it was a good thing that he was not there because he probably would not have come home until he had hunted down those dirty rotten jerks and beat them to death with the bucket full of candy. I have a few other memories of Halloween that include parties at friend's houses. One was a Kathryn Grigg's house where we watched Watcher in the Woods-this is consequently why I hunted high and low and even drove to St. George to get that movie from Hollywood Video for Cody and his party Saturday night. Remind me not to have a houseful of kids and let them watch a scary movie. The screaming started before we even hit play. Another party I went to one Halloween was at Allison Green's where Danny Redd drank a raw egg out of a glass and puked!

Don wanted me to put this in the other blog from Saturday but I forgot so here it is.

My memory from this Halloween is that Cayden practically electrocuted me with Halloween lights. I had asked Cody to get out the Halloween lights to make sure that they worked so that we could take them for our trunk. Well there was a set that was broken that had broken bulbs with the wires sticking out that he left on the floor. Just as I was picking that bunch up Cayden plugged them in. My wedding ring must have touched the exposed part of the light and I let out a blood curdling scream as the current pulsed through my hand. Don came running, Cody even got off the phone and came running and Cayden's lip started to quiver while I shook my hand to get the circulation to start again. I do not think that I want to expereience a Ben Franklin ever
again nor will I commit some heinous crime that necessitates the use of the electric chair to be the cause of my demise.

My next thought is Thankful Thursday throughout the month of November-or maybe all the time just because we should be grateful. Now you can think about your Thankful Thursday Thought too and post it. Ya know that there could be a whole week of different things if I wanted to get really crazy-Memory Monday, Tag Tuesday, can't think of anything for Wednesday, Thankful Thursday, Flashback Friday hmmm what for Saturday?