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“Blogging is not writing. Blogging is graffiti with punctuation.”

Love this blogging description! Now if only I could get some more blogging done!

Ode to Cindy's Blog

My friend Cindy is a fabulous blogger. You can visit her blog here. She has an amazing perspective on life. She has overcome one of the most devastating tragedies imaginable...the loss of her husband. A person of such outstanding character that words can't really describe the stellar man that he was. How do you overcome a loss such as this? I'm not sure. I suppose we would each deal with it in our own way. I do know that when hardships surface in my life, I think of Cindy and the strength and grace in which she has handled the knocks life has given her. Through all of this she has shared her experiences on her blog.
Through Cindy's blog I often find myself tearing up over the thought of what is lost and cannot be. I find hope that with God's help and tender mercies anything is possible and we are not alone. I laugh a lot. Hysterically. Mostly due to the ridiculous things that her kids are often doing. Or not doing. I learn how to be a better person by the kind acts that are performed by and for Cindy's family. It truly is inspiring.
Thank you Cindy. Thank you for sharing your life with me. You are always in my thoughts and prayers. I love you!

Tyli Tales

I use to be so good about writing down the funny things that the girls said. After all, that is one of the best parts of parenting...when our kids make us laugh. Ty has been on a roll lately! She is hilarious from one minute to the next. I had better write down some of these things that she has been doing and saying before I forget how cute she is, especially during her next tantrum. :)

One thing she loves to do is write. She will write down a bunch of random letters as if she is writing a story. Then she will come and ask me what it says. Usually I make up something about how much she loves me or how I'm the best mom in the whole world. You know, true stuff! Lately she isn't buying it. She wants to know what she is REALLY writing. So I do the best I can and say the letters sounds in order they are written. After doing this the other day she exclaims, "It's Spanish! I didn't know I could write in Spanish!"

So my stomach is getting bigger...you know, because I'm growing a person. Well sweet Tyli is good to look past that and see my positive features. The other day she told me. "Mom, you're legs are really skinny!" If I can't have a skinny stomach I'll take skinny legs! I started going on and on about how that was the nicest thing she ever said to me and thank you so much and I'll buy you whatever toy you want. You know, the usual after a much needed compliment. Unfortunately, the glee was short lived as she went on to ask..."So what is skinny anyways?"

Tyli has just recently learned to buckle her seatbelt. She was trying to teach her friend who doesn't know how to buckle up what to do. Her friend was saying that she doesn't know how to buckle a seatbelt by herself. Ty said, "Don't worry! The Holy Ghost taught me how to buckle my seatbelt!"

Today she said, "Mom, I bess-youd all over my dress." Huh? "I bless-youd all over my dress." I look at her dress and see little wet spots. "Did you sneeze on your dress." Yep! That's exactly what happened.

One day she came and informed me that her hand had passed out but not to worry because she was going to be ok!

Last, but not least, is Tyli's haircutting fiasco!! Tyli for some reason decided to give herself a haircut and the neighbor's little girl. For someone who loves her hair and a mother who loves to do beautiful long hair it was quite the tragedy! Five years of hairgrowing gone in a quick few snips. I never thought I'd live to see the day, especially from Tyli who prides herself on looking like Rapunzel. I've think we've advanced to a point where we can laugh at it (minus the five minutes every morning when I am doing her hair in the same hairdo day after day and I am always able to remind Tyli to NEVER CUT HER HAIR again.) But honestly, wouldn't you be a little heart broken too if you had this....

and this....

and this...

And now I have this...
Don't get me wrong. LOVE the little girl. Just miss the hair. But for a four year old she sure can do the rocker's hair do like no one else!

But Ty's funny, witty personality hasn't changed a bit! She makes me laugh every single day! I love this little girl!

House Cleaning Conversation

I overheard the funniest conversation of my daughter and my friends. I am sure it it one of those things that might only be funny to me, or a "had to be there" type of thing. But I'm still laughing about it so I had to write this one down.

So we have never had house cleaners. Why would we? It's obviously such a talent for me. ;) However, I found a deal on the internet that could NOT be passed up. I scheduled the date and counted down until I might actually have a clean house. Unfortunately, we had a mix up on when the cleaners were coming and they arrived several hours before I was expecting them. My house was full of kids and toys were still covering all of the floors of the toys rooms. I enlisted Madi and her friends to help, bribing them with a snow cone when they were done. The jumped on it.

So as they were cleaning this is the conversation that I heard.

Someone asked Madi, "So why do you have house cleaners coming?"
Madi responded, "Our house is just WAY too messy!"
Macie says, "Well, my mom doesn't want to get a house cleaner because she likes to do it herself."
Brynn says, "My mom doesn't want to get a house cleaner because she likes to make me and my brother do everything!

I had to pass the info along to the other moms!

Can I just say that house cleaners are freaking awesome!! What takes me two days, took two hours. It was beautiful. Now, how to make that happen every month...

I Spy...

So I opened my kitchen drawer and realized that it looked just like a page out of an eye spy book.

Can you find...
A dominoe
a princess
a paintset
a pair of scissors

Ok... I guess I should clean it out.

Now, if the rest of my house could be this organized.