Fun, Interesting Day

Today has been a fun and interesting day.  I woke up to Maverick peaking his head in my room.  Moments later he walked in with a tray.  He said he thought I would like the raisin cereal and some string cheese.  He then waltzed in with a DP from yesterday that I put in the fridge already opened.  What a sweetheart.  This boy has a heart of gold.










The kids decided that they were going to head over to the Bean's new house to wait for them until they got there.

Next we went to lunch with family to celebrate the Beans buying the house across the street from us!!  Dale, the man that used to live there, got a girlfriend and decided to live at her place.  The house is in terrible shape, but it is here in beautiful Benson.  Hours after the closing Andrew and Bean were already in the basement knocking down walls.
When we got home from lunch we spent a little more time at the house looking at things.  Brynlee came over to the new (old) house in tears with a scratch on her cheek.  Turns out Harley, our horse bit her!  I'm sure it wasn't malicious, but he got her good, it was heartbreaking.  Lizzy followed behind with Easton who had clearly had a blowout and left remnants all over her arm.  I gingerly carried Easton back to the house trying to avoid getting a mess all over me, while Carillisa carried Brynlee.  Gratefully Carillisa was there to help Brynlee and get her bandaids and love while I cleaned the worst diaper he has ever had.  I carefully pulled off Easton's clothes and carried him, dangling by his arms, straight to the tub.  The diaper was sent straight to the outside bin and rinsed with two rounds of bathwater to get clean. (GAG!)  Fabreeze and open windows were needed to take care of the smell.  Once that was taken care of, I cuddled with Brynlee who was still sore.

The Beans headed back to Spanish Fork after some planning and thinking about the house.  They plan to be back next week with tools.  We started thinking about some plans of our own and needed to make dinner.  After making omelets and toast Lizzy complained, for the second time today, that her toast tasted like cinnamon.  I made the toast so I didn't see how it could.  Mine tasted fine, but I took a bite of hers anyway.  Holy moly, the cinnamon powder that I expected she was talking about wasn't what I tasted.  Cinnamon oil.  Hot hot hot.  It was a brand new loaf of bread and a clean plate so I knew it wasn't that....the butter.  I found the oil on the shelf right above the butter plate.  Maverick's face gave away his guilt immediately.  Why....we still don't know, but he got to eat Lizzy's toast as a punishment and he learned exactly why you shouldn't put cinnamon oil on butter.

It has been more adventure than typical, it'll be one of those days we can look back on and laugh.

Fun Day as a Mom

Today I spent the day off, for Martin Luther King Day.  Andrew was working, so I was home with the kids.  I had to get after the kids for a few things, but I felt like I handled them better than usual.  Brynlee stabbed Maverick with a pencil for bothering her while he cleaned.  She is also the queen of stashing things around the house.  When you ask her to put something away, she tend to just put it somewhere else, but not away.  After a spanking for Maverick I asked her how she felt and why.  She said she was sad for getting a spanking.  I was careful to explain that she should feel bad because she hurt Maverick, not because she got in trouble.  It shed a good light on the situation and parenting in general for me.  I need to make sure that my reprimands are meeting the goal which is to correct the behavior, not for her to fear me or be afraid of getting caught, but to want to be good.

I have been working on eating less sugar and more healthy as part of a plan to improve my anxiety and endometriosis.  Maverick has really picked up on this and made a lot of healthy choices in his eating.  Every time he picks something that he thinks is healthy he wants me to feel his muscles to see how strong he was. He got on the rowing machine and pulled it back a few times.  Ha ha ha he punched the tile floor.  Trying to hide a wince he told me that just like the Hulk it didn't bother him because he was so strong.  So funny.

Grandma Shaw got Brynlee a gift card to get a movie. This is the movie she picked ha ha....I made a different suggestion for her. 

Lizzy made smoothies for dinner.  She has been pretty good about following recipes and making things from her cookbook.  She was supposed to add a few chocolate chips as a garnish.  1 1/2 tablespoons.  Well....she added 1 1/2 cups....it was a bit sweet.  It was actually still not bad if you thought of it as a dessert.

Easton and Brynlee are officially a year older, they are so cute.  Easton is starting to show his personality and we have had to teach him "no".  He responds usually with a smile, tests again, smiles, and luckily we are seeing that he is learning it. :D  Brynlee is full of spunk and personality.  She is always laughing and happy.  We ask her to do things and she very optimistically says "sure".  It's the best, I want it to last the rest of her life.  

Life is good.  Teaching is good, but I have a big class that makes it harder.  I wish it was smaller, but I love all the kids, it's hard to wish for a smaller class when you know if you had one, you would miss out on some of the kids.