It All Happened at Once.

It all happened at once....

I was cooking lunch, grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup to be exact. Kade was on a stool diligently putting away the silverware and Elijah was quietly playing on the kitchen floor. The other two children were finishing up school. Time has been on my side today. Everything running quite smoothly. Especially for the late hour that I drug myself out of bed.

I suddenly realized that the silverware was no longer clanging. I turned around from grilling my grilled cheese to see Kade holding a piece of silverware suspended in the air, looking at the floor, and dry heaving over and over. I looked down. Elijah had scooted on his bottom across the kitchen floor leaving a trail of bright yellow stinky poop that was squishing out of his diaper. "Ahhh, what to do first," I thought. Kade needed to get OUT of the kitchen or I was going to have TWO messes to clean up. He couldn't though, because the "yellow trail" went the entire length of the kitchen. (That little guy is fast!) He would surely throw up if he tried to step over it, especially at the rate his dry heaving was coming now. I quickly picked him up, told him to close his eyes, and deposited him in the other room.

I came back to find Elijah still scooting around in the kitchen making matters worse. I started to change him and realized that a bath was definitely a nessecity. I stuck him in the tub,  (He was super happy with these turn of events, as he loves baths.) got him cleaned up and dressed, and put him far away from the kitchen. When I finally got the whole mess cleaned up, I noticed to my dismay that my stove was still ON!! (Don't tell Dan.) In the confusion I had forgotten to turn it off. I guess on the bright side, if the house had burned down I wouldn't have had to clean up the mess on the floor......

I do LOVE my every day life.

Election Day

Soooo, it's been awhile since I've written. Mainly because I've been sickly. When you don't feel well, everything goes. I didn't blog, clean house, make dinner, do laundry, or anything else I'm supposed to do. My family did a good job of keeping up with what they could. Now that I'm better (praise God!) I am trying to catch up on everything I didn't do.

 Does one ever really catch up?? Every time I do laundy, SOMEONE in my family wears clothes AGAIN! Every time I do the dishes, SOMEONE is HUNGRY!! Every time I clean the bathroom, SOMEONE has to GO!!

Election Day was yesterday. I consider it my duty to teach my children how our country, and the election process works. I thought of  leaving the kids with my mom while I went to vote, but decided it was important for them to see how voting works. So, I took all four of them with me (during school hours, of course) into our local city hall. Now, we live in a town of about 850, out of which 825 are over the age of 60. So we are an oddity no matter what time of day we choose to go vote. I was proud of the kids. They were very well behaved and took everything in while quietly looking on.

 It was later on that  I found out what Rylie was thinking about. She said to me, "Mom, did you peek at the ballot of the guy sitting next to you to see who he picked?" I told her, "Of course not! People don't want you to see who they voted for." She said, " I would have peeked, I can't help it." 
I guess it's a good thing she's not 18 yet.....

I do hope my kids learned something this year about the election process in America. Mostly though, I hope they understand that we live in the GREATEST country in the world, and grow up to be citizens proud to be Americans. It is with that pride that will come responsibility to keep our nation great.