My Dream House

I really really want to move and live here!

Tagged

Okay Coralee I'll play, but you will surely be disappointed by my responses. :)

8 Favorite TV Shows

Cosby Show
The Dog Whisperer
Dirty Jobs
Curious George (Alyssa's breathing treatment show)
House Hunters
Deliver Me
Medical Channel shows
Animal Planet shows

8 Favorite Restaurants

Otovios
Olive Garden
Fazoli's
Bajios
Cheesecake Factory
Chuck-a-rama
Brick Oven
Wendy's (Does this count as a restaurant?)
(I can't think of any others. We don't go out much.)

8 Things that happened yesterday

I cleaned the kitchen (Thursday chore)
I took a nap
I read up to Esther in the O.T.
I did school with Emmie and speech with ALyssa
I read Anne's House of Dreams while I exercised
We went to Cabelas
We went to Brick Oven to celebrate Emmie's birthday (she had a free meal)
I went to a Pampered Chef party

8 Things to Look forward to

When the kids go to bed
Thanksgiving
Christmas shopping if we can get a babysitter
The first big big snow storm
Dinner being done and cleaned up
Reaching my goal weight
Alan being done with CSB (his consulting job)
Alan helping me paint the family room after the above

8 Things on my wish list

A new pot for bottling
Healthy children
Less expensive asthma medication
A live-in physicion if #2 isn't possible
A chance to go to the temple
Another book case to house all these books
Another baby or two
A Disneyland vacation for the girls

Lastly, I'm not tagging 8 people because I don't want to so there. I would like to hear what my siblings and Mom would write though.

she's cute but...

Wanted: One short vacation from being a mom with a stubborn 2 year old.
OR
Wanted: One nanny to potty-train my stubborn 2 year old.

A hiding place

Today I ran away. Seriously. I found the perfect hiding place which I am not revealing.

List II

I admit I'm list-obsessed. I did everything on my last list, even adding to it the making of play dough for Sarah's class and going to Walmart. Walmart wasn't supposed to be on the list but since I was going to my mom's house to get the ladder to change the bulb in the living room it just made sense. Besides the ladder I needed her artistic supplies because Sarah's reflection entry won and frames are not allowed. Hers had a frame. Her piece was done in pastels so it needed to be sprayed with some sort of protection stuff and covered in a clear plastic. Which brings me to the next point.

Walmart. I make a "grocery/household goods needed" list and then take it with me to Walmart. Usually I remember to bring it from the car into the store, but not always. Then I shop and get the things on my list. Unfortunately I usually get more than the things on the list because of good deals and sales. I don't mind that though. Then I come home and sadly before the day is over I have already started a new list for the things I forgot to put on the original list in the first place. This aggravates me. How is it that Alan used up all the Elmers glue at scouts and didn't write it on the list? How did I not notice that we were almost out of Malt-o-Meal and there wasn't any in the food storage room? How is it even possible that we are out of Cheerios!?

List

I can't think of a good post so I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I love lists. I like to check things off and I think that makes me task oriented. Anyway, my list for today is:

Clean bathrooms
Vacuum living and family rooms
Run air-purifier
Polish furniture
Do school, and speech with little girls
Exercise at least 1 hour
Replace burned out lights
Think of something to make for dinner and make it
Call Shelly and Satomi and remind about VT tonight
Try really hard to be disciplined and not eat candy

Alyssa

Today was the second time Lori, Alyssa's speech therapist, has come to work with Alyssa. Alyssa has been diagnosed with apraxia (yea, I'd never heard of it either) and today Lori was amazed by the progress Alyssa had made. She has learned how to put a "d", "p", and "m" on the end of words although this doesn't transfer to regular talking for her yet. I was most pleased that Lori was stunned when she went to work with her on several other letter sounds that Alyssa hadn't been able to say and was able to say today. She is hopeful that at this rate Alyssa will be right on target by kindergarten, talking like a normal 5 year old. This makes me very happy since talking right is essential to reading and spelling. We will keep on working. Alyssa has been great and hasn't shown any signs of frustration or discouragement so we'll just keep on doing what we've been doing. The other side of this is that I am learning a lot about speech and teaching it to little ones. Maybe I should go back and get a degree in speech therapy.