I...

i am: Dawn Kelly
i think: I am tired!
i know: alot of stuff!
i want: to never have to do laundry again!
i have: 3 children.
i wish: i were already done with school.
i hate: onions.
i miss: my friends that move away.
i fear: death of anyone close to me.
i feel: mostly tired.
i hear: Law and Order.
i smell: fabric softner from all the laundry I did today.
i crave: diet cherry pepsi
i search: google!
i wonder: what time Jayden is going to wake up tonight.
i regret: a couple of things.
i love: my husband, my children, my friends, my family
i care: about several things.
i always: procrastinate
i am not: organized.
i believe: in miracles!
i dance: not very often!
i sing: only at church on Sunday.
i don’t always: think things through.
i fight: with my kids over their fighting...ironic.
i write: by blogging.
i win: where? what did I win? I'm UNLUCKY!
i lose: everything!
i never: say never, that's a dangerous word!
i listen: to whatever I'm in the mood to listen to.
i can usually be found: at home, we share our car! LOL
i am scared: of escalators!
i need: to finish packing for vacation!
i am happy about: most things, I'm generally happy tonight.
ok... now its your turn... tell me about you!

I will go out and preach the....Yugioh?

Last night we had a Family Home Evening on missionary work. Well, let me go back, it all started on Sunday, at church. Most LDS wards are on the same lesson, so as you know, the lesson on Sunday in Relief Society was on missionary work. We have 1-4 church so when church is over we grab dinner from the crock pot and eat fairly quickly upon arriving at home. Thus, much of our dinner conversation is, "what did you learn in class today?"

Justin: I like Sister Seaney, I like getting candy on Sunday. Is it fast Sunday next Sunday because we don't get candy on Fast Sunday.

Jakey: I am not sure, my teacher was back though. I played with....(some story goes here about some boy standing on a chair, I zoned out, my bad!)

Kevin: I don't know....I had the baby.

Me: It was on missionary work. Blogging and missionary work. :)

There is a benefit to having a RS presidency calling. I actually get to hear the lesson. My mom got called into nursery and she wasn't at church this past Sunday but I don't know if I'm ready to send Jayden in there. For now we're sending her to Elder's Quorum. None of them bite. :)

Back to missionary work. This lead to a short conversation about missionary work. Basically Justin asking if Kevin or I had gone on missions and why not. Dinner ended because Jayden finally managed to get ahold of the spoon I was weilding and flung sweet potato chicken at everyone around the table. Spiritual moment over.

Me being the slacker mom I am and procrastinator, just went with missionary work for FHE rather than plan something else. We started our discussion by asking Justin what he thinks missionaries do.

"They eat dinner at other people's houses."

"They wear suits on days other than Sunday."

and..."They don't watch TV for two. whole. years."

Jakey's answers were more inspired..."They teach people." "They visit the sick." and "They help people."

Ok....

So....

What will YOU, my two little future missionaries, be doing when YOU are on YOUR mission?

Justin: "I'm going to teach people to play Yugioh."

WHAT?!?! We all said, "you mean the Gospel?" Nope. He means Yugioh. We discussed how Yugioh is a nice game and all but Heavenly Father would really like missionaries to spread the gospel. So far, he's not having it. He wants to spread the RPG (Role Playing Game.)

This reminds me of what Jakey used to think about Kindergarten. For a year before Jakey started Kindergarten we'd ask him, "What are they going to teach you in Kindergarten?" and he would say, "How to cross the monkey bars!" The first week of school came and instead of learning his letters and how to write his name, Jakey could hardly hold a pencil because his hands were so blistered from trying to cross the monkey bars. Within a few weeks he conquered the monkey bars and proudly announced..."I learned how to cross the monkey bars in Kindergarten!"

Hair today....gone tomorrow...

Our little ragamuffin's hair was getting out of control, and she's not so found of me putting it up and playing with it...so today Jayden got her very first haircut! She's napping now, when she gets up I'll get an "after" shot.

(Those pictures were taken when J was sick, she's drinking apple flavored pedialite in one and has a tiny bit of a runny nose in the other and has ripped clips out of her hair in both.)

How Do You Know?

How do you know that you're done having children?

I had my annual GYN appt yesterday and after a lot of conversation with my doctor we've decided to go ahead with having a lap to look at my endometriosis. He can likely surgically remove it but, another option is Novasure. If I were to have the Novasure done I would have to permanently end my fertility.

Ending my fertility is not something I take lightly at all. I have a whole new appreciation for the miracle of being able to have a baby after what we went through to get Jayden.

On the other hand...are we really going to ever have more babies? Jakey is almost 9. I wouldn't consider having another child until I finish school, so 4 more years...that makes him 13. That means that any baby (that by some HUGE miracle I got pg right away) that I had would be 18 when Jakey is 31! That means when Jakey goes on his mission, that child would only be 6. I don't think I really want kids that far apart.

Plus Kevin and I started our family YOUNG. Eventually it would be nice to have our children grown and be able to have the couple time we missed out on.

So, I don't know. Kevin is not thrilled with the endo, or the treatment, or the lap...but could easily shout from the rooftops over the idea of never having another child again. He's VERY sure he doesn't really want another. He knows that if I did have the fertility, he'd likely change his mind in 4 years, but then we have to deal with all that I posted above. So yeah.

Anyhow, big decisions. Alot of prayer. Alot of soul searching to do. I have my pre-op appt on August 4th.

I'm just wondering how in the world people know they are done...I don't think I have that feeling. I'm very content with my family. I could easily get on board with no more sleepless nights after Jayden is grown. But never having another baby kick me from within? Never breastfeeding a newborn again? I don't know...

Aha! I FOUND IT!

The missing cord has been located and now I will bog down my blog with pictures and videos...prepare to be amazed by my gorgeous kiddos...hahahaha!



Jayden LOVES Clifford The Big Red Dog, she dances to the opening song whenever it comes on, it totally cracks me up. She also waves "bye bye" she says "die die" when she does it too LOL.



Is it time to babyproof our house???



Every evening we've been taking the kids out front to play in the sprinklers, Jayden especially loves this!



Jakey and Justin were playing a game of cards, Jayden cannot stand it when they do things she can't do, so they gave her some old Yugioh cards and she felt very included!



Today at Toys R Us Jayden rode her very first motorized toy thingy...you know the kind you put two (or more!) quarters in...yeah...she was a little worried, mostly that Justin was holding her! LOL



Ok, sorry to anyone who has dialup...this page will be a mess LOL!

Gremlins

Do you remember the movie Gremlins? We had it sent to us from Netflix the other day and yesterday Jakey and I sat down to watch it...it's rated PG and even though it's genre is Horror I explained to him it's cheesy but kinda scary...he said ok. Anyhow, he did jump in parts but we laughed SO HARD. It was HILARIOUS.

When Jakey went to bed last night instead of being afraid of a scary movie he said, "Bright light, Mogwai!" and we all started laughing again. I love some of the 80's movies! We're getting Adventures in Babysitting next week!

Final Grade

I got an A and a B for my two classes this summer! I'm so happy! Of course my A was a 92% and my B was a 94% and I find that REALLY odd, but what can ya do...Onto fall semester! I'm taking 12 units this fall, whereas this summer I only took 7 so I have a feeling I'm in for another rough semester until I get used to budgeting my time between classes. I'll probably not be such a great bloggy friend this fall too.

Ok, now onto my quest for the day - FIND THE CAMERA CORD. I have to SHOW you all how big and cute Jayden Face is getting!

My Little Diva

This morning I was sitting here with Jayden and she crawled over and got my empty Diet Pepsi can off the table (she pulls up now, isn't it fun??!!) and started playing with it. I had to take it away because the little opening could cut her finger. So I took it from her and she SCREAMED like "ARGH!" at me and then this look crossed her face like "oh I know what I can do!" and then she reached up, grabbed the bow in her hair, and threw in on the floor and snarled at me like "ha! I'll show you!"

Wow. No one told me what an attitude an 8 month old girl could have! I shudder to think of her with wonky teenage hormones. Yikes!

School's Out For Summer!

Well, it's done! I took my final yesterday for English and what's done is done! I think I did ok, not fabulous or anything, but good enough to pass English. I wasn't "feelin" the topic. The article was about Britney Spears and the way the media covers her...bleh. Not something I could really sink my teeth into. I got an A on my big paper I had to do last week! I go to school Thursday morning for a few minutes to find out my final grade in English...hopefully it's at least a B, but I'd REALLY like an A.

Now, I get to stay home today and work on laundry and other housework that needs to be completed and FIND THAT CAMERA CORD! The past few days we've been taking the kids outside in the evenings to play in the sprinklers and eat popsicles and Jayden is a HUGE fan of this family time. She LOVES to crawl on the concrete and run away from the water. She also would really appreciate it if we'd turn our heads and let her eat some of the exciting things on the ground outside! LOL

The other irony of my life is that every morning I had school I had to get up at 5:45 to get ready and none of the kids woke up until I woke them up just in time to leave, so that they had to get dressed and eat at my mom's house. Now I'm done with school and guess who woke up at 5:45? Evil little stinker! Yeah so I won't be disappointed with an early nap from her! Yawn, I'm tired!

Where, O Where, Has My Camera Cord Gone?

The other day I caught the cutest video of Jayden crawling around the house after Jakey as he kept moving a popsicle stick she wanted. It was the first video of her actually crawling on all fours! Later that same day Jayden was sitting at my feet while I was typing up a paper for school when my screen flashed a little warning "USB Device Cannot Be Recognized." I looked down and Jayden had the camera end of my USB cord in her mouth, my computer was trying to read my baby! LOL I quickly removed the cord and put it where she couldn't get it...I hid it...from her and ME!

So just rest assured, I have a cute video somewhere...sometime I will upload it....and it WILL be cute. Of course she may be walking by then...

Right now she's not being so cute though. Right now she's upset because she fell asleep for her morning nap and as I got up to go lay her down Jakey chose THAT moment to ask me a question, waking her up. I decided she still NEEDS this nap. I'm gonna have to go back in there and soothe her again though. If only she wouldn't wake up at 5 am...then she wouldn't NEED a nap at 8 am! Sigh, someday she'll understand the logic of this...

Several Posts Jammed Into One!

So this is my 599th post! Yay! And where have I been? Crazy I tell ya, crazy! This is the last week of instruction, a week from tomorrow I take my English final and I'm done until late August! Yay for me!

* I barely passed a TB test this week...my arm has a big bump on it and it's red still, it's kinda crazy because I've always just had the spot go right away, this time it's staying with me, I had it done 7 days ago! I'm kinda surprised they passed me! It did take a bunch of them conferring to decide I passed though. Interesting, huh?

* While looking at an Ensign today during Sacrament Meeting that had the Prophet and his counselors on the cover Justin says, "Look Mom! The Prophet and the Fossils!" Fossils=Apostles. Hey, I thought it was pretty funny!

* Jayden likes LOUD fireworks. Alot.

* Jayden had a super high fever on the 4th of July and missed out on a pancake breakfast (I stayed home with her) that Jakey's cub scout pack put on. Since there aren't many other children (mine are the only young ones) in Kevin's family, we still took her over to Kevin's grandparents for the 4th, my mom even came over, and the kids had fun with some fireworks.

* My mom got called to be the nursery leader today. She watches Jayden for us 3rd hour because Kevin and I have stuff to do for our callings then, so Jayden's going to nursery. Not this weekend though, Kev stayed home with her just in case her fever isn't related to the two teeth she just popped through. Our bishop is still going through Chemo and missed his last round because he'd caught an illness.

* Kevin took off the 31st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th so he could go to the cabin with us! Our friends David and Yaneth are coming up too! Yay!

Ok here's some random pics...LOL

Doesn't Jakey look THRILLED?



I have some seriously cute kids, even if one of them doesn't want to be in this picture!



My Little Pyro...



And with that, I try to find some motivation to write my paper...or not.

Monday, the most random day of the week!

So much I want to share, so little time!

* I got a 5 of 6 on my English paper from last week! That is like FABULOUS news. My first paper I got a 3, then I got a 4, then I got a 4+, now a 5! I'm taking another essay test tomorrow and hoping for a topic I feel as passionate about. (This was the marriage essay.)

* I made 36 jars of peach freezer jam today. Do 36 jars of freezer jam fit in my freezer? Not so much. Am I a bad Visiting Teacher for waiting until tomorrow to unload some of these on my route so it counts for July?

* Thank GOODNESS tomorrow is payday and grocery delivery day. We're trying out Safeway/Vons delivery of groceries (for free!) and I'm interested to see how this works out for us. I'm kind of tired of Mac 'n cheese, BBQ chicken, and peas...I did a really boring menu plan two weeks ago and I totally regret it. One can only eat so much BBQ meat. Always do your menu planning in an air conditioned place, the heat will make you do crazy things to your grocery list! LOL

* I'm a little over half way done with summer semester - I'm almost there! Then, a nice little break before I start fall! Whew!

Jayden is 8 Months Old Now!

Yeah I know, a picture of her with no bows, in her jammies, food all over her, doing what she does best - be completely independent. The phone rings, you leave food near her, and Jayden helps herself, she is NOT one to wait and be patient, nope, this little girl will just get it herself! When we leave her toys on the couch, what does she do? She scoots right on over there, stands herself up, and plays with her toys while cruising the couch! When she's done with you she tells you "bye bye" by waving her hand at you until you get out of her face! She's dismissive that way! LOL Her other new favorite phrase is "no", she doesn't SAY it, but she shakes her head at you, letting you know in no uncertain terms that you are wrong and she is right so NO she will not do what you said. Exclaiming "yay!" at Jayden will yield you a cute little baby, frantically clapping her hands, "yay!" She LOVES patty-cake and "If You're Happy And You Know It." She's so much fun, and growing WAY too fast for me! She's been out of my belly almost as long as she was in it! Just a few more months and my baby girl will be a year old! She's 2/3's of the way there!

Blog Award!

Linda gave me those blog award! It's been a while since I got one, and when I do get them I am SO BAD about passing them on! LOL So I'm doing it now, before I forget, because I want my bloggin' buddies to know I think they rock! They all make nursing at night so much more fun! LOL

1.) You must post these rules.
2.) You must name 5 blogs worthy of this award based on creativity, design, interesting content, and contribution to the blogging community.
3.) You must list the name of each blog and link to it.
4.) You must link back to the presenter of your award.
5.) You must link back to the original presenter.

First of all, I give this award to Kara, she is so sweet and her boys are totally adorable! She's even having a third little boy which is awesome cause they make totally cute boys! Her middle son (Isn't that weird to think of him as your middle child, Kara?) shares my b-day!

Second I award Natalie, she blogs about the cutest, coolest things in baby/kid trends today! I even won a bow today...and you all know how I feel about bows! LOL Natalie has the cutest little girls and is so a very encouraging friend, she always has a word of encouragment when I'm feeling down or frustrated with something. A little over a year ago she joined the ranks of SAHM-dom and I totally admire her leaving the workforce and all the exceptionally hard work she and her husband put in, in order for her to be able to stay home with their children. She's a fun mommy and total Red Sox Fan!

Next is Lorie, Lorie is totally inspirational, she has lost a remarkable amount of weight through sheer determination and Weight Watchers. Lorie is an amazing cook and has begun to hone her art to being as healthy as possible. She's a hero to me in that she's making her family's eating habits more healthy every day! She also has twins that are a little younger than Justin and I shudder to think of how I would deal with 2 Justin's, Lorie's a hero!

Fourth is Wendy. Wendy I know IRL, she was in my last ward, which as I've proclaimed on my blog a million times over was THE BEST WARD EVER! Wendy is part of the congregation that makes that possible. She's always encouraging and enlightening. Her son is stinkin adorable and she and her husband are the cutest couple! Careful saying their last name, it took me a while to say it right!

And fifth is Christine (Tina) we met on a board for babies due in November 2007, her little girl was born just a few days after Jayden. It's so fun to see Sara grow and to get to know Christine. I think sometimes since our baby board isn't that active, that it's just the two of us talking to eachother most of the time, LOL! She just made a cross-the-world trip to visit her family in Germany, which looks like a GORGEOUS place, last month. In her pre-mommy life she was a teacher and has talked me down from the many times I wanted to strangle an educator in Jakey's schooling career. I also just found out that she and her husband are high school sweethearts, like Kevin and me!

Ok, so there's my 5, you're all awarded, thank you to all my readers and commenters, and bloggin buddies! I'd write up a blurb, and break the rules, if I weren't so darned tired, so I'm heading to bed, consider yourselves all awarded! Night all!

So Ya Wanna Know What I think?

The English class that I am taking involves the final being a Final Essay Examination (FEE) and so we take alot of Practice FEE's during the course. Today we took another PFEE. I somehow think that my teacher might have thought it would be humorous to give me this particular topic to write on, maybe she just wanted to have to read a very long essay, but today's topic was: Should the government put programs into place that strengthen marriage, or provide more programs for single or cohabiting parents? Um. Yeah. I furiously wrote a rough draft that was 8 pages front and back, and then had to edit paragraph upon paragraph out, LOL. I totally had to water down my essay to fit it into my "blue book" in final draft form. I started with a Pro/Con sheet, but I just couldn't find a good thing to put on the "con" side. Government programs that STRENGTHEN marriage? That's like a dream come true! LOL She laughed when I brought up my blue book where I had written on the back cover just because I had run out of room. 400 words? Not a problem today! LOL Discussing this topic is going to be FUN tomorrow! LOL

My kids are so funny!

Today my mom and I were driving around, running some errands when we started discussing that Jakey used to call goggles, "Googles" and it wasn't until this year that he started calling them "goggles." Then we said, the one word that Justin doesn't say correctly is "prayer", he says it "purr." So I said, "Hey Justin, say prayer" and he immediately folded his arms, bowed his head, and began, "Heavenly Father..." LOL! He prayed on demand! When he raised his head he couldn't figure out why we weren't being reverent during his "purr"! LOL!

Jayden is getting interactive. She waves bye-bye on command and tonight we found out she actually knows what "nursey" means. Kev got out of the shower and since I've been slacking on laundry, is waiting around in his swim trunks for the whites to come out the dryer so he can get dressed...so he's topless. Jayden looked at his naked chest and pointed to Kevin's nipples. I said, "Did you find Daddy's nurseys?" and she excitedly started to bounce up and down and open her mouth and lunged at him, ready to try those babies out! LOL I set her on my lap and said, "Do you need to nursey?" and she immediately lifted my shirt and started to pull my bra down to get to her nurseys! LOL

The Sacredness of Naptime

Naptime is holy time in our house. Jayden finally goes to sleep and ends her shrill cries to be held, and screeches in frustration over her limited mobility and the house is quiet. Since we have hardwood floors, no one can walk during naptime. I know, I used to say "I'll never let my child be one of those kids that everyone has to tiptoe around while they nap" yeah that was just because my first two children didn't demand that of me...us being quiet for 1.5 hours while J naps is a small price to pay for a happy baby at the end of that 1.5 hours. People who say that still got lucky and just never had a baby that needed absolute peace and quiet for their baby to nap in. Lucky them.

Since it is summer and Jakey and Justin are in full "He's touching me!" mode, this means that we must have QUIET TIME every day. Jakey goes to my room and reads quietly on my bed, Justin cries quietly over the injustice of it all and then conks out for as long as Jayden does, and Jayden snoozes in her crib. The sound of her demanding to be removed from her crib is the sound that breaks the silence. And it is silent, except for the sound of Jakey's pages turning, and my fingers clacking on the keyboard as I finish school papers, return emails, or BLOG! LOL!

I woke up at 5:30 am this morning, I should be napping too...

My "Friday" Comes a Day Early!

I only go to school Monday through Thursday so today was my Friday! Tomorrow, on the REAL Friday, I get to enjoy friends at the park and sleeping in past 5:45 am, and all kinds of other super fun things!

I went to the dentist today for the first time in, oh about 15 years! Our dentist is a friend of mine and so she knew how TERRIFIED I was. She took Jakey and Justin first, LOL! Justin has NO cavities and just got a simple cleaning, baggie of goodies, and was on his way out the door. Jakey had some teeth pulled a few months ago and the adult ones just weren't dropping, so some numbing shots and slits cut in his gums later, he's got his eye teeth poking through now! No cavities this time though!

Then it was my turn...yeah...I was NERVOUS. Now my kids didn't tell me ANYTHING about how it works...how could they?! LOL I didn't know about the awful plasticy tasting thing that gags you while you get x-rayed! I was gagging the whole time, the poor girl looked really worried that I might throw up. Tell me I'm not the only one who gags with the plasticy thingy that you bite down on during x-rays! Then the dentist came in and she looked at my x-rays and gums, and teeth and said that I need to have my wisdom teeth pulled but since I'm nursing Jayden still now isn't the time, so we'll reevaluate that when I'm ready (and she'll refer me for the surgery since it's unethical to perform surgery on your friend.) But I have gum disease. :( No cavities that need attention or anything that you'd expect to see in the mouth of someone who hasn't been to the dentist in 15 years, but I need a deep cleaning. Since this is much more involved we made an appointment for me to come back and we're doing it a quadrant at a time because I'm so scared. I go back on July 12th, a Saturday. I'm scared! But I survived today!

Anyhow, Jakey is like my hero...I was in there when they did the shots and cutting his gums and WOW....his only response was, "hey, you're in the way of the TV" to the dentist! She "prescribed" ice cream for him and she happens to practice next door to Baskin Robbins so "oh darn" we had to fill his rx there! LOL Jakey's such a total trooper though, he emptied his gauze filled mouth and started in on his shake and I asked if he hurts at all and he says, "yeah, it's not that bad though, not like having a baby or something" LOL!

Anyhow, I'm just blogging nothingness...and I have no cute pictures to add...so I'll end this with, I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday. TGoodnessIF!

Behind on Blogging

With school, homework, the kids, my church obligations, and other family stuff, I've just been swamped, hence the serious lack of blogging I've been doing! Luckily, since I passed that math final, my math hours aren't being counted each day anymore, and I did an essay in English and don't have homework tonight. So....it's time for a massive blog post! Yeehaw!



First, I took Jayden to the pediatrician on Monday. Last time I had her weighed in March she weighed 17 lbs, something ounces, with her clothes on, and a diaper, and it was cold then, blah blah, on a different scale, lots of reasons for it to be different than Monday...this Monday we returned to our FAVORITE pediatrician, with new insurance (woohoo!) and Jayden weighed 14 lbs EVEN. No ounces. Yeah. To be fair, she was not wearing anything but her clean diaper, teething necklace, and hair bows. Still...that's a big difference!

The doctor didn't seem overly concerned though, her words were something along the lines of "this is a formula fed weight chart, she's not getting formula, and that's ok" and "don't go running to the nearest jar of baby food because it has less calories than breastmilk, just keep up the good work, she looks healthy and happy, just petite." So I'm trying not to worry. We go back in two months.

Next was Father's Day...we went to a friend's house and BBQed, it was great and Kevin's a great daddy! Here he is with some of his favorite little people...



And finally, I was tagged by Linda.

MY FAVORITE PERSON OUTSIDE OF MY FAMILY:Hmmmm...I think that might be Yaneth!

MY FAVORITE FOOD: I like all food equally, LOL, no really I LOVE bread and bread products!

QUIRKS ABOUT ME: I'm afraid of escalators...

HOW WOULD THE PERSON WHO LOVES ME MOST DESCRIBE ME IN TEN WORDS OR LESS?: quote, "That's too hard..." I don't know if he meant "leave me alone" or "I don't want to get this wrong" or "How could I possibly describe my wonderful wife in 10 words or less..." I'm hoping for #3.

ANY REGRETS IN LIFE? I like how Linda put it, only lairs say they dont' have regrets....but yeah, not gonna air them today on my blog...I make mistakes DAILY.

FAVORITE CHARITY OR CAUSE: I don't really have a specific charity.

FAVORITE BLOG RECENTLY: Keepin Up with the Joneses - Kellie is just getting into blogging and her family is adorable!

SOMETHING I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF: frozen mango

WORST JOBS I'VE EVER HAD: security officer outside of Longs Drugs overnight! SCARY.

WHAT JOB WOULD I PAY NOT TO HAVE? the laundry! I wish I could afford to outsource that!

IF I COULD BE A FLY ON A WALL, WHERE WOULD IT BE?
listening to who is going to be the running mates of our presidential nominees.

MY FAVORITE BIBLE VERSE RIGHT NOW: I was reading about the First Vision tonight and was really touched by the simple beauty of James 1:5.

GUILTY PLEASURES? dark chocolate

GOT ANY CONFESSIONS? not for my blog tonight!

IF I HAD $1000 TO SPEND ON MYSELF, HOW WOULD I SPEND IT? on my tuition for school.

FAVORITE THING ABOUT MY HOUSE? my kitchen!

LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT MY HOUSE? my neighbors across the street!

ONE THING I'M BAD AT: introducing myself to people, I tend to wiat until they talk to me.

ONE THING I'M GOOD AT: being a friend.

IF I COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT MY CIRCUMSTANCES, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I'd be done with school, but not have missed a moment of my kids' lives.

WHO WOULD I LIKE TO MEET ONE DAY? the prophet.

WHAT MAKES ME FEEL SEXY? well this question is odd below an enlightened one like the question above...um I'm nursing a baby, I'm all touched out - pretty much NOTHING. LOL

WHO IS MY REAL LIFE HERO? my kids, we're going to the dentist tomorrow and they're totally not afraid, but I am!

WHAT IS THE HARDEST PART OF MY JOB? balancing everything.

WHEN AM I MOST RELAXED? on friday's at the park!

WHAT STRESSES ME OUT? paying for gas!

WHAT CAN I NOT LIVE WITHOUT? internet

DO I AGREE WITH THE RECENT ARTICLE THAT BLOGS ARE AUTHORED BY NARCISISTS? didn't read it.

WHY DO I BLOG? it's a great creative outlet and way to keep in contact. I originally started my blog to keep in touch with some friends from an LDS mommies board I was a member of after I left the group.

RULES FOR THIS TAG:

1.) ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

2.) LINK BACK TO WHO TAGGED YOU.

3.) TAG: 2 NEW BLOGGERS, 2 FRIEND BLOGGERS, 2 BLOGGERS YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER, 2 BLOGGERS THAT YOU DON'T THINK WILL RESPOND, BUT HOPE THEY WILL.

I TAG: NEW BLOGGERS: Kellie and Shannon (Shannon's not entirely new, but hasn't blogged a ton either.)

BLOGGY FRIENDS:Natalie and Beth

BLOGGERS I'D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER:Sara and Sarah

BLOGGERS THAT I DON'T THINK WILL RESPOND, BUT I HOPE WILL: Laura and Wendy

Ok my Meme debt is paid in full!

Night all!

My 94% B

The Pre-algebra class I was taking is an online one, where you work on a program online and can take the final at any time and the grade you get on the final is your grade in the class. I completed enough of the program it began to suggest I should take my final, so I stopped by the math lab to do that this morning after English class. I passed the test with a 94%...but that's a B! I could take the test again, and try for an A, but if I do worse, they'll average the two and then my 94% will be looking pretty good. I can also use the program I've already bought for Pre-Algebra and just move onto Algebra and try to get that class out of the way this summer so I don't have to repurchase the program this fall. So I took my "B" and I'm starting the Algebra classes. I'm a little bummed cause I think I could have earned an "A" and that 94% really ought to be an "A", but what can ya do...

So one class down...lots to go!