Category Archives: A Little of Everything

I had to MAKE something

My niece’s 1st birthday is next week. The easy, rational thing to do would be to go to a toy store and buy something for her…but I can’t do anything the easy way. I found a teddy bear pattern on the internet, spent hours cutting little pieces and sewing them together. But I must say I love the results!

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I was so excited when I figured out how to shape the head and make eye sockets! It looks like a real teddy bear, not just a glorified pillow!

Now, to wrap it up and send it away. I’ll probably never see it again.

I’ll have to make one for myself.

UPDATE:
Jonah had him for 30 seconds and the head popped off.
I bought puzzles.

who me?

I was sustained as Relief Society president on Sunday. Crazy. Really crazy. I’m not old enough. I have too many little kids. This is going to be really hard, but I know it’s what I’m supposed to do…

on politics

I feel the urge to get a little political–you know, with the election and all.

I just got done reading this. Her November 3rd entry and all of the comments on it make it seem like it is the end of the world. The thing is–if Kerry had won the election the other half of the country would feel the exact same way. We would be lamenting about who would be appointed to the supreme court, what side of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict we would be on, and how exactly he would train Iraqi troops faster. There would be abject fear all over this land if Kerry had been elected–as there is fear that Bush has been re-elected.

There is such a polarization between those who believe in God and those who don’t. Is that it? Yeah–those who believe in a God with a set of expectations, in moral absolutes and those who believe in relativism. Where are the young voters? I’ve heard it over and over today and I want to stand up and shout, “I’M RIGHT HERE!” I’m 26 and I voted for BUSH *gasp*. I’m married with three children! But, I’m young and I voted for Bush along with a majority of the country.

I find it heartening that the ammendments about gay marriage passed everywhere. The vast majority of the country does believe in the sanctity of family and that children deserve a mom and a dad. I feel better about that than I do about the President.

But now we continue. Are we on the right path? I don’t know. Are record debts okay? Are more government controls over our children in school okay? Do we need to finance every fancy drug for everyone that wants it simply because it exists?

What I know is that there is war raging in the Middle East. There are people all over who want to destroy us and our freedom. We have to stand against evil–because there ARE moral absolutes.

the aftermath

CAN I HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF CANDY?!? I don’t know how to adequately translate the yelling-screaming earsplitting hysteria that is my house the day after Halloween.

I think Halloween is fun. I love thinking of ways to turn my kids into their favorite animal or a robot from outer space. Barry really had fun this year and turned the bike trailer into a spaceship, and we had hopes of making a cool space movie in our costumes, but our video camera is broken. Trick-or-Treating was a blast. It was so cute to hear Jonah talk like a robot to everyone he could—but now there’s the candy.

It is the bane of my existence. I have transformed from fun mom to Candy Police.

I had a friend in Albuquerque who let her six kids eat ALL of their Halloween candy in one day. They were sick for a day or two, and then she didn’t have to worry about it anymore.

But my kids are so little. I’m afraid of what might happen if they really ate all the sugar they want.

So…I’m enduring my earsplitting headache for now…

and the candy may end up in the garbage.