I'm going to do a little series featuring my kids' answers to questions about yours truly.
First up is sweet Alyssa, 3 1/2. Let's see how well she knows me...
1. What is something I always say to you? You say, "I love everybody."
2. What makes me happy? When I kiss you and hug you.
3. What makes me sad? When someone takes away your teddy bear, then you cheer up!
4. What makes me laugh? That I tickle you.
5. What was I like as a little kid? You played around and wiggled your head and laughed.
6. How old am I? 3, and you growed up, and you have long hair.
7. How tall am I? A little bit big.
8. What is my favorite thing to do? Eat a vegetable. (Ha!)
9. What do I do when you're not around? You don’t play around or be crazy or cry.
10. If I become famous, what will it be for? If you’re a grown up mermaid and you turned into an octopus. (I'm sure that would do the trick!)
11. What am I really good at? Drawing paper and saying, “Good Job, Alyssa!”
12. What am I not very good at? Drawing pictures.
13. What do I do for my job? You clean up the whole rooms.
14. What is my favorite food? An apple and a potato.
15. What makes you proud of me? You play around.
16. If I were a cartoon character, who would I be? The mermaid movie.
17. What do we do together? Play around and dance.
18. How are we the same? We’re girls, and we’re not like the boys. I will never turn into a boy.
19. How are we different? You can’t stomp your feet and turn into a monster.
20. How do you know I love you? You love me and then I kiss you. I’m going to kiss you.(mwa). You love everybody.
21. What do I like most about daddy? You go on dates, then you married, then you came back to our house.
22. Where is my favorite place to go? You go at church, and you married at the temple.
23. What is your favorite thing about me? You’re cute and I love you.
24. What do I do that is silly? You make a silly face.
Can you tell she is obsessed with mermaids and marriage? A true girlie-girl!
I've had a nervous pit in my stomach for 2 days, ever since I made an appointment with the English counselor at the U of U. I've decided to go back to school in January to finish my English degree. I've been hoping I wouldn't look like a dumb blonde, ask dumb questions, and get a dumb blank stare back. I FORCED myself to go this morning and it went great!
While I was driving away I remembered how good it feels to conquer a fear. I was on a natural high today, feeling strong, feeling brave. YES! I did it!
On a totally different note, going on the U campus was weird. I have always pictured myself at BYU. I use to spend time there as a kid just because I loved it so much. I have never been to the U, unless you count Red Butte Gardens. As I was going from building to building today, I was thinking that I could be spending many hours there, will most likely receive a U diploma, yet I will never have school pride. (Maybe I should insert a probably in that last sentence. Maybe I'll become purple at heart, half blue, half red. But I doubt it :)) Anyhoo, it was very cool to be on a university campus again after a 5 year break, I am very excited about my classes. Wahoo! You can call me Becca the Brave.
I, uh, posted a silly little post a few hours ago...and now I feel really regretful. That was ramblings that should have only been in my own journal. I so much prefer typing to writing by hand, that I typed my thoughts and posted them. I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, I pulled that post, and realized that I'd been tagged to do a post by my cute sister-in-law. So, with no further adieu, I'll replace "dreams" with "3".
Post these rules on your blog: List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 regrets, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 facts about yourself. Tag 3 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!
3 joys
1. Clean floors
2. Yummy food
3. And best of all, a happy family
3 fears
1. Making some kinds of phone calls
2. Trying new things
3. Swen becoming disabled
3 goals
1. Learn to play the piano better
2. Become WAY better at waking up early to exercise and shower before scripture study
3. Become really good at portion control when it comes to chocolate (is there any hope for me?) :)
3 regrets
1. I wish I had spent less time reading and more time being active when I was younger
2. I wish I had written more in my journal and my kids' journals, and kept up on scrapbooks better
3. I wish I hadn't wasted time "discussing" (which means fighting over) silly things with Swen when we were newly married. (Such as whether we should be able to roll our corn in the butter at the dinner table. I said, "Absolutely NOT!" And he said, "I have always dreamed about being able to roll my corn in the butter!" DUMB.)
3 current obsessions/collections
1. I am obsessed with my wonderful family
2. I try to be obsessed with having my kitchen spotless before I go to bed. And here I am blogging instead. Pitiful.
3. I am trying to be less obsessed with housework during the day so I can picnic, laugh, and play with my kids more.
4. Bonus obsession. I am obsessed with HATEFUL feelings toward mosquitos. I HATE them. My legs look like a war zone because I forgot to put on bug spray before taking a walk last week. GRRRRRRRR.
3 facts about myself
1. I get really competitive when I play games
2. My worst household responsibility is dealing with paper flow
3. When I grow up, I want to be the kind of mom that my mom is/was. I also want to be just like Marjorie Hinckley (except I'll stay 5'4" instead of becoming 4'10").
I tag Lexie, Allie, and whoever else wants to participate. :)
The boys
The bird show
2. Subway sandwiches and red rover in the park.
3. Eating lunch at the hospital with Gramps Tadje. He had a heart attack and bypass surgery. Get better soon Gramps!
4. Bear Lake: mini golf, swimming, good food, cousins, and the beach
Ike as a merman
Buried alive!
5. Holding cute babies (We have 5 new cousins we got to hold this summer:)
6. Matching jammies from Gramma Howard
7. Days of '47 Rodeo for my birthday
8. Cousin Camp
9. Water parties at Gramma & Gramps Howard's
10. Lots of swimming!
Just write a memory you have with me or our family. If you leave one, we'll assume you're playing and we'll come leave one on your blog too... Happy remembering!
To those who have been wondering why I have recently dropped out of the blogosphere:
It's called 4 kids + Summer = 0 Blogging time. As you will notice, I have just written a rather lengthy blog wishing my firstborn a Happy Birthday. His birthday occurred over a month ago, and I have been trying to get to it since then. This morning, I decided that I would "stick to it until it stuck to me," to quote my mom. It took me about 3 hours, during which the following things happened:
1. Lots of fighting
2. Crying, flailing children feeling like I was neglecting them
3. Pajamas still on at 1:30 in the afternoon (the clock on my blog is off, does anyone know how to fix it?)
4. 29 items on the family room floor
5. Smashed bits of bread all over the kitchen floor
6. A table covered with various items that need to be taken care of
7. A sink full of breakfast and lunch dishes that haven't been loaded yet
8. Morning jobs are still not done
9. 3 loads of laundry needing to be folded and put away
10. A tired baby that went down for his nap 1 hour late
11. Shall I go on?
You get the picture. Needless to say, blogging is not going to be a frequent occurrence during the summer. Well, I'm off to make up for my morning indulgence. I think I'll be paying for it for the rest of the day!
