Blogging Questions

I have a friend (I won't tell her name cuz she might be embarrassed by me posting this about her) and I want her to start a blog!!! It's mostly for selfish reasons on my part. I just want to keep in better contact with her. (No, phone calls and emails are not enough!) Her reason for not blogging is, she needs a good name for her blog. It can't be cheesy. She wants it to be cool.

So, here's where you come in.

I would like to know your blogging story.

How long have you been a blogger?

Why did you start a blog?

How did you chose your blog name?

What are your current reasons for blogging?

Please help me convince my friend and some of my other non-blogging family members that blogging is a good thing and that they really want to have one for their own.

My Mouse Story...Part 3

This is part one and part two.

My neighbor now has mice. I feel guilty. She found him in her underwear. When she opened her drawer, he popped his friendly little head up, said hi and then disappeared. I'm sure he's NOT the same one that I parked in front of her house hoping to share with her. She says she has mice everywhere. They didn't even know they did until their kids saw us dumping our traps. (What made Walt Disney think that little mouse eating scraps off his floor was cute?)

Hubby found this sound thing that is supposed to bug the mice so that they leave. I hope it works. If it does, I'm going to buy one for my nieghbor as a peace offering. Not that she knows of my horrible plan to share my mouse problem with her, I'm just very thoughtful like that. (Okay. OKAY! I have GUILT!)

Tasting Heaven...

On Saturday, our Stake had a Women's Conference. I attended a class taught by my dear friend Ruth Ann on food storage. Among many wonderful things that I learned, she told us of a study done by USU on the nutrition of bread, They compared one slice of white bakery bread to one slice of homemade whole wheat bread. The study showed that a person would have to eat 150 slices of bakery white bread to equal one slice of homemade wheat bread. I told Hubby of my desire to eat healthier.

This is Hubby's solution:

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Too Hot!Yum!


Only 149 slices to go!

It's got to be a little better than the store bought bread. We'll slowly work our way up to the healthy whole wheat.

Food Tag!

Holly tagged me with this food meme.
Here's the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 food facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them)
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

1. I only eat my food one thing at a time. I don't mix my foods and I usually save my favorite food for last to eat.

2. I don't like to cook. I don't enjoy it at all. I don't like to spend my money on food, I don't like to mess up my kitchen with dirty dishes, and I don't like to put effort into something that no one likes anyways.

3. I need my mom's magic food wand. You know, the one where you look in the cupboards and they are a bare and then 30 minutes later the table is filled with something yummy, healthy and completely homemade.

4. Could someone please tell me where I could buy Willy Wonka's gum that has all the meals in it. That would simplify my life and my kids would be sure to eat it!

5. I like cold cereal for breakfast, lunch is a weird meal for me cuz I never know what to fix, and then dinner is our main meal, except I don't like to cook all the side dishes that go with the main dish because remember, I have lots of excuses. I don't like to cook, mix my foods, do dishes or waste money on food. So we'll sit down to the table and I'll be all proud of my one pan of food and Hubby will say, "Is this it? Where's the bread, the vegetables or the salad?" Ummmm, on someone else's table? On Sunday I was home with sick kids though so I made Holly's yummy meatballs and gravy with real mashed potatoes, a jello and I even put banana's in it, corn and I made brownies from a box. My family was so shocked and happy, I may be able to stay home from church every week now and I may be able to get away with lame meals for a few days this week!

I really was not born to be Holly Homemaker! {Sorry Holly Homemaker, maybe you can teach me.}

Okay, now I tag everyone who ate today! Tell me 5 food facts about you!

Cindy tagged me a while ago. I'm a little slow in getting this one done!

ABC's of me:
A- Attached or single: Definitely attached
B- Best Friend: Hubby! I've never been too good at having close friends.
C-Cake or Pie: Depends. I don't like Cherry or Apple Pie at all. My favorite part of the cake is the ice cream and cream cheese frosting minus the cake.
D- Day of Choice: I like Thursday! It means we are past Wednesday and almost to Friday!
E- Essential Item: My All Natural Chapstick! And my computer!
F- Favorite Color: Yellow-It makes me happy, Red or White-my favorite colors to wear, and Black is my current fad color.
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Red Swedish Fish! Actually gummi foods hurt my teeth.
H- Hometown: Rupert
I- Indulgence(s): Sleeping!
J- January or July: July! I love picnics and watermelon and parades and fireworks and family reunions and camping and no school!
K- Kids: Zachary-12, Jusytn-10, Shaelynne-8, Alexys-6, Kathryn-3 and Henry-1!
L- Life is incomplete without: True Love and Good Friendships
M- Marriage Date: September 24, 1994
N- Number of Siblings: 10; 7 girls and 3 boys and I'm #1! (Ha! Ha!)
O- Oranges or Apples: Niether really, Apples only if they are peeled, Oranges only if they are juicy and sweet! I love fresh ripe peaches and pears and WATERMELON!!!
P- Phobias or Fears: Buttons! YUCK!
Q- Quotes(s: I love anything that speaks directly to me. Some of my current favorites are on my sidebar.
R- Reason To Smile: My husband and my kids. Other people's naughty kids, and my SIL Julie.
S- Season: I honestly love each of the seasons. I love Spring because of the newness of life in color and sound. I love Summer because it's a time for being outdoors. I love Fall because of the smells and colors of harvest and I love Winter because of the holiday seasons and the idea of peace on earth under a blanket of snow.
T- Tag: EVERYONE! Anyone who wants to play!
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I ran into a glass panel at college going a hundred miles an hour (close anyways) I missed the door. My face print was permanent in the glass and my one front tooth is now fake.
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: Ummm...I like meat more than vegetables? This one sounds so MEAN!
W- Worst Habit: Just one? Okay, I talk too much. AND I either overthink things or forget to think about things all together.
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: What kind of answer does this one want? I don't remember ever having an x-ray and I have only had ultrasounds when I was pregnant so I guess ultrasounds. I love seeing my babies for the first time.
Y- Your Favorite Food: I love pasta!
Z: Zodiac: Virgo

Now it's your turn!

Gifts full of love

S likes to give gifts to people. Because she doesn't have the money to buy things, she makes things. She has made little things, that we have no idea what they are, out of whatever scraps she can find around the house. She always writes letters and cards to us. She has a bead kit and she makes jewelry for her friends all the time. For Valentine's Day she decorated my house in signs that she had made and covered them with suckers and other random things she could find. She made homemade Valentine Cards for every one and hung them around the kitchen as decorations. She had recieved a package of Necca candy from a friend at school so she divided it up and included them in her little cards she had made. She gives everything she can to everyone. A is starting to get old enough that she wants to give things also. It's fun for S to have a partner in her gift giving.

So for H's birthday yesterday, the two of them disappeared after school to try to come up with an idea that they could give to him for his birthday. They came to me with a couple of ideas that we scratched due to not appropriate for a baby or lack of time or supplies. Finally, they came up with the perfect gift. Unfortunately, the older boys are clueless and tactless about these little homemade gifts, Hubby tries to appreciate them but most of the time he's clueless also, and K and H are just too little to get it yet. So for now, they are just entertaining for me. And I love it!

So, here's my girls, giving their little homemade gift of love to their baby brother on his 1st birthday.



These are the moments that are truely priceless to me!

Out-Smarted

Yesterday, I had some time to kill so I decided to browse Target. Not the best idea since I can never get out of there without buying something.

Last summer I tried to be smart and buy swimsuits on sale. By the time they went on sale, there was absolutely nothing left to choose from except a couple of really ugly two-piece suits. Not worth the stress, so this year I bought early and not on sale but one- piece and very cute. When we got home, I realized I had bought K a 2T. I figured it would fit okay but I wanted to take it back for a 3T and maybe get more use out of it. The other girls were trying on their new suits and K asked if she could try on hers. I told her she could but not to take the tags off because we were going to return it for a bigger size. She said that she didn't want to take this suit back. This was the one that she wanted.

A few minutes later I found her suit in a wad on the bathroom floor. I asked her to come and pick it up and put it back in the bag so we could return it in a few minutes. She said "Nope. I'm keeping this one. See. I pooped in it."

WHAT?

Sure enough! We will be keeping the 2T!