Spilling the Beans: October 2007

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

My day from Wednesday

I have to vent. My day started before I was ready, there was a terrific hail storm, complete with lightening and thunder and I couldn't fall back to sleep in the wee hours of something...so when I heard Cameron in his crib cooing for "mommie" I didn't want to get up. You see it was one of those mornings when it is overcast and I could have slept in because the blasted sun was not (for once) greeting me from my East-facing window. So I dragged myself out of bed and poured cereal for the little guy--wheaties being the box of choice and I promptly tried to go back to my bed. Didn't work. I tried to be good, got my daily exercise in and then proceeded to eat a "few" bowls of delicious Fruity Cheerios (they really are delicious, don't give in to the temptation if you want a box to last more than a day). After that I decided to make Jorden take a bath, it is picture day after all, and figuring it would be a quick in & out affair, I did not throw Cam in with him...

...But, as I was putting dishes in the dishwasher I hear Jorden call out from the tub, "Mom, Cam is okay, he climbed in the tub by himself, but he is okay, but his new shirt is all wet and his pants, so come in here, NOW....mom?" ( I was at this point going to get my camera because I knew it would be funny) And well Cam was sitting in the tub, all dressed having a blast.

My day was same ol, same ol, after that until I neglected to put a permanent, red sharpie

marker away--I caught Cameron 'red-handed', literally... He had colored his forehead, neck, ear, hands, couch, chair, suitcase, Car's cars, balloon, my project for Saturday, he was undoubtedly trying to find something else to leave his "mark" when I found him...

I really tried to stay calm, again grabbing my camera (but this time not thinking it was funny, but hopefully someday it will be)

But the day has not been my favorite, it can't all be roses and warm chocolate chip cookies, although I have to admit the halloween candy HAS been opened and enjoyed, a lot....darn that emotional eating habit... ;)

words to live by...

"I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly."

~Bill Kirby

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

~Barbara Bush

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are living art, created to help others hang on, stand up, forbear, continue."

~Maya Angelou

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

~Winston Churchill

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

~Christopher Reeve

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

~The Dalai Lama

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

~C.S. Lewis

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

~Pearl Buck

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

~Mignon McLaughlin

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."

~Gertrude Stein

"Don't let the fear of striking out prevent you from playing the game."

~author unknown

"He who is tired of Wierd Al is tired of life."

~Homer Simpson

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try."

~ Theodore Geisel

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

~Marie Curie

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

~F.P. Jones

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do someting instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."

~Dale Carnegie

"...the greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies."

~ President Gordon B. Hinckley, Dec. 2007 Ensign, pg. 6