FRIDAY FAVE FIVE!

1. Lunch with Mamacita/kadyb and my kids today. Loved just us going out together. Hope she did too.

2. Mojo's first birthday is tomorrow! I can't believe my little monkey will be one in just a couple hours. Remembering back on the labor and his birth ... man ... I have to remember the miserable 8 months before that before I say, "Hey, let's get pregnant again!" (and then there's the whole thing with hubby not being stable on his meds right now -- so not wanting to get pregnant because of that).

3. Seeing so much of my family during their various visits this month. That has been very nice. Now back to real life and working more hours.

4. Hubby ... The docs at his new clinic are being quite helpful, and he's actually *going* to his appointments and getting help, even if he's grouchy about it, even if I have to be mean and make him get up and out of bed, even though I know he's thinking, "she's so mean! maybe if I curl up into the fetal position, she'll leave me alone." HA. He doesn't know how tenacious I can be, especially since he begged for the help again this time and the therapist and psychiatrist and I have all told him, "There are no loopholes. You have to do this." bwahaha. Anyway. I'm glad he loves me and the kids and wants to get help so he's okay. And we had to make an emergency withdrawal from one of the bank accounts he has through work so we could get the mortgage paid, which he was willing to do and pursued until we got the money, then reminded me to pay it. So funny, usually it's vice versa. Moving on...

5. My meeting with the bishop Sunday, where he told me to exercise greater faith ... Um ... I've been reading my scriptures more and doing the other things he suggested, and I feel more at peace, even though our financial picture is bleak at the moment. Hopefully we can get this all ironed out and get caught up on the bills again soon, and maybe if I have enough faith, it won't be too horrible in the interim. hahahaha.

Look how pretty!

heh. I love the sticking out tongue new baby pictures.

I'm an aunt! ... again.

My brother and his wife lost a baby last summer due to some chromosomal abnormalities. They are thrilled to have a healthy baby girl, born today. She's beautiful! MY baby didn't want his sister to hold the baby and got mad at her, but he got even madder when *I* held her. Then after we were done, he wanted to touch her. It was cute, but confirmed my decision to wait a while yet for the next baby as being the right one.

Let's see, I think this is #18 grandchild for my folks. Three of them are mine, but I have 3 nieces/nephews on hubby's side, so I do have 18 nieces and nephews now. Wild.

I'm making dinner

My folks are coming over. I haven't done menus in a while, not even on my menu blog, but I dug through the freezer and fridge and found *most* of the stuff for tonight. Did get some potatoes and salad stuff at the store last night. We're having a roast chicken (roasted in the crockpot on a bed of diced potatoes and sliced onions), a lovely salad, and a dairy- and gluten-free coconut milk pudding for dessert.

oh so good.

Is it 5 o'clock yet???

Friday Fave Five!

1. Visiting with my family the last couple of weeks. We haven't done much "fun" stuff, but have had fun together, if that makes sense. Went to Springville Art Museum with Mamabear today, with our kids and DisGrace's kids. That was fun. So was painting shirts and just chilling with everyone. I also had the first conversation I've had with my brother in my memory where no one wanted to punch the other, it was mutually respectful, and guns and knives were not mentioned or a main topic of conversation. Too bad it was this morning, right before he went out of town.

2. Late evening walks in the cool summer air with a friend while hubby was home with the baby and kiddo was at her cousins'.

3. The caring neighbor who brought me cookies Monday. Really.

4. Going a full day without dairy today made me realize that, even with Lactaid, I feel better without it, no matter how yummy something might taste. Too bad I started drinking Pepsi again out of stress -- the caffeine-induced palpitations aren't doing me any favors.

5. Took hubby to a new psychiatrist this morning, got him a new prescription and he sees his new therapist next week, talked with a social worker yesterday who told hubby some good things, have a visit with the bishop on Sunday, so even though some really crappy things happened this week, there is hope that we'll pull through it all. Woo.

Yum, chocolate chip cookies!!

It's been one of those weeks. I've had fun with my family but still had some random drama (and not necessarily with them).

My neighbor brought me fresh-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies, with the chips still melty and gooey ...

Oh my gosh ... I'm all better. Even if things are still dramatic and rocky, I'm all better ...

So, which one would *you* choose?

Hypothetically speaking, let's say you had a family reunion this week. And let's say that *most* of the family was staying at your folks' house for the duration, but not you because you have a hypothetical baby, but you did let your hypothetical older child sleep over. And ... well, let's say two of your hypothetical nephews broke their arms the same day, no less, although doing different activities several hours apart. And neither one was doing something crazy like bungee jumping though, just hypothetically falling out of swings and off scooter. Would you start worrying about your hypothetical kid (who is the same age as both hypothetically broken nephews) breaking her arm/leg/head?

Or, since bad things supposedly come in threes, would you (hypothetically) push one of your other nephews/nieces down a flight of stairs to spare your kid the pain? And if you were to do that, and you had 9 other hypothetical nieces/nephews to choose from, which one would you choose?

All hypothetically speaking, of course.