Friday

I spent a much needed day at home today. Plus I didn't want to be out and about and crying. I hate crying in front of people. One of our saints called me yesterday to see how we were doing. It meant a lot to me because as an Officer, I often feel "on my own" to deal with hard things. Like Jackie (homestead wannabes) said though, blogging really is kind of therapuetic, (although I really shouldn't blog about some of our other heartaches and try to be careful not to let those "peek" through!). I got a lot of nice condolences on face book too, so thank you all so much. I certainly don't mean to bring down anyone's day, I want to lift up your days, but life is life and I choose to be as real as I can, like it or not.

So... anyways... today I got caught up on chores, played with the kids (we're addicted to Yahtzee lately, thanks a lot grandma and grandpa!!),

I made home-made fudge (my lovely MIL recipe)twice. I had to make it twice because during the first batch cooking, I was multitasking by thawing out some leftover potatos in the microwave which is above the stove. I reached in to break them apart better and several of them decided to jump in the fudge. Naughty potatos. I thought I'd just keep cooking and hope the potatos (cheesy nonetheless) would kind of blend in but then I realized that whoever the lucky winner was to get potato in their peice of fudge, may never eat my fudge again. So I started a second batch which I ended up cooking over an open flame when the potatos left under the rings caught on fire underneath the fudge. Right when the flame was at it's biggest, the boys walked in the front door, up the stairs and into the kitchen and started yelling at me that there's a fire. DUH!!

I also worked on building a giant file cabinet which I am beginning to despise. I made 2 memory verse boards for Family First Sunday School this Sunday, and cooked up a yummy spinach turkey casserole with cheesy potato topping (not the ones in the fudge). Elijah had soccer practice and David had guitar lesson tonight. I am glad that Paul runs them around for that. It gives me time in the evening to clean up from dinner and give the girls baths and bedtime and get ready for the next day. That way I'm all Paul's when he comes home. I think we'll be watching a movie tonight, he planned to stop at Redbox on the way home. I won 2 free movies from buying a pop the other day.

Tommorow I will bring the boys and Mary with me to the Corps in the afternoon to run the Game Room for a party. I don't mind though, I need to finish preparing for our Corps Review and the boys like helping set up and wire up all the video games, which I have no clue how to do at all.

It's getting chilly here. The air is crisp in the mornings and cold wind blasts us throughout the day. We've been runnning the heater at night and Paul is all excited to start building fires soon (in the fireplace). Men and fires. I've started getting out the sweaters, long sleeve shirts and making sure we have all the snow apparel we need; boots, coats, snow pants. I'm looking forward to not being pregnant this snow season. That means I can use the new sled I bought on sale after snow season last year. We have the best hill 2 houses up from us.

The leaves are turning colors and if you were to drive down I-84 through the Columbia Gorge you would see some of the most beautiful sights ever. It's a tunnel of orange, red, yellow and gold trees with parts of the Columbia River peaking through. I really want to head to Portland soon before I miss it. Soon the trees will all be bare.


Well, I better make like eggs and scramble. I've got some little girls that need tucked in to bed and I promised the boys dessert when they get home.