We have sunk as low as we can.....

Mike and I have become so desperate!! We don't even have a pair of shoes for our poor, poor little baby Grey!! We have been forced to sink lower than we ever have been before and we have had to take desperate measures to keep his poor pink piggies from being burned by the sun or scraped by the harsh ground or....worse of all being pinched to death by crazy old ladies!!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!! The horrors!! So...we slithered into payless shoes as quiet as a thief. We crept to the back as quiet as we could. (which really sounded like a train wreck cause we had all three boys and they were all hungry) Once to the back we looked shoe after shoe while casing the joint. Then....we slipped a handsome shoe onto Grey's little piggies and wondered around a bit more to look less suspicious and then walked out the door our prize snug on Grey's toes!

Ok....that is not entirely the truth. We didn't set out to steal the shoes but we really did!! I put the shoes on Grey because I thought they were soooo handsome!! Then...we got distracted and we left in a hurry because we wanted to go eat lunch before I had to go to work. When we were walking in the door at Subway I saw those cute little shoes still snuggly on Grey's little toes. HEE-HEE!!!! Whoops. Mike had to take them back and tell them that we stole the shoes right out from under their noses!! AWKWARD!!

Gettin' old!

Sigh.....I have been running every day and trying to build my endurance back up. I really want to be able to run 2-3 miles, about 3 times a week. I also hope that it will help me lose some weight. : ) I think that I have been doing pretty good. I haven't missed any days at all for two weeks!! But today was a really rough day. For some reason my knee was sooooo sore today! I just about died when I started to run and I really wanted to cry, but I ran my mile today and then came home and didn't eat the cake that I wanted to. Sigh. But now my knee is still aching, aching, and aching some more. I don't know why. It hasn't been hurting until tonight. BUT...I am not going to stop. I am going to just dig my old brace out and keep trying. I need some new shoes too. I don't want to give up. I have been really enjoying it!! It gives me time to vent frustration and just release and be by myself, do something GOOD for my self. I just enjoy it. I just wish that my body would get with the program! Doesn't it know that I am not ready to get old and creaky yet?

I don't even know what to say. Mike didn't get the job with Kohl's. Now...he doesn't really have any other promising jobs on the horizon. No new interviews set up or anything. He has applied for so many jobs and I think that it is starting to wear on him. But...there just doesn't seem to be a lot of jobs out there. Ok, that's not true, there are a lot of jobs but none that would pay him very well. We are trying not to be picky but we do need a job that pays us enough to live!! He is really trying hard but nothing seems to be working. And...on the selfish end. I AM TIRED OF WORKING SO MUCH!!!!! I feel like I am never home and I never get to do anything but work. My boss just called and asked me if I could handle more hours and of course I said yes because Mike didn't get the job. But...my entire being was screaming NO, NO, NO!!!! I just don't know what to do any more. I am tired of trying and I just want to sit down and bawl but I have to be strong because I have to hold the family together. I have to keep going and keep everyone else going. It is exhausting!!!! And...we don't have insurance and I can't get it through my jobs so I am totally freaking out about the boys. I don't want them to do anything because I am afraid they will get hurt or sick. A girl in Cuj's class just came down with the chicken pox and I am totally going to have a heart attack!!! I don't think that I can take much more of this.

Going...public!

We are going back to letting everyone read and view this blog. Why? Well, my Mom couldn't figure out how to get on so....at least until I can go up and show her how to get on we are going to go public.

It's raining now baby!!

I think that I am having a nervous breakdown! I had a meeting this morning at Curves, which I forgot. So...I had to rush over there. Grey had to wait for an extra hour to nurse but by the time I got home I was so wound up and upset that my milk wouldn't let down. I am a little worried that it is drying up because I am so stressed all of the time. But...he did finally take a bottle from me. I am going to keep nursing him at night and in the morning but I may not during the day. Then I had to work for Ali's. I don't mind that job but I wisht I didn't have to go every day. I feel like I am going crazy! I just run from one thing to the next and I never seem to get anything done. Now, all three of my boys are sick. Poor little Ike is the worst. He just sits and whimpers and shakes. It makes me feel so sad!! Corb has a cough and Grey has a runny nose but Ike is sick, sick, sick! It makes me want to cry. We had a weiner roast tonight with Caleb and Holli but Ike was so sick that he couldn't even enjoy it. He just sat in a chair all wrapped up in blankets and shivered. Finally, I just brought him in and he fell asleep.
I guess that it is true what they say, "when it rains, it pours". I was walking along on a perfectly sunny day and all of the sudden I felt a little drop of rain on my head. Then, before I knew it, before I could blink or run for cover, the "sky" opened up. And now I am standing in the rain, drenched, cold and sick of it with no umbrella or cover in sight. Stupid rain.

Water break through!!

Corbin has started taking swimming lessons again this year but we decided to take him to the Peak. They are a little more expensive but we hoped that they would be better with kids since that is what they do. And...I think they are! Corbin's first experience with swimming lessons was BAD, VERY BAD!!! He was terrified and we didn't think that he would ever get in the water again. Then last year he took lessons at the Brigham pool with Elise and Jacob Richards and he seemed to do ok. BUT....the lifeguards weren't very good with the kids and Corb still wouldn't put his head under the water or even put his face in the water. So...I was nervous about this year but he did great!! Monday was his first lesson and he got right in the water. He even did the diving game that they wanted him to do and he put his face all the way in the water to blow bubbles!! He was so brave! The teachers are great too. They were so good and patient with the kids! Corb can't wait to go back today. Then when we got home I taught him how to take a shower. He was nervous but I think that he started to like it a little so maybe I can get him to shower after swimming and soon he will be doing it all on his own!! Yeah!! No more baths! (our tub takes about 3 YEARS to fill up!) Anyway, I was proud. I never learned how to swim and I am a little afraid of water and I am determined that my kids won't be that way.

Blog Confusion!!!

All right Faye!! We need to fix this problem!! I will write, post, or even dance fully clothed on your blog if you will just LET ME ON!!! It won't even let me read it now. I don't know what is going on. I could get on last night but today it says that I am not invited!! Sigh....Faye doesn't love me anymore!! : (

Oh woe is me!!!

Faye-Faye, why have you shunned me?
I only wanted your friend to be!
I tried to post on your new blog,
But now I am as sad as a poor homeless dog!
It said that I was not allowed to post,
I feel like wailing like a purple ghost!
Tell me you will let me write,
Or I will stay up crying all night!!!
Tell me what to do to fix it.
Or I will have to spit!!

Hee-Hee!!