Day 62

Fast Sunday. Good day. Crazy at church as usual. After church we cleaned the boys room and that felt great to get done! Ross wasn't sure about doing it on Sunday and while I know its not the best activity to keep the Sabbath day holy, it sure feels closer to it than lying around doing nothing in my messy house!
I also got my dishwasher unloaded and loaded today. (It's the little things, right?) I didn't do it until Ross was ready and waiting for me to come to bed, but it did get done and I am glad. It's November 1st and I guess I want to try the FlyLady stuff out with more success hopefully this month. So I went to shine my sink and suddenly was working on the dishwasher. Oh well. Better done than not.
Tomorrow my goals are:
Shine my sink
Exercise
Clean a bathroom

:o)

Day 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, and 61 (How embarrassing...)

I can't believe that I have slacked off doing this blog for over a week! I didn't realize it had gotten so bad. Sheesh.
So obviously I'm not going to be able to remember all that happened. We've had sick kids the past few days and that hasn't been fun for them. Luke threw up Wednesday night and was down, down, down on Thursday. He was so lethargic, poor guy. Logan and Rebecca both threw up in bed last night, but were surprisingly peppy today considering how Luke had been. I was grateful because Logan was able to go trick or treating instead of missing out. Phew. That wouldn't have been easy to explain to the boy. He seemed a little more down tonight and even put himself to bed early, so I hope he's feeling better by morning.
We had fun the past couple of days too. We won the top prize for our Creamy White chili at the the 3rd Ward chili cook off last night and that was lots of fun. :o) We also enjoyed Halloween today. I cleaned about half the kitchen and then carved the pumpkin all by my self with no help from Ross! Yay me! We even got some compliments on it. The carving fell to me because Ross was FINALLY able to sand the closet and PRIME IT! HOOOOOOOORAY! That feels like progress that we have really needed and since this blog is about logging progress in our lives, I am so happy to report that that happened. He also gave the room a second coat of the blue paint. We'll get this ball rolling fast!
Tomorrow is Sunday and I'm hoping that Samantha does better in the Primary program practice. She had a really difficult time last week because it was out of the ordinary for her. I need to be a better parent and figure out ways to help her instead of feeling like I have no idea what to do.
To bed! Extra hour tonight. Yay!

Day 52 because I didn't want to yesterday and today Day 53

Yesterday. Great. Now I have to wrack my brain and think about what I did. I made dinner for Ross and unfortunately that seems to be happening very little lately so I'm glad I put for the effort even if it was a box meal.
I also looked into FusionCash again and meant to talk to Ross about it, but I ordered some Wise Men candle holders and it took more than an hour because I had to make some changes with our PayPal account and I was online doing that and then on hold withe company forever, blah, blah, blah. It was ridiculous, but I'm glad I got it done and the order went through.
Today was nuts, but fine. We were REALLY late for Samantha's occupational therapy because of my disorganization and four crazy little kids. I'll have to do better next week.
The day went on with a trip to Wal-Mart and to the office to visit and we all watched a movie and had pizza tonight.
Ross and I also had a good talk. Didn't mean to launch into it with him, but when do I? We talked about our huge needs to make our lives better and push each other. I also brought up having another baby. Crazy, but true. Feels good to talk to him about it finally after having the thoughts spin around in my head for the last few months. We'll pray and ponder it and see what the Lord has in store for us. :o)

Day 51

I felt sick ALL day long. Still do actually. My biggest accomplishment today was watching three extra kids plus my four and not letting any fights break out. Weird day.
Love my husband and kids though. They are all pretty great.

Day 50

Logan's birthday! Didn't exercise due to extra time being non-existent, but if I didn't burn some calories cleaning house I'm gonna be really upset! :o)
Ready to get to a point where I'm not scrambling to clean my filthy house before a party, but I'm glad for what I got done today.
Tired. Going to bed. Complete sentences hard.

Day 49

Today I did something I've been wanting to for a while now. I got up and exercised BEFORE my kids got up! Granted, all I did was my treadmill, but it helped! I also did my Shred dvd, but not until Ross and Samantha left. Still progress.
I told Ross tonight that in regard to the changes I'm trying to make that I don't feel like I'm chipping away at them, but at least they are "flaking" off. :o)
This is hard and I still have SO far to go. I think I need to put my faith in the Lord more. Okay, I know that I need to put my faith in the Lord more.
Logan's birthday tomorrow. Should be an interesting post tomorrow...
:o)

Day 48

Good day. Tiring morning. Kids were crazy at Stake Conference. Good dinner (Boiled English) and pie (California boysenberry) at my parents' house. Best part of the day? Kids in bed by 7:45. Woo-hoo!