My mind goes blank . . . I know we did . . . something. I have to admit the other 50% of the time I'm motormouth as I give Darik a play-by-play of every activity "us girls" enjoyed. So I've decided that's the challenge of the busy life of a Mormon mother . . . to feel like she did "something" at the end of the day while still maintaining a piece of herself in every 24 hours.
We did go to the Stangers for dinner on Friday night . . . where I was painfully reminded of my personality-flaw of my inability to function in large-group settings. I really do think I have a case of social claustraphobia. (I'm being serious and not joking at the moment). It's always interesting to experience . . . I feel like a fish out of water that can't breathe . . . I'm really weird, I know.
This week I also purchased that roll of kraft paper from ebay and immediately had buyers remorse. I got it for less than 1 cent per square foot and Wal-Mart sells it for just over 2 cents per square foot. Big deal. Oh well, I just need to move on.
And what else is bad is my lack of time to read!!! I checked out 'Parenting with Love and Logic' from the library. In three weeks I was able to read just 3 chapters, in those short chapters the book quickly became my favorite parenting book I've ever read. And I'm crushed because I can't renew it because it has holds on it at the library. I'll just have to buy it for Christmas or something . . . but finding time to read will be the chore.
Our puppy Duke is adjusting to life. I like having him here because it's motivation for me to get out EVERY morning for a nice walk. Every day that we have time to go, we make it over to the park in Vernon Heights (by the mansions). It is still our favorite park. Duke is so fun, he will climb up the toys and go down the slide by himself. It is so cute. We also have a plastic PlaySkool toddler slide in the backyard that both him and Ellie play on. When he's being a good boy and not trying to hunt us he will climb up the back ladder all by himself and slide down -- he also climbs up the slide backwards to get Ellie. Things are ok with him -- half the time he needs to rough-house though and it's too much for Ellie and I so we have to leave him alone out back. The other half of the time if fun and cute and makes me glad he's a member of our family. We do have the wrong puppy, btw. Its mother is a guide dog for a disabled teenager and very calm. When we picked out a puppy I said, "I want the one like its mom so it's easier on Ellie." Well last Saturday we go to the adoption classes and the lady runs up and says, "Does your puppy have a spot on his nose?" Yes, I say. "We gave you the wrong puppy! You have the crazy one," she says. Yikes!! I knew Labs are crazy esp as puppies but Duke is REALLY crazy. So we were going to switch puppies to the right one but I lost the lady's phone number and now who knows?? Oh well. That's life.
Speaking of the adoption paperwork, this is the picture we're using in our homestudy profile that the children will see:I had hoped it makes us seem like the happy little family that we really are. Anyway, I better go get some real work done in the house before I have to try to head off to another missionary appointment. (I've been busy with that, too!) Hasta pronto!
I'm sorry you didn't have a fun time Friday night. I always feel lost in big groups too. Shawn and I, of course, rehashed the party after everyone left and we both agreed that the game was fun, but there was still WAAAAAY too many people. If you can't all sit together at one table to eat dinner, then it is way too many people. And if you don't interact with your spouse the WHOLE night, it cannot be considered DATE night. We came to the conclusion that the dinner club HAS TO DIE. Not that we can't still do things with friends and heck we can even get babysitters and do things with friends ... but the whole idea of a dinner group has gotten way out of hand. We may start boycotting in order to speed its demise. (yeah, as if us dropping out would kill the party. Instead the peasants would probably rejoice that they'd finally rid themselves of those pesky Stangers!)
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