Fall Sports pt.1

Isaac plays flag football, Liv plays soccer.   It makes our week crazy busy.  For example...Liv practice Monday at 4, Isaac at 6:30, Tuesday Isaac practice at 5:30, Wednesday Liv game at 5:30, Isaac practice 5:30, Thursday Isaac game at 6:30, Saturday Liv game at 9. Phew!  On top of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church activities, and 15 trillion homework assignments it gets rough. 

This is how we make it through practices...

Mae and Noah are cool as long as we have snacks.

Georgia's on Chloe duty until the first time she sees another dog and George ends up face down on the turf.  Then I'm on Chloe duty.

Georgia knows every "squat spot" at every field in Springville. She is currently studying grasshoppers.

At this particular practice the sprinklers came on.  I squealed like a 9 year old girl and grabbed my camera, leaving Noah to fend for himself.  One more vote for mother of the year.

Mom of the Year Goes To...

"Isaac, you should have 2 more pages in your homework packet.  Go grab it and finish."

 "Isaac, you have something like 5 pages you haven't finished this week."
"I know, I'm sorry."  "Get to work."

 "Isaac, it says to circle the pronoun.  Banana is not a pronoun." - Isaac commences crying.

 "Isaac, if you start crying over a pronoun again I'm not doing football tonite."

He heads to his room to do some more.

"Isaac, once again, circle the pronoun in the second sentence.  Don't do anything to the first sentence.  These are mostly wrong." - more tears.

"O.k., no football."

They tied the Redskins at 24 a piece.

"Follow through." (Parenting 101, Common Sense Press, 1 b.c., page 1, line 1)



Home Sweet Home

With wallpaper making a comeback with a vengeance I figured it would be easy to find what I wanted for the wall in our dining room.  First I couldn't find a wallpaper store, then I couldn't find anything under $150 a roll online (didn't even love the $150 ones), and then Jason caught wind of it and put his foot down.  I have yet to understand how it affects him one way or another, but I guess it saves me the trouble. 

So I painted instead.  Then we went to a couple antique stores in SLC and I found a buddy for my goose.  I paid $1 for the goose three months ago at D.I., $26 for the rabbit!

I went yard-saling with some neighborhood ladies couple weekends ago and found the sign for the girls' room.

Ahhhh.  Home whimsical home.