One reason why I hate to cook

Dallin's friend was over during dinner time and we invited him to eat with us. He sat down, smelled the food and said, "this really stinks, how can you possibly like that stuff?

Dallin replied, "We don't, we just have to eat it!"

Winnie the Pooh?

Kyle- "mom, was does Winnie have "poo" on the end of his name?

Mom- "it's not that kind of Pooh.

Kyle- "oh, is it green poo?

from Kindergarten to College

I would be lying if I didn't say I was counting down the days to when my college student is off to college. (it's 10 day). He thinks he is going to magically turn into a mature college student and that a job will fall in his lap that first day. I'm tired of bursting his bubble to point out that life doesn't change overnight. Let me just say that I had a great time buying his b-day present with things to help him be on his own. He is going to be living with a couple of friends and we are excited and hopeful for him.

I am hoping the college student is going to be less work this year as I am going to have a busy schedule keeping up with kids in Elementary, intermediate school,, middle school and high school. Plus I will be teaching 3 times a week at preschool! Wow, just going to all the orientations and back to school nights and filling out all the paperwork to get them all enrolled is like a full time job. Yet I also have Joanna on the tennis team, James and Taylor in tackle football and Dallin in flag football. Luckily Kyle is still happy with riding his new bike and doesn't have to be in a sport yet! Actually I love fall and am happy that they are all involved in good things and healthy enough to do it.

I can't believe school is almost here. It was a fun summer. Yet, as I type that I am reminded of a conversation I had with the kids the other day. I told them the highlight of my day is doing individual reading outloud on the back porch with each of them. They replied by saying they were going to start giving me lessons on "how to have fun!" A few days later I spent a long time putting together a marble maze with the kids and was amazed that I didn't give up since it had so many pieces. When we finished we raced the marbles down and Taylor said, "ok mom this was lesson number one on having fun!"

So, I am looking forward to more lessons on "how to have fun" because apparently I don't even know what it is anymore.

Twenty years of marriage!

Lynn and I recently celebrated our 20th anniversary. You know when I got married and we could only afford to go to Jackson Hole for our honeymoon I thought for sure that by the time we had our 20th anniversary we would go somewhere romantic and exotic. A few years into marriage I became more realistic and realized you don't have to go somewhere exotic to honor and celebrate being married. Just being with Lynn is special and good enough for me. It is rare that we get time alone.

On our actual anniversary we were at Bear Lake. We went to the play at Pickleville playhouse of "Juanito Bandito" with the kids and Lynn's family. It was sooo funny and we had a blast. The next week-end we planned on doing something just the two of us and decided it was off to the "big city" to go out to dinner and to the movie"inception." Well, as usual we tried to plan too much for one day and before we knew it we weren't going to have enough time and we ended up in Heber driving our suburban to Arby's. As we were sitting there eating Lynn said, "so, are you disapointed that we are eating at Arby's for our twentieth anniversary?" I told him I slpurged and ordered what I really wanted (not the cheapest thing) plus I ordered the banana split milkshake ,so I was good! We had to laugh that we can be ok with Arby's for the 20th anniversary! I am grateful I am more in love today than I was 20 years ago and I'd be happy going anywhere that I don't have to cook!