I Don't Heart Daylight Savings Time

Who is the early morning hating person who developed this whole spring forward thing???  I hate it.  I hate that it is still dark at 7:30 am.  I hate that it has made me so tired.  I hate that we only had 4 blessed months of NO daylight savings time.  I am thinking of moving to AZ.

There, now I feel better.  Maybe I am just in my "it is spring break and I have to work and the kids are bored and making me crazy mode."  Working at home can be trying in times like this!  OK, enough complaining.  Back to work...

What Have You Been Doing?

Nice of you to ask.  We have been doing life.  It keeps us running and busy.  We did have a few fun different things this last week.

(Sophie, Kelsey and Brooke (aka Brooklyn)

We were able to score tickets to see Tim McGraw at the Rodeo on Monday.  Now I love Tim McGraw - seriously there was only 1 song I did not know.  Here is the downside.  During the rodeo, the performers do not take the stage until 9:00 PM.  I am usually in bed by then.  I managed to stay awake, and was rewarded with an awesome concert.

This is Tim as he got down off the stage and walked around the entire arena (the part that was not roped off) and shook hands with fans WHILE HE WAS SINGING.  It was awesome to see.  He is a great entertainer. 

It did make me a little sad missing Ryan since Ryan is the one who introduced this family to Tim McGraw and country music (he started to get off the rap music band wagon and started listening to country and we were totally behind that move).  He would have loved the concert, but I think he loves where is he and what he is doing.

Then I had a quick trip to CA, and I was back in time for New Beginnings.  It was a wonderful evening - they did a program around the poem My Three White Dresses which discusses the three white dresses a YW will wear in her life - blessing dress, baptism dress and wedding dress.  The girls sang a sweet song, and of course I cried.  They did a slide show and showed all the girls in their blessing dresses and baptism dresses.  That made me cry as well.  Here are Kelsey and Sophie's pictures.

Sophie blessing day - yes she is crying

Sophie baptism - she had stopped crying by then

Kelsey blessing day

Kelsey baptism (and the whole family who was there - the twins were little and I don't have any pictures of just Kelsey in her dress...sorry Kels)

They grow up way too fast - and in case you are wondering we are not ready for the 3rd white dress yet!

We Have A Winner

For the title of Biggest Drama Queen in the Pearson family.  And for anyone who knows my girls you know that is a hotly contested race.

Allie - on her birthday this year

Why you ask?  Let me tell you about my morning...

I was up with the older two girls to make their lunch, send them off to school with a smile, and be an all around great mother (how is that for a plug?).  After they left I did a couple of things and decided that Eric, who was still in bed up to this point, could be the one to get the twins up, dressed and to school.  I headed to take a hot bath - complete with bubbles.

I am enjoying my TV wrap up of the Oscars, enjoying my soak when in walk Eric and a hysterical Allie.  Eric says, Allie is crying because she is sure you love Caroline more than her.  OK.  Why?

He tells me because I am going on the field trip with Caroline this week and not with Allie.  Well, Caroline's teacher, who is our family all time favorite teacher, cornered me last week and tricked me to come to the field trip.  I told Allie this (also admitting that she should know I don't like any field trips at all - I love my kids but not field trips), and she says, still crying mind you, that is not all.

OK.  So why else do I love Caroline more, I ask very patiently even though she is messing up my quiet soak and Oscar wrap up.  Here is her honest answer - and I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

DQ: "Before we were born you said if we were boys you were going to name her after an ancestor and I was just going to get any old name."

Me:  "Allie, you are the one named after BOTH of your grandfathers and she has any old name."

DQ: "Yes, but if we had been boys you were going to name her Henry [my grandfather's name] and me just Jack."

Me:  "But Allie, you are not a boy, and you are named after your grandfathers."

DQ:  "Yeah But..."

You can see this went on for a few minutes at which point I said you are just being crazy.  Have you eaten breakfast yet?  Of course the answer is no, and she went to eat.

Seriously?  Tears at 7:30 over something that NEVER HAPPENED?  Later I turned to Eric and said you realize the hormones have not even kicked in yet.  He looked a little scared and said seriously?  That is not causing this?  Oh no I assure him - there is more to come!

My Babies Are Nine

How did that happen?  How did we go from this

To this?

More to come later...