Love Month - Bug

I love 1st mom.  I love families.  I love my pups and my cat.  I love Danielle's cat.  I love to read a book. 

Love means love people. 

How would I know if you love me? "I do because you're my mom."

It broke Noah's heart when he broke the apple cutter.

If you love someone you get married and say I love you.

You're best friends if you love someone.  You play animal games if you love someone.

I love everybody in the whole world.

As a footnote, I'd like to add something that I really love about Abbi.  This morning, I was reading an article in the Ensign.  It's called "Exhort Them To Pray."  I hadn't really thought a lot about what I was reading when I was interrupted with Abbi folding her little hands and saying a blessing over her bowl of cereal.  There is something about Abbi's prayers, that remind me every time I hear her pray, how we should speak to Heavenly Father.  Abbi tells Him about what she is doing and what she is going to do. And later in the day, when she prays she does an excellent "return and report" by telling Heavenly Father how her day went.  Abbi is so humble, honest, and loving.  Instead of learning how to "exhort them to pray" I was taught by Abbi's sweet prayer about Cheerios, school, seeing her mom later, etc.  I know I got the best end of the deal the day I got Abbi in my life.

Love Month - Robot

I love bouncy balls.

I love a big bouncy ball.

I love basketball hoop.

Since 2006...

I have no idea how to add a photo from my iPad to this post. I took a photo of a very important piece of my bathroom decor, where it has had a designated home on the mirror for almost SIX years. I hear it's popular to post motivational thoughts and quotes on your mirror that remind you of who your are or who you want to be.... But mine says, "We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup." That's right. Very motivational.

Wendy cut it out of a Real Simple magazine for me long, long ago.

All About Me - #4

The Fruits of Your Labor

Your children - Bug and Robot, 5 years apart in age

Your pets - Darla & Thor, the pups; Toby, the cat; and Bubbles, the fish no one cares about

You live in a - townhome

Your transportation - Toyota Snob

Your approximate income - I never expected to make what I make

Approximate number of hours you work each week - 40

Your watch - don't wear one

Your perfume - Mariah Carey, I think

Something important on your desk - pens

On your wall hangs - photos

Under your bed you hide - treats, usually chocolate

Something important on your night table - lotion

When you sleep, you wear - whatever I grab first

If you had a safe, you would keep - extra copies of Pride & Prejudice and emergency craft supplies

Things you like to buy - craft supplies

If you could afford it at this moment, you would buy - craft supplies

You collect - ideas

You don't have a lot of - ideas

Your strangest possession -squirrel bride and groom

Your most expensive possession - wedding ring

Your prized possession -photos

Material possessions are - for memories, not for wealth

If your house was burning down and you only had time to rescue 3 things they would be - other than people/animals, Christmas ornaments, scriptures, photo albums

whether or not....

Recently, we have been working extra hard with Abbi on her school work, especially her spelling tests.  We made a chart to fill in each week with her score and she picked her own reward for an 8, 9, or 10 on her test.  Since last Friday, we have all anxiously waited for the spelling test to come home to see if the extra study efforts paid off.  Last night, Abbi brought a spelling test home in her coat pocket and ...... it was a 10/10!!!

I made a huge deal out of it!  We celebrated all night.  First we stopped at Grandpa Hansen's office to show him.  He gave her a balloon and $2 and Abbi was a good sister and gave Noah $1 and even her balloon when he lost his outside.  Then we stopped at Wendy's and got kids' meals with chocolate milk!  Abbi ate her dinner all gone so she treated herself to a yummy dessert of a brownie and her frosty!  Then, after a little homework, we made a dragon out of paper and put in How to Train Your Dragon to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the year of the Dragon!

All three of us had such a fun night and the kids were so happy.  Abbi and I had a good visit too, after Noah went to bed.  I was so happy all night and I excitedly reported the evening to Jake via text.  This is the response I got.  "She totally buffaloed you.  That spelling test is Alana's."

Whether or not Abbi knew she was tricking me, we had such a good night together.  It's such a good feeling to have everyone happy at home.  Next time we celebrate, we'll save it for a night Jake is home, just in case he knows something I don't know.  :)

p.s.  My dad enjoyed one of the brownies too.  I told him it was a brownie with brown frosting.  He loved it.  It was actually a cream cheese frosting brownie.  Supposedly, he hates cream cheese.  :)