Dirty Dishes

and other negelected things

Month: October, 2006

Pumpkin Paradise

Leo and Badger chose to draw instead of carve their pumpkins

Sunny chose a cute pattern out of a pumpkin carving book

and Elliott carved this cool FSM jack-o-lantern
Plus! I’m getting you all this for Christmas! Really!
Happy Halloween Everybody!

Autumn

The Morning Routine, sort of

This morning Sunny woke me up, pretty much the same way she does every morning, by saying “Mom, I’m hungry. Get out of bed.” I rolled out of bed. It was 7:30. I poured cereal for Sunny and Leo. I had some coffee. The kids got dressed. I [...]

Favorite quote of the day

“Mom, I totally smell something burning. I think my butt is ON FIRE! “-my son Badger

Lunch, Utah style

A few weeks ago, my one and only Utah friend invited me to a lunch she was having for her birthday. And although she is my only Utah friend, I am most certainly not her only Utah friend so there were going to be about 8 other people there. I am going to [...]

Morning Hair

Well honestly, this photo just happened to be taken in the morning but his hair looks like this pretty much all the time. I don’t know why. Maybe he needs more conditioner. Or a hair cut. Or less fingers in light sockets.

Unofficial and Unaware

I’m not 100% sure but I think I am the babysitter for my neighbors kids. That or they just might live here now. I have never been very quick and I’ve always been a pushover, but when Can-They-Play-While-I-Run-Some-Errands becomes an every day for six hours straight babysitting job I START TO CATCH ON [...]

Has anyone outside of Utah ever been terrorized this way?

It happens every year without fail…except for the first couple of years we lived here which I think was a not so subtle ‘Fuck You’ to the non-Mormons in the neighborhood, so I suppose we have now been accepted in to their society a visit from the Home Teachers is surely soon to follow…so I [...]

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