A Kind of Frustrating Mother's Day

It all started a couple of week ago. I got an email from an online card company offering free Mother's Day cards. All you had to pay was shipping. I figured I wouldn't be able to do better than that especially for personalized cards with our pictures on them. I went ahead and ordered two. A few days later one card showed up. Then I saw the charge on our account and it was more than double what they said it would cost. I emailed the company to see if the other card was on it's way and what was going to be done about the cost. I received a reply saying there was a problem with the card and they were taking care of it and I would get the card that had the problem. That did not answer my question so I again emailed the company asking them to clarify. The reply was even more unclear than before. In short I only got one card, but they did fix the charges. So then my dilemma became do I take the one card I have to my Mom since I was going down to be with her OR do I send it to Glenn's Mom and hope the other one gets here before we leave. I couldn't decide what to do so in my frustration I set it on the table and decided to make my decision closer to the time for us to leave. My decision was finally made that I would take the card to my Mom and send Sharon hers as soon as it arrived. In all the rush to get things together and on our way I left the card on the table. Neither Mother got a card from the slackers! Sorry!!

Mother's Day itself was a bit unhappy for me. I spent the day either curled up on the couch or in bed. I wasn't able to help with the dinner prep or even enjoy all the yummy food. Sorry to all the sisters, Mom and Lindy who did all the work without any help from me. As the day progressed I got worse, but we had to head home so off we went. As we made our entrance into Heber I needed Glenn to make an emergency stop. He was in the far left turn lane and the cross traffic had the green light. I couldn't wait for our light to change so I ended up leaving a deposit along the road as we waited to be able to move. After he was able to turn off the road and hide me from the many vehicles that got to watch the spectacle, a Sheriff pulled up along side him and said that he just wanted to make sure that we didn't get hit. It was such a thrill!

So I truly hope that every Mother out there had a much better Mother's Day than I did. Every Mother I know deserves to be pampered and taken care of every day, but most assuredly on this one special day of the year.

Since I was totally unable to do anything I didn't get any pictures of the Mother's in my life or of the girls playing outside. I guess that's a good thing though since JUSTIN ended up spraying them with the hose and he had to bring a wet sobbing Zoe into me for comfort. So as his punishment he will be babysitting my kids again! It doesn't pay to be mean!

Why?

Why do kids always latch onto the most annoying toy in the toy box? And where do these obnoxious things come from?

Oh, that's right. From me! Duh. Why don't I learn?

I know you all wish that you could be at our house right now. We are getting a run down of all of Maggie's promises she will make if we let her get out of bed to do all the things she refused to do before going to bed.

"I promise that I won't pick up Zoe anymore"
"Please Mom this is my only chance to do it"
"Please, please, please, Mom"
"I'll stop crying if you let me"
"I promise, I promise, I promise, and I won't break the promise"
"I need a drink"
"I need to use the bathroom"
"Can I please use the bathroom?"

Yeah, it sounds all sad and pathetic now, but the fit leading up to the punishment was something you would see on Super Nanny. A show that she has watched with me a million times and has commented on the kids bad behavior and how they shouldn't act like that. Apparently it's alright for her to act this way. Rules don't apply to my girls. Their super special!

Zoe just came up and kicked my chair. I love the two year old attitude. She's well on her way to following in her big sisters footsteps. How excited am I?

And yes, to all those out there wondering, I am the meanest Mom...EVER!! You can all thank Super Nanny for my new found meanest and parenting skills. If you have issue with how I parent take it up with her!

Drive-In

Saturday was the primary activity day at Mom and Dad's ward. Since Camille was going Maggie decided that she wanted to go too. They were having a "drive-in" movie so they all made cardboard box cars. They were all so cute. Here is Maggie in her creation. "the Magster".

Everyone got settled in their parking spots and were served popcorn and drinks.

ENJOYING THE FLICK

Random

Do you notice anything different? Besides the massive bows taking over her head?

I was invited to attend the baby shower for my friend Lindsey. Her Mom made this adorable cake. I will have to be stealing this idea. We are excited to meet the newest Bowen soon.

Every Thursday morning the Library has story time for kids. I have taken Zoe a couple of times and she has so much fun. After the first story the kids get some sticks to bang together while they dance with the story lady. She is so fun. The kids love her. Zoe got a few more sticks than her allotted two.

Such concentration and skill

Tapping her tummy to the music

Pure talent!

What Can I Do?

I am at a loss. I brush Zoe's teeth. Regularly. Not too long after I get them all shiny and pearly white they get really orange. ORANGE! What is that about? I have to scrape them with my fingernail to get them completely clean. I hate it. It's gross.

Has anyone dealt with this before? What can I do? My Mom's helpful advice when I asked her how to get the orange off: brush her teeth. Thanks Mom. That was clever!

My Gorgeous Girl

Since the day she was born she has had the most beautiful eyelashes.

I haven't been able to capture Maggie's long lashes on film yet, but she has the same ones.

I wish I could say they got them from me, but no. They get them from their Dad.

*SIGH*

Just a little blogger gripe. I get so frustrated when I try to adjust the spacing between my pictures and accidentally delete one. It happens to me frequently. When I center them on the page I can't tell exactly how many spaces are between them. I like them to be close together and usually delete one too many spaces and then my picture goes bye bye. ARRRG! (that's my impersonation of an angry blogging pirate!)

My Two Deleted Pictures

So here you go. These are the two pictures I lost from my last post. I didn't want the hassle of editing that post so they get their own showcase. You are all excited I'm sure!

The girls had fun playing with Aunt Shirley. I think she enjoyed them as well. Thanks for letting us hang out for a few minutes.

Yucky Rash & April Snow

So for the last couple of months I have been dealing with a lovely red, itchy rash on my face. It has been driving me crazy. I have taken Claritin and Benydril as well as put on a topical ointment that is supposed to help with the itch. No relief from any of it. So while we were in Utah for Spring Break I called my Cousins husband who is a dermatologist in Logan and they squeezed me in to check it out. He thinks it is an allergic reaction to something so I got the pleasure of wearing three large stickers on my back that had 29 little squares with different ingredients in each. If I reacted to some of them they would know what I was allergic to. My appointment was on Wednesday and had to wear the patches until my next appointment on Friday. My Wednesday appointment was at 8:30 in the morning. Logan is just over 2 hours north east of Provo. Glenn and I had to leave around 5:30 so we could for sure be on time. We planned to leave the girls sleeping and then Mom would take care of them when they woke up. Both of them woke up before we left so Mom had the pleasure of listening to Zoe cry uncontrollably for about 45 minutes after we left. Sorry for the unpleasant experience Mom, but thank you for taking her on!

So the real point of this post is this...on our way up on Wednesday we had some nasty weather just outside of Logan. Then on our way home this is what we drove in all the way back...



Are you kidding me?! It's April! Where are the flowers? The green grass? The blooming trees? Thursday morning we woke up to this...

It was really cool to see how winter and spring kind of collided here. The blossoms were so pretty and the looked like they had been sprinkled with sugar. Very pretty.

So my Friday appointment was late in the afternoon and Glenn had left the afternoon before to get ready for a weekend camp out so Mom and Dad decided they would ride with me to Logan. Our weather was beautiful. It finally looked and felt like spring. I love spring! Warmer weather, pretty blossoms and new life. Mom and Dad's neighbors have sheep and there are a couple of new babies that are so cute and energetic.

Test results: apparently I had some kind of reaction to every patch. Not cool! Now we have no idea what is causing the rash on my face. Super. They gave me lots of samples of things to try and if it doesn't get better in the next few weeks they want me to come back in. So far no luck with any of it. It swells up and itches like crazy every three or four days. Today was an itchy flare up day. It wasn't as red as usual, but it is itching like no bodies business. I hate to leave the house because I look hideous. I'm sure I've scared a few kids at Maggie's school by now. It is so frustrating to not know what the cause is. I have no idea how to make it stop. The next step is to go to an actual allergist and get more specific testing done. I can not afford the next step! I guess I get to have a red rashy face. Fun for me.

When we went back on Friday we had a few extra minutes so we were able to go see Glenn's brother and his wife. Bob knew that we were planning to come back and may drop in on him, but Shirley was totally surprised when we walked into her office. It was the first time Shirley had ever seen Zoe and she took right to her. Shocking, I know! Zoe doesn't take to people very easily. They usually have to work for her affection.

I'm having some posting issues. I just deleted two of my pictures. I'm not fixing it right now. I have a few minutes to myself so blogging is getting put on hold...AGAIN!