Storms and Loans

Rain, lightening, thunder and HAIL!!! Woke the house at 6 am in the morning!

What happened next was something that we like to call very bad luck!

The newly fixed drain still over flowed unable to keep up with the torrential down pour and the house,

yup you guessed it - flooded again!

The men grabbed the new sump pump and were able to clear out most of the over flow 

before the house flooded to badly.

When all that was done the men to their dismay found out that it was now time for work!

My hubby having plenty of vacation time took the day off. We still had more paperwork that needed to be sorted on the house anyway. We had been told that they were missing coordinating student loan numbers and needed to get them even more paperwork!

Hubby makes his phone calls and we are told the paperwork they had wanted from him - they already had! Why? Because they hadn't looked for the account numbers ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PAPERS! So we are now all done with the paperwork and need Hud to approve a closing day for us.

Last week they were saying not until 9/11 today they said possibly 9/9 - WOW right? Today is the 30th and all the paper work is ready! What are they waiting for?

Cold Medicine

This is my Little man

he is a trouble maker on most days.

Tonight as I was giving him his cold medicine

Prissy who was taking a different 

medicine asks him

"What does it taste like?"

I answer for him

"Grape"

He shakes his head NO,

looks at his sister and says

"Poo Poo!"

Just where do you go from there?

Helping

The last few weeks that we have been helping my BFF around the house has really brought this one word to my attention.

My hubby fixes, helps and creates and with each project I help him. Our children who are monkey see, monkey do have picked up on this. NOT a bad thing. To make it even more amazing my hubby, who is one of a kind, finds little things for them to help with. In this way, they are always learning and always helping.

This has never been something we paid much attention too, it just was. Until we moved in with our friends who have two special needs children. Now they are high functioning and both are in school and progressing, but when house projects start they are removed from the area. Due to this, "Uncle R" my friends husband is having a hard time with my children's constant desire to help.

No amount of shoeing, pleading or cajoling will now deter my children from helping. IF papa or mama are helping then they are too, even if they are sick. Some might find this to be over helpful, others might even think that they need to learn their limits, I however, know that there is a very small window of opportunity. Once a child is told enough times to "Not Help", they will stop.

When I mean stop, I don't mean for the time asked, I mean period. They become pre-teens, then teens and if good hard work ethics or helping others, has not already been instilled in them you will end up like this person.

Being in need of help and not able to find any. Not the type of children future adults, I want to raise. How about you?

Poseidon's Storm

I had to borrow this picture, as earlier this evening when I had enough light to see the boiling green clouds, I unfortunately did not have my camera with me.
The dark sea green in the sky tonight made me think of Poseidon (aka King Triton in the little mermaid).
Poseidon is known as the Greek god of the Sea, storms and is also known as an earth shaker.

The storm that is hitting over head is dark, growing and the lightening is amazing! Utah normally has what is known as single strike lightening, tonight's lightening is filling up the whole sky.
Illuminating the whole sky. I love sheet lightening, my BFF, however, does not. In fact she completely freaks out seeing lightening and being out in it.

The storm that will last all of tonight and a good part of tomorrow I have now nicknamed, "Tridents Storm". I also liked to pretend that Zeus and Poseidon are fighting over the sky contesting to who it truly belongs. Keeping with tradition I will also blame the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for this round of contests as its "making Poseidon angry".

Now I am not a big, huge mythological person, but still this is very unusual Utah weather, so why not have some fun with it right?

Childhood Fun!

I tell Prissy, "You have a nice Peaches and Cream complexion."

She stares at me in horror for a few seconds.

"Peaches and Green! I don't want that!"

She exclaims in a loud wail.

After I explain what it really means and that I had said

the word cream and not green,

she beams happily and say's

"Goody!"

Just some precious moments of my kids playing on the playground. Loved the bright colored hats against the bright colored play ground!

New love found!

The Shabby Nest is offering a giveaway for one of the coolest new toys!

Its called the Silhouette, it can cut magnets, vinyl, paper, almost anything and it does it! Like a printer only it cuts out the items you need!
If I wasn't scrapped for cash buying our new home I would buy this without trying to win it!

Run on by check out the blog, check out the site. If anyone has ever used these please let me know what you think of it.

Wordless Wednesday - Shhhh