1. A couple Friday's ago, Ashley discovered a scorpion in the girl's bedroom. Needless to say it made me really upset and I hardly slept that night. Pest control came first thing that next Monday and they saturated our house inside and out with eco-friendly products. :) While in the process he discovered termite tubes in our garage. Great. I notified the landlord and another pest control company came to give us an estimate. Of course the girls and I shadowed him as he walked the property. Cyrena listens to everything so she asked who 'Mike' was after the pest control guy said he'd call 'Mike' about the estimate. Here's the conversation:
Cyrena: Mom, who's Mike?
Me: Mike is our landlord
Cyrena: What's a landlord?
Me: A landlord is someone who owns a house but lets someone else live in it
Cyrena (wheels are turning): Oooohhhh....
Cyrena: You mean like Jesus is our landlord because he created the Earth but we live on it?
Me (stunned): Well, yeah actually he is like our landlord. He helps us when we need it but we live here and take care of the Earth he created.
Cyrena: Yeah Jesus made the earth with Heavenly Father and blah, blah, blah (those who know her can fill in the blanks, she went on and on for about 10 minutes).
You should hear her lecture on Satan and the solar system, it's riveting.
So I think she's ready to read and analyze Jacob 5, what do you think??
2. I had a wonderful Mother's Day, I hope you all did as well. David did so much for me, it was wonderful. He even made me a homemade chocolate cream pie...YUM. I haven't felt like the best mom lately so it was nice to feel so loved and appreciated. I feel like I have so much to live up to because of the wonderful moms I know. My own mom, mothers-in-law, my sister and sisters-in-law and all my great friends. I'm lucky to have a support system that I can go to for those days when nothing is going right and all of us are grumpy! All those moms help me put things in perspective....tomorrow is a new day and I can always start over.
3. Our ward boundaries got rearranged last week. We were sad to see some of our friends taken away from our ward. My callings (I had 2 since our ward was small) technically weren't going to change but they did anyway. Now I am the Primary chorister! I'm excited because I had this calling for just about 5 months when Cyrena was 1. I really liked it and was sad when I was called to something else. This past Sunday was my first day and it was a lot of fun. The primary president said she thought I did well and she was so glad to see that I wasn't a pushover. I reminded her that I taught 2nd graders so that strict side of me tends to come out when I'm with kids! :) It will be a fun new adventure. David kept his calling as the YM's secretary.
4. Natalie is now 2 1/2. I think she's going to be 2 forever. David and I were both saying that it feels like she's been at this stage forever. Diapers, sippy cup, booster seat, mischievousness, bib, lisp, etc. Anyway, she's a cutie, super cuddly, hard to understand sometimes, sick often, and is very very very very busy. Consequences mean nothing to her; everything is in one ear then out the other. I dread her teenage years. At least she'll have straight arrow Cyrena to look up to. For Natalie's half birthday I made peanut butter cheesecake brownies. And she finally got her bed. We got another twin bed to match Cyrena's. This was very exciting! As a result, we were finally able to put Anna in the crib and she's now officially unswaddled and stretched out!
5. David is looking forward to Memorial Day. The man never takes a sick or vacation day so Memorial Day will be his first day off this year! He works so hard for us, we're very blessed. Now we'll need to do something to celebrate that day that is special for so many reasons.
We've had some beautiful weather here this week. In fact, I think I have tennis elbow from pushing Natalie on the swing so much. She never tires of it.
This is Natalie singing part of the new song for this year's primary program. She learned this just from Cyrena constantly singing it at home.
7 comments:
So cute!!!
And you will be AMAZING as chorister :-)
Have I told you lately that you rock? (You do)
Katelyn Svancara found a scorpion in her drinking glass she had by the bed. It must have fallen off the ceiling or something because it didn't crawl in it. Now THAT would be scary!
And I roll my eyes at you needed help for your calling, if anything I should be asking YOU for help!
Cyrena cracks me up. Jesus is our landlord, makes sense.
Yikes about the bugs, CUTE CUTE CUTE about Cyrena's Discourse!!
ohmygosh that is hilarious what cyrena said. love love love your family. could watch/read about them all day long :)
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O my goodness, Jenna. We have the same children but in different bodies. Noah is straight as an arrow, a real rule follower. Jaxson, wow, he acts like he doesn't hear you even though you are right next to him. If things don't go his way, look out, he can throw himself on the ground so fast. Love them for their spirit but it can be tiring. You are an inspiration of a mother so your bad day will pass and i'm sure you will make up for it with something amazing. Miss you and your family.
I love the heading of your blog! You are an awesome mother Jenna, even when you're not feeling it. Cyrena kills me. Trust you to have a daughter like her. I'm sitting here thinking, what's Jacob 5? Haha. Congrats on the primary chorister calling again. I know you loved it, and now I need to send your book back to you. I love to hear Natalie singing that song. What a little sweetheart, and I love your comment about her straight arrow older sister keeping her in line. You better believe it. We're both lucky to have such obedient oldest children.
Oh Cyrena and Ty are so much alike - it cracked me up reading about Cyrena! Those 2 had to have known each other really well before they came here. I loved in the little video when she was trying to correct Natalie. Ty is so technical about everything Isabelle does and says and the worst part is that Isabelle reacts dramatically which ends up driving me crazy! So don't feel like an imperfect mom we all go crazy at times! ;) I think there should be more blog posts about the craziness of our lives as moms and then we all wouldn't feel so unfit (since of course blogs are filled with all the perfect, super crafty, organized, beautiful, healthy moms :/ )!
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