Sick?? Who do you want mom or dad?

Yesterday the girls had their end of the season horse show. They did so wonderful and I was very impressed with the skills that they have gained over the summer. Elle is now saving all her news paper money in order to buy herself a horse next summer. Where we will keep it is anyone's guess but as long as she is willing to save her money for a horse I am willing to help figure out how she will care for it when that time comes! Although I know it will be much different then taking care of gerbils.

Well last night I started to feel a headache coming on and this morning awoke with a sore throat and just feeling like crap. All three of the kids have had this head cold in the last two weeks and it seems to have hang on about a week. I guess it is my turn to be sick but I want to know if anyone will take care of me the way I took care of them?? I already know the answer...no. It is just the job of the mom to do the taking care of people but when it comes to the mom getting sick there is no one to take care of the mom. Don't get me wrong, Scott is caring and when he is home he is sensitive to my needs when I am feeling yucky and the kids even seem to be more sensitive to me when I say I don't feel well but when I am sick I just want my Dad!! That's right it is not my mom but my dad that always made me feel better when I was sick as a kid. Here's to wishing that I could have my dad right now.

Good Day

Today is Friday 2:00pm and I have been laying in bed for the whole day. I was up late last night and got up early 6:00am to go walking and then got Elle off to school and then crashed back into bed! It has felt so good to not do anything. I think it is so wonderful to be able to have a day like this every once in a while. But the kids have started to come home from school and so I need to pull myself together and be a mom! I love my life!!!

Just Say No!

The kids and Scott are all at mutual night so I thought I would be productive and do some blogging! So far I only have one faithful reader of my blog and she shall remain nameless. It is harder to blog then I thought it was going to be. Not because I don't have the time, I just don't feel like I have anything really interesting to say. I guess I shouldn't feel like my blog has to live up to the standards of Tanner and be profound each and every time I write. My blogs may be boring but I will do better at blogging more often.

Well things are going good right now, I have adjusted to having the quite time back into my life with the kids gone to school. I am getting myself more involved with the schools then I have for a while. I think I totally burned myself out with my last involvement with volunteering in schools and PTA and then after that I did homeschooling for a couple of years. I just did to much and it wore me out. I finally feel like I can get involved without it taking over my life. I know how to say no much better and not feel guilty about it. Why is it that women feel guilty for saying no anyways?? I hope I can teach my girls that it is okay to say no. I want to teach them it is good to serve others and always have a giving heart but at the same time I want them to know it is okay to take care of yourself and be in a healthy place mentally and physically before you can take care of the the rest of the world.

Now onto a different subject. I am getting really tired of all the political adds and talk on the news that dominates everything. I can't wait till the elections are over. I don't think they should allow campaigning to start until 6 months before the elections. If they didn't allow campaigning until just before elections then people wouldn't be burned out with all of it. The people might pay more attention to the issues instead of get tired of all the stupid stuff they say about each other.

Well I will save my other brilliant thoughts for a later blog....