Rearranging things

Do you remember when you were younger and how much FUN and EXCITING it was to rearrange furniture/rooms?! Maybe it was just my family. Ok, yes we're weird! We used to map out, on paper, how the room would look and where exactly we'd put everything and then we'd set to work. The room would be spotless and put away when we were done and we'd be happy and content for...maybe a week or so. Then the "newness" would wear off. What brought on this memory? I moved my office around. More like I changed rooms with it. It used to be in a nice out of the way room and now it is in a nook/corner of my kitchen. I have my reasons for moving it out of that room (and no, we're not adding to the family anytime soon). Every time I'd walk away from the office, Tyler would sneak in there and get to work deleting programs, rearranging my hard drive, etc. I decided that my kitchen would be a better spot for that. I'm not sure if that was a wise move or not. It feels weird being right in the center of everything while trying to have some "me time" checking emails and Facebooking. I guess this will just have to be one of those things that just "grows on me."

Going Semi-Private

How might I go "semi-private" you might be asking? I've decided to pull this blog from Facebook, so if you'd like to still follow, please add yourself to my "Coolest Fans" list off to the side of this post at nelsonscrazychaoticzoo.blogspot.com !! In this blog's place on FB, I'll be posting recipes and other ideas from sandishomecookin.blogspot.com .

They've done it....AGAIN!

Chris and I went on a date to the temple tonight and on our way back (since the babysitter doesn't charge when it's a temple date) we stopped at Wendy's to get some shakes for everyone...sitter included! We got home and walked through the door and found E (the sitter) cleaning up flour in the kitchen. She quickly explained that they were going to make cookies and while she was searching for the baking soda, the kids dumped the flour all over the floor (sound familiar?...see almost all of the previous posts...especially the first ones of this blog)! So she decided to clean up the mess (bless her heart) and started the vacuum up. Well, that's been acting up some the last little bit, and she said she smelled something burning...like the belt or something, so she stopped. But while she was cleaning that up, the kids had gone into the pantry and opened up the wheat, flour, oats and dried beans and started making a mess in there (I have no doubt in my mind who the ring-leader was in all this). So, to distract them, she decided to get them snacks from the fridge. They decided to have apples (even though the kids knew those were off limits...they're for Terra's snack on Monday). James got a hold of the knife and cut his finger...causing E to look for the first aid kit...which I've hidden from the kids, but not well enough since they're the ones that told her where to look. But see, I know my kids well enough to know that if the apples aren't pealed, they only take a couple bites out of them and then start a food-fight-war with the remains. The chicken-scrap bucket is now full of apples and crunched up chips (they'd also gotten the chips and dip out and there is now dip on my play room floor). We decided to feed the rest of the oats (since it would be WAY too tedious a task to salvage them) to the chickens. So all the wheat and junk that was on the floor in the pantry, got mixed in the big storage bucket where the oats once resided and was set outside the back door for tomorrow's feeding frenzy.

I really feel bad for E since she felt terrible and that this was her fault. WRONG! They've done this to me NUMEROUS times (mostly when I'm largely preggo and can't chase them down...)!! I kept reassuring her and she kept apologizing...so I changed the subject while driving her home. Now I'm thinking that she deserves a LOT more than a small shake from Wendy's as compensation for the pain and suffering the kids put her through!! I hope they didn't scare her away like they have a couple other people (seriously...I got a phone call the next day from them asking me to never ask them to sit again...wow). I LOVE YOU E!!! And just consider yourself officially initiated into the clan...okay?! *sigh* On a positive note...no major tantrums today from Tyler, so the therapy tactics are working a bit better (?) or maybe he's just finally getting used to the change around here (?) either way...I'LL TAKE IT!

As Promised...

Here are a few pics from Terra's b-day party! Thanks everyone who helped out!

The lovely cake! (it's supposed to be a tiara on top...LOL)

The pinata!

Freeze Dance.

Pin the kiss on the Frog Prince.

Just a goofy face she was pulling!All the "princesses"...couldn't get a pic with ALL of them smiling though! It was a blast!