IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LIFE: My mantra

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

My mantra

There is no such thing as the perfect mom

No one is judging me if my house isn't clean

It's ok for a 2 year old with a new sister to watch lots of tv

I love my children, I love my children, I love my children

At least this is what I tell myself after 2 hard days with Dallin, and a hard night with Abigail.

7 comments:

Fauset Photography said...: This is my life motto. You are NOT ALONE!! And YES Dallin can watch all the tv he wants. Give yourself a brake Amber! You are doing a wonderful job!; April 16, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Jesse and Emily said...: It is so fun to read/see your blog!! I know I don't know you very well...but I can tell you are a super mom! and a super wife! a little tv never hurt anyone! ;); April 17, 2008 at 6:44 AM
Emily said...: Just keep repeating it! You're doing great. I actually think it's a HUGE blessing that Macy will sit and watch an entire movie. Some days...it's just what I need to keep the peace and sanity.; April 17, 2008 at 7:24 AM
Valerie said...: I love the font size you used! I am excited b/c I just realized that Tanner (almost 2) can sit still and watch a show (or two!) now. Four months until our new baby, and I'm expecting to make full use of his new talent!

Have tons of fun with the new one. Yes, even the hard days when noone ever gets dressed can be fun if you let everything else go for a bit. I can recall a couple of recent conference talks which specifically tell you to spend time with them when they are little, even if it is to the detriment of housework! Who cares what the house looks like, as long as you feel good about the time spent with either child?? (And I don't mean that all the time has to be "feel-good" time. Discipline and teaching time are good times too!)

The "moments" that make being a mom so cool are even more poignant when you're so tired that all you can do is smile when you realize that you've just had one of those moments.; April 17, 2008 at 8:15 AM
paige said...: Amen! The only thing I will be changing in 3 months is the word "sister" to "brother." Good luck!; April 17, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Jackie said...: Congratulations Amber! Abigail is beautiful. And you look great. I can't believe a baby that big came out of you. Don't even think about cleaning the house. You get at least a 6 week break don't you??:-); April 17, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Unknown said...: You're doing great! Right after Katie was born, if I could say "Everyone is alive and breathing" at the end of the day, I was happy. :); April 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM

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Laughter, the Best Medicine!

04/11 Abbie sings "I Love to see the Temple" but instead of saying "while I am young" she says "while yum, yum, yum."
12/10 I was telling Dallin I remember him when he was so small he was shorter than the kitchen table. He shook his head and said, "It was good times."
11/10 Dallin- "Mom, if I hugged you as hard as I could, your boobs would pop off!"
11/10 Dallin (in a very serious, thoughrful voice), "Mom, you can call me son if you want to."
10/10 Abbie- "This root beer is fuzzy!"
7/10 Dallin told me he wished Daddy wasn't old enough to work, so he could just stay home and work on the computer like I do! Apparently, I'm not old enough to have a "real" job!
6/10 Dallin calls "sprinkles" "sprinklers". He told me he wanted a donut with sprinklers!
6/10 Dallin yelled "oly-oxygen-free" during freeze tag!"
3/10 While Abbie was getting dressed today she pointed to her belly button and called it her "belly butt"!
12/09 Dallin is giving Abbie "goodness" lessons- lessons on how to behave. I'm not sure he's qualified. . .
11/09 Abbie loves telling knock-knock "jokes" which go like this: "knock-knock" "who's there?" "Ab-ee!"
11/09 Dallin will be starting Primary in January (he's the oldest in his class becasue his b-day is the beginning of January) and his nursery teacher started taking the kids into Primary during singing time so they can get used to it. When I told Dallin that he got to go sing in Primary, he asked, "If I don't sing good will they make me leave?" He was worried they would kick him out if he didn't sing well enough!
8/09 Dallin was "selling" ice cream (wood chips) at the park. I asked Dallin how much an ice cream was and he said, "15 bucks." "Wow, that's expensive!" I said. Then Dallin said in his best bargaining voice, "Ok, 14 bucks!"
1/09 Dallin is playing with his Star Wars characters, and I just overheard him say," What the heck! This is ridicrilous!"
1/09 Abbie loves me to jump out from behind doors and walls and "suprise" her and to crawl around chasing her, and then she giggles uncontrollably. Her laugh is so infectious!!
11/08 This morning we woke up to about 6 inches of snow, and it kept snowing all day. Jake said, "We got a new President, and hell froze over."
10/08 Dallin calls daytime "light time". In the morning, he goes over to the window and says "It's light time! That means we can GET UP!!!"
10/08 Dallin wanted to help me give Abbie her bottle. While we were feeding her I said, "babies are alot of work, huh?" Dallin looked at me for awhile, then said, "babies don't go to work!"
Dallin was playing with pirates at my in-laws house. While he played, he sang to them, in the tune of "Book of Mormon Stories": Given this land, if they live, Kill, Kill, Kill!
We try to read scriptures with Dallin every night before bed. He doesn't always listen, and I'm never sure how much he gets out of it. But the other day he told me one of his dinosaurs was "very, very mean." I said, "he is?" And Dallin told me, "he's very wicked." I guess he's listening after all!
03/08 On Easter, Jake's sister Janille's baby was blessed. Right before the prayer, when everyone was quiet, Dallin pointed to Janille's father-in-law, who's in his sixties, and shouted, "That's President Hinkley!"
Dallin and I went to the library last week, and the chinchillas were out "exercising" in their little balls. When the librarian put them away, Dallin got to pet them. I asked him today what he got to touch at the library, and he said "chinchillas" perfectly. Then I asked him what they felt like, expecting him to say soft and fluffy. Instead, he looked at me kinda weird and said, "like chinchillas!"
Jake has gas alot (you'll see why I so unpolitely threw that out in a second). The other day, when he 'passed gas' in front of Dallin, Jake pointed at me and said, "Mommy tooted!" Now, every time Jake 'breaks wind' Dallin points at me and says, "Mommy tooted!" Today Dallin 'fluffed' himself and blamed it on me!
Grocery shopping today, I told Dallin we only had one thing left to get and then we'd go home. He looked at me and answered, very seriously, "pay first." I'm glad I have my toddler to keep me honest!
Jake has been playing in a volleyball tournament this weekend, and Dallin and I went to cheer him on Saturday. In between games, Dallin loved to chase his ball on the court and pretend to spike it. The volleyball net is about 4 1/2 feet off the ground at the bottom, but every time Dallin would go under the net to get his ball, he would duck!
I try to compliment and praise Dallin as much as possible, because the kid tries my patience beyond measure, but I don't want to always be yelling at him for the bad stuff he does. So I try to emphasize the positive! I praise him a lot for eating well. This morning, as I was eating my yogurt, he looked into the cup and asked, "Almost all done?" And I said yes. To which he enthusiastically replied, "Good job, Mommy!"
We're trying to teach Dallin to say the blessing at dinner. As most of you know, he talks remarkably well for his age, so we thought he'd easily catch on and be praying by himself in no time. The first time we were praying with him, however, Jake whispered "say Heavenly Father," and Dallin shouted "Holla!"

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