A Day In the Life Of...

I woke up this morning at 5am to go to the temple. Actually, I jogged there to get in my morning run at the same time (Just wear a skort ok?) While jogging to the temple, I prayed for my neighbor with the swine flu, my sister who was just made relief society president and my cousin's baby who is constipated. On my way home from the temple, I stopped at Macey's to buy donuts to drop off to a friend in need who has been depressed all week (I think she may just be in the middle of reading New Moon though).
Before the kids got up I took a shower, cleaned the kitchen, did some laundry and washed down all the walls in my living room. Once they kids were up I made them a gourmet breakfast and cleaned the kitchen again. Then I bathed my 3 children, helped my oldest with his homework and we all read scriptures together and prayed. Afterwards I took everyone on a cultural field trip to the West Jordan museum where we could learn about our pioneer heritage. Then it was time to go back home where I prepared a healthy meal of homemade mac and cheese, carrot sticks and pineapple which my children eagerly gobbled up.
Time for the oldest to go off to school, lay the middle child down for a nap, clean the kitchen and get some aerobic exercise in while playing classical music for the youngest so his brain can grow. Once everyone was back together we had singing and story time and a quick gospel lesson. I sat all the children down to color while I prepared salmon on a wooden plank for dinner and some lasagna for another friend in need down the road. The hubby came home and after dinner we all played Scrabble and went on a bike ride (but not before I cleaned the kitchen again). Finally it was time for bed, all the kids were asleep by 7:30pm which left my hubby and I the rest of the night to stare into each other's eyes and share our deep, most innermost thoughts with each other. Then I said my prayers and got 8 hours of sleep.

*Disclaimer: The events depicted in this day are not typical and may not have happened at all. In fact, they may be a complete lie (except for how many times the kitchen needed to be cleaned), so the next time you are jogging to the temple at 5am you may need to pray for the author of this blog entry. Thank you.

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!

I feel kind of like hiding out today from the kids. Sometimes I wish, as a mom, I could start the year off with like 3 "get out of jail free" cards, so on those days where I just don't feel like "doing it all" I would be exempt for the day from responsibilities. I know life don't work that way, but hey, a girl can dream right? And that's why us woman have book club nights and girls night outs and relief society socials and all that jazz, so we can escape and let our wild thing out for a few hours. I think, having a newborn, has been especially hard on me this time, b/c already having 2 wonderful chilluns (book club reference!) to look after and then adding one that's attached to me 24/7 (literally, either I'm feeding him, holding him or sleeping with him) makes the selfish beast in me really come out and say "can't I have some ME time??" I feel like Supernanny is going to bust in any minute and tell me how selfish I am (she told a Dad with no energy that once)and tell me to start disciplining my kids a little better as well. So, if you walk by my window sometime and look in and see my hands over my ears sitting in a fetal position, you'll know why :P

Back By Popular Demand!!

Ok, so only my friend Melissa actually requested I write another blog, but it's still flattering to have at least one fan :) I thought about blogging about how having 3 kids is kicking my butt, but my friend Sherry, just wrote a blog about how having FOUR kids is kicking her butt, so I would just sound lame next to that. I also could maybe blog about how to function on an hour and a half of sleep at a time, but that's just depressing. So too would be blogging about the "joys" of once again having an acid reflux baby. Thus, we come to the only topic there is left to blog about in my life right now: random thoughts concerning how what you don't know about now will kill you later. I seem to have these late night/early morning panic attacks while nursing where everything seems immediate and dire. Like, once morning finally comes I MUST do something about "it". And "it" varies considerably. For one thing, I've noticed every time I have a kid, I go through the same somewhat agonizing decision of whether to immunize my kids. I'll make up my mind, then right before their appointment I'll read or find something to change my mind. This happened once again. Owen has his 2 month check up next week and I recently read an article that stated giving newborn boys the Heb B vaccine tripled their chances of having autism. I talked to my doctor about this, he's a nonjudgemental man and I trust him. He's also very in favor of vaccines, saying he's never seen a problem develop from getting one, only complications from not getting them. We had an open conversation that I think sort of got him fired up in the end, but honestly, I'm on the fence when it comes to immunizations, so I can't argue passionately about it either way. But all this search for the truth stuff got me to thinking how one day something that seemed perfectly harmless becomes a deadly killer the next. For example, cooking on nonstick pans. One day you are cooking some pork chops in them and then the next day you find out that "harmless" coating is going to give you cancer. Or, you shower with your nice plastic shower curtain for years only to find out it's been emitting lovely toxic fumes onto you every morning (so of course you run to walmart to find the "non-toxic" kind and yeah, they don't carry them). Anyways, so every time that 4am feeding rolls around, I get these kinds of thoughts and feel this sense of urgency about whatever and then when morning comes, I'm like, huh, I really hope I get a shower today becomes the more pressing thought.
So, that's all from the paranoid mind of Erin right now. I will post pics of Owen soon (and by soon Melissa S. I mean within the next 2 months hahahaha!!)