Non-stop!

This weekend was not relaxing! Not to say I didn't have a fun time, but there was no relaxing involved! Aubrie now has dance on Friday's from 4-6, which pushes our date night a little later. This week they had a parent meeting for her performance group going over costs, performances, blah, blah, blah! Ben came along and zoned out quickly. I actually sent him to the car because I could tell he was DONE! The meeting went long, and left us eating dinner about 7:30. By the time dinner was over, I was ready for bed. I came home just when the kids started watching Cheaper by the Dozen. So much for that sleep. I had fun watching it with them, but lately there has been a problem with our movie watching. Each kid wants to sit by me, and being there is 3 of them (Sophia isn't movie watching age, or I'd really be in trouble) and two sides of me (that's debatable) there is always a fight! What do you do with that? Make them draw straws?? Anyway, the movie put us till 10:30, and of course there was some Olympics to catch up.....bed at midnight.
Here is our Saturday in short hand, if you can call it that? There is no way to make an abbreviated version of such a busy day!
Up at 8:00 to get ready; 9:00 a visit from a cousin I have never met; leave the house at 10:15 to take Aubrie to her dance practice; run to the Church Book Store (Sophia fell asleep without even making a sound! Why won't she do that on long trips?); run to Walmart for food and a much requested browse through the toy department (found the cutest shoes for Sophia); pick Aubrie up (stayed a few minutes to watch the dance they learned for the Mercury game. Aubrie has been dancing all weekend!); Come home to unload groceries and leave Ben to prepare food for a BBQ with the Sheats, while I run out with Aubrie to find a specific type of Basketball shoe and BB shorts for her Mercury performance without any luck. UGH! (Don't you hate that when you come back from an errand with nothing accomplished?!)? Come home for the BBQ and clean up; Run back out to successfully find shorts (ordered the shoes online) and buy tons of dance gear (I think Aubrie should start a paper route! LOL); Come home to quickly wrap a birthday gift(for Ben's MoM) and head to Ben's parents; While there, Ben runs to Home Depot for a work thing while I entertain kids and catch up with family; Then back home, while Ben runs back out with the boys to see the new Star Wars; in the meantime I get Sophia down, spend some time with Aubrie, and work on my lesson. Just when I think my night is over, my Mom comes home with my Cousin and we stay up another hour and 1/2 talking. Whew! Makes me appreciate those Saturday's when there is NOTHING going on!
Today Sophia made it through most of Sacrament, with much entertaining involved! I think I took her out for one youth talk. She wasn't having much of sitting around the last two hours. Our Stake did a special lesson on pornography which was really good. There was some stats that were quite shocking. One of them was that 100% of the youth will be exposed to some type of pornography! It made me feel almost helpless. I can't imagine my little kids being exposed to such a vile thing!!! Their next point was that the goal is, then, to teach them the skills make the right choice when it comes their way. Ben said that a kid in a nearby school just got their ipod confiscated that had porn on it, that he was showing to other kids!!!! Hearing that made me realized that I needed to be much more proactive in explaining things to them at this early age. Who would have ever thought that we would need to be teaching our little children about this?! OK....that is all sounding a little depressing, but it was a great meeting...the whole 10 minutes I got of it! Sophia was in the halls most of the time, but in the process I was able to see an old friend and catch up! During our conversations we realized that her husbands brother lived in the same ward we went to in North Carolina. I totally knew them! It's such a small world, especially when your LDS!!
OK...ready for the parents of the week award (or I like to call it....it's obviously our 4th child!)After second hour, Sophia ran in the Chapel running towards Ben. Some one grabs my attention and tells me someone needs to talk to me. So I'm talking and talking and then realize I need to go to YW because I have to teach. So I go all the way to the YW room and after a minute or so realize I left one of my folders. I go back to the Chapel and there is Brother Brazelton holding Sophia. At first its seems like no big deal, because he always likes to hold her. Then he comes up to me and says something like, "Forget Something?" Come to find out, Ben never picked her up and she was running all around the chapel and foyer. Two of my friends found her running for the doors and picked her up. How she got from them to Brother Brazelton, I still don't' know. Guess Ben and I need to work on the COMMUNICATION a little more! Thank heavens for helping hands! Also, I guess she wont' have a problem going into the nursery, if she didn't care we weren't' around!
OK...this entry getting long, so to wrap things up. The lesson went well, and a few inactive girls showed up and shared some great experiences. After church I spent time making Lasagna (I realized I have deprived my poor husband of his favorite dish for over two years), reading with the kids, and taking an hour nap, before our home teachers came and then more company for dinner. I felt like the kids were performing a circus act at the dinner table....gotta love that!! It's probaby because they only have one small child and we are used to having friends who have a circus show of their own! Anyway, they left at 8:00 and I spent a few minutes on Webkinz with the kids (some of those games are addicting) before they went to bed. Aubrie and I talked for over an hour, before I left her room. I LOVE when I have time for those bedtime talks! They are ALWAYS the best! Then it was more Olympics(gymnastics) and this! Whew......I hope I sleep good tonight! Sorry to bore you, but my kids will love reading the details, whenever I make this blog into a book! Someday......