Thank you, Mr. Heimlich

Today I was going to post about our wonderful trip to what I call civilization (others may call it Utah). There are so many stores there...and restaurants...and PEOPLE! Robbie and I went down and took Logan. We went to the BYU game...too bad that they played like a bunch of grannies...it was so bad that we had to drowned our sorrow in icecream from Sub Zero...YUM. Anyway, Grandpa and Grandma Jackson did such a good job babysitting that my kids didn't want to come home. I was thrill to come back and have them all be alive, but now that they are in the guardianship of their mother, we had a close call.

Today we had so many places to run. I hate halloween and had to decide what my kids would be. Carson finally persuaded me that he HAD to be a Pirate. SO, we went to DI to see what we could find...I will post pics when they are done. The boys were thrilled that someone had just left their dinosaurs, so for 2 dollars we added 4 to our collection. Then came my worst nightmare...3 kids and me in Walmart and it gets worse...the dollar store...3 places we never go. After 2 hours of shopping, my kids were hungry, so I went into Little Ceasers and got them breadsticks (dripping, literally, in grease).

Nate was still hungry so I gave him a banana to eat on our way home, FINALLY. I had just entered the busiest street in Burley and Nate is making all kids of funny wheezing noises. I look in my mirror and his face was blue and he was difinately choking...now no sounds at all. I slammed on my brakes and got out of the car...careful to not get us both hit by a car...and did the heimlich maneuver...Banana went shooting out of his mouth. Then he started to cry. And a cute nice lady by this time had pulled over and wanted to help. I just hugged and hugged him. Then my shock reaction set in...SWEAT and shaking. By the time I got home, I was drenched. Thank you mister Heimlich for inventing a way to save my cute little blue eyed boy...

Have you ever...?

Have you ever slept in the nude...I mean completely naked? I haven't, but this morning when I got up at 6 with Logan I had a little suprise. I checked on Carson and Nate and , WOW, my little boy Carson was completely NAKED. There is nothing like a full moon staring at you at 6 am...he has cute little buns. I had to smile and laugh. When he woke up, I asked him why he took off all his clothes. His reponse..."I got hot." Well, ok. How do you dispute that? SO, my cutie pie little boy likes sleeping in the nude. I have been giggling to myself all day.

Remembering...

I had such a fun day on Friday. My cute 88 year old grandma called me and needed a ride to the hospital for some lab work. Then we went and grabbed lunch. We went back to her house and ate. She had stirred up some cinnamon rolls before I came to pick her up. We rolled those out , put them into the over, and then the fun really began.

My sister in law put the bug in my head that someone needed to write my mom's life story. SO, grandma and I got to work. She was remembering my mom as a baby, small girl, teen ager, and adult. We had a tape recorder and reminised for a few hours. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane. It was good for me to remember the funny girl my mom was...after all, she didn't come to earth as a mother. She had a whole lifetime before that. She was a little firey...she had to be with 5 brothers, she was limitless...if she thought about doing something, she did it...never a thought about i can't or what if (excepept when it came to exercise), she was so thoughtful of her mother...I should have taken a lesson there... the list of things we remembered together went on and on...

We soon will have another Friday date...hopefully, minus the hospital trip. It was so soothing to sit at my grandma's kitchen table (a place where nothing has changed for years...so much like...home) and eat delicious cinnamon rolls. It was a day I could relive over and over again.