The Mama's and the Papa's

Elli (3) Winter (11) Tague (9) Ri (7) Anavah (7) Laythi (5)
For those who don't know, I took on a nannying job about 2 months ago. The pay is good, perks are awesome, and I stay very busy. There are 6 kids ranging from 3-11 yrs old, one of them is deaf ( but has a hearing aid that helps a bit) It's tough work!...

Well yesterday morning around 4am, both parents left for a 2 week cruise. leaving me to tend to, what I had assumed the past 2 months, their 6 well mannered, someone well behaved children. It is now only the ending of day 2/14 and i'm not sure i'm gonna make it!

But in a desperate attempt to provide myself with comic relief, I thought i'd share a few things that i learned so far.

1. Be careful not to bribe!!... but never underestimate the power of candy

2. All the rules to those fun games you learned as a child, have now been "revised", and are subject to change depending on who's playing, and who can yell the loudest

3. Every child CRAVES attention, whether good or bad

4. Don't ever assume you can get away with "not now, maybe later" ... They ALWAYS remember

5. Children have a heightened sense of smell for three things: cookies, poop, and fear

6. When fits begin, and crying worsens, yelling back doesn't help, so run away and lock yourself in a room or closet, and hope they figure it out themselves

7. Reverse psychology is my friend, sarcasm is NOT

8. The fastest growing, most provident and troublesome problem in kids today is NOT obesity, it is selective hearing

which brings us to number 9

9. Don't try to talk to the kids when the T.V. is on.... that's just plain rude

10. Know all of your exits!

look at my InDec skills!

I know i'm picture crazy on this blog.. but i decorated my room finally!... thanks to Ross and Target....
so i just wanted to post it!
this is my new humble abode!

Dear Journal

I just wanted to take a minute to say how overwhelmed I am with life right now... it's a good thing! really!..
I don't think I've been this happy in a long time... ever that I can remember! and it's so strange because I miss everyone SOOO much I can't even describe!... yet I feel so important, and needed, and at home... in a place where I can count the people I know on 1 hand... How is that even possible!?!

I've never seen or imagined a place more beautiful... I've never dreamed that I would feel this way about life for a long time... it's truely the strangest thing I've ever been through.

I've been extremely active in Church duties, I just got called to teach 9 year olds on sunday, I've been working with the missionaries in the ward, teaching some investigators, I'm starting institute this week, I go to all my firesides, ... I mean seriously! look at me go!! 6 months ago I wasn't doing ANYTHING that had anything to do with church... I'm pretty dang proud!... and not only that.. but I've been SO blessed with peacefulness, and comfort... knowing that I'm doing what's right...

I was sitting in sacrament today, thinking about my passed couple of weeks, and things that I might have done that I need to work on.. or repent.. or SOMETHING.. and for the first time in my life.. I couldn't think of a single thing that I had done in the passed 2 weeks that I've regreted... I'm not saying I'm perfect by any means, but if any of you have ever had that feeling.. i'm sure it's something you'll remember for the rest of your life..

I've gotten to the point where all I want to do is learn the Gospel, serve the Lord, and I don't care about ANYTHING else!... it's incredible...
anyway... thanks for reading my Novel...

Much Love

My New Teenie Weenie Piddle Pad

I finally bought things for my bathroom... It's so little that it was hard to keep organized! and i had no where to putanything!... but i got pictures and i'm putting them up.. i think I still need some candles and a plant or something.. and then a couple of pictures for the bare spaces on the walls... but i think it's cute and i'm happy about it!