Wow …..What a Week

What a Week We Have Had

The wrestling banquet (feed 30).....stoves malfunctioning.................

feeding the youth group (Feed 42).....replacing ovens...................

Hosting a coffee and pastry group (feed 8 and drink a lot of coffee)

storming, thunder, lightning, hail, and high winds……………..…Fences falling……

And now

Johnny’s Birthday Party

HE is turning 12!

SooOoOOOoooooOOOOoo

I have to get ready, prepare the guest room for my parents, get the video game systems all set, check the batteries, pick up Costco pizza and cake……….Whew!

But first I have to make a note. Loralie knows how much there is to do today and so she grabbed the bag, handed me my shoes, and headed to the door 

Soooooooooooo cute.

We did it....and it was good

We did it! We fed the youth, and made it through even though my oven malfunctioned.


As we were leavening I thought some very selfish thoughts. My mind goes I to things with a pure heart and walks away all about me. I was very satisfied knowing that we made dinner for thirty – five youth and fifteen adults, I was also satisfied that we were able to cook, feed, and clean in two hours. The best part was I got to go home and not need to clean my kitchen…..or so I thought.



The final thought I had was the one that made me think “what is your motivation”….

See I have given service to others.

What is wrong with the feeling of satisfaction when I am done with a good job at a good work? I don’t know, yet for some reason when I walk away feeling good about myself for the things I can do, It is emidiatly followed by a since of guilt for the “thinking” I have…



Here is my thought after it all has passed.

The youth had a great healthy meal, I had a great time preparing it for them, my family had a great time serving them, and I still got to go home to a clean kitchen  It was definitely an all win situation.

How I think about it afterward?....?....?

It is the thinking afterwards that makes it better next time. I always think about how things went after the fact. It is how I learn, improve, and at times savor the success of a task.

They savored my food I savored the feeling of giving them good food!

Timing is everything

Life, one of those things that one has to live through. As it always seems to work I have committed myself to feeding may bunches of people this week, host a slumber party on Friday and receive house guest for the week end.


Life,

This is the time that my oven decides to take a dumper!

I can’t even figure out why! I was using the stove top but the error message is for the oven. I turned on the oven, nothing, I turned on the burners, all accept the one I was using when the first error message came up, and nothing. SO, I turned on the front burner that gave me the original error message, and there it was again.

The error,

Door latch failure.

The stove top does not have a latch, and how does the stove top set off an oven error? I don’t understand.

I guess I will just keep cooking and feeding everyone and hope it al works out….NOT

This is why I rent not own! It is someone else’s responsibility to keep the electrical equipment in the home running. It is my responsibility to pay the inflated housing cost of a renter.

This is exactly the reason I love to be the renter not the owner. A leak, the heat, the air conditioning, the roof, the stove…..they have to take the care in maintaining them. I just get to use them.

Driving lessons

SO after a little bit of game brain last night, today OI am back to the stove. It’s all about the beans today. . . . . . . Beans, that really means a lot of waiting time right? I decided to allow my 16 year old some driving time while we picked up some tortilla and chips for the parties this week. Brian, My husband, sat in the back and I sat in the front. This is how back seat driving started right?


We were driving along, and Brian would start instructing from the back seat! Never would he even think about giving driving advise, but now it flows so freely, like all of the things he thought and never said 



It is crazy to think that I have a child old enough to drive, but it is true. I am so loving this whole experience. We will see how well we survive the experience, two new drivers in 6 months! I just have to say that it is so much fun, but if we ever make contact with another car my thoughts on the subject might change.

Game on the brain

So any who….

Little Lorelei loves music. I so wish that I could put video feed on this site….she is so cute dancing and playing with the guitar hero. (she is not playing just playing alongside of us) But any way a little 13 month old dancing it’s crazy.

Hot song next.... "it's my turn kids make room for mommy"..............

Family Game Brain . . . .It is a good thing

It is just crazy,


I was accusing Michael my son of having game brain this morning. Now here we ar e all playing gutar hero. Now it is me who has game brain….

This makes me wonder, what would my mother have said 20 years ago if I would have told her my father would be a video game freak? With the invention of the WII even retirees are becoming fully animated with the game invasion. Although, I don’t see any problem with my father’s daily WII sports or my mother and just dance. I think it is great, they even bond with the kids using the technology that is now easily access by the WII. The WII speak, animal crossing, raving rabbits! They have all brought our family closer together.



When dopes bonding stop and Game Brain kick in?

Tell me please. I just don’t know any more. I do know one thing; I am the luckiest mother, wife, daughter, and sister in the world. If you are listening meet me on the wii sister

Game Brain

What does a mother of 6 do on a Saturday Morning?


For me it is all about the cuddle time, then the computer time, and finally the cooking.

This week it all about the enchiladas and beans. One of my boys has an award banquet on tue and one has youth on wed. They both offered my home cooking for their groups so that mean enchiladas for 35 on Wednesday and enchiladas for 40 on Tuesday. Sooooo….meat on for a slow cook today, add the beans tomorrow and the enchiladas quick and easy on Tuesday and Wednesday. Of course fresh tortilla on Monday 



Last night we went out for Japanese sushi. On the way home we were so satisfied with the flavor sensation, yet still hungry. For the price of sushi we should be satisfied in every way! We have been to Osaka’s several times now, and every time we leave wondering if it is just so good that the our taste buds trick our brain into wanting more……



After taking the baby out for sushi we went home. I love my little bunch, yet they have not learned all of the lessons they need for life yet. SO before we left for sushi we instructed the oldest child to prepare caspers for the family, with corn as a side and a fruit to go along. He fully understood. We left, and I had an expectation that he would have fed every one, clean up from dinner and they would be watching a movie or playing a video game.

But NO

He went into the house when we dropped them off and he started playing a video game. Apparently the menu plan escaped him. He was just starting to eat when we got home, and we were gone for a long time (45 min wait, 30 minutes of driving, and an hour eating). Everyone else had already eaten. He had game brain get into the way of his responsibilities.



So for my house

Game brain hits again.