got milk?

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

depending on who you ask... : )

on saturday we had to run a number of errands in preparation for moving.  part of that required going to a walmart type store for a variety of items.  walmart was, indeed, the chosen one, and we decided since we weren't planning to buy too much in the way of groceries this week, there was no reason to not just buy our food there as well (since we've been upgraded to a super center and all!).  we found just about everything we were looking for there, and it was nice to have just one stop since every extra stop meant more time in the hot car.  (worst of times for both of us, for sure.... at this point we hadn't showered and hot and sticky is only magnified at that time.)

we buy two gallons of milk every week.  sometimes we go through a little faster, sometimes a little slower.  it just depends.  we must have had enough of the "old" milk from last week to get us through saturday still.  i'm not sure what will had on his cereal yesterday morning... but by the time we were adding splashes of milk to our dinner recipe we were for sure to the new walmart milk.  by the time we were sitting down to eat we were doubly for sure to the new walmart milk.

now, if you didn't know this little tidbit about us, let me let the cat out of the bag: we share a cup.  every meal that we eat together, we just share.  why not?  that's cutting our cup load in half!  it's just how we've done it for about as long as i can remember.  no silly germs ideas stop us.  we kiss... what's the difference?  we will, however, use separate cups when we're eating with other people - at our house or anywhere else.  it's just how it's done....

back to the new walmart milk.

will had poured some milk and had a drink of it before i had had any.  he said something like, "i don't know that that's really fat free milk....."

"really???!!!!!"

"yeah, it tastes more like 1% or 2.... maybe even whole?"

i hurried and took a drink.  he was right.  it was most definitely not fat free milk.

walmart does this cute little thing and labels their fat free milk as 0%.  well this certainly isn't 0%!  i don't really remember having whole milk before, so maybe it would be totally obvious to someone else.... i can't decide if i think it's 2% or whole.... last night i though 2... today i might be leaning towards whole...


well to will this is like the worst of times.  to me this is like the best of times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i always love going to things where they provide milk because no one ever provides skim milk.  it's at least 1% and that's like a treat to me!  i'm not picky, i'll take 1 or 2!  and if this stuff is whole, it's a nice treat too!! : )  i grew up on skim and i know it's healthier (and cheaper), so that's what we buy consistently.  but i absolutely love the taste of anything above that.  including cream... : )

will said last night that he was tempted to water it down.  i'm sure i had a look of panic when i asked if he meant the whole jug.  he said no, just in a cup for himself.  he didn't do it, but i had a hard time bearing the thought of someone adding water to milk that creamy white and beautiful! : )

we can't tell for sure if the other gallon is skim or something else, but we're thinking it looks awfully milky white... and pretty... : )  i asked will if he took them off the shelf from right next to each other.  he said he hoped not.  i said i hoped so!

he also said he felt like he needed to go brush it off his teeth... ha  i think he's ok with 1%, but whatever this is is taking it too far for him.

soooo..... whoever, whenever, however.... someone made a little bit of a mistake and packaged the wrong milk in the wrong jugs... or put the wrong sticker on it?  but i plan to savor and enjoy my milky treat all week long!!!

will will have to endure.... that or water his down when i'm not looking... : )  it might be a long week for him...

don't share it with me

she was back today... i hope she was truly over it... because i don't want it!


these sorts of things stick with you.  i'm sure the girl who threw up ON HER BOOK will never forget that... i never threw up in school, but i imagine that stays with you.  i would also assume that some of the classmates, including the adamant one won't forget it either... at least not for a while : )  i still remember the time a boy at my table (pod of 4) threw up in first grade... pretty sure i remember which one, too.

i think i'm gonna be sick

today i was asking some kids in the other third grade group if their classmate was there today - like 'should i be expecting her to come?'

"no, she threw up on her book."

"oh, she threw up?"

i was corrected:  "she threw up ON HER BOOK"

i guess that was an important detail... ha

needless to say, she wasn't there, and i didn't need to expect her to come.





an additional note:  as of today i have handed out "bench passes" for every grade i have groups for (1-4).  who knew it would be a triple whammy with 3 in 2nd grade today??  today that was 50%..... come on, summer!

20 or so minutes later one of them came back with an apology note:

I soory Mrs. _______ for inrupting in class.
I soory for talking in class so muck.
I know we cant learn when I talking.
I am going to do beter tomarow.
I will pay attention tomarow and not talk so muck.

my fingers are crossed... : )

we have a winner!!

will:  when it comes to face shapes, i have no idea.  i can look and either say 'puffy' or 'skinny'... but i really don't know.

me (hesitantly): what's my face shape?

will: ...pretty : )

good enough : )  i'll take it!

infertility: get informed

i was made aware (shout out! : ) that this is national infertility awareness week.  while it's not usually comfortable for me to point this sort of thing out to others, i guess it's good for people to be aware.  i'd rather have people just be friendly, sensitive, and aware on their own, but i think that's expecting too much of people in general.  so i guess that's why the awareness week exists... : )  and why i'll pass it on...

here's a link to the national infertility association's website:

http://www.resolve.org/support-and-services/for-family--friends/

this particular page is specifically for family and friends... like it says...

i haven't read everything on there, so i can't say i absolutely agree with everything on there or would back it up, but i can tell that there's good information.  and there are things that i would agree with and ring true with me.  i'm pretty sure for will too, but i won't speak for him here... : )

there's obviously plenty of other information on the site if you click around.  read up!  get informed!  don't say things that will make me crazy!  i think you can find lots of answers to questions you might have.  i think there's something for almost everyone to learn.


and if you're really passionate, here's a link to the national infertility awareness week homepage:

http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/home-page.html

march madness

march was a little crazy.  or a lot.  we've had a lot to do and a lot to think about.  at least it's died down a little lately.

so even though we'd like to crawl under the bed (or in) with a carton of ice cream, we know good things are on the horizon.  we don't know when.  we don't know how.  but we know they're coming.  for example, tomorrow really is saturday!  unlike today when i woke up to the alarm and thought it was saturday (!!!!).  it took a snooze button or two to convince myself that it really wasn't saturday yet and to explain that i hadn't lived through those friday things yet...

we're grateful for our tender mercies each day as well as our big blessings.  today will's coming home early and we'll eat the cookies i got us at the staff lunch today.  then we'll go to the byu men's volleyball game at UOP.  then we'll stay up too late sitting on the couch talking because it's friday night!  and because we're best friends and in love - big time : )

i think we consume more empty calories nowadays than we used to.... (like my poor kris p. pretzel bunny i finished off last night... ha : )  (which was sooooo gooood!!!)

when the junk food doesn't cut it, our faith in our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, the words of ancient and modern day prophets, personal revelation through the Holy Ghost, and every other blessing of the gospel of Jesus Christ always pull us through. : )

not lucky

we watched a talk this evening from last october (2012)'s general conference.  it was President Thomas S. Monson's sunday morning talk, "Consider the Blessings."

one of the stories he shared was about the kansas city temple dedication cultural celebration (or whatever the official name was).  the plan was for all the youth from all over (who were participating) to convene at the municipal center the morning of the performance.  they had been practicing separately and all the small groups were going to learn and practice together the entrances, exits, where to stand, etc.  he said there were roughly 3,000 youth!  all the different numbers were introduced and connected together by video segments that would be shown on the jumbotron.  that morning, however, something was wrong and they couldn't get the jumbotron to work.  technicians worked for a while with no success.  they lost rehearsal time as the day went on.


"Just an hour before the audience would begin to enter the center, 3,000 youth knelt on the floor and prayed together. They prayed that those working on the Jumbotron would be inspired to know what to do to repair it; they asked their Heavenly Father to make up for what they themselves could not do because of the shortage of time.

Said one who wrote about it afterward, “It was a prayer the youth will never forget, not because the floor was hard, but because the Spirit melted their bones.”

It was not long before one of the technicians came to tell them that the problem had been discovered and corrected. He attributed the solution to luck, but all those youth knew better."


when he said the technician attributed it to luck, he made a funny face/expression that conveyed that it obviously wasn't "luck", but a blessing from their Father in Heaven.

we had lucky charms for breakfast, but i'm happy that we know that all the good things we have in life and every blessing we have comes from our loving Heavenly Father, and it's not just "luck".  we receive countless blessings and tender mercies every single day.

we enjoyed celebrating st. patrick's day in our own way, but we will always be blessed, not lucky : )

we had lucky charms for breakfast (special shamrock edition that ended up turning our milk green!)
shamrock cookies that we bought from a young woman in our ward for her camp fundraiser
corned beef and cabbage!!
homemade bread!
chocolate pie!
we wore green (like most other people at church : )  and we love green! : )
i realize that just about everything on this list is food... but we like food : )  and there were other good things that made this a great day as well!