Lani's Busy Day

Lani vs. Mom

Cheryl's To Do List For Wed. Aug. 27th:

-Wake up
-Get the kids up
-Make breakfast
-Clean up breakfast
-Shower
-Get dressed
-Pack lunches
-Remind kids how to get ready for school
-Put in a load of wash (so I can be caught up..ha ha)
-Wash all sheets
-Make sure house is ready to be shown to perspective buyers at a moment's notice
-Take middle kids to school
-Run Lauren to the bus
-Pack up Lani for the day
-Go with Christopher to sign papers for a deal that's closing
-Meet Kristen to watch her kids while she goes to the doctor
-Rush back and meet Christy to watch her kids while she goes to the doctor
-Pick up middle kids at the bus stop
-Beg them to please do their homework
-Take all the 8 and 9 year old boy scouts on a field trip to Ace Hardware
-Make dinner
-Clean up dinner
-Take Lauren to Young Womens
-Pick Lauren up from Young Womens
-Bathe all kids
-Collapse on my bed and watch reality shows with Christopher and watch him do skits about them.
-Try to get to bed before 11:00 so I can wake up at 4:30 the next day to run with my superhuman friend Angela!

Little did I know that Lani had her own agenda!

Lani's To do list for Wed. Aug. 27th:

-Take off diaper in the middle of the night and pee through 5 blankets
-Make Mom bathe me BEFORE I even eat breakfast
-Don't tell Mom I don't feel good and eat a big breakfast
-Puke in the car on the way to Mom and Dad's meeting
-While Mom is outside trying to clean my huge breakfast out of every nook and cranny of my carseat and car, take off my poopy diaper and paint my body with it!
-Take my second bath before 11:00.
-While Mom is cleaning up my poop, pull everything out of the kitchen cabinet and eat her hidden chocolate stash, foil and all (I wonder why my stomach hurts.)

Remember...life is what happens when you are making other plans! I'm sure I'll get a good laugh about this someday as soon as I finish crying :)

An Explaination

Hi there,

In case you are wondering why my hair is BLACK...I have the blog entry:

http://theworldisawesome.blogspot.com/2008/08/breaking-dawn-party-and-black-hair-dye.html

-Lauren

Banners

Hi Everyone,

I made some banners with current pictures of all us Haws kids, if you want to see. Go to the bottom of the page, under the playlist.

Xoxo,
Lauren

And then there was one....

I can't lie and tell you summer flew by this year. With no money and a short vacation, it crawled along a bit! I kissed the crew good-bye, ran home and plopped the remaining kiddo in front of Elmo (bless you Elmo!) I cleaned this nearly condemed house like this was my last day on earth and everyone in Relief Society was going to see it. I had dinner sitting on the table by 5 and finished every bit of wash in the house. It was as if I had been locked up in jail all summer. I didn't do it alone though. I must take a moment to thank Energy Vitamin water. When the "high" finally wore off, I felt like I had been hit by a train. Christopher just couldn't figure out what was wrong with me when I didn't want to watch the Olympics (on the highest volume,) until midnight.
I took a chill pill this morning, finally convincing myself that there are plenty more school days ahead. Lani and I hit the running store and I rewarded myself with a long overdue pair of shoes. I earned these shoes by sitting through 2 hours of traffic court for Christopher instead of "just paying it!" He thinks I'm a saint and I have the shoes I want! We both win!
Here's to those brave souls that teach our kids every day!