A most Productive day! Almost:)

Woke up rather late... have no idea how it got that way??? Loaded up the dishwasher, no emptied it first. Switched the laundry and started a new load. Vacuumed the downstairs, cleaned some windows, did some dusting, made some lunch and hmmmm. Oh yeah, then Olyvia and I had such an awesome time together. We went to the barn to play Laura Ingalls. We raked and raked and scooped and scooped! We cleaned out the entire thing together. Fed watered and collected eggs and then we had a great idea. She and I are going to make money at the farmer's market this summer. We are going to sell the barn manure from the neighbor and from our barn as "Farm fresh garden fertilizer." We'll bag it in the smaller size trash bags. The kind that are bio degradable. SP?? There are so many earthy kind of folks that use the Ada and GR farmer's market. Lots of them garden. There's even a huge plot of land that I used to pass near Fountain somewhere that allowed city peeps to garden. They would eat this stuff up. "Well, not literally." Then we will also be selling our Cage free chicken eggs. We will make some "green" signs that simply state.... 1 Dozen eggs, $1.50 plus your own egg carton to trade in. That way, we're teaching people to recycle. We don't have to buy them and we'll just keep trading them off. Oh, I'm so clever! Now we can't WAIT for spring and summer to get here! The money we make will be minimal, Olyvia thought she'd get rich! However, we'll probably cut even with all the feed they eat and might even be able to have family lunch once a week:)

Jaden is so funny!

Jaden woke up first this morning and I found him on the computer. I asked him "have you had breakfast yet?" He replied "yup, I had cookies:)" Jaden, you can't have cookies for breakfast! He replied "why not, they sure do taste great and I love um!" hahaha

Once again last night Jona was refusing to go to bed and crying and crying unless someone laid with her. She's done this for months now. She falls asleep in a matter of minutes, but wants someone in the room. It doesn't matter that Jaden is right next door sleeping... she wants someone in the room. I told her "stop whining, use your words, what is it that you are afraid of?" Of course she whines more, starts tearing up, can't put words to it. "I'm scared of this, scared of that, I have this, I need that!" Finally I said "JONA, use your words and tell me what you are afraid of and why you need someone in here to fall asleep?" Jona sits up, looks at me and states "Mom, I can't sleep alone, I don't want to sleep alone and for the rest of my life until I die and go to Heaven I do not want to fall asleep alone in my room!" I was stumped as to how to reply. She used words, she shared her feelings, she was clear about her distress, soooo, you guessed it! I laid my darn head down and watched her fall asleep!

CAN YOU SAY SUCKER????????

and this one...

I love these pictures!

Wii Olympics

Ivan left my blog open on his way to work... does that mean he wants an update?

What do you call a house full of competitive male athletes who live in a house that Santa delivered a Wii to? I don't know what you call them either but they sure are funny! Jaden held the high score bowling today for several hours. That was until his older brother found out. It took him about 45 minutes but her finally broken Jaden's record. Highscore is 245... Jaden had it at 230 for awhile:) I finally broke 200. I'm at 201!!