A Little Something for Each of My Boys

This is for T Bear

I was reading an article called "Meaningful Teaching at Home" by Darren E Schmidt in the January issue of the Ensign.  This quote made me think and ponder about my sweet T Bear:

“One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don’t always ask, that they aren’talways teachable, that they won’t always listen,” taught Elder Richard L. Evans (1906–71) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “And often we have to take them on their terms, at their times, and not always on our terms, and at our times. … If they find they can trust us with their trivial questions, they may later trust us with the more weighty ones.”

Big eyes filled with curiosity at the huge Seattle ferris wheel

This is for Cub

Too bad Santa didn't bring this for you this last Christmas.  Ipad is one of your favorite words in your limited vocabulary.

It is called the ipotty.  Ridiculous right?

This is for Baby Boy #3

COME OUT NOW!!!!! Trust me, I think at this point we would get along much better if you were outside my womb.


This is for Big D

With Love,

-Miss T

Just Hanging On

So pregnancy does not suit me well.  There is only one thing I like about being pregnant: my leg hairs don't grow as fast.  Everything else is horrible.

Unfortunately pregnancy is an emotional roller coaster that I struggle with mentally and physically.  

Lately I feel like my inability to deal with pregnancy well has been affecting the behavior of my sweet boys and husband. I 
feel awful that I am unable to be the wonderful mother and adoring wife that I want to be.
  

In efforts to find something to be happy and grateful about my life, I have found two daily moments that I love about being a mother to my boys.

1. Full bellies.  I love that I am able to feed my boys well and that after every meal they are happy with full bellies.  This means they usually need to jump on the couch to release their new acquired energy.

2. Peaceful sleep.  No matter how rough my day was, I love putting my boys to bed.  Putting them in warm pjs, and tucking them in with their favorite blankets, hoping for sweet dreams for them, and then walking out of their room knowing that I am done for the day makes me happy.  If I sneak in to look at them sleeping, they look so sweet, peaceful and happy.  

My heart is full of gratitude that Big D and I are able to provide a warm place for them to sleep and good food to eat.  The hard truth is that there are parents who can not even do that for their children.  So although I may lacking in my mothering skills significantly, I am glad that I can provide for some of their basic needs.  

I love these boys so much.  It was worth being miserably pregnant with each of them.

-Miss T

Snow shoes.

Dear Miss T,

You love the drive up to Bogus because it usually means you get to go skiing, right? Well I now love the drive because it took us snow shoe-ing! I had never been before, but it was really fun. Dad gave me wool socks to wear, Mom loaned me her long underwear, and someone loaned me their snow shoes.

Fun wintertime activity! Next time we are both in Boise in the winter, we should do it together.

Cutler Christmas Spectacular

Dear Miss T,

We had a little gathering with our extended Cutler family. This has become a tradition every year in honor of our Grandma Cutler, who loved music and happened to be actually very good at it. Often we have violins, flutes, solos, piano recital numbers, and everything lovely.

Well, you know the amount of musical talent our part of the Cutler family got, and basically without you bringing Big D and his violin you can understand how we were hurting a little bit this year.

Thankfully, with the help of A-dazzle we got a new piece put together, and despite wardrobe malfunctions we think it turned out alright. We can't wait to have Big D involved in a performance like this in the future!

A Skiff of Snow

We got our first snow in Seattle.  It was just a skiff of snow, but the boys loved it.  We were out playing in it by 7:40am.  The snow was gone by 8:15am.

Since we don't get a lot of snow in Seattle, we are grateful for this "Christmas miracle" today.

-Miss T

Vote for the Villains!

In case you don't remember, Big D ran the NW Ragnar relay race this last July.  Their team of 12, dressed as villains.  Well, now it is time to vote for their video on Facebook.  Unfortunately they got a late start and are behind in the polls. But anything can happen right? Today is the last day of voting, so help spread the word if you can.

Here is the video:



Here is the link to vote on Facebook:

 https://apps.facebook.com/ragnarfilmfestival/contests/297503/voteable_entries

https://apps.facebook.com/ragnarfilmfestival/contests/297503/voteable_entries/62748849

T Bear is the "little kid" known as Iron Man who defeats them all.  Other family members you might see are: KK (sister), Mr. P (brother-in-law), Btown (brother), Dr. C (my dad), Cub's legs, ME, and our car!

And if the short video was not enough to satisfy you, then watch the full length video here:



Great memories!  I still can not believe Big D ran in that Stay Puft costume.  Borderline idiotic, but I still gotta love him.

Thanks!

-Miss T

FBis sooo dangerous

Dear Miss T,

I know you haven't really ever gotten huge into Facebook. Consider yourself lucky.

I haven't browsed or perused it much myself lately (life without Dauna was rough...because an iPad certainly can't browse facebook). Really, it has been quite peaceful without it.

But tonight facebook as ruined my night. I had big plans. To make all my little containers of Russian Tea holiday drink mix (remember the kind mom used to prepare for us to give our teachers as a thank you?), do the dishes, transfer files from Fauna to Dauna, and watch one of my library DVDs. Did any of that happen? NO.

Because I got stuck on facebook looking at other people's lives!! Wow it just sucked my night away. And I guess I also watched 3 episodes of Studio C, BYU's version of SNL I guess.  Pretty funny. I definitely got stuck laughing and laughing at a song and dance number that a girl whipped out when she got proposed to. Mercy! It was too...real...about all the musical shows I love. Haha!

Ok, hope your evening was more productive than mine. Does anyone else ever get sucked up in FB for a night? Yikes!

Love KK