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Too Many Bodies in the Shower

There's too many people in this tub

Too many elbows to scrub.

I washed a behind,

That I'm sure wasn't mine...

There's too many people in this tub.

Shel Silverstein

So yesteday Savannah, Chase (7½), Carsen (5), and Jake (2½) were outside playing. It had rained earlier plus they had the hose on. They happened to find the only part of the yard with dirt, and began to dig. As I call them in for dinner, I hear 'We wound a worm'. Well of course you are going to find a worm if you dig after it rains. Jake was the happiest to see it. He is the funniest kid. Everything he says is about 10 times faster than how a normal person speaks. So Jake tells me he found a worm. But says it so quickly he kind of drops the 'r'. We were not doing anything spectacular for dinner since Whiney Wendell aka Carsen seems to have a corrinary with almost everything. And since I am a mean aunt and don't host a diner whats for dinner is for dinner. So I asked Carsen what he would eat. He said he wanted cream of wheat. Cream of Wheat it is then. Anyway, the mud ridden children come in and I get them to wash their hands to eat. Once they are done I sent them to get into the shower. Since Charlotte is asleep in Stephs' room the master huge shower is off limits. Savannah desperately wanted to get in the shower with the boys. But call me old fashion when they are getting a little older like Chase I say nope. So they decide all 3 boys are going to get in the regular tub/shower. Boy was that a riot. They wanted to take a shower but still wanted the luxuries of a tub with the toys, all the while trying to do their own thing. Jake had finally had enough and escaped out the back. So then Savannah got into the big shower since Charlotte had woken up. So she is in the shower, which is her new favorite thing to do since her cousins do it. It takes forever for me to get it to her 'perfect' temperature. When she is finally all clean in her standards and I turn off the water, she tells me. "Mom my brain sure is hot." I asked, "Your brain for your head?", She says "My brain, Mom!' As in duh. It just cracks me up the things she says.

Safe and Sound

Just a little FYI that I did finally hear from Trent this afternoon. He said that they are fine and did not feel anything. There were some people in the upper floors of Trent's building that felt the building sway a bit but that is all. Because the phone and internet lines were overloaded it took in a few hours to finally recieve my messages. I am glad to hear they are both safe and sound. But my heart goes out to those who lost one of the almost 10,000 people whose lives were took by this earthquake. I hope we will all be very thankful that our families are safe and how much they mean to us.

Mothers Day and China

I hope all the Mothers out there had a fantastic day!! Mine was one that will go down in the Mothers Day hall of fame. Let me recap. Since I am in TX with Steph's kids, they made me scrambled eggs and toast. Garrett even had a neighbor run him to the store Saturday night and got me some flowers. It was really sweet. They all made me a card. We had church at 1pm, and we got all 7 kids ready and we were out the door. Since we only got there 10 minutes early we had to sit in the chairs, which was okay. All kids were so polite, even Jake the 2 y/o sat there with his arms folded. After the sacrament, I noticed that Charlotte had blown out her diaper. Savy said she had to go potty so the 3 of us ran to the bathroom. I got the girls are cleaned up, and went back into sacrament. I sit down and Carsen (5 y/o) had his arms inside his shirt and had an awful look on his face. I ask if he is okay, he says yes then totally upchucks all his mac n cheese he had for lunch. I was holding Charlotte so I reached out with one had an caught some of it in my hand. Now if we had gotten there when Steph usually does at 12:30 to get a bench he would have upchucked on the whole row ini front of us. I am grateful for only getting there 10 minutes early. I set Charlotte on the seat and told Garrett to hold her while I took Carsen out and to the bathroom. I had him sit in one of the stalls and told him to stay there and I was going to go clean up the mess. Luckily one of the sisters offered to help. Everyone else just looked at me like 'Glad its not my kid'. Given they may not know me but they sure know who the kids are. I was pretty bugged. We got everything cleaned up and I took the girls and Carsen home. A few ladies said they would get the other kids home. So I stopped at CVS which is right by the church and got some gatorade. The CVS is about a block away not inside the church like 'the great and spacious building' (as Steph calls it), that church also has a McD's in it too. We get home, and Carsen says he is fine. Why did he have to come home. I put on a movie for him in the game room and gave him a puke bucket. Not 10 minutes after that, it hit me. I have never thrown up so hard that it came out my nose. Yuck I know. So I hung on the couch most of the day, trying to keep liquids inside my body. If I moved it came out one way or the other. I was pretty miserale most of the day, but the kids were great. Charlotte slept a lot but for the couple hours she was up when the kids got home from church, they took care of her and made her happy until I could function a bit. Garrett made pizza for dinner since my original plan of salmon was just not going to fly today. Just wanted to say how lucky I am to have such great nephews and niece.

China

Not sure if any of you heard there was a 7.8 earthquake in central China Monday afternoon. Steph and Trent are in Shanghai right now and I have not been able to get a hold of them yet to see how they are. From what I have heard they felt after shocks there. I have sent IM's and Text messages to Trent to see how they are. I am a little worried since I have yet to hear back from them. I know that Trent was working today and Steph was out shopping with a friend from Mexico. I hope they are alright, but if you could all say a small prayer that they are okay that would be great. I will let you know when I hear from them.

Free Money

Just an update on the Money Exchange program. After verifiying account info I have to announce that we had $60 of free money hit our bank account. ($25 for Chad, $25 for me and $10 because I referred Chad). It is a great way to make a little bit of money for doing nothing. However with my mystery shopping I have already found that one of my companies is already using it rather than paypal so I'm sure I will get use out of it.

My Life with SEVEN children

So I arrived in Texas on Monday afternoon. My sister Stephanie flew the girls and I down because she was heading to China to meet her hubby Trent. I had a few days to get the hang of their schedule but I am officially in charge now. Between her five and my two it is going to be a crazy two weeks. I can't believe how many things the kids are involved in; soccer, gymnastics, violin, piano, tennis. Then of course there is the Young Mens and Activities Days with church. I have to say it will not be dull. I did successfully get the older three off to school this morning. But it was just pushing them out the back door since they are riding with neighbors to school. Right now I think things are good but ask me again in a week.

Oh a sad note though I felt bad because Stephanie got a touch of the flu last night. Puked a couple of times then got the runs. I hope she is feeling better on the plane. She said she was feeling better before she left at 4:45am. I will have to call her when she lands in Chicago before she boards the dreaded 14 hour flight to Shangahi. Hopefully it was only a 24 bug and she has fun. Here is hoping to good weather in China and in Texas. I hate it when the tornado watches and warnings go out. I will try to keep you all updated on my progress and my ask for pointers for a 2 year old Mammas boy. He has yet to get up and realize his mommmy is gone. I think that is when my day will really start.

Revolution Money Exchange

I've been seeing a lot of talk around the blogosphere about RevolutionMoneyExchange and how you can earn $25 for signing up for an account. I'm usually someone who blows off things like this as "too good to be true" but after being repeatedly encouraged to sign up and try it out myself, I did just that today.It was a simple 5-minute sign-up process and I now have $25 showing up in my account. I am not sure how this company is affording to hand out $25 like this to everyone, but it's worth signing up for if you have a few minutes and could use $25.

This is a new online banking system exactly like paypal. But there is not extra fees like you have with paypal. I know when I have had people send me money through paypal I don't always get the pull price. Like I had a friend send me $10 and I only got like $9.82 of it or something. Paypal pulls a little off the top to cover their fees. This company does not. I looked into in before I signed up. But even if you never use the account they will give you $25 for free just for signing up. Normally I don't do things like this because it looks like it is too good to be true, but after further research I found that it was true and I had $25 hit my account. Since this is like paypal you will have to enter in your SS# and also if you want them to direct deposit the money they will need your bank account info. But if you want them to just mail you a check they will, however they will deduct $2.50 from your amount to mail it. It is an actual bank too. Account issued by First Bank & Trust, Brookings, SD, Member FDIC and part of the Fishback Financial Corporation.

I think it is a great alternative to paypal, even if you don't use paypal it is an easy $25 bucks. They also have a referral program which allows you to refer others and receive $10 per referral (up to $500). So if you link through my referral then I will get an extra $10. After you sign up, add a link to your blog or site and get referrals as well. *you will only recieve referrals if people sign up by May 15.

Anyway, I use paypal once every couple of months so this is logical for me to help save a few more pennies. Whatever I get from the referral program will go towards my new car fund (which we are in need of, see previous post about Chad's car). So I would love to have you sign up.