Happiness

Josh's sister Emily's husband Troy is an engineer and an inventor. He likes to make things and try new things out. He also has his Masters in Business. He invented the Koolspoon- a spoon that you keep in the freezer and can cool hot food items down. Ever try to cool down your hot chocolate? Oatmeal? Ramen? Hate blowing on the food for your kids until it's cool? Try the KoolSpoon! (it's not yet available for purchase but will be soon!) Josh's brother Ben and our nephew Brennan star in this amazing video premiering the Koolspoon! I love it! ***I tried to embed it on here from youtube but I have 8 blogs and it went onto the Mormon Mommy Blogs Team blog. Oops! Hey, maybe they'll post it! They don't post my writing! Go to Youtube and type in KoolSpoon! Or go here KoolSpoon I admit it. I'm just a blogger. I'm not a tech guru! I have been humbled! What do you think of it?? Would you buy one? This is my blog. My name is Megan A. p.s. We've returned to a ...

No school again today. Amazing: We went sledding and the kids had a blast! They were so excited to see the new, untouched white snow at the bottom of our street and the big snow pile the trucks had made at the end of the road. Amazing: We got a new game of Candyland- ours was missing essential pieces- and had fun playing w/ it. They now have a cupcake commons, icecream land and a Princess Frostine who is dressed immodestly. I miss our "vintage" game. I'm not that old, am I? Amazing: I had a dream that I was pregnant and it was a boy and he was nestled in my left side. Amazing: My sweetheart left chocolates on the freshly made bed this morning: knowing I was not thrilled about the snow day ahead. Awful: This morning the kids left to go play outside and the new game was scattered across the floor. I hate that. I couldn't call them in to clean it up because it would get mixed with snow and ice Awful: We went sledding yesterday- Asher forgot his boots and his gloves fell ...

Asher and my snowman. The snow was so heavy we had to struggle to lift it! Elizabeth is trying to be tall by standing on her almost built snowman behind him. Elizabeth and her tiny snowman. Yes- she's wearing her pajamas- and Asher too. She wore them all day and all night, but not today. I didn't mind! No school today. The kids are very happy. Luckily, we never lost electricity last night! The lights flickered and went out once- causing all clocks and computers to reset- but other than that we were fine! Lost of downed tree branches because of the heavy snow though. These pictures are from yesterday. The pictures I took from today I'll post tomorrow, as I think it will be snow day #4 since the snow will melt and then freeze- causing ice. We'll see what happens though! Also, a neighbor boy came by last night and offered to shovel our driveway in the morning. We took him up on it and this morning he and his Dad showed up with a snow blower. Phew! I was wondering how he wa...

I love watching my kids sleep. They are so silent! Such a rarity! Well, it's the second snow day of the year today. I knew it was going to snow and early in the morning peeked outside my window to see just how much. An inch. Okay. I thought. 1 hr or 2 hr delay- which will it be? How does this throw off my plans for today? No visiting teaching I guess. I wished I had put Josh's phone which has unlimited internet access right by my bed. But I hadn't and there was no way I was getting out of the warm, heated bed, going downstairs, getting it and looking online. Later, I showered and checked. Canceled. Fine with me! We've built snowmen (it was good, heavy snow), drank hot chocolate, eaten popcorn while watching Man Versus Wild (my kids love that show- except when for the eating various animal shots), eaten warm macaroni and cheese, made treats for a baby shower I'm throwing on Saturday and made cinnamon rolls- although they didn't rise as much as they could have! Mo...

All 4 kids on Jan. 6th- 3 Kings Day. In Spain, where I served a mission, they celebrate 3 Kings Day and each person gets one or three small gifts. We do one smallish gift as Josh's family celebrated this as well. They called it Little Christmas. We've done it three years now. On the table is a half eaten ring cake in which I put a coin. I told the kids that whoever got the coin would have a lucky year. In Spain they make a circle loaf of bread, but I didn't have time. Ethan pretended to put his own coin in his own piece and find it. Silly kid! Me with Asher Elizabeth, smiling. This is my blog. My name is Megan A.

Ethan sleeping again. Think he's warm enough now? It's been freezing here. Absolutely freezing! We need new windows. Stat! Okay. Today is Jan. 25th. Time for those resolutions to falter. I have to admit that some of mine are. I wanted to write every day. After about 20 days I was stuck. Blank. Dried up and nothing was coming. Who knew that I had three weeks worth of writing in me and that's it? I've still been writing but it's junk and I know it. Does that count? Should I still write- even if it's no good? Playing the piano everyday? Check. But now I am rushing through one song and calling it good. That's not how life should be. I should enjoy it, throughly. Drinking the marrow out of it's bones. I can do that several times a week. But not every day. I just don't have the time in my schedule. I like to do other things too much- like read, blog, have a tickle fight with Asher (who requests one often BTW), etc. Blog- I enjoy doing it, but I never want ...

Ethan, with a nerf gun he got for 3 Kings Day/Little Christmas Jan 6th The kids are out of school today! Again! Professional day for teachers. We've been keeping busy by going to the gym and doing grocery shopping and laundry, but we need to spice it up a little! I let the kids all do their own lunches and they came up with grape/chip sandwiches. Silly kids! Asher also asked me for a sleep-over last night so all three boys slept in one room and Elizabeth in another. Jonah ended up on the floor and they all stayed up an extra hour talking and playing the ABC game "A my name is Alice..." I don't think we will do that again for a while though. What do you do when all the kids are home from school? I need some good ideas to keep them all entertained! Happy Monday! This is my blog. My name is Megan A.