This is what it feels like to be a teen in the modern age

A certain man decided his wife of 10 years and 5.5 children could not be trusted on a computer. The solution? His and hers computers of course! Along with a filter to keep that untrusty 30 year old mom of many from doing anything inappropriate. Oh, and her computer is the 7 year old one, with Linux as the operating system. He gets the one year old computer with all the fancy dodads. What? Wifey wants her files? Okay, so he sets up her computer to get into all the old files. If she wants to print, well there's only one printer, so just have a child run down to get those printouts. No bother about wasting paper from having to print single sided. If she wants pictures from the camera, he'll gladly oblige in his spare time to upload them on the computer. Isn't he the nicest, most trusting husband ever?

Fritatta Di Pasta

Just wanted to share (in case anyone actually reads my blog) the delicious meal we ate tonight. I don't often make it, but it is very good. It would be good for breakfast too, but to involved for me in the morning.

Beat 3 eggs; add 1 cup cold, cooked, cut-up spaghetti type pasta, 1/4 pounds cooked and cut sausage- Italian or otherwise, 1/4 cup parmesean cheese, and 4 oz. Monterey Jack cheese (shredded).

Fry in oil or sausage drippings in 8 inch skillet for 5 minutes. Carefully slide the fritatta onto a plate and use to flip it and cook the other side for 5 minutes. Serves 4-6 depending on appetite and age.

Sales

I sold a booster seat today- for $20 more than what I bought it for. Car seats normally depriciate in value like cars, but this one appreciated. It is unique (super thin) and now sold out everywhere. It was cheap when I bought it. It was a nice seat, but too short. The girls have almost outgrown the high back portion and since we have no headrests in the car, it is useless for us as a backless. Now that we have the sienna, we're not really using the car to transport kiddos anyway, so we don't need all the car seats. Besides, I think we need to buy one more to get everyone to fit just right in the sienna- and it'll be another expensive one. I'm selling for car seat money!

I've got my french horn up on ebay. I had planned for people to bid on it and raise the price. I even put a decent "buy it now" price. So far 7 watchers, no bids and 1 day left. I don't want to sell my horn for $50! I wonder if I can take it down if there are no bids... I'd rather sell locally for $100. Anyone want to buy a french horn?

Pictures!!!

Aaron spent much time getting the pictures on the computer and making it possible for me to edit and upload them onto the internet. Yay!!!

Ben had his first hair cut today.


Eric's birthday


Ben's birthday


Emily's birthday


Emily's cake


Random other photos

The dream

I had a very vivid dream last night. I had my baby- in the hospital and not sure why. My baby girl was big, with chubby, rosy cheeks, and a head full of 1 inch long, thick brown hair. Caitlyn was there (the only family member there) and I told her the baby looked just like her when she was a baby. We named her Alexandra Rhianna. Not sure where my subconscious found that!

Growing up

Eric lost his first tooth on Thursday. He came to show me in the morning. He just had his birthday! He's also reading books without being prodded. He's also been getting out the cursive letter cards and writing words in cursive. When did he learn to write beautifully and spell words?
Benjamin is mister self sufficient. He has been getting into the fridge for a while now, but he just learned how to open rubbermaid containers. One day he ate fudge and lunchmeat for breakfast. Tonight I put him to bed with the crib side up, went to the kitchen to wash dishes and there he was, bouncing on the chair! None of my kids have ever been able to climb out of the crib until about age 5 when they weren't supposed to be in it anyway! Ben's also the kid who learned to climb over the baby gate at 18 months... No wonder the kid doesn't talk. Why should he? He can do everything himself.
I'm nearly finished with the baby blessing dress. Just 4 rows on the bottom and then the sleeve edgings. I got out a crochet book because Caitlyn's been learning. There are a bunch of beautiful baby blankets, booties, bonnets, and sweaters that I now want to make! Not that a June/July baby would need any of that, but they were all so cute and adorable. Eric wants me to make him geometric shape people. They look easy. I might manage to spend a day making one for him and then going back to baby projects.

Eric's Birthday

We Celebrated Eric's birthday on Friday. I had an appointment in SLC which took some time- especially since it was lunch time, so we had to stop for lunch and that took forever. He wanted to finish reading "The Hobbit", so we read lots and did. We searched the internet for a space ship cake and couldn't find one he liked, so he settled for a mountain cake with trains around it. He picked lemon cake and in the future I will remember not to offer that choice. It was moist and had crumbly issues. I made green colored orange flavored frosting. It was a tasty cake. He also finished reading his 25th book this month, so we had pizza. The Book It coupons have been lost, so I let him pick his pizza. He picked a stuffed pizza from Papa Murohy's. Papa Murphy's is economical and tastes great, but it is burdensome to have to cook our own pizzas one at a time, Dinner was very late. He opened his presents: Thomas tub toy, two old Berenstain Bears books, a dice game, and a velvet train art with glitter glue as well as some money from relatives. Then we watched "The Hobbit". Caitlyn complained about the differences between the book and the movie. I hear a new Hobbit should be coming out. I am curious to know if it is appropriate for children to watch. Next day Eric got up early to read "The Bike Lesson". He thinks the book is hilarious. It is pretty neat because being a perfectionist he has maintained that he can't read. In the past few months he has only read beginner phonics books and only to get his pizza reward. He doesn't just read books for his own enjoyment- he'd ask me to read them, but he's read The Bike Lesson 3 times already by himself. He also asked early in the morning when he could take a bath. Then spent an hour in the tub with Thomas an Bulstrode. He's also got his picture half colored. We've played hi game several times too. I think he enjoyed his birthday.