ducks...

For ages I have had a duck problem.

This is not all of them...
I think it started when Rhiannon was a baby, and I bought some rubber bath ducks for her. The I saw a set where little ducks balanced on the back of a bigger, mummy duck, so I bought that set. Then I found a set of 5 bright coloured ducks, and it was on...
First I had to keep looking until I found a purple duck, to complete a rainbow... and of course the ducks had to be put around the bath in rainbow order, and size order...
Then I found bigger ducks, and patterned ducks, and colour changing 'watch out the bath is HOT ducks'. It was really quite stressful when I decided to sacrifice some small ducks for 'find it bags'.
When we moved into Dover, the bath ducks were trapped in storage, and when we girls moved out, one of the very first things I bought was more bath ducks, and I bought a duck non-slip bath mat, and a duck wet-pack I use as a scripture tote... and I couldn't stop looking even after the long exiled ducks were set free and joined our bathroom in Huonville.

 

But the other day, between OT appointments for Rhiannon I found it:

That's right, a bath Chicken!!

...and suddenly I don't feel the need to search for bath ducks any more!

has dah sads again, but not for me this time...

Today I took a pregnancy test to the 15 year old down the road...
It came back positive...
I'm so sad for this little girl who has now to grow up, and put her baby first, whether she's ready to grow up or not.
I'm sad for her Mum, and that the girl was too scared to tell her mum her worries, and talked to a neighbour first. Imagine finding our your daughter was pregnant after the woman up the road!
I feel sad for the baby...
I wish I knew a local pro open adoption agency...
So many thoughts...

cognitive dissonance

I has sum...

and i especially liked the gentle words of the Stake Pres. Member who told me 'there is no structured space for you to appropriately explore these issues'

Not quite saying shut up, but not really saying lets discuss your perspective either...

I keep reminding myself that I can do hard things, It's just that more crap keeps leaping into the 'hard things' basket.

The Gospel is perfect. The Church is a basket case sometimes, and there is nowhere 'safe' to talk about it.
Maybe the cure for cognitive dissonance is to not think at all...

Sometimes I feel very frustrated...

Note to self

It doesn't really make sense to buy flaxseed capsules and chlorofill drops and expensive mega fantastic super probiotics... and then also buy dream chocolate, just because it is on special :(  Your body will not function well if all you put in it is supplements and no actual food, just chocolate :(
The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is SOOOO WEAK!

I really want to try the GAPS diet... http://gapsaustralia.com.au/category/what-is-gaps/... but I think I need a personality transplant. You know, so that I found pleasure in messing about in kitchens and all that stuff! I wonder why I find this so hard?

sigh

Miss 11 almost 12 has a new friend... his name is Bradley and he's 17...
I'm a little bit stressed.
Some days I wonder, what next?!?

By gum! It works!?!?

We have had a few chewing gum problems this week...

This is Rhiannon's school sneaker, covered in gum all over the laces. It is now in the freezer, because frozen gum peels off more easily than room temperature gum.
The worst problem though was poor Jocelyn's neck and hair. I'm not sure exactly ow it happened, but she got gum all behind her neck, and in her hair line. She climbed onto my lap, and I noticed a little bit in her hair, then she got snuggly and slouchy, and fell asleep with my hand cradling her behind her head. I went to move, so I could put her down, and discovered that the gum was all over the back of her neck, and that my hand was stuck to her. Every time I tried to pull my hand off, she cried :( I couldn't even sit her up straight, because the gum was sticking her neck to itself in Her skin folds. I got an ice pack, but she couldn't tolerate that on her bare skin, and I tried nappy wipes, but they just got stuck more.
I googled getting gum off skin, and discovered the solution is peanut butter, but I didn't have any in the house...
Facebook to the rescue...
I posted a help message as a status update, and my friend Mel called me, and came around with a jar! We were both amazed at how easily the peanut butter did the job. It felt kind of weird, but the gum just sort of rolled off.
The peanut butter washed out of Jossie's hair quite easily. If you had a lot of peanut butter in hair, it would probably work best to do a conditioner soak, then rinse, then shampoo and condition, because conditioner removes heavy oiling better than shampoo does.
I  don't like gum anymore...

women and the Priesthood

http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/?p=3493#comment-1122320

I find this post inspirational.