"I know you're good in there... somewhere."

This was a conversation Acadia and I had today:


Cadi - "Hello Ma'am. Are you Sariah Roser, with no middle name?"

Me - "Yes, I am."

Cadi - "Good, I want you to babysit my baby for me." I am handed a small killer whale stuffed animal.

Me - "But I don't do day care."

Cadi - "What?"

Me - "I don't babysit."

Cadi - "But I need you to watch my kid."

Me - "But you don't even know me."

Cadi - "I got your name on the internet."

Me - "You really shouldn't leave your kid with someone you don't know. I could be a bad person and all you know is what I said on the internet. How do you know I didn't just post my name on the internet so people would bring me their kids so I could be mean to them?"

Cadi - "I know you're good in there... somewhere. You've got some good in you."

My feet are killing me!!!

Today was busy!


I put Cadi on the bus, then headed over to a Relief Society midweek activity. We choose items for babies and wrapped them for a shelter. The items had all been donated. It was at the same place that we went last week with the youth.

Then I picked Acadia up from school and took her to dance. Ryan came home early and we were able to get all the rest of the shelves up in the pantry. I've started putting food in it. YAY!!!

Made a quick batch of cookies and sent one dozen with Acadia to Girl Scouts. They took the cookies and went Christmas caroling. I'm not sure where, I couldn't come with them because it was going to take too long. I needed to be at the church building.

But first, Ryan and I headed to the mall to do some shopping. We got done just in time for me to go to church. I needed to help set up for the activity tonight since my class was one of the ones in charge this time.

We had a good time. We ate pizza for dinner, then got to work! We made food boxes. Donations had been collected for the past few weeks. There were stations where they could make things that we added to the boxes. They made wood ornaments, cany ornaments and "warm bags".

Warm bags are basically fabric pillows filled with rice. You can stick it in the microwave and it will be nice and warm to put on sore muscles. The bags are long and are perfect to put around you neck.

We finished early so the home teachers could deliver the boxes we made. So now I'm home, my shoes are off, and I think I'm ready for a foot spa!

Are we really considering this?

Just as we near the end of the current home-improvement projects we begin to consider more ways to make it drag out longer, cost more, and inevitably stress us out more!


We are thinking about taking the "Popcorn" ceiling down, respraying with texture to match the walls, and don't forget painting it! It would look nice when it's done and would solve some of our overhead light problems. We have a light off-centered now that we've built the pantry in our living room. And we have a discolored ring around the light above the computer from the previous light which we removed. But...that's alot of work - not to mention messy!

I'm leaning towards just doing the living room. I have an idea for the discolored area over the computer. But the living room light is a real issue.

What are we thinking? Do we enjoy punishing ourselves? And here I was so excited that I would be painting soon and have this part all done!

We're almost there!

Ryan and Farl just finished texturing all the walls. They did the pantry, inside and out, the entry wall that was replaced with the bathroom remodel, the bathroom, and some other walls where it had been patched poorly by the previous owners. Yay!!!


I think I'll paint the pantry later this week, just to get the food and everything accessible again. The rest, we're going to wait until after Christmas. It's best to let the texture cure for a week, that puts it at the week of Christmas and I do not want to be painting that week! But I've waited this long, I can wait two more weeks! I can't wait to have it all done! It's going to look so good! Then we can do the floor in the living room and we'll be as done as we're going to be for awhile.

There are always little things we want to do. For instance, we want to put crown molding up in my room and we'll eventually put it up in the living room too. And I hope we can redo much of the kitchen someday. Not to mention, we want to put in central heat and an air conditioner. Then there's the outside! New roof, siding, and landscaping all on the list!

But for now, my goal is to just paint the entire inside. And it looks like that will be soon! :thumb:

Celebrating the Season

Last night Ryan, Cadi and I went to a Christmas Concert at Ryan's boss' church. We met at Greg's house (Debi, try not to be too jealous!) then caravaned over to the church. They had a 120 member choir that sang many Christmas songs and medley's. My favorite was an acapella number "A Merry Carol of the Bells". There was also a youth choir, bells and chimes, and a couple solo/duets. It was all very nice, very joyful. Then afterwards we enjoyed pie :lick: and visited for awhile.


We had invited Farl, but he decided to stay home and relax. He's been working so hard this week!

May I have a drum roll please...

Ryan was sustained as Executive Secretary in the Ward Bishopric today. So, we will never see him on Sundays again! :lol:  No, it won't be quite that bad. We have a terrific Bishopric, he is excited to serve with them and get to know them better.


Farl is sleeping here in the family room and it's time for him to go to bed because they (he and Ryan) are getting up early to make it to the hardware store first thing.  So...I need to go. Tomorrow I will post about what we did tonight. :thumb:

Midnight Caller

Last night, Ryan went back to work since he had lots to do but was home alot during the day to work on Cadi's room. I expected him to be back around 1 or 2 in the morning. When I woke up at 3:30 and he still wasn't home, I paged him. I figured if he had JUST gotten in his car and was on his way home, he had until 4:15 until I would worry. He got home at 4 am.


:sleep:

5:15 ish a.m. - THE PHONE RINGS!!!

Well, Ryan is so tired, he thinks it is his alarm going off. (His alarm is on the phone. It sings a tune to wake him up every morning.) He reaches over, picks up the phone, and drops the receiver back down. I told him it wasn't his alarm, but an actual phone call! Oops.

We *69'd the call (in case it was family trying to reach us in an emergency) and it was from a 206 area code.  We don't know anyone from that area code. We figure it must have been a wrong number because they never called back. Whatever.

So, Ryan is a tired boy! And he can't even skip church because today he will be called to his new calling. Yeah, I bet you all forgot about that, didn't you? He's sleeping right now and I think I'll let him sleep until he has to get up to get ready for church.

Tune in later, I'll post his new calling when we get home.