New bedroom furniture!

I have wanted a sleigh bed ever since we stayed with Adam and Cassidi and saw their sleigh bed in 2005. 6 years! I just didn't want to get an expensive bedroom set and be in debt for it, so we have had our sad, sad furniture. We have a king size bed with the base which has been sitting on the floor since we got it--no headboard or frame. We have 2 $50 dressers that we got from KMart that the kids like to stand on the tiny handles and most of the fronts of the drawers have been broken right off. We've fixed and refixed with wood glue, screws, and nails. Some just can't be fixed, so where a dresser drawer front should be is just a hole with a bunch of junk in the drawer. One dresser doubles as Brads nightstand. I have a nightstand that is falling apart. The back is coming off and the fake wood on the top is stripped off in little strips where stickers have been taken off or something sticky has been scrubbed off. It truly is sad furniture.
Now, I don't know about everyone else, but things really do just seem to fall into place. You can worry and worry about something and push really hard for something and work your butt off and not have it happen. But most the time after all that hard work when you've given up, something just falls into your lap. This happened with our house and kind of with the cars. Our kids certainly didn't take much effort--they just came with ease (The effort has been every day since.) Our jobs have just kind of fallen in our laps with exception of the post office. I had to push to get that and it didn't really feel right and was not easy. I was looking and looking for a mattress because we were sleeping on a full size bed and kids like to jump in and leave you no room. So I looked and searched for months--online and at furniture stores. I pretty much gave up and then one day I was driving and saw a sign that said "mattresses for sale". 2 blocks down, someone had mattresses all over their front lawn. A mattress yard sale. Odd. But I found a good one (RC Willey double side pillow top--Springair?) That king size bed fits well in our room and it fits the entire family. And our dining room table. I searched and searched online and at stores. We found our table that easily seats 10 on a trip to DI.
So I pretty much resigned myself to having horrible furniture until the kids moved out. It is so darn expensive! Neither Brad nor I had looked for furniture for a long time, and yesterday Brad thought he'd just go to KSL and have a look. He found a great deal on the bed. We went to see it and I wanted all of it! The people are remodeling their room and totally getting rid of everything. We are getting the $300 bedding, the artwork, the lamps, the $350 bench, the nice armoire, and the king size sleigh bed for $700. And they are going to help us move it. So I am really excited about that.

In other news, my shoulder is doing so much better. I slipped at work on black ice and landed on my shoulder. It made me feel like an old grandma! I strained my shoulder and couldn't hardly even move it. I couldn't pick anything up or steer the car. I have been to physical therapy 8 times and I took 2 weeks off of work at the post office. I hate missing work due to ailments or illnesses! Time off is only good if it's for vacation. I went back to work at the post office on Monday. It was stiff and sore, but okay.

Connor decided he wants to do gymnastics again, so I am happy about that. Josh is doing basketball and loves it. They are signed up for soccer and will be signed up for tball. I asked Kaytlynn if she wanted to play tball, but she doesn't want to. Bummer. She would make such a cute tball player. Connor is excited to go snowboarding and they are all doing well in school. We went to the circus and that was fun, although all three kids were crying on their way out because we refused to pay $30 for a 1 minute ride. We told them if it was that important to them, they could take the money out of their piggy banks, but nobody wanted to do that. Okay, blogging is making me tired now, so I'll be done!

I remember

I remember what else I wanted to write about Kaytlynn. She has been adding ey to a lot of words. She says "That's miney!" and "Can I give you a lick-ey?" She just adds it on whenever she feels like it. On a different subject--the other day I heard Josh ask Kaytlynn if she wanted to play a video game with him. Poor Kaytlynn is usually left out. She asks the boys a question and they ignore her or they will just play with eachother and poor Kaytlynn is left to play by herself, or she asks me to play with her, but I can't play with her all day. So it was really nice to hear all three kids playing video games together downstairs. Josh was being very patient and teaching her what to do. Music to a mothers ears. Oh my gosh, I'm a mom! It just hits me sometimes and thinking that sentence shocked me. :) Josh also helps Connor read. For some reason, Connor has a hard time with in, is, and it. Josh will say "Come on Connor, we've been over this again and again last night. You know it." Also, my kids say "last day" a lot. Especially Kaytlynn. She'll say things like "Last day, we went to grama and grampas house. And last day, Santa came and bringed us presents." They will remember things I have totally forgotten about. Cuties. Kaytlynn has also been giving me lots of love since I "broke my arm". Lots of kisses and hugs on my leg.

I'm going to beat you up!

Kaytlynn said to me the other day "We're doing to have a race and I'n doing to beat you up!" I thought that was kind of rude, but realized she was just putting the "up" on the end. She says this all the time now. "I'm doing to beat everyone up!" "I beat Tonnor up." "Did I beat you up?" she says it to her poor little friends, too-"I'n doing to beat you up!" "We're donna do to Jumpin' Jacks and have so much fun and I'm doing to beat you up."
I was looking through my old planner pages and saw a Kaytlynn quote I had written down "My neck is sweatering. It's hot." She must be a warm-blooded kid because I try to give her hugs and she'll push me away and tell me she's too hot. Most of her time spent at home is shirtless time because she's too hot. Awhile ago she didn't want to go to pre-school and I asked her why she didn't want to go. She said "I just wanna stay home and be naked! Hmmf!" with her arms folded and a scowl on her face.
I pulled an old grandma trick last Sunday. I slipped on the ice and fell on my shoulder. I didn't break anything. It's just a strain, but it hurts! I can't lift my arm or move my shoulder without it really hurting. So I'm in a sling and have been going to physical therapy. All the kids have been good, but Kaytlynn has been very sweet. Every time I say I can't do something she asks "Because you have a broken arm?" and then she'll come over and kiss me. The other day Brad left and gave her a hug. She ran in to me and was very troubled and said that she forgot something. I asked her what she forgot and she said she gave dad hugs but "I fordot to dive him tisses." She wanted me to call him to tell him to come back. She also says "last day" a lot. "But last day, I was a really naughty dirl" "But, last day, I ate my whole sandwich" "But last day, I didn't have to doe to the doctors." It seems like there was something else I wanted to write about, but I can't remember! Went to Josh and Connors SEP (parent teacher conference) and they are both doing really well!

Playdate

Connor is 5 years old and in kindergarten. He came home with a piece of paper that had a phone number written on it in kindergartener hand-writing. He said a girl in his class called Tacie (Taycie?, Tacey? I don't know.) had written it down and told him to tell me to call that number and set up a playdate. I thought that was so funny. It probably would have just been normal and boring if it was a boy. But anyway, there was one number missing. I immediately thought that Connor had asked for her number and she wasn't really interested, so she left one digit out. This is one way girls dodge having a guy they don't like call them. Some other tactics include giving out a fake number, or taking the guys number and promising to call, then never calling. I just remembered something. There was a radio station that had a number girls could give guys that they weren't interested in. When they called the number, the machine said something like "This is (radio station) Sorry dude, but that girl that gave you her number last night just wasn't interested." Then another time they had a girl on the answering machine say "Hi! You've reached (phone number). I can't get to the phone right now, so leave a message and I'll call you back." Then they would air the messages guys left saying things like "Hi, this is (guys name) I met you at the club last night and I really had a good time. I think we had a connection--blah blah blah blah." Poor guys! Funny, though. Anyway, that came to mind, but then I don't think that girls play those kind of games at 5 years old, right? So I thought maybe she just got her number wrong, in which case my good friend Melissa thinks she's too dumb. Melissa writes "Player or dumb? Either way, no good." Funny Melissa! Oh my gosh, it will be funny when girls start calling the boys. Brad and I just both have cell phones, so all calls will have to go through us, ahahahaha!