*My Week

A few things stick out to me about this week. One is that my oldest daughter has now lost her other front tooth and we now have our own live jack-o-lantern for Halloween. I haven't taken any pictures of it yet but we will carve pumpkins tonight so I will send those along next week.

Another thing is that I baby-sat my sister-in-law's kids on Thursday and my youngest son and her youngest son, both two years old, had quite a little adventure. They were outside by our cars and shed playing with trucks in the dirt. I kept feeling a little nervous about this but told myself that my son does this every day and I always feel nervous and nothing is ever wrong. The worst my boy has ever done is travel out into the field behind our house. Well, I should have realized that two little boys could come up with much greater adventures and danger than that. I had felt the need to check on them for the last 5-10 min. and finally decided to take the trash out and check on the darlings. When I walked outside there was Dad. He told me that as he was driving past the fertilizer plant across the road from where we live (I know, really picturesque, right?), a friend from the ward waved him over. In his truck there were two little toddlers! Those boys had pushed their dump truck and school bus out across the gravel in front of our house and across O Road (who knows how long they played on the road!), over by fertilizer plant and then into the little barrow pit where Joshua had to stop because his shoe-less feet were full of stickers. It seems to me like he might not even have had pants on! (What a great mom!) This episode still makes me cringe inside and thank Heavenly Father that no harm came to those little guys out there. I just wish I had been faster at following those promptings. Rest assured, they were never, and never again will be, allowed to play outside the fenced in area! I have been trying harder ever since to follow through on thoughts that come to me just in case they come from the Spirit.

My youngest also managed to dump a whole container of Brasso cleaner on the desk and carpet this week. My husband uses the Brasso to repair scratched DVD's. He left it on the desk after fixing Cars and I didn't realize it so I left my son there watching a movie while I went and got dressed and ready for the day. He comes to me with this DVD that is all foggy from Brasso being put on and rubbed off and tells me he is cleaning "Caws." I tell him that he is not allowed to do that, only daddy can, and go out to see the damage. A large puddle on the desk and floor! Luckily nothing valuable was in contact with it or ruined but I got sick off the fumes while I was cleaning it up. my wonderful husband had to get out my new carpet shampooer (my requested birthday present) and start the clean up process for me because I couldn't get by the computer without choking. So all in all there was no real damage and I got to try out my birthday present and find out that it is a pretty good machine! Will this boy ever stop being so curious?! Or at least stop making huge messes in his curiosity!?

The only other thing of note is that I got my first speeding ticket. On my way home from town on Wednesday I was driving past one of the schools in town and failed to notice the 20-mph-flashing-lights-sign. Before you judge you should try spending a full day in town with my two year old and see if you are completely alert! I saw that there were a few kids walking around and remember thinking that they must get out earlier than our schools but that is as far as my awareness of the situation went. I was at a complete loss as to why I was pulled over until the policeman told me. Since the original speed limit is 35 mph when the yellow lights aren't flashing and I was going 36 mph I was 16 miles over in a school zone which gives me a whopping $353 ticket! I am trying to get up courage to call Pre-paid Legal and try to get the ticket reduced. I mean, it isn't like I live in that city and am completely familiar with all the zoning there and I have never been pulled over in my whole driving lifetime except for once when I was a teenager and one of my headlights was out! I think all of this should count for some reduction here. I mean, Christmas is coming! Where's the love?

There were other more positive events that happened this week but they don't make up for very entertaining reading so I will just leave it at that. I hope that you can all get a good laugh out of this. I am still trying to find the laughter inside myself, but I am sure it will come. I love to laugh!

*Sorry I have no photos for any of this. I will try to make my next post more visually stimulating!