I have struggled with the answer when asked, "What do you do?" and it isn't work-related. Ultimately, we settled on that I find things and untangle things. But I also read (a lot), pretend to wake surf, and watch Hallmark films.
So so good! Orla and Kate are long-time best friends off on a girls' weekend away. Kate is a bit of a player who is trying to get back at her soon-to-be-ex, causing her to spend frivolously and do drugs and hook-ups. Orla is a new mom ex...
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Parts were a screaming 5 and parts were like “what?” And just irritated me. It is a Groundhog Day premise about a family of four - the mom is caught up in her own life and missing all that is going on around her with her kids and then he...
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Actually, I was the only one that didn’t have wheels for any part of our stroll.
Sunday afternoon, we decided to enjoy the brief good weather that we had by taking a walk (of sorts) down by the lake. There is a great paved trail that goes around most of the lake. We were able to park and then walk for more than a mile, stop at threw rocks into the lake and then walk back to the parking lot. Both girls loved it and are ready to go again. Ivy’s pushing leg got a bit sore and Jade had two little falls, but other than that, everything else went off without a hitch.
It seems that since my new job started, I have been so busy I haven’t taken the time to smell the roses, enjoy the sun or most importantly – play with the girls. It is very difficult to achieve the perfect balance when you are getting used to a new job, a new boss, new expectations and the excitement of a the future this company has the potential of reaching. I also have to make time to train and time to develop my role – which is really important. Which results in it being very difficult to make sure my family gets the very best of my time. I am trying very very hard to do better. Hopefully soon, I will be able to balance it all again.
How do you find time to enjoy the things that really matter while you are developing in other areas?
While I was in San Francisco on business, I decided to record this quick little vlog. Please keep in mind, I am a PC who has had to convert to a MAC for work. I’m still learning. Which means there is no title. The text on the product I will show you is as if I’m looking in a mirror. So basically it is a total rookie VLOG, but I really have been dying to share this great beauty find with you.
*** does anyone know why I can’t embed youtube videos anymore? I could swear I’m doing it right, but I must be wrong. That or WordPress is wrong. 🙂 Sorry, you’ll have to go to YouTube to see it.
**** woohoo, I think I got it to work. I had to use the “old embed code” 🙂
If you have BYU-TV, check out the documentary on my uncle…
James Christensen’s BYU TV Documentary
James C. Christensen is the subject of a new documentary by Barry McLerran and Rick Sout that will premiere on April 18 at 6pm on BYU-TV. The hour-long documentary explores his life, family, artistic inspirations, and his prolific career from his early musical talents to his life as a fine artist and professor. Collectors of Christensen will recognize many of their limited edition prints up to, and including, the artist at work on the 2011 release “The Chess Match”.
View James Christensen’s entire library of works from Greenwich Workshop, as well as some extremely rare paintings and etchings at http://www.hiddenridgegallery.com/store/james-christensen.html.
It doesn’t seem possible because all I have done is work work work and sleep. But thanks to my mom and dad, the girls had an awesome spring break. They made Easter Ugly Dolls and paper mâché eggs. The paleontology museum at BYU was visited. Time was spent at the park. And probably their favorite part was having a sleep over and getting to stay up until midnight.
Thanks to their nap, they are both still awake at 9:30.
I was filled with incredibly mixed feelings about it.
It was her friend’s 8th birthday party. Not all of the girls were spending the night but about 4 of them were. I hadn’t planned on letting Jade stay. And she knew that some were staying but she wasn’t.
About an hour before I panned on picking her up, she called and asked if she could stay.
I caved and let her.
When I was little, I went on many sleepovers. But I was invited on more than I actually went on. I loved sleeping in my own house. And as I got older, my friends would tease me because I would cuddle into who ever was asleep next to me. (I slept with and cuddled with a stuffed animal unless I was on a sleepover).
My mom and I had a rule that I wasn’t allowed to ask in front of my friend for a sleepover, because she knew I didn’t always want to and if I didn’t ask in front of them, she could gauge how I was feeling that day about not sleeping at home.
I guess I expected Jade to be as hesitant as I was. But I need to be reminded that she has a lot of Scott in her too, and not just me. Scott doesn’t have the same insecurities as I have.
So I’m still nervous about her being gone. I’m nervous about her having nightmares. Or sleepwalking. What if she gets anxious or scared in the middle of the night?
How old is old enough to go on sleepovers? What hesitations do you have with sleepovers, if any?
