September in 10 Items or Less

It would appear that this blog has become the kind of blog where I only update once a month and then have a million items to share and none of them are even remotely interesting.

So that's exciting.

Also, I don't sleep anymore and my mind is like when you're at the gym and there's 8 TV's on at the same time and you simultaneously watch all of them, but none of them.  

(I know this from that one time that I went to the gym in 1997.)

It's basically just a big wild rave in my head at all times.  

It's a party.

Item #1:

I had a job, then I quit my job, then I got re-hired at my job. 

(See item #2)

Item #2:

We had expected that the girls would both be playing soccer this year (that's what most parents would expect when they sign their kid up for soccer AND pay the season fees).  But despite 12 spritely worded emails, and tears, and threats, and all 5 stages of mourning, they wouldn't budge.  Which freed our nights right up.  (See item #1.)

Item #3:

After the soccer debacle (See item #2), we dove into horseback riding and now we pretend whip our stuffed animals with belts on a regular basis.

Item #4:

We bought Disneyland passes again.

Apparently I'm a sucker for imagination and singing forest creatures.

 Item #5:

I was called to be the Young Women's President in my ward.  (Which means that I'm in charge of about 20 girls (ages 12-18) at church.)  They are darling and amazing and I LOVE them all.  (It should be noted that this call came after I got my job back + bought Disneyland passes + started horse-back riding + signed up to be the Room Mom for Brooklyn + added a shift of coaching gymnastics.)  

Well played.

 Item #6:

I keep winning things, which is weird, because I don't win things.

This month I won a $50 massage gift card in a game of BINGO + a give-away on Facebook that I didn't even enter + a $50 gift card to BJ's at work + an X-Box 360.

Item #7:

Cameron did a flying ninja move right out of the 4 inch opening of the trampoline cage and landed directly on his head right on the concrete.

So that sucked.

Item #8:

Our garage door fell off it's track and onto our car.

(Basically things need to stop falling off of other things in our house.)

Item #9:

Cameron and I are using our sister-free mornings to do terribly important things like hunt zombies with lazer guns while wearing yellow foam wigs at Target.  Or meeting dad at the hospital for lunch and discovering how to open and close the O.R. doors.  Or drink ourselves sick on chocolate milk while watching "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" and attempting to build the world's longest toy train track.

Item #10:

We are doing great and we couldn't be happier.