Hide and Seek

A couple of months ago I decided it was time to finally get on a schedule!!  Now that I am on one I think to myself all the time....Why didn't I do this sooner?  It makes life SO MUCH EASIER!!  I actually make a menu every week so I know what we are having for dinner and go shopping every friday while Kaydence is at preschool for two hours.  (It goes a lot faster when I only have one kid! Of course I remember when I thought going with just one was hard! ha ha)  Every monday is my cleaning day where I clean our whole condo.  Even though I may not get the bathrooms done on cleaning day (because I dread doing them)  I try to not be too hard on myself because I know I will get it done another day.   I can't believe how much happier Vinny is with me being on a schedule.  I think this is something he has been trying to tell me to do for a really long time and it just never stuck so I think he is really relieved and very happy!  Most importantly I can't tell you how much of a difference it has made in my life and my attitude towards my motherly/wifely duties in the home.  I feel like I have accomplished some amazing thing when my house is clean and there is dinner on the table.  I was making dinner before of course but I could never make anything that I didn't normally make because that would mean I would have to go to the store at the last minute and I didn't have time for that.  I was cleaning my house before but not every week all the time.  This is really embarrassing but I have to say that even the bathrooms would go 1 or 2 months without being cleaned.  In my paper journals I have often written about being a wife and mother and all the things that come with those callings.  I have had a hard time with cleaning.  A lot of things I have had to overcome because of childhood experiences.  Cleaning when I was young wasn't because we were trying to make  a happier home, it was more about cleaning so we wouldn't get spanked and yelled at.  So when I got married of course cleaning wasn't fun or something I really cared to do.  With this schedule I have figured out how much joy I can really find in cleaning and taking care of my family in that way.  I want to clean so that my home will be a happy home!! Something I am sometimes really struggle with but if I just remember... having a happy home.... then those feelings of discouragement usually go away.  I love when my family is happy and most importantly I love when I am happy.  Having a happy mommy and wife really makes a difference with the spirit that is in the home.
So with all that said.....I have a story.  While I was putting the laundry in on monday I heard a door close.  I thought it was the door to our bedroom which the girls aren't allowed to play in because they usually just get into everything they aren't supposed too.  I went out to look and they were not in my room or anywhere else that I looked.  I started to panic thinking the worst....that someone had come and taken them.  I ran everywhere in the condo, checking the usual hiding spots only ending up to find they weren't there.  I went out on the balcony and called their names (which Kaydence usually responds too)  I ran back inside and checked every room again thinking I really must have not checked a spot where they would be hiding.  And then ran outside again this time screaming their names.  I heard in the distance Kaydence saying, "We are over here!"  I went out and they had gotten all the way down the stairs outside!  I was relieved but at the same time feeling a little overwhelmed with the fact that they could have been taken or hit by a car or they could have fallen down the stairs.  When I asked Kaydence what she was doing or thinking by going outside.  She responded..."We were hiding from you!"  I then explained to her that we don't go outside to hide from mommy and explained all the things that COULD HAVE happened and then locked the door so they couldn't get out again.  PHEW!  Thank goodness Heavenly Father is looking out for me and is easy to forgive my parenting flaws when stuff like this happens.  I am still trying to get over this happening but I know one day it will be something I laugh about so I decided to write it down. 

Went to the dealership today because they didn't finish the safety and emissions on saturday like we thought.  I was really nervous to take these two by myself but it ended up going really good!  They had a little room for kids to play in with little couches and TONS of toys.  They also had free popcorn and soda.  Which of course the girls loved!!! (and me too!)  Thank you Nissan Dealer for making our experience a good one!

Hurt.

We had  a lot of things (exciting things) going on this last weekend that it just flew by but at the same time the days seemed so LONG!  Kaydence has preschool, Which she loves going to,  every friday.  This last friday they got to go on a field trip to arctic circle.  It was so cute!  They showed them where they cook, store, and clean all the food.  They even got to make their own ice cream cones!  I think it is something Kaydence will remember forever.  They also gave her a coupon for a free ice cream cone which she just could not wait to use another day.....so we ended up going back there when daddy got home from work.  I love going to arctic circle because their playplace is more like a playground that you find at a park and kids can't get stuck in it as easy.  (So really I like going to there so I don't have to climb up into a big mess to save my child if they get stuck!)  One thing I don't like about going to playplaces is when parents just think it is a place where they don't need to watch their kids at all!!! My girls are small and usually get beat up by those kids whose parents don't really care or notice because they are so into whatever they are doing and figure their kids are doing fine.  If you can't tell it is something that really bothers me.  This friday had one of those said parents there.  Her daughter had an icecream cone in the play area where it specifically says, NO FOOD ALLOWED!!! Well her daughter must have been finished with her ice cream cone because she threw it from where she was standing.  Half of it landed on the stairs that all the kids go and the other half landed on the ground.  She then goes and sees her mom who cleans her up and is so happy that her daughter ate all of her ice cream cone. (since she wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that her daughter had thrown the ice cream and it was now all over the place.)  Her daughter then goes back to playing but not before she sees the ice cream that landed on the floor that I guess she wanted more of because she started licking the ground where it had been dropped!  Vinny and I and another mom looked at each other in complete disgust and then looked to see if the mom was watching, which of course she was not.  The other mom was so kind to inform that woman that her daughter was licking the icecream off the floor, which she responded by saying, "Oh it's okay.  It's not that big of a deal!"  We could not believe what we just heard but I guess to each thier own and I really hope that girl doesn't catch some weird disease from that gross floor she was licking.  Any way, the girls had a lot of fun playing and going down the slide!!! Saturday we had a birthday party for a neighbor to go to in the morning and then we waited around (anxiously)  to go get our new car that would be big enough to fit our whole family when baby cameron comes.  So when the time finally came we went to our good friends Matt and Tanshyle's (since that is who we were buying the car from) where the girls stayed and the men went to deal with buying of cars.  While they were gone Kaydence and Holynd decided to play with Tanshyle's razor...which of course ended up cutting Kaydence's finger. which of course gave me a screaming child with a really bloody mess!  I am so thankful I was at Tanshyle's and she was there to help me since I am really not good with blood... AT ALL!!  It took us a good 15 minutes to stop the blood from coming so we could finally put bandaids on it. And then another half hour to calm Kaydence down so she would want to play again.  We did survive though!!!

This is a few days later when she would actually let me take a picture.....and of course the bandaid had to stay on because it still hurts too bad.  (we have gone through TONS of bandaids and are now out because of this incident.)
That night we went and showed our new car to Grammy and Aunt Rachie.  While we were there Kaydence played with a Jesse doll from toy story two.  When we were ready to leave she didn't want to leave Jesse so Aunt Rachie was so nice and gave Kaydence the Jesse doll.  She LOVES her!

  She has to sleep with her and make sure she is close by during the day and even had to bring her to sunbeams!  She now goes around saying, "Howdy Cowboy, YEEHAW!"  It is so cute!  The only problem is ....Adallyn wants one so I will be buying her one this week so they don't fight over Jesse anymore. (Kaydence is pretty protective of "her" toys!) 
Sunday was great .... until Kaydence accidently closed Adallyn's pinky finger in the door. (The hinge part)  It looked aweful because her whole finger was smashed in there with the door fully closed!  Poor thing.  I am pretty sure that her nail is going to fall off. :(  She was screaming and to calm her down I thought it would be a good idea to give her a sucker..... yeah all it did was cause more problem when the sticky sucker got on her finger that was hurt.  DUH NICOLE!!! So then that just started a screaming fit again.  She would even try putting her finger in her mouth to make it feel better.  It was so sad.  I cried and cried as she would look up at me like, "help me please mommy....it hurts."  All I wanted to do was take the pain away and I couldn't no matter how much I tried to love her or distract her or pray for her it still wouldn't take the pain away at that moment so all I could do was cry with her. It was the longest hour of my life as I just held her while both of us cried. Within a couple of hourst hough she acted like nothing happened and started playing again. (Every once in awhile she would remember she got hurt and hold her finger.)  When Kaydence saw me crying because of Adallyn she started crying because she wanted mommy to be happy and she didn't like that I was sad.  It was so sweet.  Adallyn will not let me take a picture of her owie but it is already looking so much better.

 Their first bath after them both getting hurt.  Adallyn acted like it was no big deal and her finger didn't just get smashed in the door and Kaydence just held her finger the whole time saying how much it hurt.  I just love these two girls so much they make me so happy!  I am constantly being humbled by their sweet little innocent spirits!  I am so grateful to be their mommy!