Candy, Egypt, Primary

Gunnar just went to bed and the treats just came out. I started thinking about all of the times my parent's most likely did this. The funny things that we do when our kids aren't around.

I've been watching and reading about the absolute chaos and madness going on in Egypt right now. What a mess. Egypt has always been the one place overseas that I would love to visit. The historical sites and artifacts are so interesting to me. To see the pyramids and tombs and everything in between would be so neat. I was reading about how looters were starting to go after the Egyptian Museum and broke several known artifacts. They also tore the heads off of a couple of mummies. Who would even think to destroy something like that. Jeff and I were talking about it and I would have this aweful wrong feeling about ti. I guess that is the difference between me and them. A bunch of citizens ended up arriving in somewhat time to make a human barricade trying to prevent the looters from entering. Some did and created a mess. Soon after the military showed up and have been keeping the place protected. I am glad that the general population in Egypt thought enough of their history to do that. I would some day like to visit a place so rooted in history.

Today all of the parent's in Gunnar's class got the talk from their teachers. Oh man, Gunnar has some issues. We were asked to work on being reverent and sitting in their chairs, not talking when the teacher is talking about the lesson and learning to talk when they are asked to. There are 9 little 4 year olds so I can only imagine how wild it can get. We love his teachers. They are husband and wife and just awesome with kids. Jeff and I are finishing up the Teaching the Gospel course and one of the lessons was on this very thing. One of the suggestions on improving your class if you are having difficulties with kids is to talk to their parents. That very day they told me that Gunnar talks to much. No surprise there but we have really been getting on him about this since he starts school in the fall.

Can you believe that I will have a kindergartner in the fall. So crazy. Speaking of crazy...he is driving me nutso. The kid is out of control. He does not understand what keeping your feet off the couch means. It makes the best trampoline he thinks. He usually doesn't jump, he does flips. Lots of them. Drives me nuts. We skyped with my dad yesterday and when we were done, for the heck of it, I noticed Heidi was on so we called her. Gunnar was crazy like usual. Heidi asked me a couple of times what Gunnar was doing. I told her that he was running around somewhere. Again she asked me what he was doing because in the background she could see him on the table jumping up and down trying to reach the light overhead. By the time I turned around he jumped down. Oh brother.

I've been making a list of the things that I would love to eventually do over time to our house. Some are definately longer term like paint the house (really needs to be sooner than later), new windows, new Hardie siding would be awesome some day, granite countertops, one of our bathrooms needs to be updated/redone, and I would LOVE tile in the dining room/hallways. Who seriously puts carpet in a dining area when it is the only place to eat. We don't have a formal dining area to justify that. But there are others things that I would be able to do a little bit at a time that wouldn't break the bank. I would love to repain the purple accent walls in our house a light, fresh blue. Blue is my favorite color and would be a nice change. Does anyone have any recommendations for a nice blue. Our rusty colored walls also need painted over, a wall in our bedroom desperately needs painted over after a vastly painting idea. We would love to get new lighting in the kitchen and dining room and someday a lower pile carpet in the family room. I mentioned to Jeff that I would love to paint our kitchen cabinets white for an update. He totally jumped on board after he gave me the entire speech on how it would take a lot of work and prepping is very important. I know. I read blogs remember. This isn't something that I plan on doing super soon, but the idea is there. So...does anyone have a great white that they like using in their house. There is a whole bunch of other things on my list. I just need to get out of this funk of winter.

I was reading a blog last night about protecting just about everything in case of a fire or what should be done to make it more bearable. Anyway, they were talking about backing up information off site just in case because having it on an external hard drive doesn't really help you if you have a fire. One of the fires started from the dishwasher. Now I always turned my dishwasher on at night because I couldn't stand the noise. Not anymore. That article freaked me out. I never ran my washing machine or dryer at night or when I was gone for that very reason but I never considered the dishwasher. That habit didn't take long to break.