Tagged

So, my niece Tawny tagged me w/ this a week or so ago, I just haven't gotten around to it. Since our nicer computer went down a little while, I find it very annoying to do anything on this much older, much slower computer... But, I promise I will try harder and do a better job at posting in the future.

Here goes... 8 Things:

8 TV shows I watch (I am ashamed to say, I DO have 8 shows I watch, probably a lot more... need to change that)
1. Psych
2. Monk
3. Chuck
4. CSI NY
5. Bones
6. NCIS
7. The Starter Wife
8. Word World & Super Why (I love to watch these w/ the kids, especially now that Dannik is reading & gets into "helping")

8 Favorite Restraunts
1. The India House
2. McGrath's Fish House
3. Olive Garden (I have really been craving their salads lately)
4. Sonic (yes, I know it's fast food, and really it's not the food at all, but their slushes & limeaids..mmmmm!)
5. Applebees
6. China Hill
7.
8.
We don't really eat out much... so I don't have a ton of favorite places. I am always open to suggestions!

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. Slept in a bit
2. Threw up
3. Went to buy wipes, toothpaste, cotton swabs & lotion
4. Took the kids to the Halloween carnival
5. Thought about cleaning the kitchen
6. Took a nap instead
7. Watched "Topper" w/ Cary Grant
8. Bathed the kids

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. Being done w/ pregnancy
2. Getting the basement finished
3. Daynen starting his new career
4. Getting my pre-school opened (next school year... lots of work to do before then, staring w/ the basement getting finished!)
5. Family get together in Idaho in a few weeks.
6. Trick-or-treating w/ the kids
7. Having a date night
8. Going to bed :)

8 things on my wish list:
1. The basement getting done
2. New dishwasher :)
3. A computer that works properly
4. Finding Daynen's birth certificate
5. Self-folding laundry
6. No more morning sickness
7. New dishwasher
8. Finished basement :)

People I hereby tag:
Vanessa
Camie
Ashley
Janelle
Carrie
Cheryl
Jen
Anyone else who feels like sharing :)

Announcement

Yes, we have an "official" announcement to make. We are pregnant with our 4th! We are so excited. I am about 13 weeks pregnant at this point, and am due at the end of April. Of course it is too early to say for sure what the sex is, but I have been VERY sick this time. The only other pregnancy I was this sick with was Markay.
We told the kids a few weeks ago and had a big Family Home Evening planned to help announce it. We talked about how special each of us is, and the unique things each of brings to the family. At the end of talking about how important each of us was to the family, we said, "And we are adding a new person to our family. Mommy is pregnant and we will have a baby in the Spring". I was hoping for excitement, but instead I got "Oh, okay, what are we going to do now?" from Markay. Dannik simply said, "I know Mom. I prayed about it and Heavenly Father told me it's a girl!" How anti-climatic! Oh well, they talk about it all the time now and Markay is so excited to have a little sister that she can share her room with.... let's hope Dannik is right!

The Dishwasher Curse

Those of you who know me, know that the bain of my existence has been that I have lived in homes the 6 years, that have had a dishwasher... a dishwasher that doesn't work! Now, really living w/out a dishwasher probably wouldn't have been that bad, BUT to have a dishwasher staring me in the face, taunting me every time I stood to do dishes, really it was just discouraging. Honestly, I believe that there is a dishwasher curse on me! Any dishwasher that was installed, either by us or a landlord in any of these places, for one reason or another just did not work.

So, you can imagine my joy when my friend Natalie called me a few weeks ago and said "We bought a dishwasher that works, but doesn't fit in our kitchen, I'm bringing it over!" HOORAY! Then Daynen installed it today and low and behold, there was a leak in bottom. "You have to be kidding! The dishwasher curse", I almost cried. I was beginning to think that perhaps, my sister-in-law was right when she said that I just wasn't meant to have a dishwasher in this lifetime. Oh the pain!

Then, Daynen had a friend come over to help with the electrical wiring in the basement and VOILA! he found the problem and FIXED IT. I was ecstatic! THE DISHWASHER CURSE HAD BEEN BROKEN!... or so I thought.

I ran the dishwasher last night and, unfortunately, when as Daynen and his brother Ben were working on the basement this morning, they noticed water coming down the wall and through the ceiling in the laundry room. Yes, the dishwasher curse lives on! Not only is there a bad leak, but it leaked all over my arts and crafts box! Alas, perhaps Debbie is right, I am not meant to have a dishwasher in this life time. Or perhaps, there is a lesson in all this... quality is important, or more likely, I should be doing my dishes every day and not letting them build up.

One day I will have a nice, new dishwasher. Until then, I resolve to learn my lesson and do the dishes every day! Maybe, just maybe, I will lift the dreaded dishwasher curse.