The new plan

So the probability of me actually carving out time to write tons and post cute pictures is pretty low, but I decided that I could probably write for 10 minutes a few times a week.  Don't think, don't plan, just write for 10 minutes.  Here we go:

• As fall and winter came I stocked up on tomato soup.  I have decided that tomato soup counts as a veggie.  With open faced cheese sandwiches you have dairy and whole grains.  Score.  That is what the kids are eating right now.  Emily doesn't like tomato soup.
• Today was Stake Conference.  I was kind of sad that the snow last night wasn't bad enough to give us an excuse to skip and watch old general conference addresses.  The crowds and having to contain/entertain kids for 2 hours takes all of my patience.  Actually it isn't that bad.  But I only say that because we hang out and watch conference in the RS room.  Padded chairs and only 15 kids making noise vs 200 kids making noise in a loud, echoing gym with hard chairs is a no brainer.  I don't know why it is always empty.  Best kept secret ever.
• We were encouraged by the visiting 70 last night to have gospel art, inspirational teaching quotes on the walls/refrigerator.  I know I should.  I have been thinking about it for the last 10 years, but there is only so much time and I want to use that time to quilt not to go around to Goodwill to find cheap frames and paint them a trendy color, choose out print, frame and hang all cute.  I know I can just tape a picture from the friend on the kids' wall, but somehow that just makes the rooms seem messy and cluttered.  I know I am whining and justifying, but I wanted to get it out there.  Maybe I will work on that kind of stuff on Sunday.
• Becca is obsessed with Elsa from Frozen.  She is about a year behind the trend but is making up for it fast.
• Kate followed Brian all around yesterday jabbering.  She says she doesn't jabber.
• I have started to try to do more interesting things to the girls hair except for brushing the tangles out.  Colleen's hair is really fun to work with and I have been doing a twist along the crown of her head, fast, easy and almost fool proof.
• Aleah has been reading a ton the last six months.  It has gotten to the point that I want to ban reading books at all.  She isn't interacting with the other kids very much and will go up to her room and hide out at any given opportunity.
• Emily, Aleah (I was trying to get her away from her book!) went to a consignment shop yesterday.  Emily found a leather jacket there for $24 and I bought it for her in exchange for two nights of babysitting.  She LOVES it.  We just had a talk about how people wearing jackets in the house bugs me.  She can wear it outside, she can wear it all day inside at school, but I will go crazy if I have to see her in it all day every day.
• Lot of things bug me and make me crazy.

That was more like 20 minutes, but I think I am liking this type without too much thought thing.  So if grammar is poor I hope you will forgive that.  Let's just think of it as "raw" and hope I can keep it up for awhile.  :)