March 1st Musings

Kalli worked hard on her science fair project this year and she is going to district tomorrow. I'm so proud of her for her work, especially since Valentine's Day she stayed up late working on it and I didn't help her at all. She put it together herself. I helped her doing the cooking experiments but that was it. 

So yesterday was a hard day for my little boys. It seemed like all day long they were getting into trouble. They were probably just crying out for attention but the more they would get in trouble, the more I wanted to ignore them! It was a vicious cycle.  Aaron  started off the day by getting into the fridge and pulling out Ammon's antibiotic medicine and squirting it out onto my kitchen floor. I went ballistic. I am not proud of it but I yelled at him and sent him to his room. I think my intitial yell that I let out ("iiiiiieeeeeee!!!!!) really scared him. I caught him later with scissors cutting up his color book.  Ammon I caught in my closet, stepping on a box to reach my doTerra essentials oils that I had on a top shelf out of reach (well, I thought out of reach) but luckily, I noticed him being too quiet and I caught him before he could do anything.  (Yeah, last summer, Ammon poured out an entire bottle of Orange oil onto my bedspread. My bed smelled orange for a long time)  Anyway, I have just come to the conclusion that I will just have to follow my boys around everywhere and stick to them like glue.  I was getting so tired yesterday afternoon that I kicked them outside (I did this after Aidan got home from school so all three of them had a blast together) to the backyard and they actually had a great time playing.  Most of the snow is melted off and it wasn't too cold so it was good for them to get some fresh air and run off some energy.

This year at Mountain View, they decided to do a new thing and give the ACT test to all the juniors and the PLAN test (which is a pre-ACT test) to the sophomores during school.  Usually what happens is the student has to register and pay $40 to go take the test somewhere on a Saturday.  So I am really happy that Kael gets to take it for free today. I hope he does well.   The seniors don't even have to come to school today.  I think this is a great program and I hope they do it every year.

I am getting ready to go to the fitness center soon. It has been hard to be consistent with the sickness that has been running through our family but I think everyone is better now (knock on wood) I have only been going once a week to the track and I need to go more.  I am planning on running at least 5K races this summer with my sisters.  I remember last year I was not very prepared and I felt like I was going to die when I ran 2 5k races.  I want to run the Orem 5K, the Running with Angels 5K and the Fourth of July Freedom Festival 5K this summer.  Usually when we walk the track for an hour it turns out to be 3 miles which is almost 5K so if I just keep it up and walk more during the week, then I will feel more prepared.  I also need to be eating better. I don't struggle with my weight but I have gained a couple of pounds this week. I just haven't been eating the best (chips, Hostess cupcakes, cookies, chocolate, crackers...just a lot of junk food lately).  I don't think I need to eat salad all the time and I know a little junk food won't hurt, but I have been eating wayyyy tooo much junk food lately.  So, my goal this week is to eat healthier and exercise just a little more than I have been. Baby steps....baby steps. If I try to do too much, too soon, than I get overwhelmed and then I don't do it at all. Well, Happy March and I can't believe how fast time is flying!!!