Yesterday I went to get a subway with Porter. He wanted to stay there and eat, so we did, but when we left I forgot my purse. I went to the school and picked up the girls, and then we headed to Cedar City. I got there before I realized what I had done, so I sent The Babe over to see if someone had turned it in...and nothing. No purse. It's gone. Stupid thing is that I made sure I had all of my cards and everything in there before I left. Usually I don't have all of them in the same place, but yesterday, I made sure they were all in there. It's so dumb. I hate dishonest people. Really, can't we just respect other people's property.
It reminds me of a time when I was a kid. I was probably 14 or 15. And my family went on a family vaction to Yellowstone and South Dakota. We stopped at a little park one day to have a picnic. When we were leaving, we were walking to the car. I was a few feet behind my dad and mom. But I looked down on the sidewalk and there was a wad of money. Some people had just walked passed us. I flipped through the money really quickly and I knew it was a couple hundred dollars. So, trying to be the honest person that I am. I asked the couple who just passed us if they happened to drop some money. They said, oh, yes, thanks. And they took the money and basically ran to their car. Simultaniously, my dad was checking his pockets and looking around on the ground. I was proud of myself for being an honest person, so I said to my dad, "Hey, I just found some money, so I asked those people if it was theirs and they said yes!" My dad kind of looked sick and said, "oh, no! That was our vaction money, there had to have been at least $500 there." I felt sick for the rest of our vaction! Why can't people just be honest!
So on a happier note, Porter has finally decided to go potty. He has made it a couple times in the last two days. I'm just so thrilled that he is finally showing any interest. It has been so frustrating waiting for him to decide to try. But hopefully this time he will get it.
I have yet to put up my Christmas decorations this year. I must be a real humbug. I just haven't had the energy to do it. We should get our Christmas tree tomorrow and maybe that will give me some motivation. It's not feeling to Christmasy around here and I need to change that. I did pull out my favorite Christmas CD, "Mary's Lullaby" and I was enjoying it immensely, but my children turned it off so they could play a game. Maybe they are the humbugs this year.
My nephew KJ had a really bad flu this weekend. On Sunday, Addie sat by his side the entire afternoon to make sure he was ok. So last night she came into my room and said she had a tummy ache. I thought oh, no! here we go. She complained about it for awhile and then she fell asleep. This morning she said it was still bothereing her, so I decided I better not send her to school. So I kept her home today and she is having the time of her life! She's playing and dancing and fixing hot chocolate. She did say, "do think I should take a little rest once in awhile so I can feel better?" Ya I guess so. Since you're supposed to be sick. I think that I've been duped!
Well I better sign off....
Merry Christmas!!!
(just in case I don't get to my blog by then. But I really am trying to be better at updating.)
