Madison, Jorgiana & Miles: August 2007

Well, Madison doesn't like school. The first day she walked into class without a wave goodbye. I thought, well sweet I won't have one of those screaming kids to deal with. Until I came home from coaching volleyball to find out Madison had turned around to say goodbye to me but I was already gone. She said she had fun though.

Then today, we stood in line on the blacktop waiting for the bell to ring, IN THE SUN, trying to hear the lady give the announcements and pledge. She kept telling me she was hot and was getting all sweaty and didn't want to go to school. I just kept reminding her that she was going to have fun and play and color and glue and cut stuff out. She didn't care, she knew I was leaving for work and that was all that was on her mind. I heard one of the kindergarten teachers tell the hoard of parents that were there, that they need to get used to leaving there kids here in the lines and not following them to the classrooms. I was like, ok, that's my cue. I made sure she got to say goodbye to me this time and she was getting tears in her eyes by now. She did good and followed her other little classmates in line, while crying and looking for me like every 3 seconds. I was walking away and waving, then as she turned the last corner to her class, she looked for me again with tears falling down her face. I waved, smiled and blew a kiss to her, then she was gone. I turned to leave and lost my nerve. It is hard seeing your child, let alone your first born upset. I loved school and I depserately want her to like it as much as I did. I know that she is having fun, that is what I have to keep telling myself all day, b/c yes, she has all day kindergarten.

When I got home from the volleyball game tonight, I asked her how her day was and she said she didn't want to sing the song the teacher was singing (right after the got into the classroom that morning) so she said that she laid under the table. I asked her if her teacher talked to her about that and she said no. Hopefully she lets kids deal with the separeation issues this week in their own way.

Pray for me, and Madison, I just want her to enjoy her time at school.

1. I have been married for 7 years to Tyler.
2. I am 4 of 6 children. Tyler is 7 of 11 children, yikes.
3. I have a twin sister, who looks nothing like me, if you don’t know her, here is her blog bringhurstfam1.blogspot.com
4. I remember scratching her face with the writing pen when we were little.
5. I remember pushing her on a homemade skate board, into grandma Horsley’s fence in the backyard.
6. I can and practically do eat a peanut butter & jelly sandwich for lunch every day.
7. I despised my little brother for making us late almost every day for seminary. It took him longer to do his hair than it did us.
8. Did I mention I hate being late?
9. I love being a member of the LDS church.
10. I love being the Young Womens President.
11. I will miss being the YW’s president when they release me next year, after having been it for 5 years.
12. I loved going to highschool.
13. I think I ditched maybe like 2 times a year.
14. I loved and still do, my friends from high school.
15. I love pomegranate’s.
16. I hate picking pomegranate.
17. I love pomegranate jelly.
18. I won’t start a batch of laundry unless I know that I can dry it, fold it AND put it away.
19. Did I mention I hate doing laundry.
20. I HATE running!, uhhh what lap am I on?
21. I love to exercise/workout.
22. I feel much better about myself and what I can accomplish after I have had a good workout.
23. Funny what adrelaline can do. Too bad you can’t bottle it and market it for others to buy.
24. I would rather do a 2 hour workout than run for 10 minutes.
25. I am not really an animal person, I like them to pet, but not to live with me.
26. I hate having animal hair on couches, blankets, pillows, clothes etc. It’s not normal.
27. I hate insects, EXPECIALLY roaches EEEWWW!
28. If I am camping, I don’t mind them so much because they are supposed to be outside, that is their home. Tyler thinks I am silly for that.
29. I love rain, everything there is to know about it; smell, feel, taste, love it all.
30. I love the smell of wet concrete.
31. I love the smell of freshly watered grass.
32. I LOVE peanut butter, and my kids hate it:-(
33. After living here for 29 years this September, I am not looking forward to the summers anymore.
34. I LOVE bags! Purses, backpacks, diaper-bags, you name it, I have TONS of them. And unless they are ripping, I don’t throw them away I keep them all.
35. My clothes are color coded left to right, white grey red orange yellow green blue purple black
36. I have never been in a fist fight.
37. I hate feelings of contention.
38. I don’t like confrontations.
39. When people would get into a fist fight at school, I would immediately turn and walk the other way, even if it meant being late for my next class.
40. I truly feel that Mitt Romney is going to win the election in 2008 to be the next US President.
41. I believe in him that strongly.
42. I played volleyball, basketball and softball is high school.
43. Volleyball for 4 years, varsity for 3 of the 4 years.
44. Basketball for 4 years, was the only WHITE girl that was a starter for both years.
45. Softball for 2 years. Unlike Kristina I am a quitter, because the coach was gay and there was no way she was going to be doing any but slapping on me. Shunn the very though of evil.
46. Heavenly Father understood me, so it’s all good to me:-)
47. I was 8 or 9 when I started playing volleyball.
48. I coach high school girls varsity volleyball.
49. I LOVE coaching!!!!
50. I don’t coach for the $ it pays, because it doesn’t really.
51. It’s amazing how much more you need to know about a sport in order to coach it:-)
52. I love snow
53. I sleep better when it is cold.
54. I fell sad because (one of) my best friends just moved to Indiana.
55. My next vacation will be to Indiana.
56. I grew up listening to Ice T, Ice Cube, BustaRymes, and those iconic rappers. Tyler thinks it is funny that I can still rap to the songs word for word when I hear them.
57. I love funk music for that very reason, Thanks Darin!
58. I hate being fat! It makes me feel ugly.
59. I hate taking my kids swimming at public places.
60. I am afraid that one of them will drown while I am not looking and it worries me so much I have nightmare about it the evening before and after.
61. My husband thinks I worry too much.
62. I know I do.
63. I like being spontaneous, but only if we can afford it, ha ha
64. If I know we are going to Utah and up on Cedar Mountain, I have nightmares about the car going off the cliffs as we are driving those narrow turns over the mountain.
65. I know, I am a sick person. But I can’t help it.
66. I have never wanted my kids to have "normal" names. I want them to stand out a bit.
67. I gave birth to Miles while Tyler was in Texas and made him wait until he flew home and came to the hospital to find out if it was a boy or girl.
68. The nurses stayed on an extra hour after their shift to see his face when he opened Miles diaper to change it.
69. In my head I know where everything in my house belongs, but getting it there is another story.
70. (Undisturbed) Sleep is the MOST precious thing to me.
71. I am very competative when it comes to sports.
72. If I know that I personally have played well then I am ok with losing. But I play for the W every time.
73. I have been playing volleyball for 20 year now.
74. I can’t live without peanut butter.
75. Tyler may bring home the bacon, but the kids say, "Mom’s the boss".
76. I love my husband and all of his antics.
77. I don't like it when some of my brothers try to get Tyler to change his job and be like them.
78. I don't like being judged by how much money we make.
79. I loved the three tone bronco we drove in high school. I didn’t care what others thought about it or us. At least I didn’t have to ride the bus.
80. I love our planet. I think it is very beautiful and am in awe of all the things I will never know about or ever get to see, except on the Planet Earth Series.
81. I consider myself an organized person, I know what’s in each stack of things around the house:-) ha ha ha
82. I love church books, John Bytheway and LDS fiction authors.
83. I love being pregnant, not b/c you can eat junk food, but b/c I know what the end result will be.
84. I love being a mom, even though it's terribly hard.
85. I know that I want more children, twins would be fun, but I am not going to jinks myself:-)
86. I don’t retain water being pregnant, so I constantly had to drink a gallon of water a day, then pee it out throughout the day, it got really annoying.
86. I have large babies, (over 8 and 9 lbs) they always have come early, my oven just cooks a little faster that others:-)
87. My last two babies were c-sections: Jorgiana was butt first, then I had to have Miles that way too because of the rules.
88. I love white grapefruit juice, not the ruby red kind the REAL stuff, puts hair on your chest is what my dad says.
89. I am a t-shirt and jeans kinda person most days.
90. I liked to get dressed up for church, Sunday best, always!
91. If I am wearing my flip flops I won’t clean the house.
92. I have to have my tennis shoes and socks on to clean the house. I know! I have a complex, but I guess it comes down to this, I know that I am going be working hard (to clean-yes, with 3 kids) and you usually have shoes on when you work hard.
93. See, there is method to my madness!
94. I am pretty easy to please, simple things will do for me.
95. I am a practical person. Example: If I tell you I want socks for Christmas, then I must need them, cause why else would I tell you that.
96. I love home-made ice cream.
97. I don’t like jewelery (except for my wedding ring, earrings, and CTR ring)
98. I would rather have a new workout video than new jewelery.
99. I love to sew (without interuptions-which will never happen again)
100. I love to scrapbook, if only I had the time.
101. I am not a fake person, what you see is what you get.
102. I intimidate a lot of people before they get to know me.
103. I don’t talk much unless I have something to add to the conversation.
104. I don’t wear makeup, can’t stand the feel of it (unless you count mascara for my eyelashes, that’s all I wear)
105. I am NOT a morning person.
106. I have like 2 jars of Peanut butter in my 72 hour kit.
107. I have my own 22 long barrel rifle and know how to use it.
108. I hate when parents care less about their children running around the church buildings and chapels during other peoples church times.
109. I need to feel appreciated.
110. I love Christmas music.
111. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
112. I would take ZERO presents, just knowing that my kids and all my nieces and nephew’s got what they wanted for Christmas.
113. I make the YW sing Christmas music all year long for opening exercises:-)
114. I eat penut butter out of the jar with a spoon.
115. Did I mention I like peanut butter?