I think we have a thief here...

I walked into my bathroom the other day, and it looked so nice and tidy.  What a happy sight!  What a nice husband I have (I really didn't think it could have possibly been anyone else :)  ).  That was all I thought for a while.  

Then,   the next morning I went to take my prescription,  for my thyroid, and I couldn't find it anywhere.  I know it isn't a great idea to keep it on my bathroom counter, but I need to take it first thing in the morning and out of sight -out of mind.  Camden's medicine was gone too.  Not a happy mommy! 

 

Needless to say, I looked all day, thinking maybe Enoch took off with them and dropped them in some corner of the house.  I was so tired because of the fact I hadn't taken my meds, and mad because WHAT could he have done with them.  Long story shorter,  I even looked in the garbage outside, then I decided it was time for a prayer.

I offered the kids a dollar for whoever could find them.  Nothing.  Camden had told me several times to look in the vents.  I pulled the ones in my room and Enoch's off the carpet and peered down. 

Camden looked under my bathroom cabinet, and in the long tunnel of an air vent was,  Conditioner, two combs, a brush,  a toothbrush cover, three matchbox cars, and TWO Pill bottles!  Who would have ever looked there?

Six Years Ago...

Today is the anniversary (if you can call it that) of the day Curtis' mom died.  Every year in February, something happens and we remember her and the things she went through. 

Jolene Rasband was born on September 6, 1939.  Here she is with her brothers and sisters, (minus one).  Can you find her?  If you said the one that looks a lot like Deidre you are right.  She is in the back on the right.  She grew up in Heber and had many good memories of her childhood.

This is her high school photo.  She was a pretty girl!  When she died, a friend of hers from high school said he remembered she was the one in the Jantzen sweaters.  (Those were really cool!)

 

Here is a photo from her wedding day. 

Cheryl remembers her making lots of their clothes when they were little.  She liked to sew.  She was a good mom to four children, she sacrificed a lot (anything) for her whole family.

Curtis and his mom on our wedding day.  I remember she was not very happy about having to wear black,  I thought she looked pretty.

She had friends from everywhere.  These ladies were from the state capital.  Their husbands were all in the House of Representatives.  They would sit in the gallery above the room where the legislators were and crochet.  They called them selves the "Happy Hookers"  and loved each other dearly.

She was friendly to everyone,  I was amazed at her funeral at all of her friends.  She had friends from every walk of life. 

We went on our one and only extended family vacation the summer before she got sick, (actually she didn't feel good on our trip) to Nauvoo.    This pic is from Winter Quarters, we stopped a few places along the way.  We had fun, even with 14 grandchildren.  She always wanted to be around her family and loved the children ( and worried about them all, individually).  Two weeks after we got home, she was in the hospital. 

After her divorce, she got sick and had 5 rounds of chemo.  One time a few of the grandsons shaved their heads to show grandma how much they loved her.  (none of them look really happy do they?)

She moved in with us in October after a few bad weeks and my kids were so glad to have her with us.  We have a lot of really great memories of her living with us, Bailey and Camden loved to go in her room and sit with her in her chair.  Bailey was almost 5 when she passed away.  I wish we would have written down more of the things she said and did while she lived with us, some of the memories are priceless.  Ask us sometime, we would love to share.

I am often sad for the things I feel like my children missed out on by not knowing her better.  I am known to tell my own parents they have to step up because my parents are the only grandparents my children will know in this life. 

I learned a lot from Jolene and miss her all of the time.  I know Curtis does too, he had a special relationship with her, she was always his champion.  He was the baby and so they had a lot of time together.  He would do anything for his mom, which is one of the reasons  that I fell in love with him.  Thanks for letting me share, I miss her today.

The Birds and the Bees

I know Bailey is going to kill me for this, but it's too cute to not share.

 

So, 5th grade is the magical age when the big talk about the birds and the bees gets told at school.  Yes, maturation night (only it was at 2:00)

Luckily Curtis was in town, and so I informed him it was his fatherly duty to take his son  and answer any further questions he may have.  He was happy to.

Apparently it went fine,  I haven't heard any horror stories, but in the car the next day, I was quizzing him about what they talked about, any bit of info.  The only bit I could get out of him was that if you pick zits, they get worse.  That is what impressed him, that's what stuck?  I think a better explanation is that is what he wanted to discuss with mom.

 

So we were in the car (where I have them captive and they have to answer because they can't walk away he he he), and I started asking what else they learned, and from the back of the van, in a very loud voice...

 

Camden:  "Ya, they talked about where babies come from!"

Me: "Oh, really?"  looking at Bailey

Bailey:  a look of horror on his face and his eyes wide open the size of glasses, "Ya"

Enough said, that was all I got!!

Do I really have one old enough to talk about all of this with?  Maybe he will tell Cam everything and he won't ask anything else.  I did tell him his friends would probably talk about it again, and if he ever heard anything and wanted to ask me he could.