What we do for our kids!

I cant believe what we do for our kids! TJ has a turkey tag. Yes, he is old enough to hunt, and I dont get much say in this area! It is spring break and Titus has to work, so TJ asked me to take him hunting today. My two least fav things invovled, guns and hunting. I did it anyway. So we are up Payson canyon. There is a gun next to me. Tanner and Saebra are in the back seat of my old little Geo Prizm(Titus took the truck with the turkey call and the binoculars!)and I start to think, what if he really gets a turkey?! I have on flip-flops and a nice white shirt. I dont have a tarp or blanket to put it on in my tiny trunk. Why am I doing this? Because we do things we really don't like for our kids, right, or am I just stupid?
Well, he didn't get one. Lucky for me, not for TJ though. We did see one on someone elses property,so we sat and waited for it hoping it would cross the road so he could shoot it(I hate that)! Not that I am totally against hunting. I was raised with it. My fam eats what they kill(except for some of the smaller birds), and my kids learn gun safety before they get near a real gun! Titus is very strict with them on all of that! I just hate guns! I hate how easily someone could get hurt. My sisters all took a concealed weapons class. I would never consider having one. I would never be able to protect my family with one because I would be too nervous holding one to use it wisely. They did learn alot in the class, and make some great arguments of why it would be beneficial to them to have the permit. Not for me! I am glad Titus can. I trust completely that he would be safe. I know this is very controversial, but I am glad my husband could protect my family if needed.

Last night was Saebra's 2nd soccer game. She has improved! She made a goal!!! Does it matter that it was not her game? Yes, I took her to the wrong field. I was wondering why no one looked familiar. I could see her coaches vehicle there, but she wasn't there. She was on another field. The guy coaching told me the real coach was with her daughter so he was filling in. So I thought he was talking about Saebra's coach. I guess he was filling in for another team, not Saebra's. No one said anything about it not being her team,so I just figured the kids I did know on her team weren't there. Stupid mother!! Well, her goal still counted, even if she was playing for the wrong team on the wrong field. We didn' know it was the wrong field until the next day when some kids on her team told her she was at the wrong field. I can still be ditzy at times I guess. Here are a few pictures from that game. She is like a foot taller than everyone else her age. Modeling career maybe?

I just read through my post from earlier and saw lots of mistakes. I dont know how to go back and change them. I should start checking them before I post them. Oh well.
I forgot to mention that this book reminded me of a book I read a while back called A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini(also wrote Kite Runner). It is set in the present time and the women are treated alot like in the 800's in Afghanistan. Read it if you haven't. We definitely are blessed living where and when we do.

Pope Joan

My latest book that I thought was worth writing about is Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. I really enjoyed it, but was frustrated alot! It takes place in the 800's. Not the 1800's, the 800's. The main character is a Catholic girl who wants to learn, and have some of the privileges men did. I knew women have been mistreated in the past but had no idea how terrible it was for them! Someone could rape you and it was treated like a theft. Nothing that serious. If you were coloni, you could be killed for fighting a man for trying trying to rape you! Your husband had every right to beat you it just depended on what size of club he hit you with! You couldnt learn to read or write, it would you hamper your childbearing abilities. They really didnt believe we were capable to learn or understand the things a man could. Joan in this book decides to pretend to be a man so she can go to the schola. She eventually becomes the pope. This is part of the catholic church history they deny. There is more proof that she existed than there is that King Arthur did.
I understood why she didnt want to be a girl, but the deciet of it all frustrated me where she was supposed to be a religious leader.
Read it and tell me what you think,and if you believe she existed.

I usually love Sundays! I have a whole new Ensign I wanted to read, but never got more than one article read. I did that right before I went to bed. We spent all of our Sunday after we went to church scrubbing from ceiling to floor in our house. The reason we has to do this on a Sunday happened the night before.
Titus and I went to dinner w/friends and left TJ tending for us and our friends little boy. We usually just get down the road and Tanner calls. This time he waited until we had been seated. He called to asked me how long you cook popcorn. I told him to just hit the popcorn button and 2. He calls back later and says he burnt the popcorn. He didnt tell me how bad. I just told him to throw it away outside.
When we got home about an hour later, we could smell it from the driveway. You can imagine how bad inside smelled! They said it was so bad they could hardly breathe. The little kids were freaking out. I cant believe the smoke detectors didnt go off(we need to check them). TJ said they tried to clear all the smoke out, it didnt work. So, we opened doors and windows, turned on fans, and I started wiping down the microwave and cabinets by the microwave. We decided it probably would be fine. We went to bed, but hardly slept because of the smell. I was so worried about my furniture and our clothes smelling forever. Tanner kept having nightmares that there was a fire,so he slept on the floor in our room.
The smell was horrible. We went to church, and when we got home Titus said something had to be done. We were going to call the insurance and see what we should do, but Titus got on-line to see how to get rid of the damage. Thank goodness for my family and his! Ashlee and Abbie willingly came over and helped us scrub everything down. Alys offered but Kinley was sick. Robby and Steph asked of they could do anything, but we told them we were okay. Titus' parents brought us some dinner. I love having family around!
It smells alot better, and my house is dang clean! The smell isnt completely gone, and I need a new micro. I dont know what happened with the popcorn. He says he only cooked if for 3 mins. He is very traumatized!
So, I only got to read one article and we worked our butts off! Not the type of Sunday we like to have. We appreciated the help though!

soccer lessons needed

Last night was Saebra's first soccer game. I thought I worked with her enough and Tanner worked alot with her. We didn't. The coach had her throw the ball in from the sideline, and then she just stood there and watched cheering instead of going back out on the field. She also kept standing hunched over on the back field like she was waiting for a softball to be hit to her. Maybe she thought that was the standard sports stance from watching me play softball and her bros playing baseball. Then she just kept chasing this other girl around instead of the ball. It was great! I am not a mom that can sit quietly at any kind of game, so I hope the other parents can get used to me, or they better sit somewhere else! It is a good thing she likes to practice. I have some cute pics of her I'll get on here.