This and That

The Chicago Temple

Really, I need to keep this short as the dishes are looming at me like a nightmare apparition, even though they're in the other room. Yuck! But I do have some interesting tidbits (at least interesting to me.) First off, cute pictures of my kids. Tomorrow we're getting Christmas pictures done, so those will be coming soon.

Ana

Second, I took pictures for my sister Kayli and her family. Check them out here. They turned out pretty good I have to say. While they were here, I babysat her kids while her husband and her went to the temple. I was carrying around Ethne and she got fussy, so I started feeding her, umm, breastfeeding her, when all of a sudden I looked down and it dawned on me, "This isn't my baby!" Oh well, it did keep her happy.

The (Kayli) Bell Family

I read a book last night called, "I Didn't Plan to Be a Witch" about motherhood. It was funny, one of my favorite parts was when the author was saying how her husband believed very few things are really worth doing and so he always said, "If a thing is just barely worth doing, then just barely do it." She said she liked to write that on the piano in the dust. Hee. Hee. She also quoted someone who told her "If you're going to raise leaders, you've got to expect them to have a will of their own. I know it's hard to deal with, but just be glad that they have an opinion." My family members never lack for an opinion--although I don't know if we qualify as leaders. Personally, I think that's one of Ana's oddest idiosyncrasies to me, she never has an opinion and often makes me chose for her (expect when it comes to food and her hair!)

Elena

Oh and for more corrections, I bought soybean paste which I threw away, I still have the dashi and it's a powder and smells fishy. Literally. I never guarantee any information on my blog to be correct by the way.

Fall is very pretty, I haven't had it for several years. The cold is not pretty!

Well, I'm off to do dishes. If they don't eat me. It could happen. Kind of like in the Little Shoppe of Horrors, except with dishes.