Earning money for day camp

Running

So I know most of my readers are able to follow my post on FB but Believe it or not I do have several friends that do not have FB (good for them I wish I had the will power) so I just want to talk a little bit about my running. Just over 5 weeks ago I started doing a C25K (couch to 5k) running program. It starts you out just little bits at a time. It's an 8 week thing and by the end I "should" be able to run a 5k. last night I finished week 5 day 2. I will say that I hit some rough patches with my knees and shins but I'm feeling better and I've got some new shoes. My next run I'm supposed to run 20 min straight yikes! I wish I could say I'm losing weight but I really don't know if I am or not. For a week or so I was doing really well and I think I lost 4 lbs but then I fell off the wagon last week and probably gained it all back lol busy summers will to that to you. Anyway I'm able to post about this after every run on FB because my program is linked to automatically post for me. I will try to remember my Blog followers too. =)

Change

Ugh Changes are coming to the Jacobsen Houshold and they are NOT a welcome change. Not ready to talk about it yet. stay tuned around June 22 for more details.

The Light Bulb Turned on Today.

Over the last few months (well this entire school year) Corbyn has been working on his letters. I quickly learned that he is a hands on learner. Meaning he is like his Momma and has to see and touch it to know what it is. but unlike his dad and brother who reads it and can instantly master it. The poor little guy has struggled to learn his ABC's and 123's but just in the past few weeks he has been able to count to 100 nearly on his own and he can pretty much get through his ABC flash cards. He has also started getting familiar with the sounds.
Tonight after I read him his bed time story he says to me "Mom, I wish I could read" aww melt my heart. So I took the opportunity to show him how before you read he has to know all the sounds of the letters then I took it 1 step farther and showed him a few little words. together we made the individual sound then put them together. then BAM! the light turned on! he now understands what it's going to take. I love it when I'm teaching my boys something and they struggle so much with it then all of a sudden you just see their eyes light up with glee when they finally "get it"

My feet hurt!

So today I had the opportunity to do some service. So I ended up needing to bake some things. Well I ended up baking A LOT of things lol. 3 mini banana bread loafs, 3 dz cookies, 1dz home made rolls, 2 casseroles, and Jello. Then after all of that Hubby dragged me to the gym for turbo class. Sheesh I'm tired.

Mornings?? Ummm I think Not!

IF any of you know me then you know that I am NOT a morning person. Never have been. My boys on the other hand have always been morning boys. All 4 of them love to get up in the morning. Carsyn goes as far to set his alarm every morning at 7am (It use to be set at 6am but I told him no way 7am was the limit) I usually do somewhat ok with that. They get up themselves and they like some of the cartoons on in the morning but they love to play before we start school at 9am. Carsyn has even gotten up and done school at 7am without me just to get it done. Carsyn helps get his brothers cereal and that is usually my cue to get up before they spill milk all over. That is usually just before 8:00. Anyway Why am I telling you all of this? Well for some reason the last few days I have struggled even worse to get up. The boys have slept in a little but not much they're still up by 7:30 but holy cow I could not get up this morning. Then it dawned on me. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME! it explains it all. Oh my goodness it has never affected ME this much. Everyone always complains about how it affects kids. Mine don't seem bothered by it. And I'm usually not but my goodness It's sooo bad. I wish I could go to bed sooner but Mr. Cooper doesn't always go to bed when planned. Although he is getting much better. Instead of up until after Jay Leno every night I put him in bed at 9 he doesn't usually agree with that bed time but I'm the Mom! lol. So now that I've figured out what the problem is I can focus on correcting it and reset my internal clock. Because frankly I do not feel like Mom of the year when my kids are all up having to get their own breakfast because I'm too lazy to get out of bed.

Sabbath Day Woes... =(

When it comes to My Faith in Jesus Christ and the Testimony I hold dear in my heart I will never leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But right now in our current family situation I struggle so hard to get excited about Sundays. I love going to church. I love hearing the lessons and talks. I love the spirit I feel. However I havn't been able to expiriance any of that in a long time. When Chad has to work on Sundays and I go all by myself the struggle starts on Saturday night (well Sat at 4pm)And now since the meeting time changed to 9am it became instantly harder. I spend my whole 3 hours fighting. Needless to say when we get home from church it cerntainly isn't the peaceful spirit we feel. The last few weeks have been especially hard and I end up in tears from humiliation from the way Cooper has been. I come home in tears wondering why I even bother. There are some people who try to help and somtimes it does but usually not. I try to hide in the Mothers lounge since there isn't many other places to go but I usually get run out of there from Mothers needing to nurse their babies. So I end up walking around carrying the screaming child while paople just stare at me. Yesterday was no different. I tried to go sit in the nursery but since he isn't 18mo yet I just feel like I'm in the way and shouldn't be there. Unfortunaly there is no solution right now. I still have 2 months before He goes to nursery. But I'm not sure I can handle much more before I crack. I think next week I will just deal with my guilt of not going and stay home. Then at least maybe the people around me can enjoy their time at church with out the crying inturruptions from my Child.

Stompin the bugs

While I was in the living room just resting on the couch Corbyn and Carsyn were playing on the computer. For whatever reason they started fighting so I told them it was time to turn it off. Of course Carsyn took charge and just immediately closed the game window and tore Corbyn off the chair so now Corbyn is pretty ticked off and crying very loud. I called him in to the living room he came but he was stomping his feet the whole way in while crying. I'm mean he was stomping so hard he could have been in the military marching along. Anyway as soon as he got to the couch I asked him "Did you squish all the bugs??" He immediately started laughing which is much better then the ticked off crying he was doing. So after we finished up our talk as to why he was so upset he was still crying so then I told him to go finish stomping all the bugs. He then starts laughing again and says "Mom, you're cracking me up"
What a weirdo that kids is.

We Did It!

Remember in one of my last post I mentioned that we were not going to go out to eat for the whole month of Jan? Well We stuck to our guns and did it. Some nights were super had and I was so tired of cooking all I wanted to do was order a pizza. But we made it through. YAY US! to celebrate we had planned to go out to eat. Carsyn wanted McDonalds (yuck) well I told him then we would have to wait until Tuesday to go there (1/2 price happy meals) He agreed so Chad and I planned to have a babysitter and go to Texas Roadhouse YUM! well that fell through so We took the kids to Primos The kids had a blast and now we don't have to go to McDonalds =0)It's so helpful when the whole Family pulls together to pull off such a goal. Chad helped do a lot of the cooking on his days off and thank goodness for freezer meals. Our goal for Feb isn't nearly as strict. We will still go out but it's all scheduled and planned I even have a Feb Menu all ready to go. We're really trying to cut back on some things and save up for bigger things it's hard work but it really can be an eye opener to see how much money is actually spent on eating out.