Oh PB Wolf!

Some of you may remember this face:

His name is PB Wolf and he used to believe that makeup brushes were the best thing in the whole world. While he still loves to steal those, I have gotten better about keeping him out of the bathroom. Thus, he has chosen a new thing in which he loves to feel between his teeth and that is paper. Any kind of paper. Paper towels, toilet paper, writing paper. He loves it all. He isn't picky in the least. The other day Jungleboy and I had to pay rent. Neither of us have personal checks so we just get a money order in which to pay it. We got our money order on Saturday and forgot to pay it until Sunday. Sunday we got back from a drive and Rafael ran in to get our money order so we could go pay rent. He was in there for a while, but I didn't pay attention to the time, mostly because I was probably too busy analyzing my new hair color in the mirror of our car. Finally, he yells out the window, "I can't find our money order anywhere!"

 OH NO!!!! 

I dash inside and start a mad search of our bedroom. In drawers, under the bed, behind things, in pockets. That money order is nowhere to be found. Luckily we saved the receipt in a different location, we had left the money order out simply so we would remember to take it to the office. We look on the back of the receipt and it explains how to get a claim for a lost or stolen money order, which is good news except you have to mail it in! What??? In this day and age of technology that seems like a bunch of (insert your own bad word here). So, I start having a panic attack because we don't have tons of money just lying around to go get another money order in time. Jungleboy goes out in the living room and miraculously (still not sure how this happened) finds the money order, with ONE bite mark on it. So, PB Wolf had stolen the money order from the desk in the bedroom, made a run for it and then for some unbeknownst reason, dropped it and we some how found it before he decided to give it another try. Lesson learned? Keep the bedroom door shut and the cats out.

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Trials

So, today I was pondering about trials. How we all go through them, how we all handle them differently. I have been through some hard times in my life, and a few of my hardest ones I haven't told very many people about. I have, however, talked about my current trial and that is lack of children. I recently posted this as my status update on Facebook:

I can't wait to have kids, but instead of moping about NOT having kids I have decided to do the following:
1-Be grateful for what I do have.
2- Look forward to the day that I DO have kids.
3- Focus on the perks of not having kids (ie midnight date at Dennys with Jungleboy, no babysitter necessary)!


That is how I feel 95.7% of the time. I really am trying to be positive and not focus on the things I don't have. However, sometimes its very hard to do. Its hard to understand sometimes why things are the way they are. Why some people get pregnant so easily. Why it is so hard for others. This is how I feel about trials: We all have different ones. That doesn't make the trials we are given any easier. We also all have different strengths. My strengths are obviously different than Jungleboys, than the girls I work with, than my family members. But I still have strengths. Trials help to strengthen us. I like to think that for every month that goes by that I don't get pregnant, I will appreciate my babies that much more. We are getting close to 60 months of marriage, so that's a whole lot of appreciation I will have saved up. I also think that we never know whats going on with someone. They may seem like they have everything together on the outside, but on the inside are falling apart. I am trying to work on being more compassionate and remembering that we all have trials and we are all sometimes hurting. Now, I usually don't get too spiritual in these posts, but I was just reminded of a scripture that I once memorized when Jungleboy and I were going through a hard time. We started memorizing scriptures, one every week. I honestly feel that helped my life so much. The scripture is from the Book of Mormon and it is Helaman 5:12. 

 12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the^arock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your ^bfoundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty ^cstorm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

Even now,  remembering the strength it gave me reminds me of how much our Savior loves us. I challenge you all to memorize this scripture (I still have it memorized, its the only one of the 30+ scriptures that I memorized almost 2 years ago that I still have down WORD for WORD!) I am challenging myself to memorize a scripture once a week again. We can't do anything to stop trials, they will always be a part of life, but we can do our best with the tools we have been given. 

One of my favorites by Greg Olsen.

Change and random post!

So, I came to post today only to find out that they had COMPLETELY changed the look of my blog. I HATE when things change. I am not super savvy when it comes to computers and all that jazz, so when I get used to working something, I want it to stay that way, thank you very much. I guess change is inevitable and I shall adjust to the recent changes, but until then..... I shall be a disgruntled blogger....

Anyway, after reading the blogs of fashionable mormon mothers, I felt inspired to write a new post. I wish I was half as fashionable as them and had an adorable child or two to take pictures of, but I am not fashionable nor a mother, however I decided I too have things to talk about. Thus, here is my random post. Enjoy!

Jungleboy hates wasting food. He gets very upset at me when I waste food. I, unfortunately, have many weird....habits? quirks? OCD traits? when it comes to food.  I am not a picky eater, I like most foods, but I am picky in other ways. I am very picky with textures and smells. If food smells weird to me I have a very hard time eating it. Jungleboy on the other hand isn't so picky. Though a few of my favorite foods (peanut butter, barbecue sauce, deviled eggs) he doesn't enjoy. However, today I had a breakthrough. I am notorious at my house for buying salad and letting it go bad.... but today I finished my bag of spinach! And I was super impressed with myself!

I also finished the frozen strawberries, the protein juice and BANANAS!! I am also very bad at letting bananas go to waste seeing as once they aren't at least half green, I can no longer eat them plain. I know I could bake them in some delicious banana bread, but lets be honest. I don't bake very often!

Lately, I have been trying to eat better. Trying being the operative word. I have a weakness for McDonalds. There. Its out. I try to avoid it, but I drive by one either way I go home from work. Also, their ads are all over the radio and I recently found a letter from my grandma (who passed away in 1995) and in it she said how much she enjoyed living close enough to come visit me and take me to McDonalds. Thus, I blame her for my love of the Golden Arches. But for the last couple weeks I have been much better. Here are my faves of the last few weeks.

1: Spinach smoothies: I take a handful of spinach, throw in some bananas (yellow bananas even), a handful of frozen strawberries and a juice protein drink I found next to the rice milk at WalMart. I mix it all up in my blender and its so delicious, healthy and you can't even taste the spinach, which personally I love, but probably mixed with fruit it wouldn't be so good!

My delicious smoothie in my coke glass that I got from, that's right, you guessed it. McDonalds!

2: I have been really in to salad (romaine lettuce only) however, we don't have any salad dressing currently, so I have been making my own. A little bit of mustard, a tiny bit of Mayonaise, the juice from half a lime and a tiny dash of sugar. I mix it in a bowl, then throw my salad in and mix it around so all the pieces have a bit of dressing on them. Voila, deliciousness!!

3: Hard boiled eggs. I recently read (in the newsletter at the daycare I work at) that eggs are the best source of protein.  They are delicious during breakfast, lunch and dinner!

On to another favorite of mine (the title does say RANDOM post!).
Deseret Industries. For those of you not familiar with Deseret Industries (D.I.) it is a thrift store. Now, some people may have an aversion to wearing other peoples clothes. I however, am more than ok with it. I take it home, wash it, and call it new! My favorite part about D.I.? The other day I went and got 3 pairs of pants and 4 shirts and only spent 24 dollars!! It was awesome.

This concludes my random post. I apologize for its complete and utter randomness. And also for  overusing the word random.