I dream of...

So I was sleeping peacefully away early this morning when suddenly I was awakened by a really hard smack in the face! I remember gasping which must have woken up Peder who immediately realized that he had actually punched me in the face...supposedly while he was sleeping. No, he felt really bad and said he couldn't even remember what he was dreaming about. I'm guessing he was dreaming that some hot movie star such as Tom Welling

(he plays superman on the show Smallville and I may or may not think he is slightly attractive) was trying to woo me away and he defended our love by punching him in the face. Yeah, I'm sure that's what it was.

Dreams are funny things though. Hannah just 2 nights ago was sitting up in her bed yelling for Lincoln. She didn't even completely wake up when I went in her room. Silly dreams. Which reminds me of when I was younger...

My mom used to work some graveyard shifts to make ends meet. For some reason I ended up being the last one to go to bed when she was gone and I was supposed to "shut down the house" if ya know what I mean. This included opening my dads door so the heater or cooler could get in. One night in a big dark house (on a dark and stormy night i'm sure) with everyone asleep I slowly opened my dads door. He sat straight up and said something crazy to me. Now, I don't recall what it was all these years later, but at 11 o'clock in a dark house, anything your possessed dad says is freaky. I knew he was sleeping because he has a history of "saving my mom from the falling ceiling" while he is asleep, but it still creeped me out for years to come. After that whenever I had to open his door, I would stand to the very side of the door and reach as fast as I could, turn the knob and give the door a push and run down the hall so I wouldn't be around if he happened to wake up again. Scarred for life apparently.

So sleep tight you all...and sweet dreams!

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Happy Birthday Peder!

Today's your special day

and even though you still have to get up early

and go to work

and drive around all day in a hot car

and go to your kids baseball games tonight

and not really get to do hardly anything special for yourself today

cause your getting older

and that's how birthdays are sometimes...

when you're older.

just know that i love you a ton

and i'm really glad you were born

so that we could get together

and fall in love

and have a family

and laugh together

and grow old...er together.

love you ~r

Dumb-da-dumb-dum

Why do we do dumb things? Why? There are lots of different "dumb" categories. Let's take a look...(the following article is in no way calling people dumb who may or may not have actually performed said "dumb" things. Any relation to these things is pure coincidence)

Dumb#1- Forgetting stuff/not realizing stuff until it's too late
I'm a pro at this dumbness. I am a forgetter, my husband is not...guess how much he loves that about me. yeah, it's not his favorite. In fact I just did something dumb. I wrote this whole post on one of my other blogs, thinking it was this one. Then I got to re-do all the formatting. dumb.

Dumb #2 Thinking things are going to be fine when you know they won't. "A" list dumber here too. Usually this manifests itself in the form of me giving one of my children something to eat thinking that they will not make a mess of it. I'm pretty much wrong every time, including tonight when I let Lincoln give Lucy the rest of his Twinkie in the car. Dumb. super dumb.

Dumb #3-Saying things before you think about them.
I am a recovering dumber here. I'm pretty sure the "filter" I was born with was recalled for being defective but my parents never got the memo. Luckily, age and getting in trouble for saying lots of dumb things can somewhat improve the filter. I remember as a kid a few times getting called into the other room by my dad and him saying (flabbergasted-ly) "did you say such and such to so and so"?...Yes, yes i did and it was really dumb of me.

Dumb #4 Dating dumb people, even when you know they are really dumb.
Yeah, you know you've done it too. Unfortunately, I guess it's part of life cause I did it and all my sisters did it and all my friends. In fact I challenge you to find someone who hasn't. Why we do it, I have no idea, but it is really really dumb of us.

Dumb #5 -You could have killed yourself dumb.
This brings me to the dumbest thing I ever did in my entire life. The ones where you could have died seem to be at the height of dumbness. Picture this...a small town 18 year old girl at her first year of college in the big city (of mesa). It's Family Home Evening night for my ward down at the Institute building. They have some random guy that someone knows teaching us self-defense. Great right. great. Afterwards as everyone is going home, we are all out chatting with this guy and see that he has a motorcycle. For some really really dumb reason, I end up going for a ride...on a motorcycle...with a guy I don't know...without a helmet...on the freeway...to his house...where he lives alone...and on the way back to the Institute he decides it will be really cool if he could break 100 miles an hour...and we did...104...did i mention without a helmet...then, because I knew nothing about motorcycles, I got a huge, huge 2nd degree burn on my calf and ended up having a blister the size of my fist. dumb. so dumb. I don't even think it could get any dumber because it was so dumb in every possible way.

I was reminded of this little escapade recently when at work, one of my patients was a 22 year old who got in a motorcycle accident going only 25 mph...without a helmet. Sadly, he will be in a facility for the rest of his life without any bodily function or speech. I feel so lucky, and stupid, and dumb. I really nailed the #5 kind of dumb with that one.

So now it's your turn. Join me in the dumb club and let us all know just how dumb you really are. Don't worry, there's safety and acceptance in numbers!