um....

I really have nothing to say.
but i just spent the last half hour browsing family and friends blogs, but by golly, i was feeling rather unworthy of the title: blogger. i'm just not as good as you all ! sniff, sniff.
but enough self-pity... i will recommit..again!
this is sad...
so.......... i really have no idea what to talk about. um, my kids....they are great...my husband...really great....me....extremely great. i have to say that so you think i'm a perfect woman. when really i'm just tired, cranky and, well, hungry. :)

love to you all. better spirits to follow!

One girl...girl for sale.... (imagine that bellowed out through the streets of london)

Do you need a mommy confidence builder? are you feeling frustrated with your own children? is the potty training making you feel like a failure? Be frustrated NO MORE!
I have a gently used, self-potty-training child for sale. Guaranteed to make you feel like a successfull parent. She potty-trains herself! no more camping out in the bathroom with water running and a bowl of warm water, no mad dashes to the toilet leaving a wet trail behind you. She removes her own clothing and waits patiently on the potty chair, when the deed is done, she cleans up and empties her efforts in the toilet.
We bought her brand new and have had her for just over two years. though she didn't start training herself until a few days ago. She just came home from church, removed the appropriate clothing and made good use of the potty chair that we had hanging around from when our oldest potty trained. No rewards were necessary, but lately we have begun utilizing jelly beans to enhance optimum performance.
Watching her in action will certainly boost your mood and feelings of success! It worked for us!

if interested please call. Serious buyers only. i only accept Paypal and cash.

~Elizabeth

PS...The only defect is that she insists on being completely nude for the execution of this task. see images below.

This goes out to you, my faithful... You know who you are.

For all you who have checked this more regularly than i have,
For those who get their hopes up everyother day only to have them dashed under my chacos
For the faithful few who knew me well enough to continue their "gentle" nudges to return to my blog and post some pics
For the dreamers, the wishers..
I dedicate this blog to you.

i commend you for your faith in me. and for your everlasting devotion to a slacker blogger.
So i thought i would share some updates on the family that is Parson. Why else would you check this? Yes, we are in Bremerton and if we don't get shot first, we'll be here through the end of June. We have a house (well, not ours per se, but we can pretend).
we have a yard (again, see previous parentheses). we have children (those actually do belong to us) Sara is 4, Kate is now 2. Kate still has no hair. well, she did have hair, but it was a rat's tail/mullet. Those are offensive, so i had to cut those precious inches off the back. it was for the better.
Mark is still working for Delorum. (his graphic design company) here is his website if you'd like to see some of the stuff he has done. www.delorum.com. i am still working for peanuts. (aka Kate and Sarah) they run a tight ship! :) Things are going very well!
i'm going to leave the update at that. this is supposed to be a teaser, to renew your faith in my blog, and to reassure you that it will be fully operational! thank you for your undying devotion, o ye my beloveds!

where have all the bloggers gone...

Well folks, i hope you were not feared for my life after reading my last post and then not hearing from me for many moons... but no, i do still inhabit this world, but now my computer doesn't. it started to die on me, and so i sold it. so now, i must wait for my turn on mark's computer, which is rare enough that when i get it i only have time for the really fun stuff like, finances, budget, bills and enrichment coordination. so if anyone would like to start up a "computer for our favorite blogger" fund, i would really think you were neat.
so quick update. we are still waiting to hear about the job at BYU_Idaho, so continue to keep your fingers crossed and prayers said! :) i promise to let you all know as soon as we hear anything. as for the girls, katelyn is now ONE!!!!! and walking (sort of) she still only has two teeth. sarah proudly states that she has 20.
oops. my time is up. i will try to be better at keeping this up!!

mamma's for rent

So here i sit, more like lay, while by head is bloated and nose is snuffed. how i wish there were mamma's to rent for the day. who's to take care when the mamma gets sick? i thought about this as i sat and watched "Sabrina" (a movie, which by the way, i am in the mood for anytime!) and sipped my soup and drank my juice and snuggled in on the couch with a big fuzzy blanket, slippers sarah gave me for christmas and my pillow. i was suddenly brought back to the good old days when you would get that rare opportunity to see just what mom really does when all the kids are at school during the day. and now i know that my perspective was based on a false sampling. for when one is sick, mamma brings soup and juice and caters to your every whim. she would clean about while i was watching a movie to convince me that motherhood was work. but now that i am a mamma myself and have moments, few though they may be, without children i know that motherhood is nothing more than chocolates and movies....