Sundays and Quelf and the New Year

My brother and his wife gave us this game for Christmas.  We played today.  I had to lay on the floor like a puppy and pretend to be sleeping for five minutes.  I had to copy everything Nathan said for 5 minutes....which he easily made me mess up. Someone had to build a pretend snowman.  Someone had to pretend to pick someone elses nose.  Nate had to smell an armpit.  The list of random things went on and on...but it was a good laugh for everyone. Except for when kids were angry because mom laughed when I shouldn't have ...or snuck other kids ahead in the game because I felt bad they were so behind.  Then there was the time that Rachel fell off the table.  I don't know how that happened.  Emily ran upstairs to throw up during one part of the game.  Random things happened during the game of randomness.  However, we also laughed so hard we cried a couple of times.  It was a fun game. 

Sundays are generally long at our house since we try to observe the Sabbath.  Mostly, that means no video games and no TV (except when people are sick).  It is how we end up playing most of our board games.   The last 5 weeks we have had sick people every week.  Today was the day I thought we would all return to our former glorious selves.  Attending church and having a truly Sabbath Sabbath Day.  Alas, at breakfast Emily puked all over the floor.  Thus began another Sunday of Nate and I tag teaming and another Sunday of letting go of our Sabbath Day rules so that the little sick person could be happy.  Oh well.  Maybe next week we will be glorious.  Today we will watch movies, play video games and allow Nate to watch football downstairs in front of everyone.  He usually tries to watch it sneakly up in our room.  We all catch him doing it.  :)

So begins the new year.  I have absolutely no goals.  I am having a new baby this year.  I figure nothing else I do could beat that so why bother. ;) I have enough to keep up with everyday that I can't drop the ball on.  Adding a New Years goal just seems like a burden.  This year I am just going to keep the balls in the air that are already there.  I will be easy on myself and allow my self all the leway in the world to mess up and be mediocre.  I hope to continue to be able to handle work and the kids... and survive having two babies and working at the same time.  I hope to maintain my kids doing a chore everyday and I hope to keep making them do their homework everyday.  I hope that we will keep spending time as a family and reading a scripture together at dinner.  I hope we make some more good memories this year like we did last year.  I hope my kids will know how much I love them even while I am losing my patience with them over chores, fighting, and homework.  I hope that the kids are young enough that they will forget most of that anyway.  I hope that's enough.  Happy New Year!