The first day of the rest of my life

Hi, I am Katie. Can you guess my favorite color? A very important first question upon meeting someone for the first time. So this is the first day of the rest of my life, which in this moment, means a big HUGE new step... Yes Michelle, I am BLOGGING (Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus). I know that you never really thought you would see this, but here it is, I am ready. So if you are not Michelle or an immediate member of my family, you may want to know that for at least a year or so, Michelle has been trying to get me to start this blog. Now I know my purpose, which is to testify of Jesus Christ and Family.
Two of the ways I want to do so are to #1 Share things I have learned in living the teachings of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. #2 As each day of my life is lived, I realize that my children say hilarious and profound things which I neglect to write in their journals. I want to record those things here so that they are not lost and so that all of you can share them with me also. I hope we all laugh and cry and love together as we share this time.
This blog is inspired by Michelle whom I love so very much. This blog is in honor of my family, which consists of my husband Don, and our children hereafter known as D and M. Also I choose to honor my Mom and Dad, my husband's Mom and Dad and Grandmother. I honor my two sisters and Don's two brothers. I honor our extended family. I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!! I honor my dear friends, wherever you are, you know I love you. Most especially, I honor and revere our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and my Father in Heaven for their eternal plan for my life. I know that they love me. I know that they care about me: in every single minute of my day, whether in joy, sorrow, triumph or temptation. That I know they love me brings daily comfort and security. And it is these things that I desire to testify of in my daily writings. So that you may come to know as I do.
I have been saving up a whole bunch of things that our children have said in the last couple of weeks that I have been seriously considering starting this blog... not that journal writing is new to me... my Mom knows about my volumes: I just never thought that sharing my personal thoughts with the whole world was my thing until I looked at it as a way to testify of all that I know to be true.
Here are the funnies and the profound:
3/10 M: "The water is good, I didn't pee in it." He was in the bath drinking the water, and I asked him to stop drinking it because...gross!! Well, he decided it was fine!!
3/11 D dressed up in funny costumes when he came home from school: the first one was an awesome scuba diver assembly; no shirt, camo shorts, a blue bathrobe belt tied around his waist then connected to his red goggles as if it were an air tank. Because his hair was so long, when he pushed the goggles up on top of his head, his hair stuck up, so I told him to look in the mirror becuase it looked so awesome. He came out and said "It looks like I have an ATROW." I tried not to laugh because he hates being laughed at, but I told him through giggles that he meant "afro."
3/12 Even as I start to write this one, I laugh out loud because it was so spontaneous and funny. As we were sitting down to breakfast, M said, "You sat on my Cockadoodle." then I said "what?" as I busted out laughing and he said, "You sat on my chicken." I have no idea where that came from... we do not have chickens printed on our kitchen chairs!!!
3/14 One of the new things M says is "Mom, I have to tell you something."
3/16 During prayer, M said, "Thanks for Grammy and Grandpa and Muffy."
3/17 To M, oatmeal is "obameal"
3/18 I was doing funny things with my hair today, including putting a small bit in a rubberband way up high on the top of my head and letting it fall crazily whatever way it would. M said, "Mommy, you look like Kerstie." She is one of our little friends who has the common Whoville ponytail on the top of her head.
3/25 Happy Anniversary D and W!!! M, who LOVES candy, out of nowhere today said, "I want to get some candy from Santa Claus for you and Wes AND FOR ME!!!" He did not know it at the time, but later his Daddy came home from work and announced that it is exactly nine months until Christmas!!
I have been writing for an hour, so goodbye for tonight. Until tomorrow on this wonderful new adventure!! K