I found a really great new take on Kool-Aid. It is invisible! I don’t feed Jonas a lot of sugary drinks to begin with, but we had a barbeque on Saturday, so I picked some up for all of the kids. It is great, it got sloshed all over and one kid sat in a puddle of it and no stains. The only problem is that we are trying to get Jonas to drink the rest of it and he is throwing a huge fit because he thinks we are trying to poison him with plain old water. Clearly, I can’t win.

The Magster is officially rolling over. She has tummy to back mastered. In fact, I can’t even get her onto her tummy any more. The minute she figured out how to flip I could see her thinking, “That’s enough of that lame-o tummy time! I hate that! Just try and put me on my tummy now, Mommy! Ha!” She is halfway flipped over before I even take my hands off her. Truly gifted, this one is.

I had a fabulous breakfast today! I toasted whole wheat bread, buttered it, then sliced fresh strawberries onto the toast. It was wonderful! I think that will become the breakfast of the summer. Balanced and yummy.

I sat in the garden today and rearanged a bunch of pots so the jasmine plant could have more sun. Chris fell in love with a jasmine bush/tree thing a few weeks ago and brought it home. At the time the plant had no identification tag and no instructions. I did several Google searches for stuff like “smelly white waxy flowers” and “flowering tree/vine/shrub thingies” before I made an educated guess toward jasmine. A few days after we got it I went to Bath and Body Works and on a whim looked at the label on the jasime body wash. There was a picture of my plant! I’m such a detective. The plant is pretty peaky looking; it has yellowing leaves and just looks a bit sad. Chris was hoping I could revive it. I love him for thinking I could. What part of “raised on the North Dakota tundra with no tropical plants” thing did he miss? I can fix easy plants. I tend to plant stuff that pretty much grows itself. Even with those strikes against me the jasmine does have some fresh growth and many, many heavenly smelling blooms. I must be doing something right.

Chris just got switched to working the swing shift. While I don’t really like him gone in the evenings, it will be nice to have him around for the better part of the day. He has a lot of training that will be taking up his time for now. He did get pulled off of the twelve hour shifts, so yippee for that. That was much more short lived than expected and I am grateful.

Jonas wanted to go for a drive today so I took him out to the car and let him pretend to drive while I cleaned it out. It needed it. There were five sippy cups stuffed under seats and toys and random french fries from our trip to the Botanical Gardens when Jonas punctuated throwing a fit by throwing his fries. What a mess! We are slobs.

After church today I came home and read some of the transcripts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints General Conference talks from last weekend. There were some really wonderful talks given. I didn’t catch much last weekend when I was listening because my children were a bit noisy (ok, rioting madly for the cause of the moment is a more honest description). I am glad the talks are transcribed so I can go back and read them during naptimes. They are very uplifting and offer so much good counsel. I really enjoyed this one, in particular. Conference talks always encourage me to do a little better, stand a little taller. There are always a few that seem to jump out at me as answers and guidance to the stresses and trials in my life. Most of the time the counsel given is something I have already heard, but I am in a postition where it makes sense anew. I need the repetition.

So, that it today in a nutshell. What did you do?