*So… yesterday a certian Mama of Glitter stopped by my house. Yes- I got to hang with Glittersmama for a few hours at my house!! Jealous?!? I had the honor of meeting GM in Oregon this past summer. I really like her. She’s very mellow and has a good sense of humor. I liked having the 1-on-1 time with her. I also got to meet the famous Glitter. Livie couldn’t stop talking about “playing with her friend.” While they were playing Liv kept calling Glitter “friend.” “Friend, come here.” “Friend, wanna play with my kitchen?” I corrected her several times, but by the time GM and Glitter left, Glitter was answering to “Friend.” It was pretty cute! Thanks GM for making time for me in your awesome road trip! What a fun adventure!! (Pictures will be here soon. GM took some…)

* 4 out of 5 of the Jones Quints are home now. Welcome home Jack, Ryan, Brooklyn and Lila!!

* Livie went with Sei to my dad’s office the other day and has been talking about playing with the rubber stamps since then. She brought home a paper stamped with my dad’s signature, “TAXPAYERS COPY”, etc… and she thinks it’s the coolest thing. I’ll have to get her some stamps.

*There’s still some questions I need to answer from my post a few posts back…
Glittersmama asked:
What do you eat for breakfast? What are good Atkins-worthy snacks?

Well… when I wasn’t totally cheating like I have been for 2 weeks I would eat some bacon or eggs for breakfast. But right now I’ve been stuck on Rice Krispies and I really need to get back on to Atkins. For some reason when I cheat I cheat BAD. BAD. So… I need to reign myself back in. Favorite snacks on Atkins: Bacon. It’s like candy when you can’t have candy. I also like devilled eggs and you can eat jello too.

Nancy asked:
How often do you floss?
I’m really bad about flossing. Maybe once a month? But everytime I go to the dentist they say “Wow! Your teeth look great. We can always tell the flossers from those that don’t.” Yessssssssss…. On the otherhand, Sei is a maniac flosser. I gave him a bag of floss at Christmas.

Do you ever go to bed without washing off your makeup?
NEVER. It grosses me out. Even if I fall asleep on accident if I wake up I will get up in the middle of the nite, wash my face and brush my teeth. I MUST!!!

Lauren asked:
Do you like meat loaf?

Well… generally I’d say “no” because anything named “Meat Loaf” has to be gross. But I do like MY meatloaf.
Or did you mean the singer???

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I’ll answer some more later. I’m taking it sloooow.
Could I ask for prayers from y’all? There’s some major crap going on here. No details- sorry. But I will say it has to do with a stack of papers (filled with a load of lies) we were served from Canada a few days ago. Seiuli’s an awesome father- no matter what kind of crap some people want to make up. Y’all all know that, as does ANYONE who knows Seiuli. It makes me sick that people would tell lies just to get more money??? And by taking all that money a family is left wondering if they are going to have to sell their home, uproot their family yet again, etc… No Tad Award is big enough.

As I thought back about 2008 there were A LOT of changes. A LOT.

NEW: I moved back to Texas. This was huge. The kids have adjusted well. Sei loves his job. And I am a lard. Obviously I’ve had the hardest time adjusting. I miss our old neighborhood. I miss our old ward. I miss my friends. But I know we are suppose to be here, so I will continue to adjust the best I can. It has been nice having my family near. The kids deserve to be close to at least one set of grandparents!!

OLD: My ex still lives in Texas.

NEW: I started watching kids in my home this year. I actually just started watching 2 more this past Monday. So, now I watch 3 kids everyday and a 4th on Tuesdays. It’s been interesting. Thankfully I am now watching an almost 5 yr old boy and Taj loves having a playmate!! The money is very helpful as we pay off debt and save for missions and college and our Florida vacation this year!! The extra kids is why I will not be writing many blog ads anymore. I was tired of blogging because I had to. I want to blog when I want to. I will do ads occasionally if the pay is ok, just fyi.

OLD: I am still doing paid links in my posts. So if I stick in a weird words that don’t seem to go with the post, like shipping boxes, for example, that’s why.

NEW: I have 7 kids that pee in the toilet.

OLD: I have 6 kids that poop in the toilet…

NEW: My new fave song is “Gives You Hell” by The All American Rejects

OLD: I still love orange.

NEW: I enjoy exercising again. It’s my stress relief and break. And Seiuli has been wonderful about facilitating my time.

OLD: My big butt. It’s still here.

NEW: I traveled by myself several times this past year!! I got to go to Vegas for my brother’s wedding. Oregon for the highlite of my summer! And Kansas City for the NKOTB concert. Note that 2 out of 3 involved Y’ALL!! Yay!!

OLD: I came home everytime to my wonderful husband who I love so much. I can’t believe I am married to such an awesome man. I mean, I think back on our lives, how we met, etc… and I am just amazed. I know we were meant to be together. He’s my lobster. (What’s that from??) And I didn’t mean for this post to get mushy, but Sei went in for an endoscopy today. Basically they stick a camera down your throat and take pics. When he got one 3 years ago he was diagnosed with Barrett’s disease which is pre-cancerous. So, today he went in for another and thankfully a lot of the scar tissue has healed and he no longer has Barretts. YAY! I love him and I am thrilled he is getting better.