BREEZY FIELDS

My Michael is coming home . You can't just say it. You have to SING it. Tomorrow my tall, strong, gorgeous, husband will be here and it will be beautiful. He will nestle into the life of our family and we will have him with us, here, in our house, in our family . He'll help put on jammies and read stories, and tutor Jane in math. He'll take me on dates and wrestle at least one child during sacrament meeting. He'll snuggle me in bed at night and nuzzle my neck while I'm doing dishes. We'll go for walks and play games and watch movies and do fun family Saturday stuff. He'll help carry a kid down to the car and then he'll drive while I put on my makeup ! We love him, we know how much he loves us. We can't wait! Don't worry, I won't work him to death. I won't make him cook dinner every night for the next 10 months or hand over the kids and take off to the spa for the weekend (tempting, but... no). We just want him HERE. I kee...

Have not been blogging for a while. Sorry I have been super busy. I am so excited for dad to come home. We are going to have a big Thanksgiving Day with Dave and Adina and Grandma Barb and Papa(so excited to see you guys by the way!) Well, I better go. Nothing too interesting going on otherwise I would blog more tonight. I love everbody. Jane

Wow, Congrats Geof. Geof., I am so proud of that killer math grade. Truly a Bennett. Leash and Lyd, I've had a hard time even thinking about writing on the blog, how can I put into words my extreme jealousy? I have only wanted to go to a U2 concert since 1992 but the timing or the money has never worked out. Mike looked into getting me a ticket for this concert but it was so expensive for two and I didn't want to be a loser and go by myself. So... I guess I'll be seeing them when they are 65 or so on some reunion tour. Leash, I would have felt sorry for you about the toilets until I read about U2. Adam and Mindi, I'm glad you are having such a great month. Your family has been truly blessed. Cameron, Leash, Jess, anyone else that I don't have an address for. Will you please post your addresses on the blog and sometime during the holidays (possibly including Valentine's Day) you will get a Christmas card. Life here is great. Very busy. I took the girls on a t...

Part of what I wanted to do was eventually transfer over past blogs from our family blogs. Since I am slammed right now, trying to get everything ready for my husband and family I thought now would be a fabulous time. So here is a poem I wrote for Mike after he complained that I hadn't mentioned him in my blog (he was in Korea and feeling very left out). It was written in about 15 minutes so don't expect perfection- )Oct. 2005 ODE TO MICHAEL Michael, my love, you were sent from above to fill my life with joy. We have three gorgeous girls, two that have curls, but alas we do not have a boy. But that's cool with you. You've never been blue, you've taken it all in stride. Our life has been magic, sometimes a bit tragic. But hey, that's part of the ride. Whatever I do, I know I have you to back me when things get rough. I know you're a softie, a lover, a friend, although to a sranger you're tough. When I think of you I see Mt. Dew, poured into glass...

Ask me just how I get sucked in to watching made for T.V. Disney movies about cyber chicks and finding that Hannah Montana lines are now part of my every day dialogue. "Why, why, why, why, why, no, no, no, no, no, you, you, you, you." Yep, that's Jackson on Hannah. It's a phrase that comes in quite handy though. Like when Sawyer dropped a glass bowl tonight, or when Ellyn dropped a glass yesterday, or when Ellyn dropped a plate Monday (I am running out of glasses, really and truly. I don't think I will replace them with glass, maybe some lovely Walmart plastic-BPA free of course). Or when I'm blaming my children for having my brain sucked away by the Disney channel this evening. Also, another fun line is "Daddy's little convict says what?" Billy Ray Cyrus a.k.a. Robbie Ray uses that one. I am neither a dad nor do I have a daughter that is a convict yet I still enjoy saying it. What can I say? An hour of Disney (tonight 1 and a half) kee...

This morning Mike was reading a part of my brother and sister-in-law's blog to me out loud. Tracey was saying that they had just purchased a new camera for Christmas. She said that Christmas always comes in November for Tom. This made me giggle. It is the same at our house, Christmas in November, Mike's November birthday in October, Father's Day in April. The boy knows how to work the holidays (can I ever just let him get absolutely nothing on the actual day? Well, yes, sometimes but not often). Except... this November the Christmas came for me. Mike bought me a new camera (we didn't even know that both families were buying cameras). My poor Canon SD 1000 never completely recovered from the Gatorade. The monitor is faded with crystal like stars across the surface. The pics do turn out, if you can tell what you have taken a picture of to begin with. Antyway... last week my sweet husband suggested that we might go for a more professional style camera. He sai...

Scrubbed up the strollers and the dog crates and cleaned up the garage . We were going to put up Christmas decorations but it was 82 degrees, that's right- BEAUTIFUL!!!! Not Christmas decoration putting up weather. Decorated Sadie's Feather for her 1st grade class Thanksgiving project. Is that a killer feather or what? Made several batches of truffles . I had made the ganache for Enrichment Tuesday night but it didn't cool in time. Dang. So I took soup and a centerpiece (my new calling is being on the Enrichment Committee) and called it good. Oh, I did help set up, that's what we did as one of our errands on Tuesday. Do you see how I am rationalizing the fact that the girls and I made truffles off and on for about four days and ate them all ourselves? Sadie loved to dip them in the unsweetened cocoa. We have a fine layer of cocoa on dishes, counters, clothing, etc... Took the puppies to the Carmel Community Park . It is a great big field where a million dogs...