Home alone...warning for atheists: it's a churchy post!

This afternoon, we had our Relief Society Women's Conference. Our stake was meeting at 4:00 and the broadcast started at 5:00. For some reason, I just wanted to just watch it on TV this time. I think I needed to be alone for a while, so Reed took most of the kids shopping, one went to the movies. I was thinking that maybe I'd rather go shopping with them or even go by myself and skip the meeting. But my guilt/conscience took over and I put BYU channel on. The minute it started, I could feel the holy ghost impact me. Having no one next to me, I cried as much as I wanted and cranked up the sound for the rest hymn like it was a Bon Jovi concert. I sang my little heart out like a groupie too. I took notes, like in college (you can test me later, I'll pass for sure, I got 4 pages of notes) that forced me to pay super attention too. I don't know if I missed out on anything from the Stake, but today, I had a great experience by staying in front of the TV, with my snacks, crying like I was watching a chick flick. And who said that TV was bad! It all depends on what you chose to do with your life, and where you want to go.
Today, again, I was proud to be a woman, proud to be a sister, a daughter and a mother. I am empowered by the words I heard this afternoon, I am grateful for those amazing speakers, their love and strength. When President Uchtdorf got up, I felt so much love for that man. His German accent brought back many happy memories of our life in Munich too.
If you want to know more about their talk, www.lds.org will have it on their site shortly. Most of my blogger friends are LDS, but some aren't and these are the kind of posts that probably have them roll their eyes or wonder what language I speak ;) But I hope they still enjoy reading them, because they know my faith is part of who I am...and they love me for me, Molly-Mormon and all :)

PS: I'm a little freaked out now, it's dark, there is a storm outside, the wind is making my house rock....hmmm okay Reed, it was nice of you to take the kids out, but now's time to come home, me no likey dark! Geeze, I'm even gonna wait to post this just in case somebody reads it (as if anyone else but my friends read my blog) and will see that I'm alone, and find my address, and come and attack me. I just set the alarm on, potential rapist, so if you come to kill me, it will beep and I will give them the wrong password when they call to check on me, so they'll send the police over, so there (yeah, I'm ready for Halloween stories!!!)

A new season!

Today is the new season for a bunch of shows. I don't watch anything in particular anymore. I used to watch too many shows with too much blood. I realized that everyday, there was a show with murder, s...x, blood and horror: Medium, CSI, Law and Order SVU, and so forth. So we got Dishnetwork so that I can watch Paula Dean murder herself with high fat and high blood...pressure! But I did used to like Heros. I kinda got tired last season with all the new characters not going anywhere and not meeting anytime. I gave it a try tonight again. I am so lost! But that's how NBC gets you, you end up the episode saying "WHAT???" and then tonight, they played another episode right after. So I gave it another try and ended up at 10:00 pm saying "WHAT???" so I'll watch next week, like a big dummy until the season is over, and I still won't understand anything and I'll wait till the next season to start so that I can get just as lost, yikes! And that's how fast life goes, trying to understand the heros around me, not getting it but hoping to get it next time :)
On another note, life could be worse: check out that family!
Yep, 17 kids and she's expecting! and no, they're not mormon, I don't think

You're never too early

I love Halloween! Not just for the candies that I steal from my kids -although they are getting smarter with age and know which ones are the good ones, so they don't just give them to me anymore, bah I still got Tommy, he's clueless but so cute he'll get me good M&Ms and Snickers! But because behind Halloween here in the Hot valley, there is a promise that the weather is going to cool down. So I start looking for costumes early. I went to Old Navy and found a cute little Dragon. Tommy will be a skunk and I'll post pictures around the H day, just like every other blog on the planet with our cute little kiddos. But Nicky was so excited to wear his tonigh that I figured I'd take his picture quick: last year, I never had time to do it and his costume was off and full of chocolate before I could say Boo! I've been looking on E-bay and it's funny how most people will say "warm costume to keep your little ones nice and toasty". We don't need that here, they sweat all on their own. Nicky could really feel the heat in his costume, not because it's a dragon (nice punt) but because it's still freakin hot outside, yuck! It cracks me up how people will always truly believe that by September, the weather cools down. My Mom-in-law told me for so many years how it starts getting real nice in October (Humm, no Mom, love you, but my Halloween candles ALWAYS melt outside before they're lit, and the carved pumkins start caving in and rotting on the floor by November 1st at midnite if you leave it out too long). So I don't hope for a cool Halloween where my dragon, skunk, witch and undecided 8 yr old won't melt like Butterfingers left in your car in July, but I love it anyway.

Breaking Dawn

I finished it! In a few days, just like a typical hooked-on phonics addic. I do go to a book club every month, and ever since I started going to one, it seems that I cannot read a book without having to talk about it to someone. Reed doesn't like to read, so if I want to discuss the book with him, I have to tell him about the book...it sort of looses it's charm! So I'll talk to myself here, and if someone wants to listen and comment, go ahead. If not, then I'm getting it off my chest!

My main concern with this last book was "is it really the last one?" I mean, (oh, and if you plan on reading the book and haven't yet, don't read my post cause you'll know the end) they end the book with "so they will attack us again and we'll be ready, and our little monster has lots to learn still...hint hint hint. And that Bella girl, she's something! Talk about bad sefl-estime. Here she is, attracting the most hottest vampirest in the worldest and she still doesn't believe she's a hottie. My hubby tells me I'm hot all the time, so I now start to believe him at times, come on, it goes to your head. And there she is, "whine whine whine, I'm so clumsy, boohooo, I'm so ugggly, and Eddie is so much better than me". She drove me nuts. When she goes hunting with her half blood sucking baby (btw, did anybody but me think about those diapers she had to change at first, hmmm and they say breastfed babies poopoos blow up everywhere, sorry, a little to discriptive there, you weren't eating, were you?) she says again "it's all my fault" when the Volturis come to pay them a visit. NO, it's not your fault, stop blaming the whole freeking book on yourself, what would we, pathetic blood-reading-thirsty humans, do if you had stayed at home and just go robb a blood bank? We were all waiting for the action, the kung-fu fighting (whowa), the fast running and the mind reading! So we are all grateful you're a kluts, Bella. Hmm, yes, I know she doesn't really exists, I'm just going along with the fantasy here!

Anyway, other than that, I enjoyed the book, it was a bit long, like the lasts Harry Potty books. I just wanted it to get to the point a few times along, but at the end, I went through withdrawl like a true addic when I had to close this LAST book.

Moving on, what shall I read next????

Simple. Clear.Arizonans Have The Opportunity To Say YES For Marriage

I'm not anti-gay or lesbian, frankly, I don't care what they do, what they think, AS LONG as it doesn't interfere with what I do and think. This law passed in CA and bishops are being sued because they refused to marry gay couples. The church's social services haved had to close because they refused to let gays adopt children through their agency. I adopted a baby through LDS social services, I can only imagine how devastating it is for couples hoping to adopt a child to hear that the agency is closing. This is an attack on what we believe. I've never attacked a gay person for what they believe, but they would attack me (well, not all of them, I'm sure it'a small portion). Whoever will ask an LDS bishop to marry them in a church building while they're gay exactly knows what they're doing, they know they'll be refused and can thus sue the bishop or the church. We need to prevent this from happening in AZ. No one ever dares to say that gays and lesbos make them eecky, well they make me eecky. I've had friends who are gay, I love them, but it's still eecky. So I support this law to protect me and my children from being forced to accept something we don't believe in!

This from the website:

Marriage between one man and one woman. Can it get any simpler than that? Prop 102 simply secures the definition of marriage through an Arizona constitutional amendment.
Prop 102 is 20 simple and clear words that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
A YES vote on Prop 102 does one thing and one thing only – defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the Arizona Constitution, the highest law in our state.
One man. One Woman. Prop 102. That's Marriage. YESforMarriage.comP.O. Box 24743Tempe, AZ 85285-4743email: info@YESforMarriage.comWebsite: http://www.YESforMarriage.com

Time Flies

I feel like a nut! I went to the carwash today. I was totally thinking it was "ladies day", with $2.00 off every Tuesdays! Well, today is Wednesday! WHAT????? It almost scared me! I missed a day! It flew by! I don't know if it's Monday or Tuesday, but one of them went missing! Now, it's happened before when you say" oh, what's today?" or "oh, yeah, it is Wednesday already"...but I swear, when the carwash guy told me that ladies day was yesterday, TUESDAY, I was about to argue with him to give me my $2.00 (isn't there a movie when the paper boy says "I want my two dollars") because there is NO WAY that today is Wednesday, because I'm a sane person and know which day today is! So it is now proven that lack of sleep is dangerous! Not only I have to retype every other words I type here (nice tie-pohs), think twice before I speak (put the food out of the cold thing into the beeping warmer thing before you put it in your eating thing) and count my kids to make sure they're all there (one, two, buckle her shoe... three, four, shut the door... five, six, got one too many), I now have to look at the calendar before I leave the house. So, friends, if you see me on the parking lot of the church on Monday morning, be kind, drive me home!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TA3c1YqCiI

Joyeux Anniversaire a mon papa cheri

Le voila, l'homme responsable a part entiere de mon existence, c'est malin, hein!

Here he is, the man half-way responsible for my existence, way to go Papa!

How it all began

Poeple often wonder how Reed and I met, since we were worlds appart! Well, here are a few pictures of our first days together, back when he was only allowed to shake my hand, and I called him Elder Niman! This is taken in Liege, Grivegnee in Januray 1991. I had been a member of the LDS church for just a month or so, Soeur Grenier and Soeur Rogers were the ones who taught me the gospel. I had met the church in Utah that summer, after staying 2 1/1 months with a family there (the Corrys) to perfect my English. I had just finished High School and was 17. I had the discussions and knew I wanted to be baptized, but I just wanted to wait and go home first. When I did, I went to church in Liege once, but it was weird and no one talked to us (Vanessa came with me as support, merci ma grande!) Then I even saw some Elders at the fair and my friend Yaya pushed me to go talk to them, but they were too busy looking at the bumper cars to pay attention to me (hello Elders, there is a chick there asking to be baptized, get your eyes OFF the bumper cars and LISTEN...anywayyyy). So one day, I was waiting for the bus (le 31) when two sisters saw me reading "Une oeuvre merveilleuse et un prodige" by LeGrand Charles, totally mormon book! They were totally surprised but barelly got time to get my first name. The had to run for their bus! I figured I'd never hear from them again. I was still studying the book of mormon and praying, just not attending chuch since it was a little strange to me and uncomfortable. One of the missionary sister, Soeur Rogers, really wanted to find me again though. She prayed and fasted, for 3 weeks, asking where I was. And then one day, an Elder called them and told them they had recieved a referral for them. She immediatly said :" I know, her name is Murielle". They had found me! They called me, I had the discussions, and I was baptized on November 25th, 1990. Reed was there, he took a picture of me and my parents, never guessing that this would be his family some day too. He was a witness at my baptizm. The day that I had seen those Elders at the fair, Reed's future companion was there and maybe if he had paid attention to me, I would have gotten to know Reed before my baptizm and have him baptize me. It's not a big deal, but it was the extra perk that we were supposed to get, I think. I don't hold any grudges against that Elder (Reed's comp) that ignored me, but it taught me a huge lesson. Heavenly Father will place special people in your path, don't ignore them. And also, if you won't do His work, He'll find someone else to do it. I'm glad He did!

I was just reflecting on my life today. Nicky likes to take my Spanish/French High School dictionnary and say they are his scriptures. He takes them out for family scripture reading at night and reads out of them "..fathzer...book'o mommon....yezus...amn". When I got that dictionnary, 20 years ago, if someone would have told me how my 4th child would use it and why and where, I would have never ever believed them. Gosh, I didn't even know what "scriptures" were (did I mention I was atheist?). My life sure didn't turn out the way I would have pictured it, not even close. I know everyone says that, but I think I beat the odds even more!

Pour les vrais liegeois seulement!

Weight Watchers, hugh

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I don't wannooo, but I'm gonnnnooo try anyway. I did my BMI and that horrible ratio shows that I'm .9 overweight, crap! So after 35, breastfeeding alone is not helping me shedding those extra &*%%&&!! pounds. I haven't gained all of it back from last year, only about half, after a baby, not too bad, but bad still because it was hard work losing it. So I figured that if I try now, and not wait until I'm done breastfeeding and gain 20lbs on top, it'd be better. I don't know if I'll even lose a little, because with WWatchers, they give you a llllottt of points extra for nursing, but it'll force me to eat right. Because Cheetos and Big Macs are apparently NOT a healthy diet!!!! I don't understand why not? I mean, Cheetos have cheese, that's calcium for ya. Big Macs have lettuce and tomatoes on it, that's veggetables right there. If you add fries, you get your veggies again. The diet soda is a no brainer: no suggar, no calories, that's as good as water. And after that healthy meal, you could splurge for an apple pie (all thoses vegetables have to be accompanied by fruits, duh) or a milk shake, which will top you up to the recommended amount of calcium per day. But, for some unexplicable reasons, that healthy diet of mine is not recognized by society as healthy and by my butt and stomach either! So, since I like to blend in and follow the trend, I'll stop considering fried veggies as a true veggie...but I might still eat them just the same...how many points are french fries again?

Today is Monday, I hope to last till the end of the week, but no guaranties there! Huhggg, I hate giving up good crappy food! Yeah, I know, who does huh!