Advice from Elder Busche

What I'm Up To

• Exercising everyday {except Sunday, of course} with Insanity - a Beachbody workout program - I'm just starting week 6 of 10 and I love it!
• Writing a children's book about Scott's Grandpa and trying to talk myself out of illustrating it because that seems overwhelming but I might still do it.
• Learning in a mentoring program with 3 Key Elements. I'm my mentor's first mentee which means I get to go through the program FREE.
• Feeling guilty that I ate four chocolate chip cookies today. {dag-nabbit!}
•  Working on 3 different blurb projects {have you heard of blurb? it's this awesome book-making software. i love it! i use it for so many things. check it out!}
• Dreaming bigger than ever and it's an awesome feeling.
• Being Kate's mom
• Trying to send out positive vibes that Scott and I WILL have *another child despite my mom and sisters' best efforts to thwart my vibes! {my family thinks I should just be happy with one and face the fact that God only intended that I have one child} {possibly they are right-but I'm still not convinced}

*How stinking fun would it be for Kate to have a sibling! Seriuosly! Everyone else seems to get one or two or three siblings, why not Kate?

*She took a bath with her same-aged cousin, Hailey, yesterday at my sister-in-law's house while Scott and I were on a date and Kate had so much fun and I realized she's NEVER bathed with another child before. I was always in the tub with my sis. I know it isn't a big deal and bathing together is totally under-rated {and possibly intensely inappropriate}but it's weird to think how different Kate's life is as an only child.


Beside the point, here are some cool books I've read recently: Remembering Wholeness by Carol Tuttle, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne {the secret was a second time through. That's a must have-must review sort of book}

Only My Dad...

...Would think to put googly eyes on a glass of water.

My mom and dad came over for dinner and my mom brought a little craft for Kate to do while I finished up the cooking. My dad being the silly guy that he is, put googly eyes on his eyeglasses - I didn't get a picture of that, he moves too fast - then he put the eyes on his glass of water. So, I chose one of the rolls that looked the most like a creature and added googly eyes and set it on his plate when he stepped out of the room. My dad got a kick out of that and suggested I add some raspberry jam for the mouth. 

Lonely Kate

I don't have much to say. I've been apathetic toward blogging lately and I'm not sure why.

Kate is so lonely these days. The last two days I called 6 different friends for her to play with and no one was home, they were sick, or they had other plans. This is the bummer with having one 4-year-old and nothing else.  We just don't have enough going on to keep her entertained.

She was able to play with both her Grandmas, and even one of her Grandpas, yesterday and that made her day.