Lazy or Creative

Okay I always keep club soda on hand.  It has no calories and no sugar so when you have an upset stomach or just want some fizz it is the perfect drink.  My kids would add that it is the perfect drink if you like alka seltzer.

Anyway I haven't been feeling great so I wanted to have a drink of it.  Brigham was wandering around the kitchen.  He is always wandering around the kitchen becuase he is generally "STARVING".  How, I do not know, but he is and on Sunday from the moment we walk in from church he starts eating and doesn't quit until his head hits the pillow.  You get the picture, and just for fun imagine Fast Sundays.

Anyway- - I ask Brigham to bring me some club soda.  He brings me the whole two liter bottle.  It is two-thirds full. I say, "Brigham I can't drink all of this I need a glass."  I expect him to balk about walking back into the kitchen to pour me a class.  Instead without blinking an eye or hesitating for a second, he takes the lid off, hands me the bottle, raises both arms into the air and starts chanting, "Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug. Come on mom you can do it!  Drink it all!  Chug, chug, chug!"  I am laughing to hard to chug anything.

The Packing Legacy

Okay, so this was a first for me.  We helped someone move and when I came home I wasn't ready for bed due to exhaustion.  I credit it to the packing legacy and growth.  Brynne and Clark are moving to SLC for the summer because Clark has an internship.  They had finals all last week and this week they prepared for the move.  Brynne talked to her dad Friday night asking a couple of questions and reported that the week of packing was as miserable as finals week.

I concur that both are miserable. But finals is all mental. Packing on the other hard is mentally and physically tiring.  In your head you just keep thinking is this ever going to end while you are maxing out your muscle load.  Packing ends up in my opinion being worse than finals because when you finish finals there is a great deal of personal accomplishment that brings you a small sense of euphoria at completion.  When you get done packing you are just worn out and all you have to look forward to is unpacking!

Anyway, we arrive at Aggie Village promptly at 10:00.  For you doubters that I am prompt that was exactly the time Brynne asked us to arrive.  Clark & Brynne's vehicle was packed, everything except for the refrigerator contents were boxed up, the boxes were labeled, and the apartment was clean.  There were even doughnuts and chocolate milk laid out for those who arrived to help them move.

From 10:00-10:30 we started to take all the boxes to the lawn and stacked them according to their destination, Nanny's or Claudia's.  This of course was easy because Brynne had everything clearly labeled and instead of being the second strongest person there next to LaWrell- - Clark, JD and LaWrell are all stronger than I am, and I am pretty sure both Brynne and Addie beat me in an arm wrestling match.  Hence, Brynne, JD, and Addie's growth made this moving experience easier for me!

Claudia and Scott arrive precisely at 10:30 on schedule with the van and the U-haul.  By 11:15 everything is loaded up and ready to go.  Claudia and Scott and various Evans' are helping with the unpacking once they arrive in SLC.  LaWrell, JD, Addie, Brigham, and I are on our way to buy some seeds to plant in the garden this year. 

Claudia and Scott are good parents and helpful and for this we are grateful.  Brynne learned about organization and hard work from generations of house cleaning, gopher killing, mining, cow milking, weeding, farming, studying, college graduating kind of people and we are grateful for that. So to all you Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, Cousins, and Employers of Brynne's out there thanks for your help in teaching Brynne how to pack.  And to those who have gone on before thank you for leaving the Packing Legacy.  Brynne & Clark I am sure Grandpa would have been pleased.  I know that Dad and I were.