Shane copied Diana and Diana copied Shelly and now I'm copying them all because I like this Ten for Tuesdaything. Only it's not even Tuesday. It's just that I have a lot of little things to say and none of them are worthy of an entire post of their own. So that said, I'm totally going to be a copycat and give you my first ever "Ten for Monday because it's not even Tuesday yet" list.
1. Connecticut didn't pass the Constitutional Convention. I think Mark and I knew it wasn't going to pass when we learned that the teacher's union was voting "no" as well as all the homosexuals. I'm not really sad about it I guess, because I feel like it's out of my control. We tried. We lost. So now all y'all homosexuals out there in California that can't get married because of Prop 8, can in Connecticut and it's totally Marriage, not even Civil Union. Hurray for you! I still think marriage between two women or two men is wrong. Two penises just don't go together. Nor do two vaginas. I don't really care how much y'all love each other. But that's just me--hate me if you will, I know you already do. I'll still treat you with respect and tolerance, as always.
2. Obama is going to be our next President. Not sure how I feel about that. This election was particularly challenging for me, since I didn't like either candidate. And I sort of felt it didn't matter who we nominated in the end. Our United States Congress is so corrupt and slimey and dysfuntional right now, it really doesn't matter who the president is. He's gonna have a heck of a time working with all those slimeballs in Congress. The kids' school was totally into the elections this year. All the kids voted in school the Monday before elections and got an "I voted today" sticker. Hunter voted for Obama and Noah and Denver voted for McCain. The ending tally was something like 196 for Obama and 98 for McCain. Denver was really cute Tuesday morning when he woke up. He asked if he could stay up late and watch the news. I asked why and he said so he could find out who would be the next president. I told him we'd find out Wednesday morning before he left for school and then asked who he wanted to win. He then said, "Well, Barack Obama likes Jazz music and I don't. I mean, I've heard Jazz music one time before when we had a substitute in music but I didn't like it. So I want McCain to win." If only it were that simple. They were interviewing some black person Wednesday morning on the Today Show and he said something like, "I can finally look my son in the face and tell him he can do anything he wants to. If Barack Obama can do it, anyone can." I sort of hate that mindset. What about Martin Luther King? What about Oprah? No one's been holding the African American people back. And since when did Barack become God? It will be interesting to see what happens these next four years. Hope we still have a roof over our head and a job.
3. Mark and I saw this totally funny commnercial last night. You can see it here. Just click on the "Overjoy of Giving" commercial on the right hand side of the screen. I can hardly believe it's that time of year again. What do you want for Christmas? We finally got our Big Ticket item for the boys last week. Mark found a super great deal on Walmart dot com. Now we just have our Santa gifts and I think we're good. But any suggestions from James, Matthew, Joseph, Grace, Logan, Ephraim, Lucy, and Soren would be greatly appreciaed (hint, hint). I don't know what I want except for a bunch of little silly things on my Amazon Wish List, like barbies and children's books. Nope, guess I never really did grow up. And for those of you shopping for Mark, here's his list of toyscause he never grew up either.
4. My friend, Sam posted this on her blog a few days ago. So some of you may have seen this before. But this little ditty on You Tube made me think of Diana andTaffy and Sonnet and B and Sara and Sue and I thought maybe y'all could start working on your own version, you know, for next Reunion or something. It's hilarious, but maybe only if you're Mormon. Or a Henrichsen.
5. Speaking of You Tube, this one also makes me happy. . . everytime.
6. Noah is going to have his tonsils and adenoids out on December 1st. He's had strep throat five times this year and his tonsils seem to be stuck swollen permanently. He now has some sleep apnea going on and neither Mark nor I can sleep because we're certain he's going to suffocate in his sleep. We're secretly hoping this is the cure to all of Noah's sleep problems but I kind of think it won't be. Now, if we could slap a new pancreas in Hunter I think we'd have it nailed. If only things were that simple.
7. Speaking of Noah, here's the rest of The Poop Mystery cause I know you've all been waiting with baited breath. I think he does a pretty good job, considering he's only seven. I definitely think he's got a future in writing. Don't you?
8. I love, love, love hot cider. This year I discovered a new recipe that is pure heaven. That is, if you love cider as much as me. Here's what you do. In a saucepan combine 1/2 cup brown sugar with 1/2 cup heavy cream. Bring to a boil. Add six cups of apple cider and warm. Wa-lah! Heaven in a mug! (P.S. The real name for this cider isn't Heaven in a mug. It's Caramel Apple Cider. But I'm pretty sure you'll think my name for the stuff is more fitting.)
9. To date we've raked 38-thirty gallon bags of leaves. We spent all day Saturday raking, again. And today our lawn is covered completely, like we never raked in the first place. I hate leaves. That said, our version of Leaf Man is in the making and we're so excited to share it with you. We've scanned over 36 pages of leaves we've collected and last Tuesday we made up our story while we were driving up to Melanie's house. Tonight for FHE, I think we'll start putting it together. It's going to be awesome! I love leaves.
10. I took the twins and Caleb to the park this morning. I didn't do the dishes or the laundry or even make the bed first. We just went. And we had so much fun together, especially feeding the ducks the leftover cornbread from Friday's dinner. Three mallards kept following Caleb everywhere, even after the cornbread was gone. I told Caleb they thought he was their Daddy and the twins kept shouting at them to go back into the water, between shoving fistfuls of cornbread in their own mouths. The babies fell asleep in the wagon on the way home and after I tucked them in their cribs I managed to finish all of my housework and then some. And that reminded me that sometimes, when we put our children first, everything else seems to fall into place. And that's the way it should be, don't you think?
Evan and Brendan have all had tubes put in their ears in the last year (Brendan's second time around) and Dani had tubes put in her ears last December and had them put in AGAIN and her adnoids taken out in September. Our insurance does not love us this year.
I'm a fan of cider too... i will have to try your recipe to see if its as good as mine...
