The Smith Family Blog

Kalaree has starting calling everyone and their dog her other mother. It started with Mikaela. She of course is mama Mikaela. Then she added Mama Denise from Spokane. Well since moving here she has oh I don't know at least seven other mothers. It has actually started some problem in that one of her young women leaders wants to be called mama and she won't call her mama but she calls all these other ladies mama. Now you would think that I would be offended that she cares so much for all these other ladies to give them the title of mama. But really I don't care because I get the wonderful title of Susan. Yes, Kalaree has multiple mamas but I am her only Susan. Plus, recently, while reading blogs of long lost friends I came to realize I had multiple mamas in high school. There was Mama Green and Mama Judkins. Really I think in life we take for granted the fact that it really does take a village to raise a child and if there are enough women in the world to love my daughter and...

We have been working with the school nurse at Kezri's school regarding her and tourette's. At the beginning of the school year the nurse was going to go into her class and discuss with them what tourettes is and go from there. However, due to one thing or another it hadn't happened. Well since everything that is going on Kezri has asked that she do a PowerPoint on tourettes to her class. We spent this weekend working it all out and putting it together. She gets to present it on the 9th of February. I am so proud of her because this really is an accomplishment for her. She hasn't wanted to embrace this at all and now she seems to be willing to open up about it. Kalaree is going through withdrawals. Her Ipod decided yesterday to quit. She can't get it to register and all that good stuff. We plan to take it into the apple store and see what it will take to fix it but still. We can't get to Portland till Saturday and that is the closest Apple store. She was going th...

We tried a new hair style today in Kami's hair. She hates to have her hair done but at least she only sheds a ton of tears as I do it. I think it turned out quite nice. This is what it looks like up close on one side. Kezri and I decided to try to be crafty. We made flower hair clips to wear in the girls hair. It was a lot of fun to do and Kezri only got one boo boo from the hot glue gun. Good thing I was smart enough to have her work with the low temp while I used the High temp one. Hair Clips: Kezri wearing a hair clip: Kezri's boo boo:

I found this website that has awesome hair dos for girls. So today since we have late church we ended up doing all three girls hair. Kalaree: Kezri: Yes Kezri's hair is very long now. Kambrya: The funny thing is that a gal in our ward stopped me to ask if I got hte idea from the website since that is where she gets the idea for her daughters hair. The joys of the Internet.

I swear the mind of writers tend to go to places we would never think. While Kezri does not struggle in school academically at all, math is not her strong point. So recently she decided that she needed "poems" to help her remember her multiplication facts. Eights have been rather tough for her. So she came to me last night with her newest "poem" and I just had to share it here. "I ate and I ate till I got sick on the floor, that's how I know 8 x 8 is 64!" I swear she is just wired wrong sometimes. But hey if it works so be it.

drools in his sleep, leaves the cap off the toothpaste and squeezes it from the middle, he leaves the toilet seat up occasionally, adjusts the seat, steering wheel and mirrors in my car to drive 4 blocks and leaves it for me to fix, has to have a list for the grocery store or he will forget at least half of what he went for and come home with twice what we need, falls asleep the minute he sits down anywhere, especially in a movie, and the worse thing is that he is a saint. He would do absolutely anything I ask of him. He brings me lunches at work, makes dinner, cleans out the fridge when asked, runs to the store for one stupid item that I forgot and then goes back a second time for the other item I didn't know I forgot. He loves his daughters and treats them like princesses and me like a queen. He puts up with my hair brained ideas and multiple crafts. He allows me to rant when I want and he calls my mommy for me when I cry (He is a guy already.) He loves my friends because they ar...

Again from the web site that gave us the knee high sock idea came an idea that Kalaree wanted to try. She had some fish net tights that were very holey so we cut them off and made gloves for her to wear. Amazing how much more wear she will get out of these. In fact they are going to the dance tonight with her.