Ladies and Gentlemen, It's List Time!!

It has been an interesting few months. I have been:

• Staying up, consistently, too late every night
• Learning to make ruffles
• Losing children in department stores
• Coordinating a wedding reception in two weeks
• Failing at communicating and leading (I have so much more to learn)
• Coming up with tart crust recipes
• Baking said tart crusts
• Eating said tart crusts
• Coming up with filling recipes
• Taste-testing said recipes
• Pulling off the wedding reception (with lots of great gals)
• Doorbell ditching leftover tarts
• Enjoying the constantly-entertaining antics of my little ones
• "Falling off the wagon"
• Getting back on the wagon (never surrender...)
• Feeling lonely and misunderstood in the world of women (sometimes I would just rather talk to men, they are much less...complicated at times)
• Transforming an ugly DI-headed jumper into a lovely light skirt
• Playing "hide and go seek" as a family and having a grand time (I forgot how much fun that stuff is...)
• Watching conference
• Re-listening to conference on the iPod
• Kissing
• Failing at motherhood
• Succeeding at motherhood (ha!)
• Boot scootin boogie-ing with the YW
• Studying America's Test Kitchen's latest cookbook (and then putting it on the back burner for a while because it is a distraction to my diet...)
• Fitting into my dress that I wore to Aaron's misson home-coming talk (Hooray!!!)
• Waiting (in vain!) for that 169 on the scale
• Running my mouth
• Absorbing Elizabeth Smart's trial testimony
• Exercising outside at night and in the morning--finally sane weather after months of madness
• Feeding four hungry teenagers
• Re-working the family budget to save several thousand more a year (cross the fingers)
• Devouring Julia Child's My Life in Paris
• Embarassing myself
• Suffering through mandatory "parent meetings" at HY's school
• Enjoying the quirks and sweet babblings of my baby
• Trying my hand at canning (or my friend's hand, really. But I am learning.)
• Writing parody (TBA later...)
• Leaving the children with a babysitter and going to that college football game we wanted to go to
• Running, as a family, and loving it (yes, actually jiggling up and down and everything. Shocking, I know.)
• Loving my crazy, boring, tasty, casual, loud, exhausting, fabulous, and fulfilling life!