100 percent plus a little more

Some days are harder than others. Today was one of those days. It had its glorious moments like when Isaac won a new electric guitar from the drawing at the Orthodontists office or when I had lunch with my tween aged boy at one of my favorite places to eat (Pastry Pub) or when Isaac saw his uncle driving down the road and held up his newly acquired guitar to show his guitar loving uncle as we drove past. Then there was the moment at the end of a long exhausting day when Mom is plum tuckered out and Isaac starts throwing up non stop. Awesome.

There was the moment when Rebecca just played some good soccer that was great to watch and then there was the moment later when her sister fell backward in her chair after I had told her to stop jumping up and down on it. The great part was how I just let her sit there for a moment and someone else got up to help her up. I was so frustrated that she had fallen exactly as I said she would that I had an "I don't feel sorry for you moment."

There was the great moment with the bazillion eight year old achievement day girls and the exhausting glad it is over moment as I took half the brood home.

There was the brilliance of an aha moment in Alive! Utah marketing planning with my Dad and then the realization of the work that would incur.

There was dinner and breakfast and soccer and gas stations and 5 trips to the school today. I am pooped and I am praying no one is throwing up in the morning.

Cookbook giveaway on my food blog

I am cross promoting myself. I have this cool cookbook to giveaway. I recieved one from the company to review and one to giveaway. It is awesome for all those food storage buffs. It is a make your own mix cookbook and has everything from biscuit mix to onion soup mix. Then it gives you tons of recipes to use with each mix. I am so excited to use mine. Go enter the giveaway at http://pantryeats.blogspot.com/. I will ship it to the winner.

And while you are at it go visit Alive! Utah. Our September issue is up and it is amazing if I do say so myself. If you are not a facebook fan or a registered member I hope you sign up too.

We are also having an amazing, and I mean amazing giveaway, for the working gal or guy in Cedar City on our Deal Diva column.