Johnson Family Dish

Bye Bye Baby

We dug all of the baby clothes and baby things out of the atic to sell them. It was kinda sad. We’ll see how I do watching strangers coldly sifting through my precious memories and trying to buy them at a discount. Randon says that I should just keep them. I am keeping a few things but, I see no sense in keeping them all around. I have kept the cradle and the high chair for my future grandchildren’s use.

I reluctantly went through Scotts clothes, I always thought that I would use them more than once. The girls clothes were so tough. I have used some of them through each of my girls and the sweet memories of them in the delicate dresses and booties each Sunday filled me with emotion.

I can’t quite believe that my babies are growing up so quickly. It fills me with a mix of relief and remorse. Relief for the freedom that is back a little more everyday with thier growing independence. Remorse for the realism that they will never depend on me like they did then, and rightly so. They must grow and blossom, that is why they came here.

My Dear Grandma

Is sick. She has been ill for 8 weeks now. First with Phnuemonia, then Pheblitis and cellulitis, now with painful blood clots. She has only worked one week in the last 8. She is in the ICU at Scottsdale North hospital. I was fortunate to go and be with her yesterday (thank you ladies who made this possible!).

It is so hard for me to see her aging body get sick so much lately. It just reminds me that she will not always be here and I will have to live my life without her, again. She has always been my biggest fan, perhaps sometimes when she should not have been. But, I have to love her, she has loved me so well.

My thoughts are a little too emotional right now, but I think that she will be okay this time. Randon and Kevin Fletcher gave her a Priesthood blessing and I just feel very at peace with all of this, though I wish that she were whole right now. I know that God’s will will be done.

Great Spirits

I love this quote that I came accross from a profound essay that I recently read.

“Great Spirits will always encounter voilent opposition from mediocre minds” ~Albert Einstien

The Essay is entitled “Our Home: Motherhood in the 21st Century” by Laura BLedsoe. If you want to read it, just let me know, I will e-mail it to you. It is absolutely fantastic and thought provoking. A very enjoyable read. Excellent for our upcoming Mothers Day.

Between GOOD AND GOOD

The hardest choices in the WORLD!

We feel like we have been rushing through life lately with so much going on! We have had to make some hard choices, between good and good. Not as black and white and easy as choices between good and bad. On Easter weekend alone we had been invited to attend or participate in around 6 different activities! Most with family and we had to prioritize what we would actually do, which I hate because I wish that I could do and be at them all.

Life is so full right now it just litterally runs over! How do we push the SLOW motion button? We just can’t do it all. Makes you feel kind of torn.

New Carpet

The Johnsons have new carpet! HAPPY DAY! The carpet was terrible when we moved in, and a shade of white!!!!

It was so much work to move everything out and clean things that we haven’t cleaned in 3 years. It looks and feels so nice though, it was worth it!

We moved all of the kids rooms around. They are enjoying the new arrangement and so am I. Addi and Charis have so much more room now that they switched rooms with Scott (and I don’t have to worry about fighting the trundle bed anymore).

Easter Sunday

The service that we had on Easter Sunday this year was the best Easter Sunday Service that I remember. I loved hearing the piano and the organ together as the soloist (Chris Brannon) and the chior joined in singing “I Know That My Redeemer Lives!”. I was so touched by this piece, I could not stop the flow of tears. I love this sort of spiritual refreshment!

Dancing Lessons

Last night we went to some FREE (our favorite word) Dancing lessons. We were learning Swing Dancing. Randon and I met at a dance and we both really love to Two Step and country swing dance. The dance that we were learning last night was more of a swing that you would do to Harry Connick Jr. sort of music.

It was so fun! The only sort of down side was that the minute you get the basic step down they split you up with different partners and you are constantly rotating partners.

The first partner that I had was a long, greasy haired hippie man. I almost laughed out loud when he came and introduced himself to me. Luckily I was able to control myself. My second and third partners were very nice gentlemen. I have to say that it is strange to hold the hand of another man and dance with them after 12 years of having the same wonderful partner. It was not uncomfortable though, because we were trying to learn these steps and we were very focussed on that. That is until I got this partner that was too close for comfort. He had the “God’s Gift” to women mentality. He did not want to follow the instructor, HE was going to teach me the steps and turns. Quite uncomfortable, we were dancing while everyone else was watching the instructor.

When it was time to be back with our mates, I told Randon that it was all a lot of fun except for that one guy. He knew just the guy and he said that he was going to knock him around if he did not settle down. Funny because he is mild as a lamb, my Randon.

Anyway, it made me so thankful for my wonderful man. Our personalities are so well suited. It is good to have a reminder of that from time to time. Dancing with men of different personalities reminded me why I hated dating!

Yahoo!! Our PC is happy again.

After a few days of being ‘out of touch’ we are, happily, back on line!

Our PC is now sporting an 200mg external, backup, hard drive and an added 512 in memory. Thank you to Randon and Rex for your attention to my 2nd favorite toy, which my favorite toy (the iPod) depends on.

Just one comment on computer stores…WHEW!! Glad I don’t have to go there everyday! I brought the 1st memory card that we bought back because it did not work. They guy asked me what was wrong with it, I said that I did not know, it just didn’t work. He proceded to ask me 3 more times what was wrong with the memory, I finally just said “listen, this thing is not a toaster, I don’t know why it did not work, IT JUST DIDN’T WORK”. He shot me a condesending look and continued on with my excahnge. The new memory DOES work. And the wierd people that always seem to be in these places, impatient brainiacs. Probably upset that people don’t respond to them as well as their beloved computer.