WARNING: bitter rant ahead!! please skip this paragraph and head to the green if you don't want to read about my unfounded crankiness!! lol.

i haven't blogged or done a digipage in a week, partly because i feel uninspired, and partly because i'm feeling a bit bitter. i had explained why here, but i don't want to offend anyone and make them think i'm a certain way when i'm not, if that makes sense. bah, i'm just (temporarily) bitter about a few things right now, and i think turning my PS off and taking a break is what i've needed. not sure when i'll get back, but soon i'm sure.

in better news...

i got a new scanner!! so pleased. it's an Epson 3490, and it looks great. it's still in the box (haven't "freed" it yet) but i'm excited to start scanning again. :)

in great news...

mercy stayed in nursery through ALL of Relief Society and Sunday School!!!!! ::woohoo:: they said that she cried for about a minute, realised the other kids were playing, and started playing too. :) that's my nugget!! now, if she could've behaved for Sacrament, that would've been nice. lol!! porter lasted through RS, and part of Sunday School, before deciding it was milk time. he stayed on my visiting teacher's lap for Sacrament while i chased after mercy, so that was nice.

my mum's coming to visit on thursday, for just over a week!!! ~*~YAYAYAY~*~ i'm so so happy. we're going to get the kidlets easter pictures taken on friday, their first pro pics together. can you believe i haven't had any taken yet?! bad mummy. poor neglected porter. of course i'll have pro pics of him taken to mark 6 months, which is next month. EEPS. who told him to get older so fast!! little love that he is. i think tomorrow (today?) we're going to try him with solids! a little rice cereal. i think he's ready, he watches me feed mercy her jello smoothies, watching the spoon go back and forth, and smacks his gums together. LOL.

the Daniel Powter CD drops today!!!!!! yay! can't wait to get it!

okay, that's all from me for now. :)

monday monday (dah daaah dah dah dah dah)... lol.

great weekend, watched General Conference. so so so great. loved the talks, especially Robert D. Hales' talk. really felt like it was spoken straight to me. i can't wait for the Ensign to come out so i can read the talks and go over them again!

saturday was a rainy day, poured from about noon til 6ish. it looked so cool out though. mercy was standing on her chair, looking out the window, and i had to snap some pics of it. this one came out and i knew what i wanted to do with it:



the words are the lyrics to A Child's Prayer, by Janice Kapp Perry, one of my favorite Primary songs. The MoTab sings it on their "Love Is Spoken Here" CD, and it makes me tear up everytime i hear it. *sniffle* the words to the whole song are:

Night time, quiet time,
Loved one gather at day's end.
I hold them close, I help them know
That God will always be their friend.
Then just before I say goodnight
My little ones kneel by my chair
I close my eyes, I dim the lights
And listen to this simple prayer:

Heavenly Father, are you really there?
And do you hear and answer ev'ry child's prayer?
Some say that heaven is far away,
But I feel it close around me as I pray.

Heavenly Father, I remember now
Something that Jesus told disciples long ago,
"Suffer the children to come to me."
Father, in prayer I'm coming now to thee.

Pray, He is there. Speak, He is list'ning.
You are His child, His love now surrounds you.
He hears your prayer, He loves the children.
Of such is the kingdom, the Kingdom of heav'n.

Heavenly Father, are you really there?
He hears and answers every child's prayer.
Please hear my prayer.

geez, even typing the words out makes me tear up. lol.

okay that's all from me for now. enough!