Making a Rare Blog Appearance

Just wanted to say that I love these kids. What a privilege to be their mother. For those of you who haven't heard, we're expecting # 4 at the end of June. We're way excited!! I barf almost everyday from the excitement!!!

I know I don't keep this blog up very well. Other things always make it higher on my to-do list I guess. Frankly, I get pretty burned out from writing. I love it but it's what I do nearly every night. You can check out my resume blog that I send to interested editors. It has a pretty good sampling of my latest articles.

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This winter, I've written some arts reviews for the Deseret News, some really fun pieces for Wasatch Woman magazine (February will feature a piece called "How to Think Like a Decorator When Redoing Your Bedroom"--where I pick the brain of my incredibly talented decorator friend, Caitlin Creer. I'm also doing some profiles for WW magazine's "woman of the year" section, as well as a feature for the Ballet magazine "Pointe" which will run in March. I'll post web versions when they appear.

What else is going on with me? I'm still in my choir, the Salt Lake Choral Artists, which I love but seems to be demanding more and more these days. All of these things consume my evenings but daytime is still kids kids kids....I've just decided I'm not the greatest juggler. Harland is doing well...happy in the job, biking on a clearer day and skiing with our boys (I recently stopped due to being pregnant and all) every chance he gets--which is more than most people I have to say. Cannon has missed a few too many days of first grade and we were chastened a bit for it (Come on, he's in first grade and he's doing great in school...I guess we don't want to set a bad precedent about school being unimportant...boy could that backfire on us someday). Both boys love hitting the slopes and playing on their basketball teams. The guinnea pig we got from Santa (yay...giving into that one was a testament of my love for my boys. I hate most pets but dogs) has a "mommy" in Cannon. Cannon now claims he's also ready also for piano lessons, but I'm not.

Elizabeth is getting bigger and sassier. Still no girlish mannerisms that I can detect--a mixed blessing. She has a distaste for dolls, ponies, pigtails, bows, princess toys and (thank goodness) high drama. She likes saying "gimme some"to her brothers, punching fists and saying "boom"--guess she's ready for a frat or something. She also likes to jump, dance, toilet paper the house, demand food and make pyramids out of household items. She hates anything (including movies) which might require her to sit still. She absolutely positively loves her brothers,

especially Henry.