The Henderson Family Chronicles

In honor of our tenth anniversary this week: Just read this article... I think I disagree with most of it. If the only thing your children see in your marriage is gushy sweet stuff, they'll have no idea what a real marriage is. Real marriage is about disagreeing AND working it out. It's fighting AND forgiving. if all they see is the good they'll be awfully sad and confused when they get married. They'll feel like failures, and like their marriage is doomed because they'll have NO idea that their parents fought and made up, disagreed and accepted, and compromised. I'm not condoning screaming matches in front of the kids, but let them see you frustrated, let them see you work it out. They'll learn how to apologize, they'll learn about healthy relationships. But that's just my two bits. I also believe that the worst marriage advice ever given is to "never go to bed mad". But that's a story for another day.

It's not really important, but because it will be fascinating to look back at later, I record a list of my current favorite songs (with the potential to be added to over the next week or so): Cupid - Daniel Powter Some Nights - Fun. Everybody Talks - Neon Trees Home - Phillip Phillips Ho Hey - The Lumineers The A Team - Ed Sheeran 50 Ways to Say Goodbye - Train Landslide - Any Version: Fleetwood Mac, Dixie Chicks, Glee Does the Journey Seem Long - Mormon Tab Safe and Sound - Taylor Swift It's Time - Imagine Dragons Wanted - Hunter Hayes  (OMGolly, he is such a cute little boy!!!!) Hall of Fame - The Script and Will.i.am  - Watch the Video!!! Feel Again - OneRepublic As Long as You Love Me - Biebs (I know, I know - But listen to the words, especially in the chorus!!!)

Garsh. I don't really know where to begin. You know that this is going to be a killer long post, right? My computer (laptop) has been unusable due to power cord issues. It's old, for a laptop. Like 5 years old. (At the beginning of paragraph 2 of this post, I've already lost power twice, and had to wait for it to restart. By the beginning of paragraph 4 I got sick of it and went and found Andrew's computer.) The laptop downstairs that serves as our "family desktop" is over 6 years old, and the sound card is nearly dead, and the whole thing runs like molasses in January. In a particularly cold year. Andrew was unemployed, and that left us super busy with important things like eating copious amounts of ice cream while watching Man Vs Wild. He was completely unemployed, and we were feeling pretty hopeless until Halloween. He got offered an on-call job at Good Samaritan, a skilled nursing facility (nursing home) that he had worked at before going to Pocatello. H...

I've decided to take my turn to post something. It is now the time of the year where the kids get to dress up and collect massive amounts of sugary temptations that will be more than enough to allow them bounce off the wall and get cavities. We have been trying to encourage them to decide on what they want to dress up as for about 6 weeks now, so that we would have enough time to put together their costumes. Of course, they didn't finally decide until today.  Maren immediately gave me the "I hate Halloween for this exact reason" look. I volunteered to help with the  costume making. To which Maren said, "Thats good, because there is NO way that I would be able to make   Nathan and Emme's costumes all by myself." We spent the morning brainstorming how to make the costumes. Maren then teamed up with her sister to collect needed items, and Nathan and I went out to do some of the same.  Once we got home and Janna and her kids left, we started havin...

I've got the answers! Well, to the game. That's easy, see, because I know me. Believe it or not, when I took the quiz, I got EVERY answer right. However, my husband DID NOT, but it is not because he didn't know. It is because some of the statements were not worded carefully enough. So I will clarify as I go. 1. Cords - TRUE. I just hate them. Every experience I have with cords is a bad one. #1 pet peeve. Let's not talk more about it, steam is building up and is going to start shooting out of my head. 2. I like blue cars the best. Except when I like orange ones better. - TRUE. Navy blue cars are nearly always best. The only good thing to come out of our recent car fiasco is that our jeep is a beautiful navy blue. But sometimes I really really love that spiced pumpkin color - I think they call it Daytona Orange. 3. Travel - FALSE. I hate to travel. especially with kids. I'm kind of a home body, It costs SO much money to create a few memories. I'd rather BU...

I want to blog about something that doesn't start or end with "I hope we don't starve and/or end up in a homeless shelter". I thought about doing the ABC's of Me, but I've done that several times, and I'm not sure that we are ready to see it again.  I Googled around a little for ideas (is that a proper way to use the word Google?), and found the most common thing is "Traditional Blog Tag". I would have to post 5 things you guys don't know about me, and tag 5 of you to do the same on your blog. That sounds kind of lame. A) Sometimes no one reads this thing but me, and I know all about me. B) I don't keep things a secret, and you guys know all about me. C) I'd hate to tag specific people, and then leave them in a writers-block state of mind because they have no idea what 5 things to share that their family and friends don't already know about them. So I'll change it up a little. I'm going to share a list of th...

I like reading back on my old posts. I'm funny! Well, I  think I'm funny. Don't burst my bubble. Andrew has put in applications to a bunch of jobs at the hospital here in town. The three other hospitals in the area have no openings, except for in Labor and Delivery. Not a real good match for my husband. Do YOU want him down there when you have a baby? One of the local nursing homes closed down last month, so a whole bunch of nurses had to find jobs, therefore NONE of the nursing homes in the area are hiring. The was a rare opening at the Site (Idaho National Laboratory) for a nurse, and he applied for that, but we haven't heard anything. He has now been interviewed by the ICU and the ER at the local hospital. The ER interview was just yesterday, and he feels like it went really well. It would be a REALLY great job, and it would be REALLY great for him to get an offer in the next week or so. You know, so he can start getting paychecks BEFORE we run out of food...