My Young Women Leaders NEVER Said There Would Be Days Like This!

Ok, to start, I have a big complaint to blogger.  WHY???  Why did you have to change the setup and design, just when I finally got it figured out and was able to use it, so now I can't figure out how it works and I wanted to change my picture, but when I tried to post a new picture I could either get it itsy bitsy or gynormous! No in between, normal size.  So now I have no picture.  Why??

Today I am hosting Siu's 9th birthday party (birthday is tomorrow) with 11 girls attending.  She wanted a music theme so here is the invitation Anita and I came up with this: and in case you can't read mini it says:
Mamma Mia, it's Siu's 9th Birthday!! So be a  Super Trooper and come help us celebrate! Bring your swimming suit and be ready to Take a Chance and get wet.  Music is the Name of the Game, so be ready to sing some karaoke.  So, Honey, Honey say you'll be there to wish our Dancing Queen a Happy Birthday!
I thought it was quite clever.  Siu hated it.  But, being as how it took us all afternoon to make, that's the invitation we handed out. I'm getting ready to make a music scroll cake (don't ask me, I have NO idea how it's going to turn out!).  Anyway, it's going to be a busy, busy day and the party starts at 1:30.

Back to my YW leaders.  Loved them, thought they were awesome!  But they neglected to explain just what would happen AFTER I got married in the temple to the returned missionary of my choice, had some kids, got a house and proceeded to live happily ever after.  They did not say, for instance, that no one in the family (except me) will be able to find a trash can.  No matter how many I put in each room!  And if, by some miracle, they do and that trash can has a lid, they will put the trash ON TOP of the lid!  They did not let me know that after spending hours in the kitchen making a delicious meal, my little darlings would then say, "Yuck, is that's what's for dinner?  Can I have cereal?"  They did not tell me that laundry multiplies exponentially with the each child you add to your family and that the family's ability to get it to the laundry room decreases exponentially.  They did not let me in on the little secret that the sure fire way to get my kids to want to go to bed is to say that it's time to read scriptures.  Suddenly, active, perfectly lively kids the second before turn into semi comatose slugs who are soooooo tired that, "Can't we read tomorrow?"  Insert the whine here.  That's just a sampling.  Now, granted, these are not major problems, but like a rock can be worn away by water continually dripping on it, I'm being worn down by all the nonsense.  They also didn't tell me how to handle having 3 teenagers at the same time.  They didn't give me the secret to make sure that everyone gets the love, attention, teaching, discipline, and training that they need so they can be righteous, happy, successful, contributing members of society.  But in their defense, I will give them this.  They taught me that prayer works.  They taught me that I am a daughter of my Heavenly Father who loves me.  They taught me that one of my greatest tools is the scriptures.  They taught me that you can be happy, smile, and even laugh once in awhile while you are living your "happily ever after".  Even it sometimes seems like the "Nightmare on Bree St".  So I guess I can forgive them for not telling me the whole story.  They might have scared me away  if they had!