Some new websites and a book!
Okies, due to my thinking that no one would post here anymore, I started up stevenrushing.com. Â You can check it out over there or not, up to you. Â I will probably start crossposting, or maybe I will leave personal stuff over there and family stuff over here, not sure yet.
Also, more importantly, I created NormanRushing.com. Â Head over there right now and buy his book. Â Norm is my wonderful grandfather who taught me all I know of morality. Â He is my hero and the one I would most like to emulate on this earth. Â He wrote a book, more a compilations of stories of people he has known over the years, called “Stories of an Old Country Preacher”. Â I edited it (poorly) and had someone design the cover and inside illustrations and it is all ready for ordering.
Grandpa will never sell millions of books in Borders and such, but it would totally make his day if he sold a hundred, and made his 4$ commission on each one.  =)  So make a wonderful old man’s day, order his book full of inspirational stories over at NormanRushing.com  =)
March 2, 2010
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Education at my expense
Saturday I was given the opportunity to add another thing to my list of ‘things never to do again’
I’d like to say this goes right above ‘Peeing on an electrical fence’
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Since we got the girls our lives have been running at full speed. Sarah wakes up in the morning and gets the girls ready and takes them to school. I get up and goto school, goto work, go home and do homework, Sarah gets off work and picks up the girls and comes home. I do ‘distract the kids’ while Sarah cooks, Sarah cooks, and I do bath and bedtime. Sarah and I get about an hour of exhausted talk about how we are going to join a kool-aid drinking cult… and wondering how the human race has continued on without killing off their offspring… and then Sarah goes to bed and I get back on doing homework. I finish up about midnight to 1 AM and then goto bed to do it all over again. I don’t say this for you pity, but merely for you to understand that life is VERY busy for us, and neither of us really ever get a break.Â
Friday night I suggested to Sarah that she could go have some girl time and hang out with a friend, and I would watch their kids and our kids until they got back. Sarah kind of laughed and told me that it wouldn’t be fair, but thanked me for the offer. I could tell she wanted to, so I texted her friend and arranged the whole thing. The next morning, I told sarah about an hour before her friend was to arrive that I would be watching the kids and Sarah could goto town and do whatever she wanted. She hugged me and I was hero of the morning 
. (I always like being the hero). She gets dressed and her friend drops off their 3 boys. So let me do some math for you:
4Â boys: (26, 4, 3, and 2)
2 girls:Â (2, and 1)
About two hours into this experience I was like.. who is the responsible adult here?!! Who is running this show! and I realized… that it was supposed to be me. 
I realize now that I desperately need a 4 year old. Her oldest was amazingly helpful. I would tell him to watch the baby for me while I went to the restroom.. and he seriously gave me updates every 5 seconds about what that baby was doing. “She getting up… she’s putting something in her mouth”… “Okay I took it away from her”.. Â
Another funny thing was that our 1 year old would follow at her pace behind the other 4. So all 4 would go running down the hall and then the baby would crawl after them. ABout the time that the baby got to where they were… the rest of them came running by her in the opposite direction. Did she cry? Nope.. She just looked up at me with those brown, knowing  eyes and said “Slow and steady wins the race…” Or it could have been: “Hey, Taxi, what’s wrong with you… pick me up and follow those kids!” I always get those two confused…
So after 3 hours I decided we needed a snack.. and a little nap.. So when I woke up an hour later the kids were still running around and the house was on fire!                    Just kidding . So I gave them all PB & J and laid them down in each room. One was in my bed, Our oldest was in her bed, The baby was asleep in the computer room, and the middle child of their family was in the bed in the computer room, and their youngest was on the couch in the living room. I walked into the kitchen and waited for all the screaming to stop… I gave a big sigh of relief and decided to go have some me time.. until I realized that EVERY room in the house had a kid in it.. and there was nowhere I could go.  *sigh*
I broke out my new blue tooth and called some friends.. walked around the kitchen and stepped outside for some fresh air.  I changed about 5 diapers.. which is much better than 20… and when the womenfolk got home.. I pretended it was the easiest thing I’d ever done..Â
I was able to come out of it with my sanity in tact, but I was probably about an hour away from becoming a super villain!
Phew! close call.. I’d probably look horrible in a helmet with big antlers!
March 1, 2010
Posted in: Jason's Jabber 7 Comments
2 impossibly hard headed people equals the end of Rushing Around
Yeah, so Märia said some things that didn’t even bother Sarah to Sarah, but Jason heard second hand what was said, and got all offended, and deleted all his posts, maybe 2 weeks ago.  I restored all his posts from a backup I made, but lost about 2 days of comments (so if your comments disappeared 2 weeks ago, you know what happened now).  But Jason decided not to post here anymore, and so did Märia, so I guess Rushing Around is dead.
RushingAround.com, Dec 2005 – Feb 2010
February 25, 2010
Posted in: Steven's Lalala 4 Comments
Seporah Conversation # 42
*Daddy walking in a parking lot with Seporah, walking up on a car under a protective car cover
Seporah: Ha Ha Ha Ha *pointing at car
Daddy: Whats so funny?
Seporah: Ha Ha Ha Car is hiding
Daddy: I guess the car is kind of hiding…
Seporah: Ha Ha Ha Seporah smart! Â Seporah see hiding car! Ha Ha Ha
February 24, 2010
Posted in: Seporah Smirks, Steven's Lalala 3 Comments
Steven and I Talk About This All the Time
February 22, 2010
Posted in: Märia's Moments One Comment
AWWWW
Sweetest Valentine's cartoon EVER!
February 17, 2010
Posted in: Sarah Speaks 5 Comments
Bubble Bath In The New Bathtub
February 17, 2010
Posted in: Märia's Moments, Pictures One Comment
Apparently This Baby Had A Really Bad Diaper Rash
February 17, 2010
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Her Bangs Have Yet to Grow Out Correctly
February 17, 2010
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Blood Washes Out Right?
Yesterday the girls were wrestling before going to bed. They were playing and having fun until Felicity bit Seporah’s stomach, hard enough to break skin. Seporah screamed, balled up a fist and hit Felicity in the mouth hard enough to make it bleed, a lot. Felicity screamed. While they were both screaming and bleeding, Steven said I should take a picture so I could show everyone it really was a bloody mess. I thought that was pretty crazy as both of my children were hurt and crying. Plus I was pretty angry that they’d hurt each other. It may have been the first bloody fight, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.
February 11, 2010
Posted in: Märia's Moments One Comment
