It's been a LONG day

Gosh today seems like it has gone on forEVER! The boys woke me up at 7:30 this morning and I haven't been back to sleep since. Gosh it's meant to be a day off but you'd think the boys thought it was just another school day wouldn't you! In fact they wont even wake me on a school day!! Not unless they're fighting and half the time I am awake long before they even get out of bed!

I swear the weather is great for ducks! It's been raining non-stop for the past 4 hours. I bet we have a nice little lake out the front. The drain we have near our driveway doesn't clear very well when we have constant rain .. in fact we often end up with stacks of water where we park the car and the 'lake' sometimes covers most of the yard. I wonder how much longer the rain will keep falling .. not that I should complain because we need it really.

We had the missionaries come over again tonight. They're preparing the boys for their baptism. In fact last night I was had some concerns about the boys being baptised at all. Not that I don't want them to be baptised but it was more of do they WANT to be baptised and did they know what it really meant. This afternoon about 2 hours before the missionaries came over Mark & I sat the boys down and we spoke to them about baptism, sacrament and what it means. I also spoke with them about repentance and what it means. I had to make sure that the boys understood that it means to be sincerely sorry for something not just an automatic response of being sorry. I've had major issues with them just saying sorry when I don't think they were being sincere about it. Now where was I ... oh yes the baptism... it went from something I was thinking about for the boys to BAM! It's been organised with a date and all. And not once were the boys asked if it was something that they wanted to do or not. SO I asked them and they said yes it was something they wish to do. So that was a relief because I was all ready to say STOP everything if they had said NO!
The boys were learning about the plan of salvation in today's lesson. The missionaries made it so much fun for the boys. I had spoken to the boys briefly about the plan of salvation when we had our chat about baptism. The boys really surprised me with the amount of information they remembered from our little talk. I honestly didn't think they had been paying attention very well. The missionaries made the discussion into a game which involved food (chocolate to be more precise) the boys were hooked. I don't think it was because the game was fun it was more the fact that there was food involved!!
Afterwards the big fella said it was the most fun he had had learning about anything to do with Church. So it must've been a big hit!!

Diva mentioned to me that the boys may play up a little now that a baptism date has been decided on. That they may tell more fibs etc .. well I think they have in fact they've been rather niggly and mean to one another. I felt sorry for the big fella he got hurt where boys should NOT be hurt at all. The little dude was warned that he would go to bed if he was naughty again tonight.
Well the boys are no angels but they were pushing their luck a little. Not long after dinner they were sent to bed. In fact they were in bed by 7 p.m. I know they were tired because they tend to misbehave more when they are. The little dude must've been exhausted because he was fast asleep by 7:30 and the big fella was asleep by 8 p.m. I guess these early mornings were getting to them. Let's hope that they have a great sleep tonight and they will be just wonderful tomorrow morning. (One can only hope!!)

Here it is not even 9 p.m. and I'm the only one up, even Mark has gone to bed. There is nothing on tv to watch. I can't be bothered knitting ~ it makes my right arm ache and my left hand sore. I've even taken some nurofen like the GP said but today I don't think it's made much of a difference. I'm debating whether to go watch some tv, put on a video/dvd, make something with PSP or even just got to bed and read. Maybe I'll just sit here at the computer and play games until I feel tired ... hmm playing a game sounds like the only thing I am capable of doing right now ..