Am I Amelia Bedelia? Or just cursed...

So if you are my friend on FB then you have probably already heard of my drama in my life! And for some odd reason I just feel like Amelia Bedelia (remember her?) and I feel I cant get anything right as of late...

So I have been SO excited to be a stay at home mom and all the adventures that was to hold, BUT I sure wasn't ready for it to downpour like this. As soon as I finished working, my family & I were ALL SO sick. After a few WEEKS I was ready to get on the road. First day heading to Disneyland in our new MOM MOBILE (safe mini van) we got HIT by someone who slammed into the back our the swagger wagon. We were all safe, the kids were extremely upset about missing Disneyland and cried as the van was being towed away. We are just beginning with all this drama since it just happened 5 days ago. But the guy who hit us, has NO insurance so now we get to pay and have NO car in the meantime.

Then with my DADS CAR today I went to the park to have a picnic with my sister. While out of the car for 5 minutes (I left my purse in the car, yes ignoring promptings to NOT do that) and sure enough the car alarm started going off, I bolted to the car only to find my dad's car handle dangling and the purse GONE. Cell phone, wallet, checks, about $500 worth of gift cards (from Christmas and a previous collection), our Disneyland passes, and on and on and on....ALL GONE! Now we have to change our door locks, our car electronic keys (very costly) and all the other fun things along with this.

I have cried a few times this last week and it hasn't been fun. I am just trying to look at the many blessings I have and find out what my Heavenly Father is wanting me to learn from all this, and I am trying to figure it out FAST so I don't have to deal with #3 anytime soon.

It's like In N Out in UT ok...

...so many of my UT family and friends may laugh and think whats the big deal. But I cant tell you how excited I was, last Friday, to go to CAFE RIO in Redlands, CA. Yes I have already been to the ones in Orange County, BUT this is in my back yard...and I was SO PLEASED!

MY FAMILY-- Todd Clan

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
-Jane Howard

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-Theodore Hesburgh

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- Bernard Shaw

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.
-Auguste Napier

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
-Francis Bacon

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-Bernard Shaw

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-Alex Haley

I'm so BACK

So if you follow me on facebook (Heidi Todd Broberg) then you already know that I just quit working. After 9 years with the same company I made the hard decision to quit full-time work to be home with the kids (I MAY eventually work part-time if NEEDED, but hopefully not at all). So this is week 2 of that new adjustment, and besides our whole family being SICK, I am LOVING IT!

We are doing home preschool with Ella, were excited to hang out with family and friends, and LOTS of new adventures. Anyone who is a stay at home mom knows everyday is a new "ADVENTURE"! I'll tell you what, I think it's a lot harder being at home than working, but pays much better(in paying off experiences, that is!).

So stay tuned and follow my blog to get the newest updates and posts and hopefully I can have some fun and interesting things to post!

...this is totally Ned & I...

....so a ton of people have sent this to Ned and I; since we got our SE and have our two kids (boy and girl. I will totally own up...

It all started with a COLD

So a few weeks ago I came down with the seasonal cold. No biggie. So I tried to do what your suppose to do (resting part was a little harder than the OJ, vitamin C, lots of water, washing hands extra, etc.), but figured "aint no thang".

Well 3 WEEKS later I was still sick. My muscles were all so sore from coughing up a lung, congested and missing tons of work and church I just still felt pretty bad! But still was determined NOT to go to the doctors.

My sister in-law Sarah teases me because I hate going to the doctors & try to avoid it at all costs (for a number of reasons, not fear). BUT I HATE:

• paying the ridiculous copays
• waiting in the waiting room for 2 hours, then seeing a doctor for 2 minutes
• having a doctor reiterate what I just told them & could have diagnosed myself

But this time Ned said you NEED to go to the doctor you aren't getting better. So after breathing became a little more difficult I finally called the dr. and asked for an inhaler (Still didn't go in ha ha ha). So got a $50 inhaler which helped but still not better after a few days.

I FINALLY sucked it up and went to URGENT care yesterday. And after paying HUGE copay, waiting for HOURS, a doctor came in and within 2 minutes said I had:

SEVERE infection of BRONCHITIS & a nice looking sinus infection

http://www.medicinenet.com/bronchitis/page2.htm#symptoms

So I had a breathing treatment there in the Dr. office. It was HILARIOUS!!! I am hooked up to a machine, Ella is standing on the patient table behind me "doing" my hair (i.e. pulling it hurting my head), Asher is hanging on my legs playing horsey on the floor, LITERALLY pouring runts (candy) into his mouth. I saw this picture in my head (& wish I had a camera) and started laughing so hard that I then started coughing so uncontrollably hard I couldn't keep the machine on, until a nurse came in to ask if everything was OK, which only made me laugh (& cough) all the harder.

So I was thinking I should have taken up my sweet sister in-law (SARAH's) offer on taking one or both of the kids so I could go in on my own. But considering the kiddos were good the nurses were so nice and told them they were SO good and gave them tons of stickers for being great for me.

So anyway I am just excited to have the medicine I need and hopefully be back up and running 100% after a weekend of rest.

I just know I HATE BEING SICK!

The Todd Girls

*The Todd Girls*

(Hayley Hamilton, April Aleman, Peyton Aleman, Mama Todd, Claire Todd, Sarah Todd, Ella Broberg, Heidi Broberg)

I am THANKFUL...

...for Thanksgiving and the opportunity I have to slow down, spend time with family, and reflect on ALL I am THANKFUL for, because it sure is a LOT!!!!

I TAKE THE CAKE....

....for the worst mom, wife, self award. At least I feel like it. And the reason I haven't blogged in the last FOREVER is because I have been so busy, stressed, tired, sick and booked lately. Not what President Uchtdorf counseled us to do last month, so now I feel guilty on top of all that!!!! Ahhhh...can I not win!

To sum it up quickly I put my notice in at my work and actually (YES, for all you NON-BELIEVERS that thought I would NEVER do it) am quitting my full-time job. So basically I am DONE with that job (AFTER 9 YEARS!!!) I was officially terminated last week, BUT with that being said I am now a broker for our same company and can make my own schedule, but with Open Enrollment here I am working HARDER than I ever have in my life to help sustain us through the next upcoming year of 2011 when I will work only 2 days a MONTH or wont work at all!

So needless to say it has been VERY hard balancing it ALL. And with the kids and myself being sick, it sure doesn't help when we all are a little cranky. So then I read others blogs of all the fun things these SUPER Mom's are doing with their kids and just feel bad. Then I see all the nice things people do for their spouses, and I come home and just crash OR am ready to hand the kids over if I have been home all day with them. Or I feel like I am not doing enough for my job to help us through 2011.

So as I start to get down on myself, I just remind myself of ALL MY MANY BLESSINGS and to have FAITH that all things will work out in the future and we know we are doing the right thing, no matter how hard it is.

SO I will be out of commission the next few months, but I PROMISE a SUPER update after the new year and will be back on the blogging bandwagon. But yes I am still alive and just say a little prayer for me that it stays that way through the end of this next year.

THANKS all my blogging friends!

Peyton's Baby Blessing

We had the wonderful opportunity a few weekends ago to bless my beautiful niece Peyton Jane (April & Wes's baby)...

Here's my family....

the entire crew

the beautiful parents

the boys...

(Josh Bladh, Paul Duncan, Ryan McCook, Ned Broberg (isn't he handsome), Wes Aleman & baby, Fred Aleman, John Todd, Daniel Todd, Patrick Aleman, Andy Moore.