So, lately, Juliana has been mixing up her pronouns substituting “yours” for you and “mine” for me. And last night she learned that her “Heavenly Father loves mine”.

It started with a little self-induced constipation – Juliana has been hesitant to use the toilet when it comes to #2. She tends to hold it until naptime or bedtime when she is in a diaper but then finds it difficult to pass (a little TMI, I’m sure). Last night before bedtime, she’d been wincing a bit so we put her in a diaper and prepared her for bed. As she and I were saying her bedtime prayers, she began to wince so I suggested that we ask Heavenly Father to help her feel better. After we said “amen”, she turned to me and said “Heavenly Father is going to help me go poo poo.” I chuckled a silent laugh. kissed her, and said “yes” and “goodnight”.

About 15 minutes later, I heard her crying in her bed and went to her. I placed her on the potty, and we began reading a book (Great Grandma’s method and our latest approach to potty training). Just a minute later, we had success. And as I returned her to her bed, she said “Heavenly Father helped mine”. I said “Yes, Heavenly Father helped you because he loves you” and we said a thankful prayer. Before she laid down, she said over and over pointing at herself “Heavenly Father loves mine.”

I’m not sure she fully understands the concept of our Heavenly Father, but she knows He loves her nonetheless. I love our sweet child.

Ok, so Jason and I decided this morning to start a new feature on our blog, “Juliana Says…” to record some of the funny things she says. A few weeks ago, she awoke one morning to tell me “I don’t want to go to the Promised Land, Mommy.” Not sure why she didn’t want to go, but obviously, her Book of Mormon bedtime story stuck with her.

And this morning, we woke to hear Juliana over her monitor scolding the chirping bird outside her window. “You stop it, Birdy! ‘Nana (Juliana) is sleeping, Birdy!”

Tried to order, but they stopped me.

Can never catch a break…

Credit to Mike

Outlet in the shower?   Toilet paper holder IN the shower!!

When the power company told its crew to run electricity to this house, I’m sure they didn’t mean to just stick all the wires through a hole in the roof!

Pretty safe isn’t it? I mean the hot lead is at least a quarter inch from a metal oil pipe and it is almost 48 inches off the ground so children won’t touch it…

Yes- go ahead and connect the dryer vent to the water heater flue.

WTF?

The county inspector had JUST signed off on it. Said it was “all he could do since it was a remodel”.

If you can’t bend metal conduit, just use a few extra junction boxes!

You know you’re a redneck HVAC tech when you use a chew can for a junction box.

When you do not have an outlet box, use a Nike box…Just do it!

Main load, acetone, grits, and tool storage panel.

“Screw that I-beam- just cut it. That is the framer’s problem.”

Instead of flashing the penetrations, install buckets with pipes under the drips.

…..shower and ceiling fan in master bath….”
Hmm…where does the wire go and how much glue did he use to stick that thing there?

The ad listed the house with a “whole house attic fan”. Professionally installed no doubt.

If you can vent ONE bathroom exhaust then you certainly vent THREE!

“I paid an electrician to do it”

“Yeah- it said to use 4- 1/2″ bolts. I think these nails out of my nail gun will do.”

“Flashing!? We don’t need no stinking flashing!”

“Look- I had 18″ of pipe and this bag of couplers.”

I think this goes to a ceiling fan mounted on the ceiling of a bathroom on the other side of this wall. Maybe.

Supply air, meet return air.

Be careful out there!

But I did…A Lot.