great day! (as eric bacon used to say) i’m struggling lately. my emotions are tired. my nerves are shot. oh how I will pray to mother with love & wisdom today. thus far i haven’t succeeded. but… THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE. breathe… smile… all is well… I am calm… all is bright…
I’m trying to appreciate all the sounds that come from my boys (keyword: Trying!). Wow – it overwhelms my senses sometimes. Truman loves to bang things together. He really needs a drum set. Abe really wants to take piano. Max – he found those cool headphone instruments at the Listening Center at the Dinosaur Museum. […]
This is about how happy Eliza has been this week. Saturday = slight fever and lethargic Saturday night = 103 fever & barf all over mom at 3 a.m. Grossest Barf EVER! Sunday = stayed home from church with dad. fever. small barf. Monday = fever subsides. still won’t eat or drink much. no good […]
for after all… unrelated to having a calm voice… but part of our life nonetheless. we have: 3 more sleeps until Jimmy and I head out on an overnight anniversary date. 7 more sleeps until Max’s 5th birthday. 14 more sleeps until Christmas. 21 more sleeps until the new year. wow.
This is exactly how I feel most days. Things are rarely calm around here. Luckily, in cub scouts, we only have 3 wolves so scouts isn’t too bonkers. But tonight after dinner the boys started running around and around and around the kitchen/family room. It reminded me of this picture. Wintertime means boys that bounce […]
My goal today… and wow – today is already a doozy so I’m going to need this LIGHT. Liza was up all night with a fever and barfing. Tru woke and was back in his room by 7 after scratching my hand so badly and refusing to go potty. Sometimes I wonder if my children […]
Watching ZuZu Girl play with the Nativity Blocks is JOY. We’re going to try out some diffused JOY and see how we like it. Making gifts for others is JOY. Hopefully I’ll squeeze some of that in amidst my daily gifts of service to the fam (which hopefully won’t go awry today!)
I’m still not there yet this morning… but I figured it would be better to make efforts instead of staying curled up crying in bed. Some days this mother feels like all of her efforts to help her family go awry. This was not our best morning. But I guess that means it’s only onward […]
today i am working on a few fun christmas projects. today hannah has her research recital. today my dad has eye surgery. happy thoughts for him. today max wants to go to the dinosaur museum. today zuzu slept in. today i feel joy. today i hope my kids don’t fight. today the ornaments might actually […]
Love this music/video. I imagine they went to the Church’s Little Jerusalem in Utah.