*Free slurpees at 7-11. Perfectly refreshing and perfectly sized. Loved it.
*Digging in the dirt. Getting weeds and grass by the roots. Working so hard and getting results. I feel I don't have control over so much of my life. Learning to worry only about today and not the future is very difficult for me. But weeding. I can control the weeds. I can dig and dig and work and work until the ground is beautiful again. I liked that today. I also liked that I did it early so it was only 85 instead of 100 degrees.
*Saying yes to my kids. I wasn't nearly the ogre I have been. It felt nice. I really should do it more often.
*Realizing that in only two short days I get to see Baby Cole on ultrasound again and hopefully get some more info. I dream about getting some solid information...but I know it's just that...dreaming....refer back to joyful moment #2 for my control issues.
*laying down and resting in the afternoon. And well, let's be honest, in the morning too. I am grateful though that I don't have guilt associated with it anymore. Here's how my day goes, I get up read (some days I happen to sleep through that part...), make breakfast, eat breakfast, some lucky days pack husbando a lunch, morning prayers, and then I'm completely exhausted and lay back down for about 30 -40 minutes. My kiddos are so fantastic. They either come in and lay with me or play by themselves. I am so lucky. Get back up do some chores, errands, story reading, outside time, make lunch, eat lunch, read Emily a book, set Wii timer for boys, drag myself back to my room, lay down for another hour to an hour and a half. Get up play, make dinner, eat dinner, clean up (sometimes), baths, scriptures, medicine, story time, prayers, bedtime. For all of us. Klint and I usually spend the rest of night in bed chatting, or watching a movie. I love him. I love that he encourages me to take it easy and that I never feel that I have to explain myself or my resting schedule. Life is kind of tough right now, but I am oh so blest.
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Finding joy in the moments of motherhood. Daily moments that: *made me SMILE *appreciate the sweet three kids that have been entrusted to me *feel joy in my decision to raise a family and be a stay at home mother *recognize the Lord’s hand in helping me to be successful as a Latter Day Saint woman and mother
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Daily Joyful Moments
Joyful Moments
Because of those "funkish" moments that I experience every once and while, I want to do as Elder Ballard counseled a few years ago and find joy in the moments of motherhood. To help me do that, I am going to try and write four motherly things that either (1) made me smile (2) appreciate the sweet three kids that have been entrusted to me (3) feel joy in my decision to raise a family and be a full time mom (4) recognize the Lords hand in helping me to be successful as a Latter Day Saint woman and mother.
I have to add that my life isn't perfect. I hope that if anyone ever comes across this blog and reads it (which I am doubtful of) and compares themselves to it, or feels guilt or bad about themselves that they'll realize these are the HIGH points of my life, not my every waking moments. I have terrible mothering moments all the time. And that's the problem, that's why I wanted to start this. I feel so much guilt (which I'm trying to only save for sin now) about the things I do wrong or could have done better, or didn't do at all, that it can be crippling on those funkish days. I'm not trying to pretend that my life is perfect or everything is rosy. Opposition in all things right? We have to have the bad to know the good, the sad to know the happy. Don't compare your low points with my high points. Deal?
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