- Friday was birthday tables for March birthdays. How nice that Sarah would watch our kids so that Nate and I could both go and have it just be the three of us! Charity bounced into the room with a big smile on her face. She just lights up my life so much. I love her energy. She just couldn't make me more proud. We had a nice lunch and kissed goodbye. I love birthday tables. It's just such a fun little opportunity. I love having that time. 3-18-11
- Sunday we finally gave our talks that we've been preparing for the last 3 weeks! I've never had that much time to prepare a talk and it helped a lot with finding information, but then I had too much information to really condense it to a short enough talk. It felt a little too condensed by the time I got done with it. I think it went well, but I always wish I could redo it. I left out a lot of things that I wish I hadn't. Nate did an AWESOME job as always. He's just amazing. I don't know how he keeps himself so composed and with it. I love it though. Ends the meeting on a high note I guess. All of a sudden today, I keep thinking of things I should have added to my talk.... Nate says that's normal. I guess I need to just lay off it and think about something else. 3-20-11
- Monday was Charity's big Dentist appointment. She was SO nervous!!! It was so sad! I feel kind of bad that I passed on the valium they offered to have me give her before coming. I just don't like drugging my kids. I think it probably woul have helped her though. Though now we can say, "She did it!" It was also a day off from school. Kind of a lame one. We didn't do anything real exciting. I wish we had. But that's that. 3-21-11
- I missed Luke's well child visit for the second time on Tuesday. I'm still beating myself up about it.
- Wednesday night I was feeling really down, kind of frustrated with where I'm at in life right now emotionally and spiritually and just feeling like I'm not meeting my own expectations. I prayed a lot during the day and kept trying to ask for help with it. I kept getting these thoughts that I should be working out daily and that morning might be the best time for that even though I am horrible at waking up. That just seemed crazy, so I decided to just ask for a Priesthood blessing. Nate was so sweet to sit and talk to me for at least an hour while I cried and complained. He's so good to me. Then he gave me a blessing. This blessing was awesome. I felt so rejuvenated afterward and there was just so much guidance and helpful advice from my Heavenly Father. It was incredible. In my blessing Heavenly Father told me I need to get up before the kids in the morning. And that that would really help them and me with things. I decided to take this a step further, and decided I am going to start waking up at 5:00 (this is HUGE for me, I usually sleep in til 7:30ish, as embarrassing as that is, probably a habit I started with all my pregnancies) and go to the gym and work out for an hour. This way I get home by 6:30, about a half hour before the kids wake up and I'm all refreshed, and they have a happy mom to wake up to. It was really neat to have it work out on Thursday. I couldn't believe how easy it was to get out of bed! Heavenly Father had to pretty much drag me out of bed though :). Then Friday too. I really loved it! I snuggled with my 2 littlest when they woke up, had a nice breakfast made for the big kids when they woke up. I had plenty of time to bathe the littles and get them dressed before it was time to take the big ones to school. I was happier, we had nice music going all morning, everyone seemed a little more cheerful. Luke asked me, "Why are you awake and Dad is asleep?" When he got up :) It was adorable!! This has been monumental though, and I hope to keep it up. This was probably THE toughest weekend to start something like this, so I know that if I was able to do it this weekend, then surely I can keep it up. I do think I am going to shake things up a big on Saturdays and go to the temple instead, but we'll see how that goes! I love it!! I love that Heavenly Father answered my prayers before the blessing, but then didn't stop and aswered with more during it. Helps me to see that I am actually hearing the promptings of the Spirit, I just need to have more faith in that ability. 3-23-11
- Friday was a fun day, we went to Discovery Gateway just for fun after the kids got home from school. It's funny how much Charity and Kelly have grown since we had our membership two years ago. They really don't enjoy it as much as they did then. Erika had a personal escort through the whole place. Kelly made it so much fun for her. I love that she would give up finding fun for herself and do what Erika loves. Although, I do think that being with Erika is one of the things that Kelly loves too :). The boys were out of sight almost the whole time. I really need to get Noah one of those little cars to drive on at home, he loves those there. Luke has a little difficulty playing pretend.... he always has. And when he does, he looks like he's like compromising his standards or something :) Or stooping to a level that's just so below himself. It cracks me up. And he doesn't like it when we look at him while he's pretending :) Brad seemed entertained, for the most part, but he's just getting bigger too! He loved the construction area this time. The little boys there were all bowing down to the mighty Brad (it seemed like it anyway), he's just so big! It was a lot of fun. I just sat there. :) Oh, my favorite thing there was when Luke went to the bathroom and almost left the door open! HA! Funny boy. 3-25-11
- Saturday was a total bum around day. Thanks to Nate the house stayed mostly under control while I napped and sat around. I started feeling sick on Thursday and then I looked a the calendar and realized what time of the month it is..... I have wanted to die ever since. I know I keep talking about this, but it's UNBEARABLE!!!!! And feels like it's way more often than it should be. I was actually 2 days early this tim which is a total rip off. Just sayin. 3-26-11
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