This is probably going to make me sound horrible, but I still have to write about this. On Thursday, for my book club, we all spent a little time before cleaning up the house a little. Nate had asked Charity to "help" Erika with the bathroom because we wanted it to be nice if someone needed to use it. They seemed to be working hard in there so I didn't think much of it. Then about 5 minutes before everyone was supposed to come I glanced in the bathroom before heading downstairs and realized that it was not even remotely clean!! I was ticked, went in and tried to do a quick clean up. Wasn't really worth it because it needed more than a quick clean up. (I learned later that Erika had painstakingly cleaned out the toothbrush/toothpaste drawer which had apparently gotten pretty messy, and coated in toothpaste, so I have to hand it to her there- I only wish that hadn't been the focus on this particular cleaning :). She usually does a really great job on the bathroom) So with no time to spare, I quickly said a desperate prayer, "Please don't let anyone have to use the bathroom!!" Seemed like a strange thing to pray for and I knew I'd gotten myself into that mess by not taking care of it earlier in the day, but it was worth a try :). So anyway. We had book club, everything went great, I was surprisingly not embarrassed by my house, and it was really fun. Near the end, Debbie got up and said, "Well, I'm going to go. I need to use the bathroom and I need to...." (I"m not sure what else she had to do) I mostly went into panic mode worrying that she was going to use mine. I didn't even offer it!! I was unsure whether she meant that she was going to go home to use the bathroom or what, but I wasn't about to offer mine to her!! Horrible, I know. But she ended up leaving right then. It was SUCH an answer to my prayer!! I was SO glad and thanked Heavenly Father after everyone left because nobody had needed to use the bathroom. What a blessing. 4-9-15
I had dozed off on the couch the other day and was startled awake at one point. Erika had been at Kate's house and Jack was just watching TV with Nate, but I looked over and saw that Nate was asleep too. This is one of the few times in my life I've felt the Spirit kind of jerk me up and into action. Because I wasn't truly worried enough, I knew Jack would be close. Much to my surprise, he had gone out the front door and was walking back toward our house, from the direction of Kate's house. He was calling for "Gaka" and was pretty sad. I think he had tried to find her. It was so sad! He was really depressed about it for quite a while. I kept asking him where his smile was and he would sadly respond with, "Gaka". He loves her so much!! Anyway, I was so grateful that I'd been jerked off the couch. Who knows what might have happened next. It's not like him to be out in the front alone anyway, much less that far away. Looks like we have a new little boy on our hands. I'm so grateful for the promptings of the Spirit. 4-24-15
I know that we receive all kinds of things as blessings for having so many kids. Maybe this sounds wrong, but I mean well, trust me. We get all kinds of things just handed to us and even cool stuff like tickets to baseball games for free. It's really fun to me that Heavenly Father will bless us with fun things like that and not just the millions of bags of hand-me-downs that are often just left on our porch (priceless, but clothing is not as exciting to some people :) ). I felt Heavenly Father's love at the Bees game when the kids showed up on the jumbotron- He knew how much they wanted that and made it happen. I just feel like we're very privileged. I know it's because of our kids. One more bonus to having "millions of kids". 5-6-15
Friday night, I was starting to second guess the whole Bryce canyon idea. My dad had called and said we didn't need to "feel like we HAD to come" and gave me the go ahead to stay home, and this triggered something in me. I had been happy to support him and wanted to be there, but I was dreading the tiredness I was going to feel. So I started to pray about it. I asked Heavenly Father to let something happen that would give us the excuse to not go. Nothing big, just something bad enough that we would have to stay home. I had totally expected Him to do something to get me out of it. Then as a side note, I decided to say, "OR if you WANT me to go to Bryce canyon, then please help me to change my attitude about it." So this way I knew I wasn't asking for something I shouldn't have. Well, about two minutes later I got a reply text from Steve, telling me that he was there, and that he was going to be there Saturday with us. I immediately smiled (which is saying a lot). It totally lightened my load to know that Steve was going to be there. I'm still not sure why this was such a big deal to me. But it was then that I realized, we really needed to go. I had no idea why (Still don't), but for whatever reason- Heavenly Father wanted us to. So I changed my attitude, and we were able to make it through the whole trip. What a blessing that was. It helped me out so much the whole time to know that this was what Heavenly Father had wanted for us. Faith can carry me pretty far. 5-8-13
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