Thoughts

I love this little person. But man, has she ever changed my life. I guess babies are notorious for doing just that.

For instance, right now, this very second, she's sitting on the kitchen table watching Cole eat his lunch. Now she's trying to put her hat in his food. He's telling her "That's a no-no." Of course, she just leaned in to give him a kiss, so I guess he can't complain too much. :)

The kids have started eating at the bar to keep away from her. She's trying to figure out how to get on the bar stools, but that may take a while. Hopefully, anyway.

Last night I was reflecting on these changes and whether or not I'm appreciating this time with her or just recognizing how much harder things are now. And I thought about a talk that President Monson gave last year (he's the president of our church). Some of the things he said in his talk really resonated with me:

This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and non-existent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now.

What great wisdom. He goes on to mention what I'm dealing with specifically:

If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will—to your surprise—miss them profoundly.

I need to print these passages out and stick them on my fridge. I know how much I miss my little boys. I don't want to go back and raise them all over again, but when I look at pictures of them, my heart aches to be with them again. And I wonder if I did everything I could for them. I need to keep that perspective with them now and with Kira.

Hopefully I can do that today. And I'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.

I Actually Won Something! - Part 2

So you know I won a book from PoopandBoogies.blogspot.com! It's called Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000. I've never seen this series of books before, so I'm excited to get introduced to them.

And to top it all off, PoopandBoogies' Bill is going to meet with the author in a couple of weeks and offered to get the book signed for me! How cool is that? I asked if he could have it signed to "The Souths". How fun!

I think I offended him with my last post. :( I was trying to be funny, but I guess when you are as sleep deprived as I've been and have as little adult conversation as I have the past two years, what's funny or not can be very confusing!

I Actually Won Something!

Do you ever read Poop and Boogies? He was having a giveaway

for a new children's book and was giving two of them

away and I won!

Go figure!

He contacted me by commenting on my "Doing Better" post.

But I guess my writing isn't up to snuff, so he just left

this generic comment. :)

Fun, fun.

WILLIAM said...

Hello,
I wanted to let you know that you won the Frankie Pickle book over at Poop and Boogies.

Can you email me at batmeaks @ verizon. net

February 14, 2010 7:10 AM

(Now if I could just win that HGTV 2010

Dream Home!)

Ugh

I should know better than to say things like "I'll take pictures tomorrow." or "I'm feeling better."

Sunday afternoon, after the first hour of church, I started getting a bit woozy. My head was killing me, my throat was killing me, and I was hit by a wave of exhaustion that I couldn't ignore. So Mike took Kira and I home and I slept while she napped.

I also slept after she napped. I slept for four hours. And when I woke up, my throat was on fire.

So back to the doctor I went. I got stronger antibiotics. Monday evening was very difficult. You know the kind of all over body pain that's so bad that your skin hurts to touch? I was just sitting on the couch hoping I wouldn't just die. So now it's Wednesday and I'm not feeling as bad as I was on Monday. My throat is back under control. I'm just dealing with a cold that is trying to get into my chest. Hopefully it's something that the antibiotics that I'm already on can help with.

Probably not, but I can hope!

Good news is that I actually loaded the dishwasher today all by myself. I've been making Mike and the kids do it. I don't know if I'll be up to cooking dinner tonight. (Mike has done it two nights in a row... what a good husband!) It's stroganoff tonight, which is historically his dinner to cook, so maybe he'll have to deal with it again. Poor guy.

I decided against a nap today. I was sure I wanted to take one, but I decided to just stick it out. Hopefully I won't regret that decision in a few hours.

Doing Better

Thanks to amoxicillin and motrin, I was feeling much better by Wednesday evening. I'm not back to normal. I spent the day catching up on cleaning. Everyone else is healthy, so that's really good. Hopefully no one will get it from me.

Mike and Dad worked on getting the old transmission out of our parts Vanagon today. Did you know about our parts Vanagon? Mike bought one a couple of months ago.

And I worked on getting some shelves put up in the hallway and the laundry room. I'm close to being done. Just one more shelf in the laundry room. Kira now has a little shelf for her jackets and things in the hallway. What a cutie! I'll take pictures tomorrow.

Strep

Ugh. I have strep throat. How awful is that?

I woke up Sunday morning with a bit of a sore throat. (Or was it Saturday??? I can't remember!) Anyway. It got a lot worse overnight last night and after seeing little white patches on my tonsils this morning, I decided to go get checked out. Now I'm on anti-biotics and hopefully will feel better soon.

Can someone tell my body that Moms aren't supposed to get sick?