Here I am.
I found that the best way to get friends to call and check up on me is to post only once a week.
I'm doing great! We are caught up in a wonderful feeling of Christmas, so much so that when I woke up to a beautiful white layer of snow covering the frozen ground with a fluffy fog limiting our view of the world that awaited us I was even more cheerful. . . and a little worried about Levi driving his rear wheel drive beast of a car to school.
We have had a couple weeks of sickness spreading it's way to each member of the family but we are all finally over it (for today at least) and we are all productively busy with holiday programs and parties.
The last few nights have found us gathered as a family, snuggling in our blankets in front of the warm glow of the fire and tree as we share a few thoughts and stories. It is the perfect bedtime routine!
I have many thoughts that I have quickly typed when stealing a few minutes to myself but they are unedited, emotional, spiritually personal, full of raw descriptions of fears, joy, laughter, and tears. So for now I have left them in the draft files to be printed for my record and when I can pull enough time together (or an all nighter that doesn't require office work) I will share more with my extended friends and family.
Just know that for now I am submitting voluntarily, quietly and joyfully to my call as a mother, wife and neighbor and doing my best to live fully the life I have right now. For some reason I am touched by short term vision which is leaving me wanting to relish every moment with my kids. Suddenly I see that my time with them is so short and I want to store up as many fun, loving, testimony building memories as I can, both for them and for me.
I have not forgotten all of you . . my support system of family and friends. You are all wonderful and I appreciate you checking up on me! I still love the phone calls that allow me to do the everyday tasks of laundry, diapers and dishes while rejuvenating my spirit through chatter that only women can produce and I still need the refreshing laughter of a night with the Bunco girls. Right now that is sufficient and blogging has been temporarily bumped down the priority list.
Here's a list of the extra's that I've been trying to be on time for among all of the usual kids lessons, school, mutual, callings and work. Somewhere in all of this I still have sewing and crafting to do before Christmas gets here.
Mon 8th: Dinner and FHE with neighbors, take dessert
Tues 9th: Teach scouts, Erika teach dance at Burton Elementary
Wed 10th: Meet Heidi about family pictures, chiropractor
Thur 11th: LeRoy to Mackay for 2 days, Levi to SLC with orchestra, appointment in Idaho Falls
Fri 12th: Pick up Levi from SLC trip, Erika Christmas party with friends
Sat 13th: Erika dance festival, start 12 days of Christmas
Sun 14th: Tithing settlement, Missionaries over for dinner, Levi splits with Missionaries
Mon 15th: Neighborhood FHE at Millers
Tues 16th: recipe group at 12, teach scouts at 4, Mom coming, Levi & Erika orchestra concerts,
Wed 17th: Derek's orchestra concert at 7, Bunco
Thur 18th: Justin's Christmas program at school, Bookgroup
Fri 19th: Shopping with kids
Sat 20th: Our company Christmas dinner
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7 comments:
The funny thing to me is that you only missed a week. You don't have to explain to me not usurping your presious time with bloggin everyday. I believe that our "spare time" is really hard to split between our hobbies, kids included in that and anything else we have to do and that the computer easily sucks that time away without realizing how much.
It's good to hear that you are well and that you are able to enjoy your roll with family and friends in a more direct light.
Happy Holidays! Continue to enjoy them. :)
Busy, busy, busy!
All I have to do is wake up at 0400 hit the gym, be at work by 0630 repeat daily!
Life is simple in the military...just do what you're told when you're told.
By the way I haven't got an invitation to the company Christmas dinner! and here I thought we went way back;)
Sounds like the Christmas holidays. I enjoy it for the most part but unlike you I don't enjoy the snow. I'm glad you like it - especially where you are.
Good luck on keeping up with such a busy schedule. Sometimes I wish I could take John's lack of things to do and put it to good use in helping me finish mine. I wish we could share our busy things and help each other complete them. Oh well - I guess it's all part of the fun.
Merry Christmas!
as always you are busy and happy :) I love reading your blog, no matter how "sporatic" it may be...by the way could you email me more "specifics" on how you do your recipe group? it's something i would like to suggest for my ward...see you wednesday!!
Hey I don't have your address for my Christmas card list. Can I have it?
hollidae@gmail.com
You weren't lying when you said you had so many things to do. But like Kelly, I know you have a hundred and 10 things to do and every now and again the blogging gets bumped down. I am glad that you are able to do so much, but I think we all need a break from the rush and bussle of the day to sit and just breathe... but we as women find it hard to do that with our list of things to do overflowing and things pulling at us all the time. You are amazing though. Don't forget that.
Kimberly I miss you when you don't blog! I know that's totally selfish of me:) Your blog is just so uplifting and refreshing to read :) I'm glad you're back!
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