Daily Reflections

 It's Friday!  Hooray! Last night was rough.  I cried myself to sleep.  I was so upset.  I couldn't stop crying.  I prayed and prayed and begged Heavenly Father to please send the Holy Ghost to me to provide me with some peace and comfort.  Part of me just wanted my Mom...but I knew that she couldn't be there for me.  I knew that the Holy Ghost was who I needed.  Within a few minutes, a sense of peace washed over me.  I was calm.  I was able to fall asleep.  I had received an answer to my prayer. Being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and having access to a member of the Godhead, The Holy Ghost, at all times is one of the greatest blessings of my life. Jon and I were able to join the Missionaries today (over the phone) as they taught an investigator, Morgana.  This was my 3rd or 4th time joining in on a discussion with this investigator.  She doesn't quite understand how there can be one tru...

 I had another off day today. Maybe I need medication. I don't know. I was doing fine yesterday until after the kids went to bed.  And then Jon started talking about his parents and grandma moving in and I got that same familiar uncomfortable knot in my stomach and I shut down again.  I just can't do it.  I just can't think about them moving in.  I don't know why it is getting to me so badly.  I feel like the most selfish person in the world.  I know that I would feel 100 percent better about the situation if we had a bedroom for them to move into.  But we don't...and I think that is causing the stress.  The fact that they will be camping out in our living room for 6 plus months is really getting to me.  They will have no privacy, nor will we.  Our house that already feels crowded due to the pandemic and homeschooling and Jon working from home and having church from home and not being able to ever escape this space...will be even mo...

 I didn't take any pictures today.  Can you believe it?  I did a lot of thinking today though. I was remembering about how when I was growing up and my Dad would come up to me after working outside.  He would be dripping with sweat and he smelled really bad.  He would approach me with his arms wide open and say, "If you love me, then you would give me a big hug right now."  He was partly joking, but also serious.  What?  Even with his clothes that were drenched in sweat?  Even with his glistening skin and smelly aroma?  Yes.  Of course, I loved my Dad. Growing up, he was everything to me.  He was my stability.  He was always there for me.  Always.  I could call him at work whenever I wanted.  He would always pick up the phone.  He always knew the answers to everything.  I loved him.  I would do anything for him.  Even something gross like hugging him in his disgusting condition.  You...

How do I feel better?  Go to a Girl's night!  It was exactly what I needed!  I spent 3 hours talking with a few friends on a back patio.  I feel so happy now.  Sometimes all that I need is to get away from my family for a few hours to recharge.  I feel like a new woman.  I can do this! Bath time!  Caitlyn is loving this new activity that we do.  Writing on the windows! Lizzie had to start her testing today! William loved his stickers today!  I'm so sad that he is growing out of his baby face.  He is getting taller and leaner and starting to look like a real boy.

 I saw this quote today and wanted to post it here: "The same God that placed that star in a precise orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem in celebration of the birth of the Babe has given at least equal attention to placement of each of us in precise human orbits so that we may, if we will, illuminate the landscape of our individual lives, so that our light may not only lead others but warm them as well." Elder Neal A. Maxwell I have read this quote before and I have always liked it.  It makes me think of all of the wonderful people whom I've been able to meet in my life and who have had profound influences on me.  I don't believe in coincidences.  I believe that God knew exactly who I would need in my life.  He placed specific people in my life at the precise time that I needed them.  Sometimes they stayed a while, other times they went their own ways.  Yet they left their footprints in my heart and they will never be forgotten.  It'...

 Elizabeth Over, Age 13 "Hola, amigos.  Welcome to the Sunday Special.  (Theme song plays, happily).  This week we finished Avatar. What else did we do?  I went to a friends night.  I went to Anna's house.  I went to an organ night at the Stake Center and I played the organ.  We went shopping and we got ice cream.  We painted prayer rocks for mutual.  Me and Caitlyn started making a Lego video series.  The boys used all of the Legos almost.  The lego bucket is almost empty.  That about wraps this week up." Bryce Over, Age 10 "I made a book, 32 pages long and it's hard cover.  The book is about a dream in a book or something like that.  I'm about to turn 11 in one week and 2 days.  I am excited about it.  I think I'm going to get a Lego set for my birthday.  I talked about Jonah and the Whale today for my talk.  I learned to not run away from God.  We started school.  It is boring bec...