Imagining Help

I am grateful for.

Being able to help my kids with their homework.

Having a little girl who sings and imagines.

Self-Reliance and Songs

I am grateful for:
1.  My self reliance class about starting education in the home.  It has given me some great ideas, now I just need to implement them.

2.  Children that sing.  I love hearing popular, primary, and pretend songs coming from my children.

It's hard

It has been hard to write two things each day, not because it is hard to find things to be grateful for , but because I am not on the computer, and simply forget.
So today I am grateful for:
1.  Faith in God program.  I love being surrounded by young people who are full of excitement.
2.  Material.  I have so much of it and since we are looking to move I am sewing and sewing and enjoying it.

New Start, Again

Well I am failing at keeping this blog up to date, but I'm not failing at everything so I guess that's good.  So what am I grateful for today. . .
1.  Sisters who will discuss what they learn in lessons.
2.  Hugs from Children.
3.  Kyle doing the dishes and caring about how I feel.

Better once a week or two weeks than once a year?!?

I am grateful for...
1.  Bath time that settles kids down
2.  Freya and Wendy playing so nicely together
3.  An almost all the way clean kitchen

Mommy

One every couple of weeks is better than over a year, right?

Today I am thankful for...
1.  A mom.
2.  Moments when my children actually talk to me.

Over a Year but I'm back!

It has been along time since I last posted.  I have thought about it numerous times, but never took the time to write.  I think that I need to focus more on my blessings.  The little ones that come daily.  I am hoping this will help with the anxiety I feel, the impatience I experience with kids, and the doldrums.  So today I am thankful for:
1.  A new baby on the way.  I am due with baby #5 February 28th.
2.  Wendy and Hyrum playing well together today.
3.  Zachary and Eric both reporting that they enjoy school.

Family

I am thankful for:
1.  My children helping me fold the laundry.
2.  Kyle being willing to stay home from work with sick children yesterday while I was at the Bishop's Storehouse.

Babies

1.  Hyrum boy, who is learning to walk
2.  Wendy girl, who likes to pretend she is a baby when she wants her binkie out of bed
3.  Zachary and Eric who are far from the little babies I once had but will always be my little ones.

Back at it

Well after a wonderful Christmas holiday, we went to Idaho and Utah from December 19- January 3.  Hopefully after a couple of weeks back I am back in the swing of things and will try to post more frequently.  So why did I decide to start today?
1.  Today is a day that my kids have behaved, played with each other, listened, smiled, interacted with me in humorous ways, all of this adds up to one thing.

 Today I am grateful and love being a mother!

Positive

I am grateful for
1.  positive people, thoughts, and children.  I love it when someone says something nice about someone or something, when I have such a thought, and when my children share such thoughts.
2.  Kyle is getting better (in my opinion) in social situations.

Meals

I am grateful for
1.  A wonderful dinner last night.  Not the meal itself, but the interaction of my children and the lack of opportunities for frustration.
2.  The opportunity to eat with Zachary at school.  It is fun to see him there and to have all the children together.

Love

I am grateful for:
1.  The love I feel for my children.  It amazes me how much I love them and want them to succeed.  It also amazes me at how much their behavior, though it may disappoint me, does not change the extent of my love.
2.  The Christmas devotional, particularly the song.

Riding & Reading

I have been delinquent in keeping this up, and it seems ironic that it is at the time of year when many people strive to remember and list what they are thankful for.  Well, I will try to do better.
Today I am thankful for:
1.  A vehicle that works well and is able to deliver my children, husband, and I safely to the desired destination.
2.  Reading, I know that this has been listed many times, but I am grateful for the ability and seeing it develop in my children.

1. Healthy 2. Happy 3. Inspiration

I am grateful for:
1.  Healthy kids
2.  A happy husband
3.  President Uchtdorf's ability to reach me through his talks

Sweet!

I am grateful for:
1.  Children who let me take their pictures today.
2.  Cinnamon Bites from Krystal's

Rain

I am grateful for rain
1.  The kids had a great time playing in it.
2.  The sound and smell
3.  I mowed the lawn before it started.

Content

I am grateful for
1.  Being part of a new relief society presidency
2.  Smiles and laughs from all my kids
3.  Moments when I just burst with love

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies received in the past few days
1.  A neighbor, Carla Hayes, willing to pick up Zachary from school.
2.  Kyle not having to work quite as much.
3.  Catching Mandy at home, or coming home.
4.  the kids keeping the house semi-clean.
5.  Hyrum getting back to his sleeping through the night schedule.

The 3 B's

I am grateful for. . .
1.  bikes, the kids had a great time on theirs tonight.
2.  books, the kids (even Zachary) can be entertained by a good book.
3.  beauty, that which the Lord has created and the beauty I see in my children.