"I urge you to examine your life. Determine where you are and what you need to do to be the kind of person you want to be. Create inspiring, noble, and righteous goals that fire your imagination and create excitement in your heart. And then keep your eye on them. Work consistently towards achieving them.
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, “and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”1
In other words, never take your eye off the ball."
(Joseph B. Wirthlin, “Life’s Lessons Learned,” Liahona, May 2007, 45–47)
For many months my goals have focused on getting a young man on a mission, cherishing every moment of memories along the way! Then on the heels of that we sent C to the BSA National Jamboree for three weeks which also required gathering different kinds of clothes than normal, new shoes, camera, so many details! I knew the day I entered those dates on the calendar that last week would not be an easy one! We made it! Now the challenge is, where is the ball?
I attended the temple as I promised J I would on the early session on Wednesday. While there, I was impressed I needed to work on YW Personal Progress, and complete my Wood Badge ticket items. I have been working on both, but that was the direction I was given to focus on. I am pleased to post tonight that I have reached my Wood Badge goals! Yea! Now what goals should I be working towards?
I know, I know, I'm going to have a newborn, and I should focus on that, but today marks still at least a month, possibly still six weeks, and I know full well that time will pass easier if I am engaged and serving!
Today we were running a couple of errands, and little J brought his shoes to the car alright, however they were not matching shoes, but rather from two different pairs, and they were both the same foot! Since his stitches a couple of weeks back, he claims one of those two pair hurt his feet. They are a few months old, and he is growing so quickly, I know I need to take him to get new ones, but that is a constant need it seems! So we were carrying him in and out of the stores, frustrated that he couldn't walk, and so sometimes, he was whining (crying) about having to ride in the shopping cart inside the store. I told him I wouldn't put up with his crying any more as we climbed back into the car. He responded "You cry at church Mom!" Wow. I can't deny that I have done that lately! How do you explain to a three year old why I have been crying at church, and why that is completely different than him crying in the store? Can't! Oh the moments of life! :)
Tomorrow is the YM/YW combined boating activity. We have been asked to provide our boat for the youth. B has been in Missouri for a couple of days. It is late Friday night now, and his plane was delayed hours in Denver for thunderstorms, he hasn't landed yet in Vegas, and still has a two hour drive home after he lands. I pray he will make it safely! Because if our family is all on the boat, we only have room for a couple of extra youth, we traditionally send B and a helper, usually one of our kids who is also in the youth program, to these kinds of activities. However, my own kids really want to play on their own boat! So we determined early on that because the youth are not meeting until 9 a.m., we will go earlier and they can each have a ski before the youth show up. Now with B not getting home until so late, he will need a little rest, so we have the boat ready to go, but we aren't sure we will get to go tomorrow.
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, “and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”1
In other words, never take your eye off the ball."
(Joseph B. Wirthlin, “Life’s Lessons Learned,” Liahona, May 2007, 45–47)
For many months my goals have focused on getting a young man on a mission, cherishing every moment of memories along the way! Then on the heels of that we sent C to the BSA National Jamboree for three weeks which also required gathering different kinds of clothes than normal, new shoes, camera, so many details! I knew the day I entered those dates on the calendar that last week would not be an easy one! We made it! Now the challenge is, where is the ball?
I attended the temple as I promised J I would on the early session on Wednesday. While there, I was impressed I needed to work on YW Personal Progress, and complete my Wood Badge ticket items. I have been working on both, but that was the direction I was given to focus on. I am pleased to post tonight that I have reached my Wood Badge goals! Yea! Now what goals should I be working towards?
I know, I know, I'm going to have a newborn, and I should focus on that, but today marks still at least a month, possibly still six weeks, and I know full well that time will pass easier if I am engaged and serving!
Today we were running a couple of errands, and little J brought his shoes to the car alright, however they were not matching shoes, but rather from two different pairs, and they were both the same foot! Since his stitches a couple of weeks back, he claims one of those two pair hurt his feet. They are a few months old, and he is growing so quickly, I know I need to take him to get new ones, but that is a constant need it seems! So we were carrying him in and out of the stores, frustrated that he couldn't walk, and so sometimes, he was whining (crying) about having to ride in the shopping cart inside the store. I told him I wouldn't put up with his crying any more as we climbed back into the car. He responded "You cry at church Mom!" Wow. I can't deny that I have done that lately! How do you explain to a three year old why I have been crying at church, and why that is completely different than him crying in the store? Can't! Oh the moments of life! :)
Tomorrow is the YM/YW combined boating activity. We have been asked to provide our boat for the youth. B has been in Missouri for a couple of days. It is late Friday night now, and his plane was delayed hours in Denver for thunderstorms, he hasn't landed yet in Vegas, and still has a two hour drive home after he lands. I pray he will make it safely! Because if our family is all on the boat, we only have room for a couple of extra youth, we traditionally send B and a helper, usually one of our kids who is also in the youth program, to these kinds of activities. However, my own kids really want to play on their own boat! So we determined early on that because the youth are not meeting until 9 a.m., we will go earlier and they can each have a ski before the youth show up. Now with B not getting home until so late, he will need a little rest, so we have the boat ready to go, but we aren't sure we will get to go tomorrow.