I love being a Mom. I love being with these amazing young people day in and day out. I love having projects together with them. I love seeing them flourish in their chosen dreams. I love that we get to work together. Right now Jed is working for us. He is studying to take the LSAT so that he can apply to Law School and begin next fall, but right now he works for us. I love walking in the office to find him and Sam there working together to solve some problem. I love that I get to work at the office and check in there and have a part in what happens there in a small way. Some days it is more demanding than others, but right now, I have not given a lot of time to the office, and I am grateful that we seem to be getting by. All summer I have needed to be beside Stephen as he was totally immovable, he depended on me to move him everyplace. It has been a summer we will never forget!
Tonight I have been up helping Samuel with his CIS 1200 homework. They give many instructions typewritten on tiny lines, and he is to make the changes explained in the Excel sheet in a totally different program. He opens the instructions on half his laptop screen, and the assignment program of Excel or Word on the other half the screen. Together I read the instructions, and he does the actions outlined in the called for instructions. Together we make a great team. I am grateful to work beside him. On one hand I want him to be independent, and on the other, I totally don't feel that I am doing it for him, all I am doing is reading so he doesn't have to jump his eyes constantly from one program to another in tiny font. Tonight we worked through 3 assignments. I am so grateful for him!
Earlier in the evening, I attended the setting apart of the 1st Counselor in the YW's. We met last week, and three of us were set apart last Thursday, but Sister Davis was at a family function, and she didn't make it. I am grateful to be a family that knows that our time together is important so we carve out time together in the morning hours or on the weekends, but we also know that as we put our Father in Heaven first in our lives, then He makes up the difference! It is a test of faith - always, but I am grateful to have great faith in Him!
My goal each evening on this blog is to record the miracles. This summer, at the close of the day I was finally so bushed from carrying charming Stephen everywhere, It was all I could do to put on our night clothes and climb into bed. I hope that we are doing more than that minimum now! He is walking around, attempting to move a little faster each day, and healing! :) Yea! Miracles happen! Bones heal. Hearts can heal. Wounds don't have to last forever! It takes patience, kindness, and time but it can happen!
I love darling Stephen so dearly! He and I have not been apart at all this summer. I am so grateful for the time to be close to him and to bond in ways that we will never forget!
Tonight as we were in the Stake President's office, a challenge was issued by President Harr to determine what we desired to accomplish as a Stake YW Presidency. He talked about what numbers we can "quantify" to see progress. As a Mom, there are seldom quantifiable measures that we can take to show our progress or our efforts succeeding. It was along these same lines I was thinking a couple weeks ago as I returned home alone from attending the Light of the World Garden dedication (amazing) at which Elder Holland spoke, and then I attended the General Women's Conference in the Conference Center. It was a beautiful day. That day I drove clear up and back alone, but needed to be back to support my amazing kids in their Primary Program at 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning. I was determined to make it to that! I did. At a stop along the side of the freeway in the middle of the night, I found myself looking out the window at the beautiful stars. I was thinking about the Spirit I had felt in Women's Conference, and was touched that as a Mom, we can't see the success of our job, but we know it is important. I wondered what would the Big Dipper be if even one of the stars in the dipper just decided that it wasn't going to share it's light? That constallation doesn't have that many stars in it to begin with. If one of the stars in the handle disappeared, it would be hard to hold it. If one of the cup disappeared, we would hardly recognize it at all! I am grateful to be just one little light. but to be One little light! I want to let my light shine in the darkness! I am grateful to have the light of the Gospel in my life! I am grateful to have my light recharged by the Prophets of God over the last two weeks. I am so abundantly grateful for the outpouring of the Spirit! Laus Deo!
Tonight I have been up helping Samuel with his CIS 1200 homework. They give many instructions typewritten on tiny lines, and he is to make the changes explained in the Excel sheet in a totally different program. He opens the instructions on half his laptop screen, and the assignment program of Excel or Word on the other half the screen. Together I read the instructions, and he does the actions outlined in the called for instructions. Together we make a great team. I am grateful to work beside him. On one hand I want him to be independent, and on the other, I totally don't feel that I am doing it for him, all I am doing is reading so he doesn't have to jump his eyes constantly from one program to another in tiny font. Tonight we worked through 3 assignments. I am so grateful for him!
Earlier in the evening, I attended the setting apart of the 1st Counselor in the YW's. We met last week, and three of us were set apart last Thursday, but Sister Davis was at a family function, and she didn't make it. I am grateful to be a family that knows that our time together is important so we carve out time together in the morning hours or on the weekends, but we also know that as we put our Father in Heaven first in our lives, then He makes up the difference! It is a test of faith - always, but I am grateful to have great faith in Him!
My goal each evening on this blog is to record the miracles. This summer, at the close of the day I was finally so bushed from carrying charming Stephen everywhere, It was all I could do to put on our night clothes and climb into bed. I hope that we are doing more than that minimum now! He is walking around, attempting to move a little faster each day, and healing! :) Yea! Miracles happen! Bones heal. Hearts can heal. Wounds don't have to last forever! It takes patience, kindness, and time but it can happen!
I love darling Stephen so dearly! He and I have not been apart at all this summer. I am so grateful for the time to be close to him and to bond in ways that we will never forget!
Tonight as we were in the Stake President's office, a challenge was issued by President Harr to determine what we desired to accomplish as a Stake YW Presidency. He talked about what numbers we can "quantify" to see progress. As a Mom, there are seldom quantifiable measures that we can take to show our progress or our efforts succeeding. It was along these same lines I was thinking a couple weeks ago as I returned home alone from attending the Light of the World Garden dedication (amazing) at which Elder Holland spoke, and then I attended the General Women's Conference in the Conference Center. It was a beautiful day. That day I drove clear up and back alone, but needed to be back to support my amazing kids in their Primary Program at 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning. I was determined to make it to that! I did. At a stop along the side of the freeway in the middle of the night, I found myself looking out the window at the beautiful stars. I was thinking about the Spirit I had felt in Women's Conference, and was touched that as a Mom, we can't see the success of our job, but we know it is important. I wondered what would the Big Dipper be if even one of the stars in the dipper just decided that it wasn't going to share it's light? That constallation doesn't have that many stars in it to begin with. If one of the stars in the handle disappeared, it would be hard to hold it. If one of the cup disappeared, we would hardly recognize it at all! I am grateful to be just one little light. but to be One little light! I want to let my light shine in the darkness! I am grateful to have the light of the Gospel in my life! I am grateful to have my light recharged by the Prophets of God over the last two weeks. I am so abundantly grateful for the outpouring of the Spirit! Laus Deo!