Time is Precious

Yesterday was the funeral of Natalie Zobell, Stephanie's only sister. Stephanie was a pillar of strength, grace, poise, confidence, testimony of the gospel, articulate, and looked absolutly beautiful as she spoke about her sister. I've always been proud to be related to her, but yesterday, I was proud to call such a wonderful person my sister. My heart has been breaking the past couple weeks for her family and for her 4 young kids and husband. I think that's what makes this so hard. I cried the entire funeral, so I can't even imagine what the family is going through.  It was a real testimony builder to hear her family testify of the plan. Isn't it funny how you can feel peace and perspective and the same time as sorrow and grief? This one has really hit me, I've been feeling extremely grateful for the chance to be a mom, and to be at home with them everyday. To have a loving husband who supports me being at home, who is patient and loves being with our kids. It is a real wake up call that our time is precious-how are we going to use that time? What matters most? Does this really matter?

Tyler said himself yesterday, that is time to move on, press forward, live life. I guess everything is the samo samo around here. We had battle of the homework this week with Will, poor kid, it's hard getting your homework done. What could take 5 minutes, took a painful hour. We had piano, playing at the park, Beth was here one day. We missed our Daddy a lot this week. He went hunting for 3 days, went to work early for the rest of the week. Today is Sunday and we might actually see him (inbetween my meetings, and church stuff). I'm looking forward to Spring Break-no school, no piano lessons, no cleaning houses and Davy has a few days off at the end of the week. We are going camping, which isn't that fun for the mom packing, cooking, and cleaning the whole time. But-I do it because it's a memory with the family.

We got Allie signed up for preschool in the fall-I'm sad but happy. Happy she'll keep busy, sad because she's is growing up and she's my angel. She got to have a sleepover at Annie's with Grace too-Kasey said they played ponies and giggled the whole time-so much fun. We love having so many cousins around. Aunt Kristen and Kim took the kids to a play, so fun, they are so spoiled! Mom and Dad took us to the dollar movies the same day-wow, lucky are we! Kristen also took Holly on her birthday outing to the pony show! Speaking of ponies, Kelli has one now, it's hilarious for me, not so much for her, but I think it's so fun and funny. Holly is potty training, it's a nightmare every day of my life-she can seem to get the poop in the potty-and she's very regular. But, we press forward in hopes of having a diaper free home. YW is busy, teenagers are hard, women are sensitive and get hurt feelings. It's always so busy, the YW are extremley hard to get to things, and some are hard to connect with. Parents are very senstive about their kids, and people get offended about things I wouldn't even think should be offending. But, the blessings are there through wonderful people who serve and love me, and the blessing will be there through eternity. This semester has been so much less stress for me as compared to last. The one missing piece is soccer-Will doesn't have it. Davy doesn't understand why we can't sign him up for more, but for me it's been awesome! I've actually spent a little time with the kids lately-so much more valuable than soccer twice a week.

I've been working of writing Grandpa Warren's history. It's been a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. I've learned so much about him and my Dad's family! It's been fun getting to talk to relatives more often toon. I actually wish I had more time to sit down and get it done faster! Trying to finish before Grandma or Uncle Wayne dies ya know.