Pack Meeting

I have spent hours and hours on Cub Scouts this month. I'm the Cubmaster. I'm in charge of getting to know all the families, planning pack meeting, being the master of ceremonies, training parents, updating list, presenting the monthly theme, preparing activities and refreshments. It's been a huge deal! I've enjoyed it! I'm just worried that I've been a bit neglectful of my little ones and housework. Hopefully, I can jump off this this ball and onto another one after tonight. I feel I don't do very well when I'm spinning more than my family, workout, homemaking, school, scriptures, and personal grooming plates. When I add more than that things tend to crash and shatter. But Heavenly Father has asked me to be a visiting teacher and a cubmaster, so I will pray for help. I know He will bless me to do whatever He needs me to do.

Bed Day

I've had a dull headache for the last 3 days. Today it got worse, so I went to bed for most of the morning. I feel better now. I'm grateful I could slow down and get feeling better. I read ginger can help headaches, so I took some with my stevia lemonade. About an hour later my headache was gone. I'm grateful I feel so good most of the time. I'm really blessed to be able to take of my family, exercise, and do the things I love even during pregnancy.

Jaremy and I are planning a get away to celebrate my birthday. We are probably going to drive up to Tony Grove and then hike home. We will spend the evening recovering with a nice dinner and a hotel room right here in Logan. Oh, it sounds so nice to me!!! I'm way excited!!! Oh, by the way, the hike is over 24 miles long. I hope I can do it! Hey, why not! I'm only 7 months pregnant!

I'm also excited for General Conference! I pray I can follow the prophet with a willing, faithful heart!

Beautiful Canyons

I love living so close to the mountains. Heavenly Father has created so much beauty! Today we went up on a little hike in the canyon in the rain. It was nice.

Off to the Park

The little kids and I are about to walk to Willow Park and play for a bit. It's so nice to have so many parks.

Jessica is taking Chinese now. We try to learn a bit along with her. It's fun! I hope we get plenty of opportunities to use it in our lives.

Benjamin and Jaremy have a scout camp out tonight. Moroni and Jessica are bringing home friends after school.

I hope I can get the house clean, shower, and sneak away to the temple sometime this evening.
And it would be nice to get the shopping done and my visiting teaching. I also need to make all the meals for today through Sunday. Dream on!

Tomorrow we need to jog 9 miles! Wow! That takes tons of time and we can't really do it as a family with the little kids so we have to break it up and it takes all day. Oh, well! I'll get up early and get a good start on the day.

I'm grateful for all these fun, great things to do. I'm grateful Heavenly Father has blessed me with health and strength to do them.

Somehow

Somehow I need to parent creatively and with lots of love. What I'm doing now isn't working, especially with certain children. I need much more positive interaction with certain children and no negative. I pray for true charity to help me give them confidence and a willingness to do what is expected. I need the Lord's help to give me patience and love. I know He can help remind me not to get irritated by disobedience, lack of cooperation, not paying attention, getting out of bed, bad attitudes about easy assignments, etc. I must look for the good and help it grow.

Crowded Day

I'm already a behind today. I was supposed to go to bed early and get up early and go to the 5:30 am session at the temple.

The house needs some serious attention. I have lots of cubscout stuff to do. I have visiting teaching. Then all the normal stuff and lots more. So we will just do our best and plug along.

I pray Heavenly Father will strength me and help me prioritize in the right way. I'm so grateful He helps me do this and figure out what is most important and what He needs me to do on any given day. If I just turn my day over to Him, He can make more of it than I ever could.

Michele Bachmann

This morning I watched the latest Republican presidential debate. Bachmann was principle driven not circumstance or poll driven. Right is right in all situations. She is for following the constitution not whims. All the other leaders seemed to be wishy-washy in certain circumstances. Bachmann was firm. It doesn't matter if something has been done a certain way for decades; if it isn't constitutional it needs to be reformed. She is one on the main leaders of the conservative Tea Party. I strongly agree with the Tea Party! It's not driven by politics but principles, the founding principles of our great country!

I was hoping to find the same commitment to the constitution from Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, but they seemed weak on fundamental constitutional principles to me. They are great men I'm sure, but I don't think I would vote for either one of them for president.

I'm so grateful for this free country! I'm grateful Heavenly Father has blessed me to live here! I'm so blessed!