Update

I am back in the land of the living.  YAY!!
Yep, am so behind on updates but give me a week or so and we should be back on track.

We have been busy the month of January, a lot due to me catching every sickness floating around, but we are plugging along and getting back into the swing of things. 

The boys in music time each week. We have a play date once a week and also storytime at the library, which the boys really enjoy.  They really do so much better when we are busy.

I still need to get my resolution goals situated and start working on those slowly but surely.  Yep, I am totally behind and that is fine for me!  Life happens when we are busy making other plans right?!

This week my focus has been on dear sweet Lisa, and her having to re map her life. My heart has hurt for her. I have known Lisa all my life but actually my first real conversation I remember having with her was when Noah was born and we went to visit her in the hospital. She is a wonderful woman, an amazing mother and a superb wife to Aaron. At times likes these I fail to see the 'why' in it all, but am ever so thankful for the gospel and the peace it brings to a hurting, grieving, healing heart. I pray for Lisa each day and always have a thought for her in my heart.

A Few Questions

Just had my thinking hat on today....

1. If you were to choose a new profession or select a career, go back to school etc, what would you do?

2. Could you/would you ever run a day care from your home?

3. What is your biggest pet peeve about a loved one (child/husband/parent)?

4. How do you name your children? Lists? Names in a hat? Have to see the child for final decision?

5. Do you ever have reoccuring dreams?

6. If you could live anywhere, perfect circumstances (with job etc), where would you live?

ME...
1. I think about this every now and then, I think about nursing alot. I would like to be a post-partum nurse I think. I met a beautiful girl at MOPS and she is becoming a doula and that sounds like something I would totally be into. Nutrition is also something I am super keen to get into further. I met a great speaker who is a clinical dietician and she has dealt exclusively with late stage cancer patients etc. That would be great too, to see the benefits of good nutrition. I personally would like to do childrens nutrition or elderly nutrition I think.
2. I always thought I would, but I don't think I could do it. Just at this point in my life, I perhaps could take on one child, but think that would be it.
3. I would have to say, when my boys want to be in the kitchen ALL.THE.TIME I forever am saying, "Out of the kitchen boys!"
4. Right from the get go I am thinking names. We never agree and talk the whole pregnancy about names, I have lists gallore, but usually we have it nnarrowed down to 3 or 4 and then there is always a wild card thrown in at the end. We need to see that baby as I have, both times, had a dead set front runner and have not liked it once I saw my boys.
5. I sometimes have this dream about tidal waves. SCARES.THE.POOP.OUT.OF.ME kind of dream. I think it's cause I lived by the beach my whole life pretty much and nearly drowned at a young age? hmmm not sure.
6. Perfect world, we would live 6 months in the USA, 6 months in Australia. Not sure where in those countries, I would say close to the beach in Australia and near the snow in the USA.

How True....

I found this story and it just so rings true and speaks to my heart....

Sometimes we wonder, "why are things so difficult?" or "why/how long do I have to struggle with this particular trial?" Here is a wonderful explanation...

A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong. She feels inadequate as a mother to her young children and wife to her sweet husband; she can't seem to stretch their income; and she doesn't feel like she connects very well with her friends.

Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a piece.
"Absolutely, Mom! I love your cake!"
"Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers.
"Yuck" says her daughter.
"How about a couple of raw eggs?"
"Gross, Mom!"
"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe some baking soda?"
"Mom, those are all yucky!"

To which the Mother replies, "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves, but when they are put together in the right way, and in the right time, they make a wonderful cake!"

Our Heavenly Father works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. He know that when we go through these thing all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will make something wonderful!!

Boy vs Girl

Which is easier to raise....

I read this article today and it made me think of all the times with friends and family where this discussion has come up. Just the other week a girlfriend and I were were getting manis and pedis and the guy doing my nails asked me the same question, do I think boys are harder to raise than girls... It was an interesting conversation considering my friend has 2 girls and I have 2 boys...

It was interesting to read others responses on the site and it begs the question... what do you think?