Tuesday Confessional

Does anyone else have the problem of trying to plan significantly more into a day than is humanly possible to complete? I have been working for 8 years to try and be more realistic about how I manage my time and how I plan my days and there is usually at least one day a week that I look at my list of things I'd "like" to get done and feel so paralyzed by how much I have on the list that I don't even know where to start... Today is one of those days.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

This morning I turned on some music and started dancing. Julian looked at me seriously and said "Mommy, why are you jiggling?"

Snow

I got up this morning at 6 AM to go running. However, there is so much snow in our driveway (from last night, over 10") that I got stuck. I have since spent the last 30 minutes shoveling the driveway and I'm only 1/2 way done. I had to come in to care for the kiddos... hopefully I can get the driveway shoveled and the car unstuck before JD has to go to work. I think is the most snow I've seen in Provo in a long time and it's still snowing.

Tuesday Confessional

I get very impatient when I drive. I try really hard not to have road rage; but especially when traffic is bad, people that don't use blinkers, swerve in and out of traffic, and go faster or slower than necessary tick me off so fast.

The funny thing about hobbies

I have always been interested in calligraphy. However, I have never really had the interest and patience necessary to be successful at it. I still do not. I do have the patience and interest to use a digital tablet to capture some awkward calligraphic strokes; clean it up using digital vector imaging software and stylize several glyphs; import those glyphs into 3D modelling software and further clean up the glyphs to produce clean curves; create 3D objects in the modelling software; set up a dozen lights in the modelling software; and rendering the scene for three and a half hours to obtain the lettering displayed above.

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A Few Things I've Realized...

* There hasn't been chocolate milk on our computer screen now for almost a month. I like it.

* I like making Christmas gifts for people. It makes me feel creative and I feel like the gift is more personal because I made it for you. 

* Tennyson is going to be 2 in two and a half months. How did he get so big so fast?

* Julian will be 4 in 3 months. He has started wiping off my kisses already.

* John-David is still my favorite person in the world. When it all seems to be crashing down around me, he is the one who helps me pick up the pieces and put everything back together. And he does it while being understanding, compassionate, loving, patient, and hopeful.

* The boys and I are going to Alaska in February. It's going to be something like -20 in February... I think the boys and I might just freeze. 

* I like waking up early.

* I really like exercising.

* I love being a mother and a wife. I could think of nothing else in this world that I would rather do.

* I can and should make the choice to accept the blessings the Lord has to offer me. I had never thought about blessings in this way. The Lord wants to bless us. He wants to help us. He wants to do what He can to provide for us and guide us. However, we can ignore it. We can walk past the blessing waiting for us. We can second guess the promptings and guidance we receive. When the Lord is stretching forth His hand to bless me, I can and should accept that blessing with gratitude and love and adoration.

What have you realized recently?

Tuesday Confessional

I've decided to start counting calories. I've lost 2 pounds in the last week. I've found though that my biggest weaknesses are cakes and cookies. Most other sweets I can do without. I'm already planning the cake I will make for Christmas day. 

Some pictures of the boys

Tuesday Confessional

Life does not always turn out how you want. And in some situations there is no way to make lemonade out of rotten lemons. Sometimes you just have to sit back and experience it in all of it's horrific glory.