I'm so behind on everything I want to blog. Hayes is now FOUR and we've been gone having fun for a week and a half. I'm to tired to blog much but wanted to blog this talk from Elder Uchtdorf. I was watching Mormon Messages today and clicked on this one. It isn't an official "Mormon Message" but the talk from Elder Uchtdorf was exactly what I needed today.
Our family has had so much fun the past week and a half visiting out of town family and friends non-stop. But we got home yesterday and Bracken starts going back to school. (classes start Thursday but he has to go to Law Review stuff starting tomorrow). So I'm dreading this week. It's always hard for me to adjust after we've been gone for so long. Fighting the mountains of laundry, trying to get the kids back on a normal sleep schedule, yadda yadda yadda... just dreading the fact that I know I won't be able to juggle everything I want to this week. That I will not be super woman this week (or ever in fact) The house will still not be perfectly clean, I will still not be successful in convincing Hayes to eat vegetables (heck I'm still not successful in getting MYSELF to get all my vegetables), Kamri will throw fits that I will just ignore instead of being able to rein them in. I probably won't get a shower in every day, and I'll mess up on someone's travel arrangements for work, I'm sure Bracken will come home one day with Kamri waiting for him with a poopy diaper instead of a meal all ready on the table and I'll lose my patience with the kids over some very trivial thing.
But it's ok...Heavenly Father still loves me, loves all of us. Even though I'm imperfect and can't juggle everything that I see others juggle (plus more) with ease, and that's okay...
"Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, he loves us Perfectly..."
I'll have to watch this video again tomorrow to remind myself of that truth...
And just in case you haven't watched this video...please do. Amazing.
5 comments:
Thanks Skye! That was just what I needed to hear after a long weekend of single motherhood and now-a Monday. Miss you guys. Wish we could've partied with you.
Skye, You are way too hard on yourself - I remember days just exactly like the ones you describe - complete with poopy diapers and no shower. On the third or fourth day of ponytails, Paul would ask me if I needed to go and get a haircut. Do you think it was his subtle way of saying you don't look so good? Anyway - I love you tons, and appreciate so much what you are doing by staying home and raising such beautiful and amazing children!
Skye I love the things you post they help me so much! Make me think and not beat myself up for a few min at least. Thanks!
Anyway it was so good to see you and good luck getting back to a good schedule. Thoughts are with you always!
Skye, you read my mind, and all the other minds of mothers out there in the world! Why are women so hard on themselves!?! We are amazing!:) By the way..You are amazing:) Thanks for the reminder that our Father in Heaven loves us all! Hope you get the laundry tackled:)
What a great reminder for me-I didn't realize how much I needed this today until just now! BTW, I really don't know how you can be hard on yourself-you're the perfect mother!!
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