Since I got my blog book back and decided how much I love it, I have a renewed desire to be really good about blogging our family moments and my personal thoughts this year. I’m not one for writing in a journal, but I find blogging to be very relaxing. I like putting my thoughts down into words - it’s quite therapeutic. I’ve also stumbled upon other blogs where people share personal trials, feelings about those trials, and spiritual insights they have throughout those trials, and I always feel grateful when people are open and honest about their lives and the fact that none of us are free of trials and all of us are subject to mortality. That is why I like to use my blog to document not just our events but the spiritual and emotional happenings in our daily lives, the things that shape us into the people we are and will become.
Today is Valentine’s Day, but Jacob and I don’t need a silly day to tell us to love each other. Every day is Valentine’s Day around here. All of that really translates into “We spent the entire day with a 5 year old and 2 year old and had no time for romance.” But we had a really good day today. Jacob had the day off, and Easton and I had a doctor’s appointment this morning with a kinesiologist to try to get to the bottom of why he’s so prone to getting croup all the time. Hopefully the stuff we found out today will help. I also found out I’m hypoglycemic which explains that nausea and dizzy out-of-it feeling I get if I skip meals or go to long without eating. My thyroid is out of whack as well.
After the doctor Jacob and I and the boys went to G-Ma Edgel’s to pick up our lovely Valentine’s basket. From there we ran a few errands and then ended up at the library. We take a weekly trip to the library, which I have really grown to love. The boys have so much fun picking out their books and movies and playing puzzles, and it’s something we get to do every week as a family. I’ve never been big on libraries, but Jacob is a regular visitor and is the reason that we started our weekly family outings there. After the library we went home and hung out for a couple hours. My Teagan has been such a cutie pie these past two days, being less clingy and dependent on me when we’re home. His new favorite thing is to sing “happy birthday to you” but only that same line over and over. It’s really fantastically adorable. So he’s been a delightful treat these past couple days, and Easton is typically always pleasant.
For dinner we went to this local pizza place where we chowed down on some yummy food and Teagan mostly ate ranch. He’s all about condiments and Easton’s all about food ALL DAY LONG. Every time I blink the kid is telling me he’s starving. From there we went to Costco which the boys love because they get frozen yogurt every time.
That was our day, just a lot of family fun time. I love this little family, and I feel so grateful that my boys are blessed with so many people that love them. They have me and Jacob and Adam and Angelica and then all their grandparents, so they are not lacking in the love department.
Something I’ve been very appreciative of lately is the fact that Adam and I get along quite well, and our spouses are really good and supportive about that. I feel like my boys will be able to grow up and say that their mom didn’t talk bad about their dad and their dad didn’t talk bad about their mom, and they’ll see that we all just love them and want the best for them. I don’t think many children of divorced parents are fortunate enough that their parents have a civil relationship with each other. But since my children are in this situation through no fault of their own, I certainly want it to be as good as it can be. I don’t want my boys to feel like they have 2 separate lives, one with me and then one when they go to their dad’s. I want the 2 to blend together so that they always feel safe and loved wherever they are that day, so that they don’t have to feel like one life is ok and one life is not, or one set of parents loves them more than the other. I just want them to feel secure with me and Jacob and Adam and Angelica and be able to know that we all get along because we love them.
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