The weather here has been magnificent. It’s 11:30 pm, and I just got back from a Sonic ice run, and I was not wearing a jacket nor did I turn the heat on in my car. It’s been warm and beautiful weather for the past couple weeks. And I absolutely adore Vegas’ climate for that very reason. No snow, just beautiful park days without coats in February.
Jacob left today around 11:30am to go to the UNLV basketball game with a buddy of his. Becca called me a little while after that to tell me to bring the kids over to play with Sadie on this beautifully warm day. It must have been close to 80 degrees. Maybe low 70’s, I don’t know. Yesterday was the same. So I washed my hair and gave the boys hair cuts, and we left about 2:30 to go hang out with Becca and Sadie. Then we went to Colleen’s to look through her recipe books for a cake for my mom’s birthday dinner tomorrow. The kids ran around outside playing and having a good time while Becca and I chatted with Bacleen. After Bacleen’s, we headed to Walmart to get ingredients for dinner at my parents’ tomorrow. I’m making chili and cornbread. As we walked into Walmart, the three kiddies were holding hands, and you woulda thought they were having the most fun they have ever had in their lives just walking in the parking lot together. I am so grateful that we can live by my family so that the boys can be with their cousins. Teagan and Sadie are best buds, and Easton does so well with them. He’s such a good big boy. After the store we went back to Becca’s for just a little bit, and then headed home. Jacob had gone to a leadership training meeting after the UNLV game, so I didn’t just abandon him at home all day. Juddy actually did the same thing too, so Becca and I were husbandless for the day.
Tonight as we were praying with the boys before bed, it was Easton’s turn to pray. Jacob had talked to him a little before bed about not complaining when I tell the boys it’s time to get ready for bed. I had let them stay up later tonight while I finished making cookies, so it was a little after 9 when I told them to get ready, and Easton started whining. So Jacob explained why it wasn’t good to whine when I had already let them stay up later to eat snacks and watch TV. Anyway, as Easton said prayers tonight, he said, '”Thank you that mom let me stay up later, and help me to remember not to complain when she tells me it’s time for bed but to be happy.” I love that Easton really gets things. And I love even more that he’ll pray about little things like that, and he knows that Heavenly Father answers his prayers. When we were laying in bed, after I had finished singing to them he asked me who made Havenly Father since Heavenly Father made us. I told him we could ask Heavenly Father in the next life.
I feel blessed that I get to live this life with this little family and experience as mush joy as we do each day. Our home is a happy home – I have a husband who loves me and loves the boys and two little boys who love their mom and dad. And our family is important to us. Jacob said his leadership meeting focused on families, and one thing that Jacob said that he got from it is that Satan’s focus may be on the family, but so is ours. I definitely believe that as hard as he focuses on tearing families apart, he can’t succeed if we are focusing on building our families up and bringing them nearer to God.
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