Wednesday May 19, 2010

5am- Shop for baptism dresses online...Why is sooo hard to find a white dress with sleeves for a little girl?!?

5:30am -Pay bills, update blog

6:15- Head to Harmon's for a quick shopping trip.

7:00- Wake up the kids and get them going

7:15- Make breakfast and pack lunches

7:30- Take a quick shower and get dressed

7:50- Scriptures and prayers

8:00 Take kids to school

8:45-11:30 Temple

12:00 Lunch and relax. Watch an old episode of Brothers and Sisters

12:45 Practice Piano and Organ

1:30 Run Errands: Joann for quilt backing, Shopko for athletic tape (Tanner jammed his fingers at football last night) and Holiday for gas. (Darn! They don't have slurpees here. I really wanted a slurpee today!)

2:30 Pick up dinner for Tanner to eat in the car

2:45 Pick up kids from school

3:30 Drop Tanner off at Football

3:45 Make dinner, empty dishwasher, pack up books in the kids study

5:00 Kids chore time. Listen to whining and complaining. Roll eyes at the unbelievable effort put into avoiding a very simple household task.

5:15 Make salad, set table

5:45 Dinner

6:10 Parker leaves with Dave for BMX practice. He drops Kennedy at dance on his way. I clean up dinner and mop the floor.

7:00 Update blog.

7:15 Take Lexi to dance, pick up Kennedy.

7:40 Drop Kennedy off and pick up Tanner

8:00 Football practice goes late again...enjoy a few minutes with my latest novel The Queen's Fool by Philllipa Greggory. I just love her books. :)

8:30 Drop Tanner off at home and rush to the balloon store

9:20 Wrap presents and decorate kitchen for Kiki's bday tomorrow.

10:00 Head upstairs to watch one show with Dave (Castle) and play Words with Friends. I am so obsessed with this Iphone app. I could play all day.

10:45 Bed at last!

 

A week in the life...

Do you know why I don't write more often or post more pictures? It is because I think my life is boring. I think that I do the same things everyday and that I will always remember. But I won't.

 I don't remember what life was like with two babies. I wish that I would have taken the time to make a written schedule of how I spent my time then. Who did I hold the most? How much formula did I go through? Which of the older kids sat on my lap to have a story read to them? Who crawled into bed with us at night and snuggled until the fear subsided?

As my way of correcting my recent mistake of letting months go by without a word I am going to document every moment of the next week. This week may seem boring now but in a few years I want to remember whom I chatted with in the car, what I did with my few hours of freedom while all the kids were in school, and who needed the most help with their homework.

My life may be ordinary but my Father in Heaven is using it to teach me extraordinary lessons that I will need to progess and return home to Him. Perhaps I would be wise to start paying more attention.

Regrets...

Please tell me I didn't let 4 months of my family's life go by without taking a single picture or writing a single word.

Somebody please tell me that I haven't taken my beautiful family for granted and missed 130 days of moments that I can never get back.

Surely I didn't forget my camera for Abbi's fifth birthday or Cassidy's first highschool dance or Lexi and Kennedy's piano recital. Time goes by so quickly and yesterday's procrastination quickly turns into today's regrets.

I will do better. I will do better. I will do better.