Times Like These

Remind me how much I love my husband.
Remind me how amazingly patient and forgiving my husband is.
Remind me how much strength and faith he has.
Remind me how much I love to talk to him.
Remind me how thankful I am for him in my life.
Remind me why I married him.
And so it goes.

life raft

I had a dream last night.  I was out in a boat on the ocean and a storm was blowing in.  A large life raft suddenly appeared with friends of mine in it.  They invited me to join them and stay safe in their raft with them during the storm.  Huge waves came up and all of a sudden we were holding on for dear life and rising way up into the waves and crashing down violently.  One particular wave, we were riding and ended up perpendicular to the water and we knew that we were going to crash down hard and go way under water.  My friend's husband who was in charge of the raft told us all to hang on and hold our breath and that we would all be fine.  I so did not feel fine.  See, I don't do well under water. I love being in the water but I can't hold my breath without holding my nose and I can't dive into water.  So I had to decide whether to hold on with two hands to the raft or hold my nose as we went under.  I was scared but I remember being calm.  As we went under, I didn't have a problem with holding my breath.  I could see, and I was calm and I could even breathe.  Someone was breathing for me.  

I think I'm on that life raft right now.  And it's crashing down toward the water and I'm scared of going under the water.  I would like to believe that if I just hold on and hold my breath, it will be okay and someone will breathe for me, but that doesn't come easy for me.  So for now, I'm just trying to remember to hold on.

my LITTLE newborn?

LG had her two week check up yesterday.  She looks great but we have to convince her that it's okay to look to the left side as well as the right! (she keeps her head turned to the right and it's turning into torticollis)  She apparently likes the milk...guess how much she weighs now!!!

the new NORMAL

Today it was just the girls and me. It was our first day solo and we did pretty well. I feel like I sat on the couch a lot but that's just because I pretty much nurse all day right now.  Princess number 1 was really good and helpful and okay with waiting for help until I was done nursing...mostly.

The last of my wonderful helpers left last Friday. We piled into Uncle Karl's truck and took Grace back to school. I was soooooo glad that W took the day off to help us.  Especially when LG lost it an hour and a half from home.  She was good all day and then just so tired of her seat!  I can't blame her! 

We drove around town, ran errands for Grace, and checked her into her apartment.  We drove by the Rexburg Temple and M threw a fit that we couldn't "go inside and get mairmaid right now"!  She then talked about getting married the rest of the trip.  And listed all the people coming to watch her get "mairmaid".  Admittedly, besides people in the car, the only one who made the list was cousin Emily who recently got married herself.  Apparently, it's going to be a small wedding. :)
We miss Grace!!!  

my mom

there is nothing that a girl wants more when she just had a baby than to have her mom come and take care of her and tell her she's doing okay and that she'll be okay. 

thank you, mom, for coming. 

thank you, dad, for letting her come for over a whole week!

i love you

Lucy's Here

Perspective

It's amazing how great $3.83/gallon sounds after weeks and weeks of $4.20/gallon!