Feb-March has been the busiest, yet in many ways the most rewarding time of our family's lives! We've enjoyed playing together at the spa, the temple, the zoo, the scout carnival, and lots of other fun activities. Big calendar items are trek prep (I chain sawed logs for the first time!) and got to meet sweet Bonnie Oscarson, General YW President, who's native to Klein and served w/ Uncle Henrik in the Sweden temple!
Trek pathway clearing, and Dad... showing up to clean the church building at 8am -- LOVE him!!
Hanging with Bonnie Oscarson... Fun highlight: treating her to a Chill shake!
And then there's this cute boy Stephen who I feel like was just born -- how did we get all the way to celebrating his 16th?? Cred to Jen for this awesome party invite!!
Love this 'flop on the bed' pic -- we haven't had enough of this kind of down time recently! Stephen texted me one day and sweetly said, "how's it going at home, mom?" So darling. Here's my reply to him: "You are precious Stephen, I have been going non-stop since I dropped you off at seminary! Filled
water bottles, baked bread, baked cookies, went to Kathy Pagano's for a drop
off/pick up, made salads for Aunt Feffer and Aunt Kassie, met Kassie at Stake
Center to give her the 200 nerf swords from our Book of Mormon conference so
they can use them for theirs, took Kenny to Steffs so he could help babysit her
kids because she's sick, visiting teaching drop offs, laundry, dishes, now
I'm tallying the trek registration forms we received to date so we can chase
down the rest of them... About to go to Kathryn's to go over the list and
discuss my new counselor. I'm so glad you asked, that was kind of fun to go
back over the last few hours... I bet you thought I
was on my couch watching a movie eating cookies :-)
I got another chuckle last week ~ I am so happy that our sweet children just float along enjoying life... that's how childhood should be. But I realize sometimes they definitely don't have any idea of what adulthood brings. This
morning when I got home from seminary and was about to dive into the house
transformation that night's teen party, Kassie said, don't worry mom, you have
like 10 hours to get it all done today, it's going to be easy right? I just smiled
and started to sing to her my Young Ambassadors song, "All I am is just a
housewife"... After an endless ongoing list of things that she had no clue
about that was still on my docket for the day, she just looked at me and said,
"Mom, how do you know how to be a mom? I'm a little nervous because I
don't know how to learn all that." It was cute.
