I am reminded of a scripture in D&C 10:4 today which reads: “Do not run faster or labor more than you have strength…” I woke up with one goal in mind. To get my house in order!! I have laundry to do, bathrooms to clean, and I want to get the baby stuff ready and out of the garage. I woke up feeling great. In fact, I didn’t have to take any pain meds at all yesterday or last night. My pubic bone felt fine. Well, this morning, after only one load of dishes and one load of laundry I am exhausted!! It’s sooo weird because I have this desire to do it all but my body really will not cooperate. Normally it is the other way around and I don’t feel like doing chores. I just don’t want to go into preterm labor again but I need to get this stuff done. I know that I am the only person who will do it like I want it so I should just do it, right?? I guess I could just take little breaks in between. The only problem with that is that once I am sitting or laying down I usually don’t want to get back up. I don’t want to have to take any pain meds today, I want to do it on my own!! I want to know if my body is overdoing it by feeling the pain.

“K” wrote her first talk for Primary yesterday. We did not help her at all. Usually “B” will just write it for her and she’ll just read it. We put her in charge of it and she did great. She will have 1 minute in the Primary Program and they start practicing next week. Here is what she wrote. I didn’t even correct the spelling because she is the only one who will read it…….

“Hi,my name is “K”,and I was chosen to give a talk about Jesus Christ.In Alma 5:27it says”Have ye walked,keeping yourselvs blamles before God?Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time,within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble?That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?”Jesus was our savoir ,and I want to share a storie about when I got lost in the pool ,well I was swimming in a twister pool with my cosens.We were play tag in the water then suddenly they were gone.I didn’t know what to do,but then I remembered to say a prayer. Then suddenly I found one of my cosens. She looked so sad. I asked her little quetons every single answer was no. I said,”What happened”? She just ignored me and finally she answered I was so shocked of what she said.She said that my cosen hert her feelings.When I got to see my aunt I was so happy because I got to see my cosens again. I want you to know that Hevenly Father answers our prayers,and Jesus and Hevenly Father will lead us to our path that will make our lives joyfull and in the name of Jesus Christ,Amen.”

Can you believe she wrote that all by herself?? I think it is sweet and touching and will help her out in life because this is the first step for formulating her own opinions and ideas. I am so very happy that she is a part of our family!!

I’ve been doing a little “wink, wink” project tonight that has to do with monkeys and a whole lot of them. They are really cute and I just love to stamp with them!!

Here is a random thought I have. Do you keep crayons that are broke in half and little nubs?? I was just cleaning out my kids crayon/marker drawer and I noticed a bunch of really old crayons that were only like 1 inch long and that didn’t even have the wrapper anymore. You know what?? I just tossed them!! I’m sure that it is very wasteful but I also got a bunch of packs for .10 after school started. I don’t think I could ever work with a broken crayon. It’s like when I hear of someone breaking up their Watercolor Wonder Crayons. I just cringe. It would take all my creativity away from me.

Today when I was at Target I saw sets of Cabbage Patch Kids Newborn baby clothes for $12 a set. I almost grabbed two of them but my girls were with me. Then later when I was at the Dollar Tree they had Newborn baby clothes for $1 each!! I’m sure they won’t last as long but I was able to get 3x’s as many as I would have at Target. I also got little fleece receiving blankets for each of my kids. Here is what we are doing when we have the baby…… I got each of my kids (even the boys) a newborn baby Cabbage Patch Kid boy. They were tough to find but I got all 4 of them!! I am going to bring them to the hospital with me when I go for my C-section and then when the kids come to visit me and the baby later that day they will all be given their very own newborn baby along with a diaper bag. In the diaper bag I am going to put in these little outfits, some premie baby diapers, the receiving blanket and just some little knick-knack things for babies. I hope this will help them with the transition and just have fun with it. I’m really excited about it!!

Good night everyone!

Well, we got through the book report and now it’s on to our 1 minute talk for the Primary Program. I think that she is getting it and will not wait until the last moment next month.

I have just felt GREAT today. I have not even had to take a Tylenol yet. I went grocery shopping, took my kids to the Dollar Tree, and to Target. Now I get to work on some fun stuff for Young Womens. I think I will actually be okay and not have an early baby. Thank goodness. I just need to know my limits.

“M” just went to a birthday party at Pump It Up for a friend in her class. She was so excited and couldn’t believe I actually said yes. “B” didn’t have to work today so I felt that I could do more things. When “B” has to work on Saturdays I say no to almost everything extra. It is just too much for me to lug all the kids around and worry about everything that goes along with it. “B” only has 3 more Saturdays to work and then he will be with us. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Can I throw a party. He has only been working 2 Saturdays a month for the past 18 months but it has taken a toll on me. When he works on a Saturday I literally get no break at all during the week. I have to take care of the kids for most of the day on Sunday as well, until he gets home from church. It is just a sacrifice we have all had to make and it has been worth it. Today he got to watch football almost uninteruppted. He folded and put away all my many baskets of clean clothes that have been piling up. For some reason I can wash them but putting them away is soooo hard. It just takes so much work!!

I’ll update more later. Maybe I’ll even have some deep thoughts to add.

Why is it that everytime “K” has an assignment at school it seems like she waits until the last minute. At what age do they actually take responsibility and do it themselves?? She has her monthly book report due on Monday and I have bugged her about it for two weeks now. Looks like we will be working on it tomorrow. I want her to understand how important it is in life to do things in advance so you are not stressed out at the last minute. I learned the hard way but it has taught me to be early for everything, including meetings & church. I want my kids to learn these same values. She is only in 3rd grade but I don’t want to hold her hand the rest of her life.

Tonight we babysat for some friends so they could go on a date. My friend “R” has babysat for me all week for my appointments, etc. It was the least we could do. I don’t mind at all. Her kids are really easy and “A” has someone to run around and play with.

Today I sat and stamped a lot! I am working on making sets of cards for my friends here & some church members. I think I am making around 50 sets of 6 cards this year. I think I am almost done, believe it or not. It’s around 300 cards with matching envelopes that I end up making but I just love to stamp so much that I enjoy doing it. Plus, I just love how they love receiving them. I don’t know what I will work on once I am done with this project. I have already finished my Christmas cards and birth announcements. I need to work on some journals for the Young Women, too. I guess I will do that next.

What is it about a clean kitchen that can make or break your mood?? I feel soooo good when I keep my kitchen clean. When it is dirty I just feel yucky inside and it makes me not want to clean it. I just finished doing the dishes and now I just need to wipe the counters. I’m sure this is very dull information but it is something I want to remember about me later. This is sort of like my journal now. Of course, I’ll leave all the juicy stuff to my real journal but everything else will go on here.