"You can look back, but don't stare.
The best is yet to come."

This week, I had one of the worst days I can remember. It was a bad day for my kids as well. I could have earned the meanest mom award.


I am really trying to "enjoy the journey" more. It is a constant struggle. I feel a lot of guilt and always have, deal with feelings of inadequacy, worry and stress more than I probably need to.

I felt helpless as I hugged my "baby" that is almost 12 years old as she cried about missing her friends and her struggles of finding her place in her new surroundings.

Sometimes there is not a quick fix, no magic fairy dust to sprinkle, no magic wand, it takes time...and there will bad days. But I do know that there will be some good days too.

I am not much on being a testimony sharer, just not. I do know that prayer works. I know that when you put all your ping pong balls (you know the church stuff) in the jar first that miraculously all the beans (LIFE which is busy!!) do fit. We have been praying and praying that our house would sell for months and months.
Jakob asked "mom, why don't you ask that it will sell on a certain day" So I did, that night I prayed that our house would sell that week. The next day the realtor called and said we had received an offer on our house the night before.

Whether or not things will pan out with this sell, I am happy that my children and I could have that wonderful experience.

Chris keeps a jar of rusty old water...he has had it since he was a child. When he was on a vacation, he prayed that it would snow. It did. That water is the melted snow.

No matter how far away I feel from the Lord...I do know that if I pray He will hear me.

I am hoping that as we go through difficult times, that my kids will know that too. They are sometimes a great example to me because I see my girls reading their scriptures more than I do. They have great faith in all things.

It is nice to be reminded of how simple things are sometimes.