Funny and special start to Saturday

I am sure I will probably blog a little later, but I had to enter our funny and special start to Saturday morning.

I was in my room relaxing and hadn't gotten a start to the day yet when my 3 year old, Tanner came and said he wanted to be a mommy. I was surprised by this, but then I asked him why he wanted to be a mommy and he said, "Because I want to be like you mommy." Then my husband said to Tanner, "You just made mommy's day!" He was right. It's nice to have a little positive reinforcement that you might be doing a good job.

Within 10 seconds of feeling that was so special our car alarm goes off. It was early and it took a few minutes for the alarm to turn off and I was feeling mad at my children and wondering who was setting my car alarm off so early in the morning. Then Zachary comes upstairs and says that he wasn't dressed so he put on Michael's coat to go outside and get Brayden's wallet out of the glove compartment and the alarm went off when he put the key in the door. He looked so funny! Being mad at my child quickly turned to laughter. I figure it didn't hurt anyone.

Children can really make a funny and special start to your day!

Spending time with the family. . .

I started out the morning reading with Michael for Milk and Cookies with Mom's. That was alot of fun. I really enjoy spending time with my children in their classroom. I ran some errands, spent some quiet time at home by myself and then went over to the school to collect box tops. It has been a fun class competition where everyone ends up winning! It's great to have an opportunity to earn free money for the school.

In the midst of running my errands I had the opportunity to visit with a couple of friends about being unemployed and the joys of trying to figure out a direction in our lives. I like to have a plan, have it layed out on paper and know what I am doing each day with a schedule. Right now that is not what life has in store for us. I am having to learn to be flexible and fly by the seat of my pants :). Being unemployed is more than just going without money and a job. I had no idea the emotions and uncertainty that it would bring into our lives. Wondering what lies ahead and what is the right thing to be doing. Wondering if I should be looking for a job and questionning what the Lord has in store for us. I feel calm, but just have no idea what lies ahead. Somedays are good and some are not so good.

I feel blessed to be out of the rat race of the previous company we were both with. It CONSUMED our every minute of our lives. We both felt that it was like when we owned our own business, but it wasn't our own business. It's nice to have time to relax and spend time together as a family and enjoy some down time. I know that it was time to get out of that. I truly feel that the stress that was put on Rick was really wearing on him. I know this is where we need to be, but it is hard.

Anyways, after visiting with 2 friends that gave me some good insight I felt refreshed and ready to keep moving forward through this interesting path of our lives. I am trying to learn my lessons quickly so that we can move onto the next steps of life.

Tonight was a nice, relaxing night at my parents. We got to watch the BYU Football game and have dinner together. Alot of the family was together and it is always fun to have everyone around and spend time together.

BYU won, but not with a GREAT win! GO COUGARS!!!

I am very excited for General Conference this weekend. I feel like there is so much in store for me and my family and I love getting a fresh perspective on life.

For the tidbit of Mom's Sanity. . .
Hang in there! I have definately learned that there is gold at the end of every rainbow. It isn't always the gold that we are looking for and think it should be, but it is gold and we need to be grateful for it. I treasure the minutes I have to be with nieces and nephews and my family. I love that my children get to be so close to their grandparents and nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles. These are days that I can't ever take back.

Goblin Valley

Over the weekend we had the opportunity to go to Price for the final races of the Mini Sprint Season. On Saturday we chose to get up and head to Goblin Valley and hike around for about 3 hours. It is a beautiful place and our children love it! They beg everytime we get anywhere near Goblin Valley to go again. We have been there 4 times over the last 6 months. It is amazing all of the great things that we can discover everytime! Here are some fun pictures from Goblin Valley.

My life has been so busy for the last few years with giving service to Lindon Elementary as the PTA President, but during this time I found myself loving the idea of sharing ideas and experiences with my friends and family. I found myself asking friends how they do something in their home or friends asking how I did something. Together I felt that I gained great experiences and strength from my friends and family.

With these experiences I decided to start a website called mom-sanity.com with the idea of sharing ideas of how I find sanity in the craziness of my life. That website was on the back burner for the last couple of years, but with starting this blog I have decided to start building step by step and sharing something I did each day with the lines of MOM SANITY. . .

I have to say that I have learned to enjoy the small moments with my children. This last weekend was a FAR STRETCH for us to go since we have been unemployed for the last 7 weeks. With support of family we were able to go. I decided that instead of worrying about our situation back at home that it was important to enjoy the time we took to be together. We laughed, hiked, swam, watched races and played hard together. We ran a tight budget by packing food from home and explained to our children that we needed to enjoy what we had and to work at not spending any extra money. It was fun to work together to make the best of what we had! It was a fun game.

To sum it up. . .Make the best of each days situations. There are blessings in everything!