Baseball

This weekend was wonderful...no meetings, no events of any kind not even any birthday parties!  It was a rare, EVENT-LESS, gorgeously beautiful Saturday and we took full advantage.  We played baseball!

The way this mother handles extra curricular activities (sports wise) is basically this:  ONE at a time.  I honestly don't know how other mothers do it.  Kids in things all at the same time...I nearly lost it with Ty and Audg in soccer at the same time last year.  Am I a big baby, or what?  Anyway, I have always preached SIMPLIFY to my friends and it's because quite frankly I think the world is way too busy.  We need to take a deep breath and remember what is around us, what is important and focus on that.  Good, better, BEST sums it up.  It can be good, even GREAT, but is the BEST for my family, for my life in the eternal perspective?  Now that will get you thinking.  So one kid in one sport ONE at a time.  So it is Tyler's turn.  He chose baseball and Andy couldn't be happier!   

I don't know if you guys recall, but Tyler was truly a natural at baseball from the day he was born.  There was this picture when he was weeks old:

Then there are these famous pictures when he was just about a year old:

MELT my HEART!  What a cutie.  No joke, he hit his first baseball (wiffle ball) when he was 18 months old!  No pressure Tyler, but I think your dear old Dad would LOVE it if you played a little baseball...Good times to come!

Sam had her turn to bat and really enjoyed herself.  She's pretty cute too, don'tchathink?

 

Motherhood and Faith

Please follow the instructions carefully:

Instructions:  First, find an area that is relatively dirty, clean it in whatever fashion is needed.  Wait 5 minutes.  Now go to your garbage.  Find any remnants of food you can. Proceed to recently cleaned area and throw remnants on the cleaned area.  Go to your pantry and grab some cereal or crackers and scatter haphazardly on remnants. Put your shoes on and jump on the food.  Find a blender, throw anything solid inside, turn on high and leave on.  Next find your vacuum, plug in and turn on and leave running.  Start screaming intermittently and turn on the radio and pretend you are driving.

See attached picture, add all the sounds above plus an aroma of stale fast food and note:

This is a metaphor of my life.  I vacuumed the car 20 minutes prior, the car was spotless :). 2007 Honda Odyssey for sale, 4 children included!  I’m kidding…

....Well kinda.

As much as I go insane the sweet moments make it all worth it.  We decided to get the garden planted today.  I always try to include the children in that process and Sam was right next to us this time.  Each one of the kiddos would grab a packet of seeds and say, “Mom, can we plant these?” To which I would reply accordingly.  Sam catches on quick, with everything.  So what does she do, she grabs a packet of yellow beans and says, “Mom, French fries PLEASE?”  How could I say no?  So we planted french-fries in our back garden today.  Hopefully she won’t be too disappointed, or maybe I could pull a fast one on her?

Per Hermana Lyndsey's suggestion via her last letter we decided to do a faith experiment in our house for FHE.  We talked about faith and how we feed our faith and planted a seed.  Each of us chose different plant to symbolize our different personalities and individualism.  The kicker was that we could only water our seed when we did things like pray, read our scriptures, go to church, etc.  Some of us our doing better than others, but each of us at least has one seed that has sprouted!  We won't be naming any names, but it is a VERY good visual to show how little by little our faith needs to be nourished.  Thanks for the inspiration Lynds!