These three are sure keeping me busy these days!! Jack never sits still, Alice needs a drink every 5 seconds, and Scarlett is weeks behind on some "math computer program" for school. I am feeling like true mom these days! I can never seem to stay awake longer than 5 minutes if I sit down and any moment of silence is a dream. I have had a parenting book siting on my nightstand for a month. Nick mentioned yesterday that I have yet to crack it open. I said "well i guess I am too busy parenting to read any parenting books." Life is busy, messy, tiring and completely wonderful! I know I am living some of the best days of my life and these sweet kids make it even sweeter.
I have been thinking about how beautiful parenting is lately and how close it brings us to our Savior and Heavenly Father. The love we have for our children teaches us the love our Heavenly Father has for us. I am the parent but I am also the child. I try to always remember that and that I am so, so very loved by my Heavenly parents. They yearn for my happiness just as I yearn for my own children's. I love this gospel and constant perspective it gives me.
Here are some of my thoughts on parenting lately:
1. The days are long but the years are short
2. Having kids has exposed a depth of every feeling I never knew I had. I feel everything so powerfully because of my children. Pain, joy, happiness, remorse, guilt etc. are all magnified since I became a mother. I felt like I truly started to live when Scarlett was placed in my arms.
3. Having children is one of the most fundamental experiences of life. I ache for those that choose not to or are unable to have children.
4. 2 Nephi 33:3 "For I pray continually for them by day, and mine eyes water my pillow by night, because of them; and I cry unto my God in faith, and I know that he will hear my cry". Every year I read the Book of Mormon this scripture brings me to tears. Is this not being a parent?! It has become my new favorite scripture. You must have SO much faith as a parent. Faith that you are doing right, that you can continue to do right, and that ultimately you did enough for you kids.
5. "Nothing is more powerful than the prayers of a righteous mother" Elder Packer. I have this in my closet and I read it every morning. It makes me think of my sweet Grandma LaRue, the power of prayer, and the strength I have as a mother.
6. As I will continue to tell myself over and over "stop, sit and play". I want to enjoy this brief moment of motherhood and not fritter it away doing something of less worth.
Children of my mine, you are loved beyond words!!
Alice approached me one afternoon last week and said "mom, I want to learn to ride my bike". She picked it up on her first try and now we spend every afternoon outside riding bikes. I love watching her ride around with such a big smile on her face. I don't love 1. yelling at her to watch out for moving cars 2. yelling at her to watch out for parked cars. We have also been going on bike rides around the neighborhood in the morning but jack always cuts it short cause he WILL NO sit in his stroller.
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