Forget a Day for Doctors, Try a day for MEETINGS!!!

Today was a day for meetings for mom! Oh my what is a gal to do? I started my day off with a 7:30am Ward Council meeting, Scarament at 9:00am and of course the rest of the 3 hour block, 12:45 YW Pres. Meeting and finished off the day with a fireside of the descendants of Joseph Smith at 7:00pm. Which might I add was wonderful, (see journal entry)

What happened to Sunday being a day of rest? :) Yesterday I went to our Stake Enrichment Day at the Stake Center with the keynote speaker being Pamela Hansen, the author of Running With Angels, a great book about her triumph over obesity and the physical stress of raising children with major health challenges. Anyway, after her talk about how to deal with the stress, the Lords way, President Case talked about dealing and coping with the stress that comes with church callings. He said the it's OK once in a while to take a break and forget about a meeting you have scheduled. Don't beat yourself up if you missed it, there will be another one along soon to take it's place:) Cute words by our adorable Stake President, and on that note, Bishop Allen, whose wife just added a baby girl to their all boy family last Wednesday, said, "After this meeting (Ward Council at 7:30 this morning) I'm going home to fix breakfast for my lovely wife and kids and enjoy the day with them." I thought that was such a neat idea...so many times in our lives we find ourselves needing to fulfill everyone elses needs before our own and our families. In the next 50 years it won't matter who was the Bishop or Young Women's President, what matters most is what we are doing with our own families now that will affect them in the future. I need to remind myself that my little ones are only little once...and now I've got to go listen to my Hannah (6) and Hailey(6mo.) singing together! Ah..the life of motherhood!