It was the last day of swimming lessons today, and Isaac gathered his courage and headed for the HIGH DIVE! My sweet little guy was scared, but DID IT! When asked what made him brave he said "I found it in my brain to be brave, and so I just wasn't scared anymore".
You can see Leah in the background go off the low-dive, just before Isaac. Apparently her brain didn't tell her to be brave quite yet. Haha! (Turn down the volume a bit...sorry I'm so loud! LOL!)
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
So You Think You Can Dance....Leah?!
Leah loves this show. And tonight she found one song particularly inspiring. She didn't know I was behind her video recording her. It is so funny! So here is Leah busting some sweet moves!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Leah's Garden
Little Leah has been BEGGING to plant some flowers of her very own. How could I deny this precious little request! Anyone who knows me or has visited my home knows that my landscaping and gardening skills are non-existent. I do not know the difference between a good plant and a weed. It's very sad. Well, Leah, who is always so disappointed when her picked-flowers DIE, wanted to be "A real flower-grower" (her words). So, we went to Wal-mart and I let her pick out her OWN flowers. She picked out a little crate of 6 Marigolds. I got her a watering can because she said she can't be a real flower-grower without her very own watering can. We planted her garden and for two days she watered it morning and night vigilantly. Then this last week, daily severe rainstorms came and those poor little flowers just got hammered! They aren't looking very healthy right now, but hopefully they will spring back with some milder weather this week. The cutest thing is that Leah SINGS to them to help them grow! Michael got a video of her doing it on his cell phone. I don't know if I'd be able to post it to the blog. But she is just so sweet. Her song is just so simple "Grow, grow, grow. GROOOOOWWWWW flowers! Grow, grow, grow!" She is just so funny! I told her if she does a good job with these flowers, we will get more. To which she has informed me that next she wants to plant Carrots and peas and green beans. Leah...you are a better woman than I.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
A little Mom paranoia.
Okay, so maybe I'm a bit paranoid. But the world (aka society) just scares me more and more everyday. Maybe I just need to stop watching the news altogether and bask in the blissful ignorance whilst the world disintegrates around me.
I've been spending a lot of time snuggling my baby. It's expected, since I nurse around the clock, AND he demands to be held even when not eating. Tonight the house was dark, quiet, and I listened to the rain while I rocked my sweet baby. He is so small. So sweet. He has the most precious little features. When he is curled up sleeping in my arms, I feel so much pure love at that moment. Then I turned on the news, and watched several different stations as I channel surfed. And those sinking feelings return of "someday this sweet baby will be all grown up. How do I protect him?" I know I can't make my children live in a Mormon bubble of purity and righteousness. The violence, vulgarity, sex, drugs, worldliness, crime, and the all-encompassing rage of the Devil deceiving mankind IS THERE. It is so discouraging sometimes. Everyday I feel those who share my same values are becoming more and more of the minority. The opposition is so LOUD, so prideful, and so hateful. I do not question my moral standards/beliefs, but I feel more and more that the world hates me for them. And drives those who share these common beliefs into the closet for fear of persecution. I believe that marriage should be between man and woman only. Does that make me a bigot? I believe that dressing modestly to respect your body is an uncompromising standard. Does that make me a prude? I believe that you should not live together (or have sex) before marriage. Does that make me old fashioned? I believe that individuals and country are best governed by the standards set forth by God in the scriptures. Does that make me a zealot or religion Nazi? I also see that a true and good work-ethic is becoming a lost art, as more and more young adults graduate from school with a sense of entitlement, thinking they deserve a six-digit income, but don't know how to REALLY work for it. And one more thing, I DO NOT believe that the opinions of Hollywood celebrities and TV personalities are of ANY importance whatsoever when we are talking about "prop 8" or politics. I think they abuse their position to push their sick liberal agendas. I see on the same newscast the other night, that our President hosted a dinner at the White house where a popular outspoken Lesbian comedian was given the stand, and made crude and rude jokes about conservatives. While in California, their State pageant winner is being mocked, ridiculed and publicly hated because when asked in the Miss. America pageant what her opinion was about Gay Marriage, she gave it. Because it was in opposition to Homosexual Marriage, what ensued was no less than major character assassination. So, let me get this straight... the crude lesbian is being hosted and applauded at the White House by the President, while the Conservative Christian pageant runner up is suffering a media storm of cruelty and hatred because she believes in conventional marriage? WHAT? Where did the moral compass of this country go?
Forgive me if I seem to be rambling. But I've just been feeling the weight of these thoughts on me lately.
And as I look at the sweet innocent face of my baby in my arms, I wonder how different it will be in 15 years. How much worse will it be? Will I be able to keep my children close to the gospel? To have MORALS? To guide them in the path of the Savior, and help them not be enticed by the ways of a sinful world. It is so easy now to teach them about Heavenly Father, and Jesus. And to teach them to tell the truth, and use clean kind language, to love your family, to choose the right. They LISTEN to me now because they are 0, 3, and 6. Will they still think I'm worth listening to when they are 13, 16, and 19? I'm scared to see what my babies have to grow up in. Maybe it is my own self-doubt creeping in. But I often wonder if I'm up to the challenge of raising these precious children in this harrowing time of secularism and deception. How can I instill in them the correct principles, when the whole world around them will SCREAM that they are wrong, that they are bigots, that they are closed minded, that they are delusional?
I just feel as a Mom, I am up against so much, and it scares me.
Sorry about the rant. Usually my posts are cute stories or pictures of the kids. But sometimes I just have to get things off my chest.
I've been spending a lot of time snuggling my baby. It's expected, since I nurse around the clock, AND he demands to be held even when not eating. Tonight the house was dark, quiet, and I listened to the rain while I rocked my sweet baby. He is so small. So sweet. He has the most precious little features. When he is curled up sleeping in my arms, I feel so much pure love at that moment. Then I turned on the news, and watched several different stations as I channel surfed. And those sinking feelings return of "someday this sweet baby will be all grown up. How do I protect him?" I know I can't make my children live in a Mormon bubble of purity and righteousness. The violence, vulgarity, sex, drugs, worldliness, crime, and the all-encompassing rage of the Devil deceiving mankind IS THERE. It is so discouraging sometimes. Everyday I feel those who share my same values are becoming more and more of the minority. The opposition is so LOUD, so prideful, and so hateful. I do not question my moral standards/beliefs, but I feel more and more that the world hates me for them. And drives those who share these common beliefs into the closet for fear of persecution. I believe that marriage should be between man and woman only. Does that make me a bigot? I believe that dressing modestly to respect your body is an uncompromising standard. Does that make me a prude? I believe that you should not live together (or have sex) before marriage. Does that make me old fashioned? I believe that individuals and country are best governed by the standards set forth by God in the scriptures. Does that make me a zealot or religion Nazi? I also see that a true and good work-ethic is becoming a lost art, as more and more young adults graduate from school with a sense of entitlement, thinking they deserve a six-digit income, but don't know how to REALLY work for it. And one more thing, I DO NOT believe that the opinions of Hollywood celebrities and TV personalities are of ANY importance whatsoever when we are talking about "prop 8" or politics. I think they abuse their position to push their sick liberal agendas. I see on the same newscast the other night, that our President hosted a dinner at the White house where a popular outspoken Lesbian comedian was given the stand, and made crude and rude jokes about conservatives. While in California, their State pageant winner is being mocked, ridiculed and publicly hated because when asked in the Miss. America pageant what her opinion was about Gay Marriage, she gave it. Because it was in opposition to Homosexual Marriage, what ensued was no less than major character assassination. So, let me get this straight... the crude lesbian is being hosted and applauded at the White House by the President, while the Conservative Christian pageant runner up is suffering a media storm of cruelty and hatred because she believes in conventional marriage? WHAT? Where did the moral compass of this country go?
Forgive me if I seem to be rambling. But I've just been feeling the weight of these thoughts on me lately.
And as I look at the sweet innocent face of my baby in my arms, I wonder how different it will be in 15 years. How much worse will it be? Will I be able to keep my children close to the gospel? To have MORALS? To guide them in the path of the Savior, and help them not be enticed by the ways of a sinful world. It is so easy now to teach them about Heavenly Father, and Jesus. And to teach them to tell the truth, and use clean kind language, to love your family, to choose the right. They LISTEN to me now because they are 0, 3, and 6. Will they still think I'm worth listening to when they are 13, 16, and 19? I'm scared to see what my babies have to grow up in. Maybe it is my own self-doubt creeping in. But I often wonder if I'm up to the challenge of raising these precious children in this harrowing time of secularism and deception. How can I instill in them the correct principles, when the whole world around them will SCREAM that they are wrong, that they are bigots, that they are closed minded, that they are delusional?
I just feel as a Mom, I am up against so much, and it scares me.
Sorry about the rant. Usually my posts are cute stories or pictures of the kids. But sometimes I just have to get things off my chest.
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