I had a good day today. I woke up feeling 100% better and knowing my illness was gone, gone, gone. Church was wonderful -- uplifting testimonies during Sacrament meeting, a good Gospel Doctrine lesson, a good YW lesson (the girls were really listening!), and I just felt the Spirit a lot.
While the little ones and Josh napped after church, Alek and I played Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and read a little bit of the second Fablehaven book. It was so nice to spend time with him by myself and just have fun. We haven't done that for a while. One of my personal goals is to carve out more time for Alek. He really needs it.
It was pretty quiet around the house today and there was a good spirit in our home. Our townhouse complex stopped offering free cable and no TV stations come in at all anymore. So far, I don't miss TV. We've been debating whether or not to get cable on our own. I think we'll do without for a while longer at least. Most of the TV shows we follow we can watch online and then we can avoid the terrible commercials (for the most part). So the only TV watching today was when I put in a Winnie the Pooh movie for the kids while I, get this, cleaned the kitchen and made dinner. Yes, I did! I was actually the mom today and I gave Josh a rest. It felt good. Katie helped me make the pancake batter (I never said I made a fancy dinner).
We read scriptures together as a family and said prayers and then Alek and I had a talk about his future (he wants to live on a farm; I'm sure he has not been at all influenced by his visit to the Peatross family last summer or the fact that they've been learning about agriculture in school this year) and how to prepare and the importance of spiritual preparation. Alek went to bed and we let the wee ones run around some more while Josh talked to his brother, Aaron, and I planned the menu for the next two weeks (yes, I did!) and came up with a list of about 50 main dishes for future menu planning.
As soon as Josh is finished talking to his bro, we're going to read some of the Doctrine and Covenants, which is what we're reading together this year.
So, all in all, a good day. A nice, calm, happy Sunday, which is all too rare. And I feel like I accomplished things today and made good choices and was a good mom. That's rare, too, feeling that way. Hope you all had a good Sunday, too.
3 comments:
That does sound nice. The true spirit of keeping the Sabbath day holy.
Love you!
Here's to good days! Funny how a lot of them come on Sunday. We had a pretty good Sabbath too. We abstained from watching the Super Bowl even though our Cardinals were in it. We were a little sad when we heard the score, but remembered that it's just football. Plus we were still basking in the glow of our beautiful Sabbath. So it's all good.
Yeah for NO TV!!! Give it a few months to see the wonderful counter effects it will have on the home (we do miss the History channel, but hey it's worth it)... plus no cable equals extra date time money. :-D
That's how we roll anyway.
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