So the past couple weeks Matt has been extremely busy with work and side jobs that it has been keeping Him out late at night and coming home after dark. I had all of last week off and found my self really not doing anything at all. I did hang out with the family a lot and sit in baby girls room rocking us wishing She was in my arms instead of my belly. Walking the dog and playing frisbee with Him. Did my Visiting teaching and had my visiting teachers come visit me. I feel so restrained in what I can do right now. I have been able to sleep a lot. Not to restraining on that! Went out to Amy's to help her switch out cars and watch her kids for a little bit. I find it a bit funny that this whole time I have been pregnant that it has gone by so fast. Now it is slowing down and I am finding my self very anxious. Three out of four of the girls I am visiting teaching all have had babies here within the past month or two and I am so jealous! Even more jealous of my Sisters having their babies and looking great! I still am just plump and waiting to pop. With it also being spring time I am having a hard time not being able to go out and pick the weeds in my gardens and planting our garden. I have really been itching to get out and plant. Poor Matt, gets home from a hard day of work and I want to get Him right back out side and help plant the garden. I haven't asked Him yet but maybe will soon. ;)
I wan't to hire a cleaning company to come and do a deep clean to my house. It is so hard to keep up on it. I just need to get a cleaning schedule down and really stick with it. (my mom suggested www.flylady.net) just thought I would throw that in. Also having a Black Lab and cats makes it a lot harder to keep it clean. Everything is so white in our house it is hard to keep up on. I don't know what the family that was living here before thought of their cabinets but they are horrible. They did a horrid job on the painting skills and also putting white carpet down. I wish it was winter time and Matt could re-do our Cabinets...with Him being the one specialized in it. It wont be happening soon though. I am just grateful to have a home and cabinets I guess. ;) We are very lucky and blessed.
Makes me think of being self reliant. (for those who were taught by their visiting teachers or gave the lesson to someone, or read the lesson a month or two ago.) I should be joyfully living within our means. I need to be content in what I have, avoiding excessive debt to make changes in our home to make me happy. I am happy with what we have and appreciate all the hard work Matt has done to purchase the home we are living in for us! I should always think if making the changes will temporarily make me happy? Sometimes I am embarrassed at our home, that it is not updated with the nicest cabinets and carpet... But I have a home and am very blessed to have it.
Also, while I am blabbing on about whatever. This past week in Relief Society they gave the lesson by Elder David A. Bednar about Being more Diligent and Concerned in our home. "We can become more diligent and concerned at home as we are more faithful in learning, living, and loving the restored gospel of Jesus Christ." He wanted to suggest 3 things that we can be more diligent and concerned in our homes.
I think this one hit home since I am not as strong in the church as I want to be and when I heard the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness”, I really had a hard time and thought that I shouldn't be out visiting teaching when I have a hard time at home my self saying prayers and not having a strong testimony of the church. I know I have a testimony of having a strong family and living a honest and healthy life. But when it comes to saying a prayer at others homes I squirm and freak out and forget what I want to say. I guess I do the same saying prayers at home...
It is so weird how the lord works. This months visiting teaching is about seeking and receiving personal revelation. Every time I struggle with something the man above knows how to answer to what I am asking. When I go to church the lesson always hits home and answers my thoughts or concerns. I know that so many people get so many different things out of the lessons and what not. But love how the Lord knows what I need to hear.
Well the 3 suggestions were
1. Express love and show it.
2. Bear Testimony - and live it.
3. Be consistent
1- I can show and express love, I think though it shows me that I should go out just from showing my intermediate family how much I love them and shows those friends and family I do not tell, that I do love and appreciate them.
2- I can bear my testimony on family and living a honest and healthy life. But I want to be able to bear my testimony on the scriptures and leaders of the church and just feeling more of the spirit and having a strong testimony. I will work on it.
And 3- Being consistent. It is hard for me on this one. I need to be self reliant to read the scriptures and say my prayers on my own. I feel sometimes if Matt isn't doing it I don't need to. It is hard to do it on my own. I get so distracted so easily! But that is another goal of mine to do. I just want to have a stable home and raise our little one together the same way that I was raised in my family. I want her to have parents that live the gospel and word of wisdom and have the choice to what kind of a life to live. But I want to feel that I gave her the best that I could to make the decisions on her own. Today is great day to start working on these!
Any way back to more babbling, My Mom and Dad invited us out to see How to train your dragon last Monday for Family Night and I loved it. It was such a great movie. Matt was able to get off work and come join us so I just loved it even more! It was such a great show. I am ready to watch it again when it comes out. Then on Saturday, again was invited by mom Mom (who decided to watch her grand kiddies at the last second instead of coming) to go see Alice in wonderland. I thought it was a great watch as well. I thought the tweedle dee and tweedle dumb were great! I enjoyed how to train your dragon a lot more than Alice in Wonderland. The Alice in Wonderland had some great special effects though. It was fun hanging out with Michelle and Kimmery at the movies.
Well I know nothing else to babble about so I will just leave it as that. Love my Family, friends and life.
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