Generations of Faith and Courage

I come from a good line of women!! This is what I gave my mom for mother's day. The first picture is my mom, then her mom, her mother's mom, and her mother's mother's mom! I love them all for the great legacy they have left me.

What a wonderful Mother's Day weekend I have had! Yesterday and Friday I got to go to Time Out for Women. My mom, sister, niece, cousins, aunt, and even Jill came! It was wonderful. Then today was a great day. I enjoyed breakfast in bed, and the priesthood took over Primary so all the sisters serving in Primary could have a Sunday off. It was lovely!

Time Out and Answered Prayers

I spent last night and all day today listening to speakers talk about women's lives, God, becoming, and more. It was a great day getting my bucket filled. While sitting there I suddenly realized I had had a prayer answered yesterday. It was interesting to me that it was after sitting through hours of talks and feeling amazingly enlightened and spiritually fed that the thought suddenly struck me. I wondered if I would have even come to that realization if I hadn't had so much time for thoughtful reflection. It also made me think I need to spend more time studying and pondering. But that would be a third goal in only one week: daily blogging, daily exercise, and better scripture study.....is it too much to expect of myself?? you know what they say: focus on one thing at a time. But then again, maybe there is a snowball effect. Not sure. What I do know is that I want to have the feeling I had today more often.

Two Days In a Row!

I have two goals right now actually.




One is to blog every day. The other is to exercise every day. Well, six days a week.


So far I've done it two days in a row.




I think I found a secret to help make it happen. If I have my exercise clothes out for the morning, then I put them on and go do it. If not, for some reason, I seem to be able to convince myself I don't have time, or it's too cold, or whatever the excuse of the day is.


I have been reading a book at school called The Dog Days of Charlotte Hays. It's about a girl who isn't a dog-lover but has a dog. Her mother has a baby and has post-partum depression. Charlotte is always commenting on how she wishes her mom would put her runners on like she used and go for a run because she just isn't as happy as she used to be. Now that I'm a work out of the house type mom I have found that I need exercise more than ever. It helps me be happier. Reading this book has been the little nudge I've needed to finally decide to get at it. I don't want my kids feeling like I'm always tired and a grump. It also helps me feel like I have something I'm doing that's just for me.




Here's to exercise!!