I know that I often complain of being stressed out and tired, of the crazy antics of my children and of the tremendous load I feel baring down on me often, but really, my life, in a strange way, is perfect.
For starters, the kids are so darn cute. They really try some wild stuff, such as Ana going under the table, crawling to the point where the glass center inlay is, and standing up with it on her head, while telling me she's a glass head, or Scooter climbing on the kitchen table and discovering the chandelier and attempting to climb it (thank goodness he was QUICKLY intercepted) and Mari telling me today that she wanted to paint her own nails.
Eli has really made me so proud of him lately, the change of schools has really done the trick. He has gotten 5's every single day, he has drawn so many cute pictures at school, he has come home and told me nursery rhymes (of course he was stunned when he realized that I knew them already. ;) ) He told me tonight "OHIO Kazamas?..." nevermind, I can't remember right now, but it was Good Morning in Japanese. That, my dears, was awesome. I can't say it didn't let him get away with staying up a few minutes extra, because it did. He was so stinkin' cute walking around telling us all how he was going to wake up in the morning and tell us "...". Yeah, I was beaming proud. Then we hit a bump- bedtime prayers. Lately he has been saying that he didn't want to say prayers at night, and honestly, I wasn't 100% sure I was going to know how to handle it exactly, but using the whole free agency thought process, I simply told him tonight in a non-emotional or conflicting voice that this was fine, he didn't have to say prayers. I even went on to say that I didn't want him to feel like he had to say prayers if he didn't want to say them. But then I was honest, and I told him that the only issue was that Heavenly Father loves to hear from him and misses him so much, so if he decides to say prayers, it would make Heavenly Father proud. Judge me if you must, but I honestly did not say it to make him say prayers. I really felt like I never want him to feel persuaded or forced, or like he had to, I wanted him to have an honest and real relationship with his heavenly Father. Turns out, he just wants that same thing and he wanted to know that I would accept him if he decided not to say prayers. He did say them though, he told me "You know what, I want to say them" and boy did he pray! He prayed for his presidential preferences and his classroom, he prayed that Captain Moroni would rescue us and be our superhero to defeat evil, just like, (and yes, he listed these all), Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine, Hawkeye, Cyclops, Iron Man, Thor and the other superheros. (Of course, he doesn't know that his mama is secretly a fanatical Marvel loving geek, I was pretty impressed he knew all these hero name, I had no idea...) My point of this all is to say that from the bottom of his heart, he prayed for so many things, real things to him, he prayed to feel the spirit and to always have a love for Heavenly Father, the spirit and Jesus, to always be loved by and to always love all of his family, and of course, to not miss his Daddy too much and that his Daddy wouldn't miss him too much. He is so full of love, that little Bubb. I couldn't have asked for a better example for the other children. I am just amazed at his spiritual depth, he even knows he doesn't have to pray for Heavenly Father to always love him back, because he knows he will. That Bubb. <3
My Ana and I went on a "hot date" Thursday and got haircuts. It was nice to get to single her out and hear the contents of her brain. I will say this, she is definitely a deep little gal, always telling me how "when it's your birthday..." or "when it's Christmas...." and then adding how many ways she is going to do special things for me. she can be so silly sometimes and then so full of a giving spirit. She loves to play and she loved the time to get all my attention.
As the kids are now sleeping and Allen and I are having our own "hot date" time, I will end there. I hope to get more of a chance soon to update on the munchkins. Until then, know that all is well and they love all of their family and friends so much.
Gute Nacht!
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