Lisa's Journal May 2005
Sunday, May 08, 2005
It’s Mothers Day and my sweet boys have given me some great gifts. Parker made a beautiful butterfly at school with a poem on it and wrote me a letter. Scott gave me a beautiful gold handprint on paper with a sweet poem that his nursery teachers helped him make. They made cards for me with Rich also that were lovely. Rich wrote me a very sweet note. Thomas is too little for cards and gifts yet, but his wonderful hugs and smiles could keep me going for years.Rich has been sweet lately. He has been challenged and struggling for some months now and he realizes that I have had more weight to bear during this time. I am grateful that he appreciates me and only hope that he will have some relief from his stress and concerns. He is working so hard to try to mature professionally and emotionally that we are starting to miss the just plain fun side of him. It peeks out now and then.I have experienced some personal growth during this time, but still see areas where I need to make greater changes. I love my family so much and want the best for them. We have tried to set some routines and change some behaviors lately and there has been an improvement in our family relationships. I hope to keep this upward trend. Rich needs organization and scheduling but hasn’t been able to do it on his own. I am encouraging him to do it more. I think he needs me to continue gently reminding him. The boys are so fun. Some of things we have enjoyed doing together lately include swimming, going on walks or to the park, dancing in the family room, playing games like tag or “little pig” in the backyard, and reading. I have been reading the Magic Tree House series with Parker lately which has been really fun. We are on book 20 now. I also wrote Mad Libs with Parker today which he loved. Once again he surprised me with how quickly he picked up on the concept and learned what verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs are.Scott is so sweet and needs much tenderness and a good dose of outdoor physicality every day. Rich and I have both been trying to give him more one-on-one attention and it is helping him. I will be happy when he drops napping out of his schedule. I don’t try to have him nap anymore except when it’s really obvious that he needs one. Otherwise, he won’t go to sleep until really late and when he wakes up from his naps he cries and whines and it takes him a long time to get out of the funk. Sometimes he just drops off to sleep somewhere though, and there’s no rousing him when it happens.I enjoy Tommy so much also. I like to just watch his mannerisms and see him play and hug him. He is a very good little toddler. We are going to have to at least trim his hair soon it’s getting quite long. But, oh! I just love those curls! I am ready to stop nursing him but he is going to make it tough I think.
I feel so blessed. The Lord really knows me and each of my family members and helps to see that our needs are met. How merciful and great is our God. I have really enjoyed all of the lessons in our Relief Society and Priesthood manual this year. It is the teachings of David O. McKay and every lesson has been so enriching and so timely for me. It has seemed as though each lesson was just what I needed that week. It is truly a testament of the truthfulness of the gospel and that Christ heads our church and teaches us through living prophets.
It’s Mothers Day and my sweet boys have given me some great gifts. Parker made a beautiful butterfly at school with a poem on it and wrote me a letter. Scott gave me a beautiful gold handprint on paper with a sweet poem that his nursery teachers helped him make. They made cards for me with Rich also that were lovely. Rich wrote me a very sweet note. Thomas is too little for cards and gifts yet, but his wonderful hugs and smiles could keep me going for years.Rich has been sweet lately. He has been challenged and struggling for some months now and he realizes that I have had more weight to bear during this time. I am grateful that he appreciates me and only hope that he will have some relief from his stress and concerns. He is working so hard to try to mature professionally and emotionally that we are starting to miss the just plain fun side of him. It peeks out now and then.I have experienced some personal growth during this time, but still see areas where I need to make greater changes. I love my family so much and want the best for them. We have tried to set some routines and change some behaviors lately and there has been an improvement in our family relationships. I hope to keep this upward trend. Rich needs organization and scheduling but hasn’t been able to do it on his own. I am encouraging him to do it more. I think he needs me to continue gently reminding him. The boys are so fun. Some of things we have enjoyed doing together lately include swimming, going on walks or to the park, dancing in the family room, playing games like tag or “little pig” in the backyard, and reading. I have been reading the Magic Tree House series with Parker lately which has been really fun. We are on book 20 now. I also wrote Mad Libs with Parker today which he loved. Once again he surprised me with how quickly he picked up on the concept and learned what verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs are.Scott is so sweet and needs much tenderness and a good dose of outdoor physicality every day. Rich and I have both been trying to give him more one-on-one attention and it is helping him. I will be happy when he drops napping out of his schedule. I don’t try to have him nap anymore except when it’s really obvious that he needs one. Otherwise, he won’t go to sleep until really late and when he wakes up from his naps he cries and whines and it takes him a long time to get out of the funk. Sometimes he just drops off to sleep somewhere though, and there’s no rousing him when it happens.I enjoy Tommy so much also. I like to just watch his mannerisms and see him play and hug him. He is a very good little toddler. We are going to have to at least trim his hair soon it’s getting quite long. But, oh! I just love those curls! I am ready to stop nursing him but he is going to make it tough I think.
I feel so blessed. The Lord really knows me and each of my family members and helps to see that our needs are met. How merciful and great is our God. I have really enjoyed all of the lessons in our Relief Society and Priesthood manual this year. It is the teachings of David O. McKay and every lesson has been so enriching and so timely for me. It has seemed as though each lesson was just what I needed that week. It is truly a testament of the truthfulness of the gospel and that Christ heads our church and teaches us through living prophets.