Life is Great

Yesterday was my first day back at church in over a month. I needed it so bad! Even though I was a few minutes late and missed the Sacrament, I still felt completely renewed. I also needed to be with the people who had been praying and fasting for Eliza, and I think everyone was happy to see how well she is doing and how cute she is. :) I love the support system that church offers, not only am I reminded at church that my biggest cheerleader is my Savior but that I have a whole team of people cheering me on and genuinely wishing me the best. What a great blessing! I was also released from my calling in the primary presidency while Eliza was in the hospital and so yesterday I was able to just go to my classes and not worry about anything besides learning and feeling the spirit. I have to admit I'm not sure I understand a single thing that was discussed in Gospel Doctrine class, but it felt good just to be in a room with people striving to understand the life of our Savior, just the same as me. What an amazingly thought out plan our Heavenly Father gave us.

Eliza has been weening off of one of her medications for a week now (this is the medication that makes her super sleepy), so she has many more wake times and is becoming a lot more vocal. This is exciting. I love seeing her awake with her beautiful big eyes open ( I swear I can see her giant soul in those eyes). I also feel confused because she is now starting to be a normal fussy baby that actually will cry, and I'm not used to that with her, I have to learn her and what she wants. It will come but I feel a little behind the curve and nervous.

We seem to be adjusting SUPER well. I really can't believe how easy the transition from two to three kids has been. I even feel like I'm even more put together now than I was before. I seem to be more patient, which does not come easy for me. I'm not perfect by any means (in fact I'm way below the perfect scale) but at least I feel like I'm getting better. I think I'm just so happy to be home and have happy healthy kids that I just don't care about much else and that makes me happy too. Also it helps not to be huge and pregnant anymore (that always make me grumpy). Haha. I even seem to have a little time to continue reading the General Conference talks, which I have decided is important for my daily functioning.

 I'm not sure how Jason is adjusting. He seems to be doing well. He misses the kids during the day like always, but there is a lot more responsibility waiting for him when he comes home. He loves to play with the boys and that helps me a lot. When he gets home from work it is usually when Eliza has decided to wake up for a while and it's also time for me to get dinner ready and the boys are super crazy. So usually it takes a good 30 minutes for Jason to even get to the bedroom to change out of his work clothes (no more unwinding for him in the office, that's for sure!). Amazon had a great sale on kids games the other day so we stocked up on games that were age appropriate for Joseph and for the last three days he has been playing games with the boys and that makes them super happy and me happy because they are out of my hair for 10 minutes. Haha.

Friday was such a beautiful day! I sent the boys out to play in the back yard and they didn't bother me for almost two hours! I even had time to make them a little picnic lunch that they ate on the patio. It was a good day to dig holes and get super dirty.

Life really is great and there really isn't a moment where I don't recognize these special blessings.