I can't manage to keep a blog and a journal right now so this is going to have to be both I've decided. I was asked this week to speak at a baptism for a little girl that I taught in Primary last year. Pretty much speaking in front of people is my worst nightmare! A part of me wanted to say no, of course. But I could never do that to this special little girl who wanted me to do it over everyone else she could have chosen. I found a really cool traffic light analogy (that I'd never heard before) to explain the Holy Ghost and it turned out to be a real blessing to spend the time preparing the talk and to spend my Saturday at a baptism. And I didn't faint while giving the talk, which was totally all I was hoping for! John was really great to help me with all of it because he knows how stressful this kind of thing is for me. We celebrated a fun Valentines Day. We had been filling our Valentine mailboxes with notes for each other all week. The kids loved it and I cherish all the notes that were written, even the ones from Carter. His notes to his sisters all started out, "I love you even when you won't let me play with you." His note to me was, "I love you even when you hold Matson." He's funny, at least it came from the heart!
I helped at Emily's class party with a cake walk type game with Valentine prizes. The only problem was I forgot the prizes at home! Ya--it was super awesome. I finished preschool and rushed my boys to the school and got there with 10 minutes to spare and I was feeling so on top of everything. It wasn't until her teacher split the class and sent the kids to me that it occurred to me that I left the prizes home and without the prizes it was a REALLY lame game. SO I ran home and missed the start of the party and left my 4 year old to be watched by some room mom I'd never met who probably thinks I'm the mosty flaky parent on earth. And she just happens to be the mother of the boy that Emily has a huge crush on! Thank goodness she's only 7 but I'm thinking that would have been a lot more detrimental to her social life if she was 16. I'll try to pull myself together by then! Hopefully.
The kids helped me make dinner and clean the whole house and then hid to surprise John for Valentines Day. The kids loved it (probably a bit more than John but that's okay :) I can hardly wait for the next holiday I can use that trick on. I've never seen my kids clean that much, that quick! Worked like a charm. :)
Matson is officially 18 months which blows my mind. I really don't like to send my kids to nursery right at 18 months for lots of reasons but mainly because I don't think it's developmentally appropriate for kids to be in a classroom setting at that age (and my pediatrician totally agrees which is another reason I love him). But, our Primary is super duper excited about every new child and has gone out of their way to make sure he makes it to nursery. If I was in charge of a Primary with 200 kids I think I'd just be happy to have on less kid in the nursery, but these guys are going after the one, very literally. They are taking their calling very seriously and it is impressive. They seem a bit offended that we aren't as excited as them about nursery. But, I'd still prefer to keep my baby with me until he's older. And I'm still calling him a baby....maybe forever!
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