Perspective

Yesterday a family in the ward had their house burn down. It has brought up a lot of memories of our house fire years ago. I actually called Mom and Lee to ask them what was the most helpful when we had our house fire. They both said that just the feeling of love that they felt from everyone, and the comfort of the Holy Ghost. It brought back a renewed since of perspective for all the blessings of the Gospel. The Eternal Perspective as we say.  Tonight my good friend Kim called and invited me to go with her to institute and so I went. I was going to drop off a package of MK things I had for the family earlier in the day and forgot (pregnant brain) Anyway I was going to drop it off after going, well I forgot it again. Institute was wonderful and as we were heading home I asked Kim if she would mind if we went and picked up the package and dropped it off. So here we are at 8:00 at night going to drop this stuff off. When we arrived they were in the middle of pulling soaking wet pictures from albums. Kim and I were able to help them save most of their pictures. Their father had left them with lots of slides and photos, he was a photographer. The smell of the fire brought back lots of memories. Being there and seeing them just so happy to have recovered just those precious memories and not worried about anything else was wonderful. 

So to everyone I would recommend uploading all your pictures to an online storage or onto disks and sending copies to other family members. Also it was brought up to have an up to date video file of all you belongings in your home for insurance purposes. We are definitely going to be doing this.  

May the Lord Bless and Keep you all safe! 

All my love,

Christina

Happy Mothers Day to all the Beautiful Mothers I know

Before I was a Mom,

I never tripped over toys
or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not
My plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.


Before I was a Mom,

I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind
and my thoughts.
I slept all night.



Before I was a Mom,

I never held down a screaming child
So doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night
watching a baby sleep.



Before I was a Mom,

I never held a sleeping baby just because
I didn't want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces
When I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small
could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.



Before I was a Mom,

I didn't know the feeling of
having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel
to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond
between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small
could make me feel so important and happy.



Before I was a Mom,

I had never gotten up in the middle of the night
every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth,
the joy,
the love,
the heartache,
the wonderment
or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much,
before I was a Mom.


This poem was sent to me via e-mail from my beautiful sister Numia.

Happy Mothers Day to all my wonderful sisters, mothers, friends

PreganancyTracker

Life has been extremely difficult lately that is why I have not been posting very often, Sorry. I have had 24 hour morning sickness for the past few weeks along with being exhausted at all times. Things will get better I am sure. And it is all worth it in the end.