Grateful Sunday

* Two old friends called tonight, completely out of the blue. It's made me a little nostalgic. I have met so many amazing people in my life, people that I really love, and I wish I could keep in better contact with everyone! But tonight I had a great time chatting with Lindy and Monica. I love it when you can pick up and start talking like you just saw each other yesterday!

* My busy month of Primary commitments came to a close tonight. I feel like my work in Primary truly goes in waves. I taught Sharing Time this month. Our quarterly activity was this month, while I wasn't in charge, I did help. Tonight we had our Great to be Eight Baptism Preview fireside. I was so excited about it. I help coordinate the youth baptisms and so I was in charge of the fireside. It went well. It was nice to talk to the parents and kids about what to expect, and how to prepare. I compiled a booklet for them including FHE lessons, Friend articles about baptism, and answers to questions they may have regarding baptism. I am also grateful for my wonderful husband. I could not fulfil my calling without his support.

* Baby sitting trades. I love lots of date nights. Regular baby sitting trades seems to ensure that it happens!

* Ensign articles. This last week we started something I read about in the Ensign. As part of our Love at Home month I thought a little more quality dinner conversation would be nice. We've been going around the dinner table and sharing one positive and one negative thing that happened everyday. It's really helps give us some conversation fodder, and insight into what our children are thinking and doing, and what's important to then. Doug questioned why I wanted to have us share a negative thing. I want our kids to talk about and share the good and the bad. This opens that door. I want to expand it to encorporate what Elder Eyring spoke about at conference, in helping your family look for the blessings of the Lord in their lives, and identifying them as such.

* Prayer. That's the only way I am going to be able to figure out which pre-school to put Sophia into next year. I am really torn, and am not sure which one's best for her.

* Courage. I had the courage to go to the HOA meeting in my neighborhood this week. Not only did I go, but I had the courage to speak up. I was by far the youngest one there. There are many young families in my neighborhood, but the people who attend the meetings are older. Therefore the young families are severely underrepresented. I asked for a fence around our playground, some swings in the playground, and morning hours at our pool. I was able to find out who to direct my lifeguard complaints to (they are just young teenagers, but I don't think that gives them to act as immature as they do somestimes!) Over all, it was a very productive use of my time. Now I'll have to see if it yields any results. But it felt good to voice some of my concerns to someone who can make changes, rather than complain just for the sake of complaining.

*Dancing. Tara B. from HP* ward asked us to come give a little dance lesson at their wards post Valentines dance. I don't know how our lesson went, but the dance was so fun. We love to dance and don't get to go often enough. We brought the kids in for the last few minutes, they loved it too, we have lots of dance parties in my bedroom, but this was a real dance party!

*Books. I love to read to my kids.