The Six of Us

I wrote this on Sunday.... It has been quite the week.  I had a sibling in the hospital and there was lots of frustration around that.  Then I went to the doctor and she said everything looked on track for me to deliver near my due date.  Umm...I was sort of hoping that the baby would come sooner then that I am pretty sure that he will. But who really knows.  I have never made it to my actual due date so maybe to average things out this kids will come a few weeks late. Everybody has thoughts on when I can or can not deliver.  The biggest thing is to make it through the work week and then I will feel better about having this baby.  Then somebody thought I was being induced this week.  Not sure where exactly that came from but then she questioned why I was still working if I was having a baby next week.  Because the plan is to work until I deliver.  12 weeks goes way too fast I don't want to spend one minute taking time off if I am not able...

This weekend I had a friend in town.  Saturday we went and watched the kids swim and then ate way too many sno cones.  She beat Jake at chess twice and it was so nice to have her around.  Sunday we went to church long enough to hear Jake give his talk and then we went out to lunch and shopping.  and there is where the fun ended. ;)  She insisted before leaving town that I had to get something ready for the baby.  So Lee pulled all the baby clothes out of the attic.  I thought there were only a few boxes  but there was far more then that.  We got rid of all the girl clothes and then the boys clothes went back to the attic or in Jake's room.  The swings were taken out and the covers were washed.  So although now I am still missing a car seat I feel fairly prepared for this baby.  Yesterday I started having contractions not the in labor kind but more the I did too much kind.  The kids are leaving Wednesday and it will b...

Today is the day that my friend arrives.  House isn't as as clean as I wanted thanks to the doctor's appointment yesterday and way too much time swimming at my mom's house yesterday.  Anyway, life is good.  We have been so blessed.  I have lost two pounds in less then a week.  I also lost some fluid.  But since the baby was measuring well the doctor wasn't concerned.   My mom has been so great this week.  We have been over there every day this week swimming.And we will be over there today and tomorrow as well.  This bike trip has flown by and it doesn't seem like Lee has been gone a week.  Which is a good thing. Staying busy helped so much.

My friend comes tomorrow.  Lee is home on Saturday,  Jake is giving a talk on Sunday and kids are leaving Wednesday for four days with their grandparents at the cabin. Thursday is parent's meeting for football.   I am hoping for a date next week but with Lee working in will be a very short one.  Meanwhile I am trying to drink enough water.  Another test today to make sure fluid levels are high enough. Today we will clean and go to my mom's for swimming and then back for cleaning.  I am making bread and I have managed two batches of wash today. Lee is hiking tomorrow.  Honestly it was the one thing I was hoping they would not get to.  It is a pretty intense hike.  I am so glad he is having a good time.  I am glad he has these trips. I am glad he has a week to get away from real life.    Next year when he is gone I hope to head to Washington for a few days.  But we will see how that goes.  Maybe we will go to...

Lee left and we have spent today and yesterday swimming.  My parents have an above ground pool and the kids (especially Jake) love it.   Yesterday we went to the city pool and although it was short lived because the of the rain the kids had a blast. 

Today I debated going to church.  It hurts to sit for three hours and going by myself with the kids was not appealing.  But I went anyway.  One of the couple's Lee home teaches spoke.  He spoke about how it is the home teachers responsibility to teach the gospel to the families they home teach and how it is the responsibility of the families to make sure a lesson is brought every month.  I was so proud of Lee.  Because I know that he brings a lesson each and every month to this family.  I see him every month preparing the lesson to take.  For Lee it isn't a last Sunday of the month thing he likes to go the first Sunday and then follow up with the families. 

I realize although my children and husband are the most important thing to me that they are not to other people.  Yesterday after a conversation with both a family member and my daughter I came to the conclusion that my children will never be as important to some people as I think they should.  I know there are lots of reasons for this.  I am grateful for my parents who do make my children feel important and I guess that is all I can do at this point. I know that my disappointment comes from me have expectations of people that maybe I should not have.  But it is hard to explain to the kids.  So we don't tell the kids things and maybe sometime when they are older they may understand.