More than I bargained for

We have been getting pizza on a semi-regular basis the last couple months.  Is anyone else in love with Papa Murphy's, or am I the only one?  It started when Grant took me to this great pizza place for our anniversary and I have been wanting it again since, too bad the medium pizza we shared cost $18, but it was worth every penny!  Since I can't get that pizza, I've tried to fill the craving with Papa Murphy's, good, but not as good.  Anyway, of the 4 times we have gone, they have made a mistake 3 of those times.  I am not here to complain, 2 times they gave me a family size instead of a large and one of the times I ordered a family size but the cashier only charged me for a large and when I corrected him, he gave it to me anyway!!  I don't like taking advantage of people, but, they let me take them and said it was their mistake.  I just hope next time I call, the same kid who screwed up the last 3 times is there!!!  (I hope I don't get in trouble for telling you this, or for using their picture logo :))

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To young mothers....

A friend of mine, whose blog is private or I would just link you up to her post, posted her Sunday talk on her blog.  GREAT!  One of the talks she used was one by Elder Holland called, "Because She is a Mother".  You should all read the whole talk, I have linked it to the title, but since I know you won't, here are two quotes I really liked, and my friend used in her talk as well. 

"In speaking of mothers generally, I especially wish to praise and encourage young mothers. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. The young years are often those when either husband or wife—or both—may still be in school or in those earliest and leanest stages of developing the husband’s breadwinning capacities. Finances fluctuate daily between low and nonexistent. The apartment is usually decorated in one of two smart designs—Deseret Industries provincial or early Mother Hubbard. The car, if there is one, runs on smooth tires and an empty tank. But with night feedings and night teethings, often the greatest challenge of all for a young mother is simply fatigue. Through these years, mothers go longer on less sleep and give more to others with less personal renewal for themselves than any other group I know at any other time in life. It is not surprising when the shadows under their eyes sometimes vaguely resemble the state of Rhode Island."

"But one thing, she said, keeps her going: “Through the thick and the thin of this, and through the occasional tears of it all, I know deep down inside I am doing God’s work. I know that in my motherhood I am in an eternal partnership with Him. I am deeply moved that God finds His ultimate purpose and meaning in being a parent, even if some of His children make Him weep.

“It is this realization,” she says, “that I try to recall on those inevitably difficult days when all of this can be a bit overwhelming. Maybe it is precisely our inability and anxiousness that urge us to reach out to Him and enhance His ability to reach back to us. Maybe He secretly hopes we will be anxious,” she said, “and will plead for His help. Then, I believe, He can teach these children directly, through us, but with no resistance offered. I like that idea,” she concludes. “It gives me hope. If I can be right before my Father in Heaven, perhaps His guidance to our children can be unimpeded. Maybe then it can be His work and His glory in a very literal sense."  

 

 I just love that insight!  The closer we are to our Heavenly Father, then the more He can teach our children!  Just go right through us in a sense.  When we can get rid of all the walls and detours of pride and sin and whatever else that is keeping a road block between our Father and our children, then He will teach them, guide them, love them and they will return back into His presence!!  I had never thought of motherhood in quite that way until I read my friends talk, and now it opens up a whole new world of trying.  Maybe trying to be patient and kind and loving when I'm tired isn't the right way to go about things.  Maybe reading my scriptures, and praying, WITH REAL INTENT, and then trying to be patient and kind and loving is the right way to go!!

 

So, thanks my friend, Marilou, for a wonderful talk, for posting it and then sharing with me the references!!

 

 

 

Warning......

I know everyone things that their husband is the greatest.  That is really how the world should be.  If we all thought ours were the best, there would probably be less divorce in the world and more happy families.  And so I hate to post this because really, my husband IS the greatest of them all.  He is almost completely finished with a brick paver walkway in front of our house and it looks so awesome!  He even had to cut a few bricks down to fit and he did a great job, they look custom cut!

I will post a picture when he is all done.  I just needed to get it out there to the universe that if you are looking for the best man in the world, he is already taken!  :(  Sorry!