Happiness

Ethan and his home-made crafting skills Last night was Monday night and that means family night at our house. I was feeling sick and didn't know if it would even happen. We threw something together and it all went smoothly, bloody nose from Ethan and all. Now, just so you know, my sons ( well, Ethan and Jonah) have nose bleeds all the time, so we treat this like a sneeze around here. A bloody nose? Oh, you poor guy. Go get a kleenex. They used to get them all the time at night and would wake up and just cry and cry, blood spurting- all over pillows, pajamas and blankets. I would always wonder why they were crying and by the time I got out of bed and to their side the damage had been done. Finally, I taught them to say "Mom! I'm bleeding!" Those two words would get me out of bed faster than a bird going for the kill on a fresh worm. I would get there and not a thing would have been dripped on! And all this for a Mom who hates, hates, hates blood/needles/Drs/Hospitals/s...

For those of you just tuning in to my blog, I set up a challenge 10 days ago. This said challenge included writing in my blog every single day, including the weekends, for a whole year, reading 2 pages in the Old Testament every day and exercising 3 times a week. It's been a week since I made those goals and let me tell you two things: 1. I've made good progress- I've done more than I usually do and that's what goals are for. 2. The only goal I truly completed was to blog everyday. What does that say about me? That I can find more time to blog than to read the Bible? I still read my scriptures every day, but that extra addition is just not happening. I need to set a time to do it and just get it done. There's a problem with that though. I want to read in the morning, but I wake up around 3 am and just can't see myself studying the scriptures that early. Going online, yes. Studying the Bible, not so much. So by the time nighttime rolls around and it's a more ...