looking up...

This weekend ended up being one with for the most part no kids. Hmm you would think I would have gotten a lot done. But nope not me.. Malcolm and Cole both had youth conference to go to. They had a pretty good time last night weren't happy about the music at the dance. This morning was there Service project.I have to say we have a great set of youth in our stake. They all had smiles on their faces even though it was early and they were getting wet and working hard. Tonight both of the boys came home not so excited. Cole was a little hunger ridden. He thought he ate too much junk earlier at the service project and went outside and worked it off playing basketball. Then after dinner and the dance was starving. Malcolm couldn't really say what was wrong just he had a weird feeling all night. Tomorrow is testimony meeting. Things sure are different from when I was a teen.
So what did I do with all my spare time while the kids were away. A whole lot of nothing. Still feeling a little under the weather with headaches etc. So I slept and laid in my bed. Such productive day.

Starting to look at the whole picture of life right now differently. I posted on facebook this " trying to remember everythings in gods hands and in his time."
But I like the quote my sister in law Candra responded with so I am going to borrow it from her.."having faith in god includes having faith in his timing"
I thought that summed it up pretty good. Somewhere in the last month I lost my optimistic look at life and challenges. So I am digging hard to find it. Slowly it is coming back... I really think making sure we have family prayer and scriptures has helped.
Doesn't matter where it happens as long as your doing it right? On the way to take Malcolm and Cole to youth conference last night it hit me that we were all going our different ways and we hadn't had prayer or scripture for the night. So Malcolm quoted a seminary scripture while everyone else tried to memorize it. We pulled into the stake center parking lot to a corner and had family prayer. It was nice that the kids understood how important it is. Sometimes it helps to have that reminder.

I got these photos off a friend facebook that she took today. Thanks Velia.