"Hey Life!!! SLOW DOWN!"

Just a little update of why I've fallen off the map the past few weeks! Here's a list of my adventures:

• Married Picnic courtesy of Aaron and Ali!
• Drove to St George for two weeks in a row for my internship
• 7 Statistics Homework Assignements
• 6 exams (Exercise Physiology, Worksite Health Promotion, Obesity and Weight Management, Substance Abuse and Addictive Behavior, and TWO statistics exams
• Reading for well over 100 pages for Exercise Phys
• 5 Quizzes
• 7 papers
• A trip to Elba and Burley Homecoming (first time in FOREVER that we actually got to go TOGETHER)
• Work was thrown in throughout the mix
• A Beer Handler's License Meeting (its for a class!)
• Dinner with my scholarship
• babysitting for Cole's sister
• and Homework Homework and more Homework
  

And all of this at the expense of the husband! No time to grocery shop or clean the apartment....not ideal! Poor guy! Good thing I lucked out with him!

Last night- we went to Herriman. Cole watched Maddison, Bryson, and Dawson and I went to a Young Womens night with Brooklyn. There was a speaker there who, though she was a bit odd, was a very, very powerful speaker. She talked about the role of being virtuous women in the world and that these girls are the women of tomorrow and the need the world has of them to be strong, courageous, completely converted women that teach their sons with the same power that the mothers of the Stripling Warriors.

She quoted Alma 56: 47-48.

47. Now the never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.

48. And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.

What a great perspective that I needed! After the craziness of life and the constant stress of school, what a great reassurance of peace and of purpose. She said something else that really struck me that I realized needs to be a greater focal point in my life. She said that when she was younger and if someone asked her what she wanted to be-she would have never said a Mother. Not that she didn't want to be one- she knew she would be- but she had other life ambitions. But with all the power of her voice she said "I am a Mother! I was sent to this earth to be a Mother! All of my life ambitions and education prepared me- not for a career- but for Motherhood."

I have an awesome Mother! She, individually, is the reason I have an eternal family, an eternal marriage, and that my two brothers have temple marriages. She alone! What a great woman I someday hope to be like...but in a few more years! Haha.

XoXo

Jamie