{This should be the Me thinks for this week ...}

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Because I can't stop thinking about it and I can't wait until Monday to write about it. { And its pouring rain outside anyway. }So in reading the ensign (from this month) the other day I found something that brought tears to my eyes because after struggling to put my kids to bed this paragraph from Elder M. Russell Ballard's talk jumped out at me and stayed with me so I want to share it- it says :

"{Author Anna Quindlen} reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: "The biggest mistake I made {as a parent} is the one that most of us make.... I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of {my three children} sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath,book,bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

We only have so much time with them sometimes I know I get caught up with the dinner, book, prayer, and scrip, bed routine. Instead of taking moments that will really matter so I don't have to look back someday when they are grown and say I wish I had.... But its hard to do sometimes in the now. When its been a long, tiring day!

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put perfectly by someone out there, another so true writing:



Why I love being a mother?

It makes me do things I would otherwise never have courage to do.
It makes me see things from a smaller, more innocent perspective.
It makes me more confident in my decision making skills.
It makes me rely on faith and promptings in a way I have never known.
It makes me stick to my guns, and stick up for my kids.
It makes me see how lucky I am to have healthy, happy kids.
It makes me appreciate my own mother more than ever.

Why do you love being a mother?