Christmas Sunday

As I prepared for church today, and sat through my three hours of church meetings....I realized my thoughts should have been turned to my Savior....but instead I couldn't stop thinking of my dear sweet husband who I love so much!! Since getting his new job at Ebay he has been having to work Sundays....which in turn leaves me a "single mom" of three. I get up at 4am and work until 7:30am...wake up the boys and get all four of us fed, bathed, and dressed and to church by 9am. Then three hours of church BY MYSELF....including teaching a class with Macks on my lap since he REFUSES to go to nursery. And all I can think about each week are two things.

#1 -Those fabulous real single moms....or moms whose husbands have demanding Sunday church callings....or those moms with inactive or non-member husbands.....and how they do this alone every single week. They are my heros!! I only survive because I see the light at the end of the tunnel and know this is nothing permanent and in a few months Bill will be able to be home on Sundays.

#2 - I wouldn't say I "nag" a lot....but every once in a blue moon (okay, maybe dailey) I just might forget and do it. One of those "blue moons" seems to happen a lot on Sundays when Bill WAS home to help and I didn't think he helped very much. I thought I pretty much got 3 kids + myself ready in the same time he took care of himself....AND he was still the last one to walk out the door.....he IS the slowest getting ready person you'll ever meet! So I may have given him a hard time about that once in a while. But now that I really am truly doing it all by myself I realize that the little things he DID do to help really made a difference....and I feel slightly guilty about the nagging. I really miss him on Sundays......Thank you for all you do honey!

I tried getting a good picture of my boys in their cute Christmas outfits from Nani and Papa and this is the best I could do. Oh well, maybe next year.

Mason's eyes were "burning" (from who knows what) and he couldn't open them if his life depended on it....Macks woke up like this and stayed like this until he went down for his nap a few minutes ago.....and Madden was an angel. I need a nap!!