Barber Bustlings

Saturday we had a Stake Women's Conference. It was wonderful. I went to three great classes: surviving/loving motherhood, strengthening and maintaining your testimony, and women are extraordinary. The classes were uplifting and rejuvenating. One statement from the motherhood class has stayed with me: you may not be a perfect mother, but you are the perfect mother for your family. The class on testimony put the importance of maintenance in perspective by comparing it to car maintenance. We may do okay for awhile without taking care of the car, but one day when we expect the car to work for us, just like it usually does, we will find that our neglect has caught up to us. We can't let our testimonies fall by the wayside. In the extraordinary class we had to write three things that made us as individuals extraordinary. I encourage whoever reads this to do the same! We all wrote completely different reasons, but it was great to write it down and feel unique. I left the conference fe...

always very creative with her poses future gamer on the loose! Landon is walking. Yippee! I asked Myles what he was doing and he said, "Just resting on the floor." So crazy! My little diva Myles' field trip to the fire station Landon likes to play in the armoire Landon is walking and we love it. He holds his hands up, as if to say, "Stop, don't shoot!" He got sick this past week with croup. He is feeling better but seems to have forgotten how to sleep through the night. He has been waking up the past several mornings at 4. We go in once to make sure he's not sick or peed on, give him the pacifier and let him cry it out. Sometimes it only takes an hour, other times an hour and a half. The main problem with this (besides how annoying it is to us) is that Myles wakes up and can't go back to sleep. This makes my sleep anxiety worse. So I am awake between 4 and 5:30, then dead tired the rest of the day. And I refuse to go to bed at 8 just to get some dec...

The physical therapist has allowed me to run 1 mile/day, three times this week. I did it today and my foot has been numb off and on all day. I am really reconsidering this running obsession. I love to run and I miss it. But I don't know if it is worth the stretching 3x/day or the physical therapy twice a week. Stretching takes up 2 hours of my day and I don't see any improvement. I miss being able to wake up and go for a run. Will that ever happen again? It seems like the more we do at physical therapy, the more we find wrong with my leg. Did I really run a marathon and now I can't even do a mile without repercussion? Frustrating!