I'm going to have to start from now and work backwards. I've been sooooooo negligent to my blog, and ultimately to my journal. I hope my kids have a better memory than I do, because there just is no guarantee that I will ever get this in order and up to date, and keep it that way always. But I have found new motivation to do so. A friend of mine shared something at church a couple of weeks ago about her nephew who has a terminal illness. The Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him a wish, and without much time or thought at all, he was insistent on meeting President Monson! Isn't that wonderful?? He's so young, and he could have gone anywhere, done anything, and he decided to meet our Heavenly Father's living prophet!! When the time came and they sat in his office for several hours, just chatting and getting to know each other, President Monson said that there are 2 things each person really should do to fully live the gospel, and one of those two things was to...
...ready for it??
KEEP A JOURNAL!!!!!
And there I was listening to her, thinking... GREAT... just great. I'm so crappy at doing that. I just can't keep up anymore with all that's going on, BUT... I have changed my thinking a little and decided that maybe I really can't, but I am going to TRY HARDER!!!
With that said... here we go!!
Today {Friday, March 16th} Lexi and Braeden headed off to school donning their St. Patrick's Day shirts, since Lucky, the leprechaun who makes an annual visit to their elementary school, would be visiting today!! Lexi wouldn't be able to enjoy that since she was headed off on a field trip to the Santa Rosa Plateau for the entire school day! We went there last year with our neighbors, and the kids really loved it!
Ok... now that that's out of my system, we can move on to better things!
Braeden has started baseball, and we are still waiting to hear about Lexi and soccer. They are struggling to get enough coaches for her age division, so they have held off on assigning teams yet, hoping that people will step up and do it. I know what you're thinking. But I'm NOT... I PROMISE!! Even I know that it's practically impossible for me to take it on! I just hope that someone else will do it and that she makes it on a team.
Braeden plays for the White Sox this season, and is having a hard time adjusting to the machine pitch. He does great at practice, but chokes when he gets to the games. He is so nervous. I don't know why, though, he's never been so anxious before. He is the 2nd youngest on the team, and he is always comparing himself to the two oldest... who are pushing 9 this year, and also play travel ball. They are really good, but if he'd just relax, he would be just as good. He struck out 4 times in the last game, and just totally lost it. Poor little guy. It hurts me to see him sad and down on himself. He went to the back of the dugout to say a quick prayer, but what he doesn't realize is that he needs to exercise his faith and try his BEST. He wants the quick fix, and he thinks sometimes that Heavenly Father will work a magic trick for him, but I've told him that even though He is VERY CAPABLE of working magic if He wanted to, that's just not how it works. We have to try. We have to believe. We have to have faith. Now, I know that is prayers may not help him hit a grand slam and fix all his problems, but the prayers can help give him comfort and help him relax if he will exercise his faith. Let's just hope that if the game doesn't get rained out tomorrow that he will remember the things we've talked about and the practices he's had, and RELAX!!! {I should note here that he got a game ball the game before... so it's not totally in the toilet!!}
Damian and I stayed after the last game with him and let him hit balls with us pitching for over an hour. The girls were so great about it. They didn't ask if it was "time to go" once. They were really supportive. For once! ;o)
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