Thornton Mom

John Derek and I played Jenga.  I enjoy playing games and he enjoys playing them too. I am continually amazed at how the Lord works.  This morning my husband volunteere to take the children to school and let me stay home and sleep.  I was delighted.  As I walked to my bedroom I felt the prompting to go sit and the computer and read my scriptures.  I dismissed it and got in bed, thinking surely the Lord will let me sleep.  I then had that thought that maybe the Lord wanted to tell me something and I should go listen.  That got me out of bed and I sat down at the computer.  I was drawn to a video about addictions on lds.org entitled Redeeming the Dead Redeamed Me .  I watched it and then turned back to my blog and read Stephanie Nielsen's blog about overcoming Pain Meds .  Which lead me to an artical by Elder Ballard entitled: O That Cunning Plan of the Evil One .  I have been dealing with the addiction to food.  This ...

Yesterday I took Michael to the doctor for his hurt leg.  The hope was that he would be better and we would go home splint and cast free.  Instead we were directed to the Children's ER at Wake Med.  How grateful I was that my mother in law stepped in and picked up kids from school, fed everyone pizza, and took care of them while I went to the ER.  What a blessing to have such wonderful in-laws.  The ER is very nice.  I felt very well taken care of it is just a long wait.  Michael loved pushing the big red button on the remote.  This would call the nurse and I would appoligize.  I have a feeling this happens a lot.  Michael was exhausted and I was blessed with ideas like, turn of the lights, lay him on the bed and rub his back, turn on the white noise app, sing him a song, and before long he fell asleep in my arms.  Twice in one week I feel so blessed.  I also felt blessed that my child was not in pain.  I could h...