Dancing with Daffodils

 Where has the time gone? These past two weeks have flown by. We've been doing all the normal things like seminary, school, cross country, baseball, dance and church activities. It was my dad's 86th birthday, Josh had the day off last Friday but the roof guy came and we're finally getting a new roof after years of trying to make it work, Curtis went on a camp out with the boys from church, Brandon has had a couple of baseball games, lots of dancing for our girls and Nutcracker auditions are this weekend so Lily is nervous, we all got our flu/COVID shots one night for family night, we had the sister missionaries over for dinner, I taught Relief Society on Sunday and that was fun and I got a mammogram, which wasn't fun.  Our ward is doing a food drive as part of the stake Bag Hunger event this weekend. We decided to fulfill Josh's dream and do a pizza pop up restaurant. He can't sell the pizza without making it in a commercial kitchen but we traded it for food ite...

It has been so busy. But I had a profound experience where I pondered what brings me joy and I'm really trying to focus my life on those things and recognize that they bring me joy. For example, I really feel joy in being healthy and strong so that translates me to going to the gym more often. When I was there Friday doing spin for the first time in a few months, my natural reaction was to think it was hard and I have so much to do I should have stayed home but then I remembered, this brings me joy so just do it! It has helped me feel much better about our seminary schedule and getting up early and even cooking for my family because those things all connect back into core principles that bring me joy.  Last week everything started so we had a very chill Labor day and then it was up at 5;45 for seminary and Lily and Emma both started dance that afternoon and I had my first piano lessons. I was extremely tired on Wednesday after going to the gym and grocery shopping and I barely made...