What do you say to try to catch up on 5 years since the last blog post. It reminds me of my journal entries where I don’t write for several months and spend the whole entry trying to catch up on events and so when I think about writing in my journal, it just feels like an overwhelming task and so then it doesn’t happen. I’ve been thinking about this blog for a while because I loved looking back through my blog and remembering our adventures and honestly, back when I was blogging, I was as busy as Ive ever been so why not now. Yes life is busy but I need to remember all these beautiful moments that Are passing by. I doubt anyone out there in blogland will read this blog, which is totally fine because I’m not doing it for anyone else. I’m doing it for me and my family.
As I sit here this beautiful Sunday morning, before any of the kids wake up and its quiet, other than the birds calling to each other outside. I have the windows open and I can feel the beginnings of fall. The corn fields I see from my bedroom window have turned from green to gold and some geese just flew over the house as the migration season begins. I feel so so blessed. The thought has come to me lately that I don’t know how much longer things will stay like this. With everything going on in our personal life and in the world right now, I feel like big changes are coming but as I sit here, I realize that the things I am enjoying right at this moment don’t have anything to do with money or world evens but with the senses. I thank God daily for my senses. So much beauty and blessings come from our senses and I believe fully that ‘gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.’
Okay so maybe I will do a quick rundown of the last 5 years. We put our trust in God and feel like He has led us in each direction we have taken. So many things that looked like failures or frustrations as we were going through them, as we look back we see the generous hand of God leading us. Ammon worked for Payson RX He was able to become certified as a diabetes educator. We moved to Salem and LOVED it. It was our city of peace and we bought our first home and did some remodeling and fell in love with it. The job situation was not great but we felt led to apply for a job that would take us back to Iowa/Nebraska and although it was very hard to say goodby to all our family and friends and out home in Salem, we eel so blessed this last year as we have lived in Iowa. We currently are unemployed but I know HeavenlyFather is aware of our needs and we are continuing to try to hear his voice and follow what he wants us to do and where he wants us to go. One of the great blessings he has given us this past year has been Bennett. We thought we were done having babies but in 2018 I felt like there was one more that was supposed to come to our family and help teach us some important things. We had been trying for about 6 months to get pregnant and a few days after we moved to Iowa, I discovered I was expecting. The timing really scared me but God is in all the little details. Bennett has been such a treasure for us. He has truly been such a joy these past 7 months as the world has been in Chaos. We are so grateful for his light and the blessing he is to our family.
A few months ago, Ammon was called as the bishop of the ward. It was completely unexpected and has been a big learning experience for him and our family.
The year 2020 has certainly been a big year as far as world changing events. Rather than go into all the events that have happened with the Worldwide pandemic and the rioting and division of our country, I will just say that I know this is all playing a role as we prepare for the Second Coming of our Savior and I feel it is a test to see how each of us will personally react. It’s so hard seeing all the hatred and hard to not feel divided as we cannot gather as we would like to. Going into stores and seeing everyone in masks is surreal. As the world gets more and more crazy and as things have changed in the education world, I realized it was time to change things up and bring my kids home for school. Addie has chosen to stay in the public school system for now but Kimball, Avonlea, and Jarom are all doing homeschool. It was a hard thing to face choosing to do homeschool again and giving up the freedom of having time during the day to get stuff done now that all my kids (except Bennett) were in school but I realized that Heavenly Father was giving this opportunity and I needed to step up and take it for what it was, which is is a blessing. I know it is going to be challenging and busy. Especially since Bennett started crawling the week we started homeschool but I know this will be a great opportunity to teach my children the most important things in life that they need for the days ahead. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to begin this blog again so that I can capture our new adventures as we begin again this homeschooling journey.
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