Days, like today

Today started out just like any other normal day except, it was the first day back to school from Christmas break. We were all on a late schedule and it was hard for my kids to fall asleep last night. I knew waking them up would not be the easiest. My alarm went off at 5:30am, and I finally rolled out of bed by 6am. I only had 30 minutes till I start waking up the kids. I had two choices, Relax, take a shower, and get my self ready or start my day off right with prayer, scriptures, and writing in my journal. After that, I had about 10 minutes till I started waking the kids up. The night before I had talked to my dad about something that he had read in his patriarchal blessing. That particular sentence that we talked about was just so neat to talk about. With out being too personal, and respecting his personal sacredness to his patriarchal blessing, we talked about a particular struggle that he had gone though and how he had over come that struggle. We also talked about what it says in his patriarchal blessing about this particular struggle. It's funny how certain things in our patriarchal blessings stick out at different times in our lives. I haven't read mine in a few months, and thinking about the conversation we had last night, gave me a little push to read my own. Sometimes I get nervous reading mine just because I over think and analyse everything. So, before I read my patriarchal blessing this morning, I decided to say a pray. I prayed for calmness while I read, I prayed that I would read with an open mind, I prayed that anything my father wants me to know, that I'd be in tune and be able to listen with my heart. Reading my blessing this morning set the mood in the house for the entire day. Which in turn set my mood as well. Today was (as I told Skyler when he got home) hands down, the best day in a long time. Reading my blessing was a really good choice to make. Today was more than that though, it was just so fun to have a day off to spend time with my buggy,  to take the kids to school, to really clean the inside and outside of the traverse (TRUST ME...it was BAD, and now it looks SOOO GOOD), get laundry caught up, clean and organize the basement from 2 weeks of Christmas break and having 11 kids here almost the entire 2 weeks. I got some baby boy clothes out for an almost to be mom and it was so fun to go through those clothes. I forget how little my babies use to be! I miss it sometimes. Today was very peaceful. Today was very inspirational. Today was much needed.