Our 18th anniversary came and went a few weeks ago. Hard to believe that it's been that long. And that Sean still likes me. He's a pretty amazing guy to be able to put up with my crap and still love me anyway. We had a pretty low-key celebration. We took a nice drive up to Coalville and had lunch at the Spring Chicken Inn. It was quiet and relaxing. Perfect. Next month we are going to Wendover for dinner and a concert over Valentine's weekend, so I'm counting that as our anniversary as well. We are going to see Queensryche, which is the first band we ever saw in concert together. That was nineteen years ago. Wow.
Josh started back to school last week, which was good because I was getting ready to have him go back. I was starting to get annoyed having him hang out with me every day, even though it was only for a few hours, because he sits on top of me and asks me questions and makes messes when I'm trying to get work done, but I tried hard to just relax and enjoy having him there. I really missed him on his first day back. Some of his little art projects were strewn around my desk and his monster truck drawing was still on the white board, and it made me want to give him a big hug. Sometimes it's nice when people aren't around so that you have a chance to miss them. :)
Courtney has been busy working and having way too much fun. She's got a few debate tournaments coming up and been busy working on scholarship stuff. Crazy. I'm going to cry like a baby at her graduation. I just got roped into doing the all-night senior party. That should be interesting.
Lexi is potty trained. Yay! That poor girl looks so raggedy all the time. She pulls the barrettes and ponytails out of her hair. And then when she gets older she's going to look at pics of herself and go, "Gah! Mu-therrrrr, why did you let me look so terrible??"
I'm hoping that Brittney might actually like this semester of school. Her awesome counselor got her into a class she wanted and she seems pretty happy overall with everything. Hates P.E., but duh. Unavoidable. She just joined the mock trial team and is taking pictures this week for yearbook. Hopefully she'll have a fun semester. If I could just figure out how to help her reduce the number of migraines she's been having. She claims it's P.E. and thinks I should try to get her out of it. Hmmmm.....
I was reading an interesting article and then a blog discussion on an LDS blog today. The discussion was about whether people who couldn't find a temple marriage partner are better off not to get married at all than to marry a good person in a civil ceremony. There were people who argued both sides, and frankly, I was surprised. There were people who vehemently believed that there are two choices: a) single and celibate forever or b) temple marriage. I don't know why that surprises me so much, but it does. As someone who isn't temple endowed/sealed and never will be and (obviously) won't encourage my kids down that road, it's such a foreign way of thinking to me. I understand that temple marriage is the ideal for LDS, but I was just surprised that some people think that being alone is better than being married to a person with good values who isn't a church member. The other thing that was funny, while at the same time disturbing, was that one poster made a list of undesirable people to be married to (drunks, child abusers, puppy-kickers, anti-Mormons) and lumped agnostics in there. I used to consider myself LDS agnostic if there can be such a thing, but now I think of myself as just a sort of general Christian agnostic, but I guess I didn't realize I keep such unsavory company? Seriously, you would never want to marry a dope smoker, a porn director, or one of those agnostics. LOL
Rather than New Year's Resolutions, I decided this year to try to make monthly goals. So here are my February goals:
*Family council twice a month
*No treats until dessert (I will snack on a cookie here and 2 cookies there until I've eaten 7 cookies in the course of an afternoon/evening)
*Limit 2 cans of Diet Pepsi a day
*Lower the noise level at our house-- we are LOUD people
*Be less boring. I've really been wrapped up in my kids more than I feel is healthy and I've lost more of my own identity than I feel good about. Do at least 2 fun things that I want to do.
That should do it for now. I think those are pretty achievable to start.
3 comments:
Good luck with your goals, Shannon. I am at least a 2 can a day person also. You are a wonderful person/teacher/mother/sister/friend, so I'm sure you'll find things to do for YOU! Keep us posted. Not sure I could acheive those goals.
I dunno what I think about the whole temple marriage thing. I guess it just depends on the person. For me, I would want a temple marriage so bad that I don't know that I would be happy without or without working towards one. Also, religion is a huge part of my life, so I don't think I could really be happy with someone who I couldn't share that with. Obviously there are great people out there, but I just don't feel like we'd have enough in common if they didn't share my religious beliefs.
I am about ready for Em to go a way for a little while so I can miss her! ;)
I like your goals. That sounds good. We've become loud people, too. Last night Abby was jabbering, Emily was crying because Abby bit her, Pete was yelling up the stairs at her to quit crying, the tv was on, and I was telling Pete to quit yelling! All the makings for a headache.
great goals... I just love being down there with other chamberlains- it is about the only time my kids are not the loudest!
I am very boring right now. It makes me a little sad cause it affects friendships..but I hope not to always be like that!
agnostic? I had to google that to be sure I knew what that meant. Interesting- I didn't know that about you. I don't think I ever thought before I got married in the temple, that I either get married in the temple or be single FOREVER! however both of my grandmas were married to my grandpa's who were never LDS so they obviously weren't married in temple- but the hard thing for both of my grandma's which they would talk to us about is that it was really hard to be active in the church with a husband who could care less about the gospel or church activity or activities, so they really let me know how that affected their life in not a great way. Anyway... ..
yes, I am enjoying ems being at a sleep over tonight, I will probably need more than one night to miss her though! :) oh is that mean?
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