Thanksgiving!!!!

Thanksgiving is among us! This is actually my FAVORITE holiday of the year! Don't get me wrong I love  Christmas because of the season it gives us to specifically center our thoughts on the Savior Jesus Christ and His birth. But for Thanksgiving there are no presents, no real hustle and bustle or stress over money and presents, it's all about Family and Friends. It's about complete gratitude. It's a day where you can look back and literally start counting your blessings. I have found that when I count my blessings ( My first and foremost being God, my Eternal Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ) that I have received more "presents" than I could ever ask for.

Life is sometimes like a mound of unfinished laundry

Having my husband work fulltime and in night grad school, at times has been challenging. Sometimes it seems to wear us both thin. We often find ourselves tired, irritated, and feeling like nothing we start ever gets truly accomplished. I have found that Discouragement often tries to find his way into our home as a very unwelcomed guest.
Sometimes I think i  could compare obstacles in our lives to a mound of laundry with a new born baby- it just never seems possible to tackle. But the thing about that mound of laundry is that eventually it does get started and after a while as the new born grows, patterns are made and time is organized to eventually get the laundry washed, folded, and put away. Sometimes you might even get someone to help you clean it.
That's how the gospel works for me. That's how the Savior blesses my life. He makes what seems impossible to my limited knowledge, understanding, and experience in comparison to His, very possible. He makes it so possible that when several children's laundry is added to the mix and makes the mound grow, it somehow not only gets accomplished but betters our lives one piece at a time.

Goals

Lately we have been working on what seems like everything we can, and then when the chaos seems to be to much we seem to center back onto the fact that we just need clear and concise goals, and to work on them one at a time, step by step. Bryan has his goals and I have mine, alot of times they are very different goals, but the blessing of having the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that they gratefully all end in with the same ultimate goal, that of eternal life with our Father in Heaven. I am grateful for goals with purpose.