December has been great and busy. The girls just had their dance recitals. So fun to watch. Danny has been fun to watch on his school's basketball team. They lose most of their games but they can only get better. Aaron and Seth are playing NJB basketball. Life is busy and full.
I finished going to Valerie's class. I realized another issue I had was that because of some promptings I've missed in the past, I was afraid that I can't hear the Spirit all the time. Valerie talks about how she walks with the Spirit every day and lets him tell her what to do everyday. That sounded too hard to me because of my fear that I can't hear all the promptings. So I was trying to control everything and try to do everything I thought was right instead of listening for promptings to tell me what to do. And I'm sure I was probably harder on myself than the spirit would be. And it wasn't as peaceful. So I tried it and it felt so good. I feel like there's a big cloud of things that need to be done all the time and before I was trying to grab them all. But with the Spirit I feel like I can let that cloud float all around me and the spirit will tell me what to grab. It feels so much better. I'm not so good at it when I get tired or forget to ask for help. But it's definitely better.
A month after I figured these things out, I was still having big issues with sleep and breathing. I feel like my mind and spirit are much more at peace. But my body isn't at peace. It responds extremely to stress. Like one night I had a half of a thought that I wished I was going to bed early and I wouldn't have thought much of it, but my lungs constricted and it took me hours to go to sleep. It's like my body overreacts to everything. So I went to see Valerie again to see if I had more issues I didn't know I had. She said she thought I was doing well and referred me to her doctor friend, Dr. Kruger. He's kind of a chiropractor but not really. He says he works in functional healing. So not bad like going to a hospital, but helps things function better. He's retired and only sees a few patients from his home. He's such a kind, good man. I've been to see him 3 times. He thinks he can help me and that it'll take about 6 weeks of 2 visits a week. He did a bunch of tests on me and says I'm slightly out of alignment in so many ways and that puts pressure on nerves and organs, which sends toxic signals to my brain and that can be why my body reacts so extremely. I'm just so relieved that someone can tell me what is going on. Doctors haven't been able to help and then Valerie told me all the things wrong with my brain. And it still didn't fix things. I don't know who else could have helped me. I'm really hopeful. I'm so looking forward to breathing normal. I've been having issues with this on and off since I was pregnant with Seth. And it's been constant for the last year.
I had a good experience this last week with it. I got a little relief from the things Dr. Krueger did, but every time I went back my body would be out of alignment again. He said it takes the body a while to relearn how to hold its position. So I'm still not sleeping or breathing well. Last week was the last week before Christmas break and it was so crazy busy. I was awake a lot at night and averaged 4-5 hours of sleep at night. One of the nights I was praying and I asked why the Lord couldn't just help me sleep. But then I realized that it was a really stressful week and with almost no sleep I should have been so grumpy and mean to the kid and easy to cry and slow to process things (how I usually feel on little sleep), but all I had was a headache. I realized that the Lord couldn't help me sleep right then but he had been carrying my burdens all week. It was such a tender mercy to realize how blessed I was even though it wasn't the blessing I thought I needed then.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Sunday, December 4, 2016
December 4, 2016
Halloween was fun. Danny didn't dress up. He went to a teenager party hosted by a family in our ward. Rachel and Ruby were both Pikachu. Pokemon go is big in our house. Aaron was his scream costume again and Seth was a Ghostbuster. The new ghostbuster movie came out and Seth has been on a kick ever since. Actually I guess he was before it came out. He really liked 1 and 2 also.
Rachel started volleyball with a friend from church. It's just a lesson once a week. It's been really nice. She likes it. I think it would be really good for her to be able to try out for volleyball in high school. Now they just tried out for a club team that lasts January to May and it is so expensive. So we're trying to decide now if it's worth it and if she really wants it.
Aaron finished flag football. He has such a good time on that team. We were so glad his coach decided to do flag football again this year. Danny finished ballerz for a while. They take off the winter while they play for the school team. His school team is talking about practicing year round. So that will be a hard choice for him if he has to choose between school and club. He's been with ballerz for a long time and they are so great. Seth just started basketball. He didn't do a sport in the fall. He's loving basketball because he's one of the better players since he's older and his brothers have worked with him a little. Ruby and Rachel are doing dance again. We love their close, little, low-key studio. Ruby is starting to do really well. She still complains a little when I pull her away from playing to take her to class. But she memorized their dance months ago and she practices it everywhere. It makes me so happy!
We went to Austin to visit Casey and Kami over Veteran's day weekend. We had a great time. That must be a slow time for travel because it's the same weekend I found great tickets to go to San Francisco last year. We left Wednesday night and flew over night and came home late Sunday night. So we had 4 full days there. Thursday when we got to their house, we slept most of the morning. Then we went to the State Capitol in Austin and did a little tour. It was pretty. Then we went to a military museum. It was cool, but we only had 20 minutes before they closed. We walked around outside and saw the tanks. Then we found a workout playground place. The kids thought that was great and we stayed there a while. Then we ate barbeque for dinner. Friday we went to San Antonio. We went to the Alamo, which was impressive and fun, but very crowded since it was Veterans Day. Then we went and saw the River Walk. That was really fun. We had great weather while we were there. We ate ice cream there. Then we drove back and ate at our favorite monte cristo place, Cheddars. And we picked up a cake and ice cream and went back to Casey's to celebrate Ruby's birthday. Saturday we went to a fun park with Casey and Kami. Then the kids babysat and the adults went out to dinner that night. Sunday we went to church. We did our vacation church and had a testimony meeting with them in their backyard. After lunch we went of a long walk on a trail by their house that went by 2 parks. A man at the park introduced us to pineapple guava that were growing there. We took some home and tried them. They were good.
Danny tried out for high school basketball and made varsity as a freshman. Their coach is new and he came from coaching basketball at a regular high school so he runs everything just like a regular school would. It's so great. The only problem so far was that Danny had 2 F's and a D. So he's had to work really hard to get those grades up. I'm glad for some more motivation for him because Bob and I have been working on getting him to do better all year and it hasn't helped.
For Thanksgiving we got the whole week off this year. That was great. We stayed home monday and Tuesday and those days were full of taking kids to extra practices and I took a group of girls to do baptisms at the temple. When I was at the temple a little while ago I was praying about when the Lord wants me to do and I felt prompted to help the youth get to the temple and to help Bob's sister get to the temple more.
We left Tuesday night for Ryan's house. Wednesday we went to Magic Mountain with them because they had free passes. We had a lot of fun, but it got really cold and windy toward the end of the day. It's nice that it's so close to their house and we don't have to pay anything to go. Thursday we made the food and went to the park. We ate around 3 when Kristal and Dan got there. Then we went to see the new Disney movie Moana. Friday we went to the beach. It was a really nice day there. Aaron and Seth got in the water. It was hard to keep them out when it was as warm as it is some days in the summer there. They played on the playground too and we ate a picnic. That night we went to Chuck E Cheese for Ella's birthday. Saturday morning my kids babysat and all the adults went to the LA temple. I've never done a session there. It was nice. Then we had plans to go ice skating that afternoon before we headed back but we were too slow and then it started raining and we didn't want to get into traffic so we just drove home.
Rachel started volleyball with a friend from church. It's just a lesson once a week. It's been really nice. She likes it. I think it would be really good for her to be able to try out for volleyball in high school. Now they just tried out for a club team that lasts January to May and it is so expensive. So we're trying to decide now if it's worth it and if she really wants it.
Aaron finished flag football. He has such a good time on that team. We were so glad his coach decided to do flag football again this year. Danny finished ballerz for a while. They take off the winter while they play for the school team. His school team is talking about practicing year round. So that will be a hard choice for him if he has to choose between school and club. He's been with ballerz for a long time and they are so great. Seth just started basketball. He didn't do a sport in the fall. He's loving basketball because he's one of the better players since he's older and his brothers have worked with him a little. Ruby and Rachel are doing dance again. We love their close, little, low-key studio. Ruby is starting to do really well. She still complains a little when I pull her away from playing to take her to class. But she memorized their dance months ago and she practices it everywhere. It makes me so happy!
We went to Austin to visit Casey and Kami over Veteran's day weekend. We had a great time. That must be a slow time for travel because it's the same weekend I found great tickets to go to San Francisco last year. We left Wednesday night and flew over night and came home late Sunday night. So we had 4 full days there. Thursday when we got to their house, we slept most of the morning. Then we went to the State Capitol in Austin and did a little tour. It was pretty. Then we went to a military museum. It was cool, but we only had 20 minutes before they closed. We walked around outside and saw the tanks. Then we found a workout playground place. The kids thought that was great and we stayed there a while. Then we ate barbeque for dinner. Friday we went to San Antonio. We went to the Alamo, which was impressive and fun, but very crowded since it was Veterans Day. Then we went and saw the River Walk. That was really fun. We had great weather while we were there. We ate ice cream there. Then we drove back and ate at our favorite monte cristo place, Cheddars. And we picked up a cake and ice cream and went back to Casey's to celebrate Ruby's birthday. Saturday we went to a fun park with Casey and Kami. Then the kids babysat and the adults went out to dinner that night. Sunday we went to church. We did our vacation church and had a testimony meeting with them in their backyard. After lunch we went of a long walk on a trail by their house that went by 2 parks. A man at the park introduced us to pineapple guava that were growing there. We took some home and tried them. They were good.
Danny tried out for high school basketball and made varsity as a freshman. Their coach is new and he came from coaching basketball at a regular high school so he runs everything just like a regular school would. It's so great. The only problem so far was that Danny had 2 F's and a D. So he's had to work really hard to get those grades up. I'm glad for some more motivation for him because Bob and I have been working on getting him to do better all year and it hasn't helped.
For Thanksgiving we got the whole week off this year. That was great. We stayed home monday and Tuesday and those days were full of taking kids to extra practices and I took a group of girls to do baptisms at the temple. When I was at the temple a little while ago I was praying about when the Lord wants me to do and I felt prompted to help the youth get to the temple and to help Bob's sister get to the temple more.
We left Tuesday night for Ryan's house. Wednesday we went to Magic Mountain with them because they had free passes. We had a lot of fun, but it got really cold and windy toward the end of the day. It's nice that it's so close to their house and we don't have to pay anything to go. Thursday we made the food and went to the park. We ate around 3 when Kristal and Dan got there. Then we went to see the new Disney movie Moana. Friday we went to the beach. It was a really nice day there. Aaron and Seth got in the water. It was hard to keep them out when it was as warm as it is some days in the summer there. They played on the playground too and we ate a picnic. That night we went to Chuck E Cheese for Ella's birthday. Saturday morning my kids babysat and all the adults went to the LA temple. I've never done a session there. It was nice. Then we had plans to go ice skating that afternoon before we headed back but we were too slow and then it started raining and we didn't want to get into traffic so we just drove home.
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