New Things

This is why I love off track. It is 8:30, and the kids are down watching Curious George. I will call them up in 30 minutes to eat breakfast before I put breakfast away. Then I will go run, while they entertain 5 of 5. About 10, they will go play out side until lunch, then we will go run an errand or 2, and we will come home do a few chores before dad comes home and make dinner and eat and relax as a family. No fight to get up and dressed and fed before 8 (3 of 5) no fighting to get out of bed, because we stayed up too late playing in our bed so we are too tired (1 of 5). And no fighting to get them to make their beds so they can play after school (2 of 5). No homework at 4 pm the time husband gets home , so it's a big fiasco.
And after a month long hiatus from sleeping through the night, 5 of 5 slept for 10 hrs. And woke up with a shine new tooth.Well, more of a nub really, but it broke through.

And 4 of 5 woke up with a shiny new shiner. Don't ask. All I know is that I heard he crying, and sent husband downstairs because I was feeding the baby. He came came back upstairs 30 seconds later because she stopped. I'm assuming this is what happened, and she just got over it on her own.

I almost forgot my grateful moment...... I am gratful I can still go to the Temple in peace. My sister sent this email to me this morning.
-I did a little research on this story and found it is true, you can check the article written by the San Fransisco Chronicle... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/26/BAP113OIRD.DTL&tsp=1 . Please keep the saints in California in your prayers. Not sure if anyone has heard about this. I hadn't realized it was getting so out of control. Please keep these Saints in your prayers. Dear family and friends, I had a very disturbing experience yesterday that I would like to share with those of you that live outside of California (or outside of the San Francisco Bay Area). This weekend we have stake conference. Our stake conference always begins with a stake temple session on Friday or Thursday night. Early Friday morning I received a call from the second counselor in our bishopric to let me know that there would be numerous protesters outside the temple, and to remind everyone to stay calm and to drive carefully. The beautiful Oakland Temple is located right across the bay from San Francisco , very close to the city of Berkeley . Apparently the opposition to proposition 8, the amendment that seeks to make marriage in CA between a man and a woman again, has realized the deep involvement of the church and begun to protest right outside of the temple and harass temple patrons. The fastest way to get to the temple from our house is to take the 680 freeway, but the exit is a bit tricky. The off ramp is extremely short and straight uphill. You then make an almost blind left turn, an immediate right and another left into the parking lot. As we approached the off ramp, I realized there would be trouble. There was a backup onto the freeway from cars stalled on the off ramp. As we moved forward inches at a time, we realized this was due to a large group of loud protesters who were standing on both sides of the street, yelling, screaming and waving signs. When we got to the top of the offramp, ready to make our turn, one protester jumped out right in front of our car. It took my husband all his self control to carefully maneuver around him to the left and proceed to the temple. I tried not to listen to all they were shouting at us, but I was shaking as I got to the temple front door. Several of the sisters, especially the ones driving on their own, were crying (which made me snap out of it and go into RS President mode to comfort them). Later, as I was sitting in the perfect quiet of the chapel, I couldn't help but think of Lehi's dream, and the people who mocked the Saints from the big spacious building but 'we heeded them not.' It was a truly surreal experience, I'd never thougth that I would have to go through an angry crowd to get to the temple. As we left late at night, the protesters had dispersed, temple security (who all looked very large and Tongan) stood by the gates. I never saw a single police man. Please pray for those of us in California fighting for prop 8--it's getting kind of scary out here!