What Do You Do?

Our Little Miracle!

Such a blessing to have happen to our family! We feel such gratitude to our Father in Heaven for the successful surgery that happened to Lacey! We continue to pray for a quick and painless recovery!

Yesterday I went to watch 2 of my young women play softball over at Salk. One was on the JV team and the other plays Varsity. While I was there I saw two teachers that I used to work with. It was great to see them but what I thought was interesting was that both asked me, 'what do you do now?' And to be perfectly honest I stammered and stuttered to answer. To one I said in jest, 'absolutely nothing' and to the other I rattled off a list of things that I have been doing such as visiting family, going to the temple and gardening. But as I later thought about it I was mad at myself for feeling defensive about being retired and wanting to justify my being at home! It was how I felt when I was a stay-at-home mom. Surely I was doing more than running a household and raising a family? (Sarcasm intended)

So I have come up with my answer should I find myself asked again and I'm sure I will be. I will reply that 'every day is different and I look at what needs to be done that day and what the Lord will prompt me to do'. 

For instance, today I made my to-do list (which I do every day) and thought 'I am going to get a lot done today'. And while I did get a lot done, there were a number of things I didn't get done. Because there were texts to send out about our combined activity tomorrow and some of my chores took longer to do and the Relief Society bulletin board materials that I needed to collect took about 2 hours instead of the 1 hour I had allotted it. So on tomorrow's to-do list I will add canning tomatoes, putting up the bulletin board and finding a new cross stitch pattern to begin. And that's okay. My days are mine and I fill them as I see fit and you know what? 

That makes me very, very happy!