How was your morning?

This morning is one of the mornings in which I look longingly toward the time I am in a nursing home or better still… the psychiatric ward. I look forward to the time when all I have to do is be taken care of. I don’t see it happening, but it’s a nice dream.


I was lucky enough to listen to the 1st session of conference yesterday with the girls yelling, crying, and hitting each other. You can’t imagine what an uplifting meeting that was. Then for the 2nd session, Elaina was still at it, only this time she was doing it all with Josh. Needless to say I didn’t hear much of conference. I will have to read it when we get the Ensign. 

Then this morning, I was lucky enough to get a sore throat from the screaming I got to do. I am truly blessed to have kids who love hearing my voice strained beyond capacity. My first opportunity came when Elaina didn’t want to wake up. I tried the gentle coaxing, lights on, singing (to annoy her), and all kinds of other things.  She wouldn't budge. 

Then came the morning showers. My how I hate shower time in the morning! Apparently I am the only one who thinks 30 minutes is way too long for a morning shower, especially when you only have an hour to shower, eat, make lunches, get dressed, brush your hair and style it, and when Mike is gone, go pick up Jake from seminary (which takes 15 minutes each way).  Then get to school on time.

I have also been trying to get Elaina better at helping with her lunches in the morning. She is determined to let me continue to make her lunches while she sits and whines about what I put in her lunch bag. I figure it isn’t that hard to help with a lunch, but I am apparently mistaken. It is truly difficult. The effort it requires is too much for my darling 1st grader. Never mind that most of the lunch items are pre-packaged or easily obtained. Oh what a foolish thing for me to ask of her!

This was just a typical morning. Yeah!