Happy Thought- good quotes

One of my favorite quotes came up in a conversation with Josh tonight and I thought I would pass it along: "Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response and in that pause choose." -Rollo May. I love this quote! Steven Covey has been given credit for it before but it is really the work of Rollo May.

I am back!

So I have arrived back from my homeland. It was great to be with my family and enjoy those relationships that haven't been fortified in a long time. I didn't bring my point and shoot camera so all of the snapshot were left to my sister, parents, and cousins. So I don't have copies of them yet and probably by the time I get copies ya'll won't be interested in my trip any longer. So here is one of my sister and I have some portraits of my nephews and my kids I will post soon. Although the hardest thing about taking pictures of your own kids is that you can't be the mom and the photographer at the same time- so they aren't smiling in any of them but my sister's kids look great. We went to the Phoenix Zoo, the temple, the Prescott Zoo, my cousins took Turner to a Pumpkin patch, we rode a pony, did crafts with Grandma, Turner and Max had their first plane ride, went to homecoming, and overall just had tons of fun hanging out with cousins. I wish I could say that I was glad to be home but I feel like I belong to two different worlds and I am not completely whole in either one. I love AZ but I love UT also for very different reasons. I hope that someday we can find a happy medium.
Natasha's wedding was wonderful. She looked beautiful and her husband (Clint)seemed so excited to be marring her. The ceremony lasted all of 10 minutes but the message the sealer had was amazing! He talked about how he raised 7 children and one of them (Gary) was very good at trying to turn Mom and Dad against each other. One day he sat his son down and told him how much he loved him. He also stated that if he got to the other side and if Gary wasn't there he would be very sad. It would be really hard but if his wife wasn't there then he wouldn't be able to make it to the Celestial Kingdom. So although the relationship that we have with our children is important, it is the relationship that we have with our spouse that is the most essential. The truthfulness of his message was really impressed upon me. It is so easy to get sidetracked while raising small children. His message really helped me rededicate myself to my marriage and make sure that is my top priority in my family.

AZ here I come!

Well, tomorrow morning before the sun is up I will be on my way "home." Josh doesn't like it when I call my parent's house home because it is suppose to be that this is my home now. I love my little town in the Mountains but AZ will always be home. There are so many that I love that live there that it will take many more years of living here before I have the same type of attachment to this place.



I am so glad that I will be there for a couple of weeks because I want to see as many of you as possible! So please email me your phone numbers- teamthomson2005@gmail.com or call me 801.440.3304 on my cell phone. I really need some time to just relax and be with dear friends and family! See ya soon!

It's raining it's pouring

Monday we took our cute little Max to the Dr. for his 6mo. check up. 6mos. can you believe it! Well while we were there I happened to mention that Turner had had a couple of episodes where his heart was racing so fast that I couldn't count the beats- for no apparent reason. It turns out that he probably has a heart condition called supraventricular tachycardia or SVT for short. This isn't a good thing as while he is having an episode his body isn't getting nutrient rich blood because it is pumping so fast that it doesn't have time to get the things that it needs to take to the rest of his body. If his episodes last longer than a few minutes that it could be very dangerous. I have to meet with a pediatric cardiologist at Primary Children's Hospital and rush him into the Dr. or the emergency room next time it happens so they can preform an EKG. Well the ped. cardiologist is booked until Dec. so I guess it is just a bunch of waiting for us. And just for the cherry on top- our dishwasher kicked the bucket the same day. What does all of this mean? That something great must be right around the corner.

Thank You For Your Love!

I have been very touched by the out pouring of concern that has been expressed for Josh and I after my last post. Josh has been having some severe pain in his abdomen on and off for the last month or so. He had been to the doctor and he hadn't been able to diagnosis he up to this point. He was scheduled to return today for more testing but after a series of attacks on Friday he decided that he couldn't wait and went to the ER in Salt Lake since he was down there for work. By this time I was pretty sure that it was Gallbladder disease due to the fact that I had my gallbladder out last October. After tests the ultrasound confirmed that his "gallbladder was chock full of stones and contracting down around them." (Dr. Patel, discharged consultation)

They decided since he was so far from home to discharge him so that he could have the surgery up here with the surgeon that preformed my operation. The only downfall is that he is booked 2 weeks out just for a consultation! So he is trying to eat very carefully to avoid another attack. He is home from work today so he can meet with the Dr. The biggest problem with all of this is that I am suppose to be leaving Friday for 2 weeks for my sisters wedding. I am worried to leave him while I am gone. I am going to have to make a list for him of things he can and can not eat and hope that he doesn't have another attack again because then they will probably have to do an emergency surgery. So in short we are doing well now and thankful that it wasn't appendicitis!
P.S. on a happy note, if I am able to really leave- I will be in AZ for 2 weeks! Anyone down there want to hang out?

cancellation

Due to my husband being in the ER all day today, the weather forecast and lack of interest the sisters reunion is cancelled. I hope this last minute new isn't an inconvenience for anyone!

Happy Thought- Parties

As long as I can remember I have always loved a good party. Birthdays as a child were always magical- if it was your party or someone else's it didn't matter- just any reason to get together was enough. Of course as I got older it just seemed like there were more and more opportunities to get together- stake dances, movie parties on Friday night, a night out with the girls. In High School it was a party pretty much Friday and Sat. night and then along came college um... that was just one big party Monday-Sunday you could almost always find something awesome going on. So here I am and it seems like no one ever gets together for a party anymore! Someone has to get pregnant,married, or wants to earn some Pampered Chef goods for us to get together and even then around here no one shows up. As you know I am selling Usbourne books and I was talking to someone who is having a party and they were worried that people would be offended at being invited! As you also know I am suppose to be having a sisters reunion this weekend and besides Shannon whose idea it was I have had one other person say they hoped they could come... is it just the area I live in? Is it just the people I associate with? I went to a baby shower last night and it was for 4 girls and hardly anyone showed up! What I am saying is that I love a party.. I know it is harder once all of your friends have children and you start to think.. if I have 3 friends over and they have an average of 3 kids a piece that could be up to 15 people not to mention the ensuing chaos. I guess all I am saying folks is that I love parties and I am thankful for the sacrifice and effort that people who choose to still to have them put into it. In the words of my good friends Wayne and Garth- Party on!


"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."
~ Albert Schweitzer ~