Today I needed to wake up early and shower. I needed some quiet time in the morning to myself. I wanted to be alone before the boys woke up.
It’s Friday, we have made it through two weeks of homeschool. I struggle to know if I am doing what I should be with this time we have been given. I feel like there is so much more we should be doing with our time. Yesterday Alex and I made a stop-motion video with his dinosaur and LEGO guy. I think today we may try another and get the older boys involved. Ethan is still working at McDonalds. I worry about sending him there each day, not knowing who he will come in contact with. We stay here at home and haven’t been out.
Thankfully Kaitie our home nurse is able to come and give Alex his weekly infusion. Next week we are suppose to go to Salt Lake to the CCTS, but I have opted out of doing that and asked Kaitie to come here. I don’t know what we will have to do when in another four weeks we should be going in again to Salt Lake and have extra lab draws and PT. I am scared to take Alex to the main hospital for PT. If he were to get sick I’m afraid his lungs wouldn’t be strong enough to fight this virus.
Mark continues to go to work. Thankfully he is able to have a job and support our family. He did work two days from home this week, but went I to the office early today, leaving at 5 am. He is carrying to much on his shoulders. Between work and church, not to mention our own family needs, I worry about him all he feels responsible for.
We have now been authorized to have the sacrament in our homes each week. We haven’t been to church services for two weeks now. This Sunday President Nelson has asked for a world-wide fast. When I stop and think about that it amazes me to think of millions of God’s children united in purpose as we fast and pray for the same cause. That brings peace to my mind and courage to my heart.
Today I want to try harder to be more intentional with my choices and actions. I want to show and teach my boys how they too can be intentional with their choice and actions. When we are engaged in a good cause I know we are blessed by the Lord. I have seen this in my own life and want to share that with my boys. I need to be that example to them right now. We need direction in our lives. Last night during family scriptures Alex said he wanted his own liahona. Mark tried to explain we have several different liahonas in our lives to help direct us on the Lord’s covenant path, but he wasn’t having it. He wanted a real ball of curious workmanship. I think I’ll go grab some tinfoil and see what I can create to leave outside his “tent” this morning. Maybe that will appease him for the time.
