Thoughts / Stay...

Another of my thoughts/stories that I found... and really liked. It has such a good message and after going to the funeral of my friends 10 year old little boy, this makes that much more sense. Other people tend to be able to say things better than I could....

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened. He was heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night. Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited. Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her. "Who was he?" he asked. The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered. "No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life." "Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" "I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed." The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.

Completely Random....

Here's some completely random pictures that were taken in December....

Rebecca & Sam

Rebecca

I love this one.... Mckelsie eating olives while playing her gameboy. We love our green olives!

Hurley

Play-Doh Fun

PLAY-DOH FUN..... are we ever too old to play with it?

What fun Play-doh can be right!? I haven't bought my kids play-doh for a very long time. I guess I got sick of cleaning it up from all over the floor. I was out Christmas shopping and saw it and thought that the kids would enjoy playing with it and it might keep them out of my hair for more than 10 minutes at a time. Jayden played for atleast 1 full hour with it! I loved seeing how creative my boy is.

Good Moments

I love these moments... the kids were playing on my bed and I could hear them laughing so hard that it made me laugh.

Breakfast With Santa

We were invited to go have breakfast with Santa by Sam's parents. They were kind enough to have us along with the rest of their family. There were so many fun activities along with being able to see Santa and give him the list of "wants". I think the best part was seeing Mckelsie and the Grinch!

Mckelsie and the Grinch

Let it snow, let it snow.... I hate the snow!

Snow looks perfect as it falls and coats the floor with whiteness, in fact it truly is beautiful. However, I hate being in the cold, I hate having to shovel/snowblow the drive ways and sidewalks and I hate having to have a big heavy coat on all the time and once you're inside the grocery store with this great big heavy coat you're sweating like a pig.

Jayden has offered and started several times shoveling the driveway. Once he's decided he's had enough fun with the shovel though, I usually have to go out and clean up what he just did. However, it's the thought that counts and that he's even willing to try to do it right?!? (BTW... Jayden got ahold of the camera and took these pics of the yard)

Jayden and I went out on a date to see a musical concert on temple square, see the lights while we were there and got a quick bite to eat. It was so much fun to spend the night with my boy. A friend from work was performing in the concert (Wendy) and did a solo (Oh Holy Night)...which was so great! She has the most amazing voice and I love those sorts of things. We had a hot chocolate to end the night....it was perfect.

I love doing date nights with Jayden! He's the perfect gentleman!