I woke up early this morning to go to breakfast with Randy Blosil, my friend from the ward. We were both so exhausted, but we still loved conversing. The ideas that he is most passionate are that Jesus is a God of Yes, and we should say yes in our own lives to the requests of others and also that God has infinite respect for our sacred right to make our own choices.
At home, Lily and I ran errands together and took Lydia to and from her harp rehearsal for the upcoming recital. Our errands consisted of Costco and Trader Joe’s.
At home we did a lot of cleaning and housework together while the kids played with friends. I cleaned the minivan, Lily made soup and chili, and we both worked on cleaning the house.
I was soooooo tired. I stopped cleaning at two various junctures and each stop resulted in a mini-nap. The bright spot throughout my day was how much I enjoyed my time with my sweet wife. We are really in love right now, and I just loved having so much time with her. The regular hugs and loving comments between each other certainly brightened things for me while we were slogging away.
I was literally crawling at the end of the day as I finished working on the upstairs, but then something truly special happened, a moment that just lifted the whole day up and made it special.
The girls, Lydia and Mary, just started randomly singing a song about being able to fly. I think they had forgotten what it was or where they heard it. It was “I Can Fly” from the Brave soundtrack, and we last heard it only a handful of times on our New Mexico trip almost a month ago. It took me some time to figure out what song they were singing, but once I identified it, I thought, “what the heck!” and I bought it on itunes and cranked it up on our stereo and initiated a family dance party. It was so fun and special. We all had such a blast, and for about 20 minutes, I felt like I was ten years old, and not three hundred years old like I felt the rest of the day. Thank You God for moments like these 🙂
Here are some pictures and a video of the dance party:
Everyone was in a super good mood after the dance party. Here is a video that Mary made with Lydia before they went to bed.