I was tired today, I think from the long bike ride the day before and my routine of fasting weekly on Sundays now. I do love that routine. I love the idea of Sunday being a day of rest and fasting is just one more cue to my body to rest.
It was really nice to spend so much time with him because I didn’t get as much quality time with him yesterday as I did with Lydia and Mary.
After putting the bookshelf together, I helped to feed the children and then I put Clarissa down for a nap. Lately she has been throwing a lot of tantrums, and especially when it is time to nap or sleep for the night, but one thing I’m super grateful for is that she does almost always nap and sleep through the night in the end.
Then I played Avengers with Ammon. I’ve been modeling civilized play so he doesn’t think playing always means bad guys destroying everything and fighting with good guys. In our play today, Thanos went to “nice school” graduated his course and then there were escaped animals that needed to be put in their cages. It was fun.
Then Lily gave me a massage, which was amazing and we did home church, covering more BlackLivesMatter content, Mary’s baptismal questions, and a chapter in Ether.
During church, I saw it was super windy, so after church we all went to the park to fly kites (except Mary who wanted to stay home).
When we got to the park, the wind had died down considerably. We only got one kite up for about a minute and then it was over. But Ammon and Clarissa had fun wandering around the field, and Lydia and I had a lot of fun talking to Pauline (an elderly neighbor friend from our old neighborhood), and Josh who came out his back fence to spend time with us. Josh is one of my best friends, and it did my soul a lot of good to see him.
At home we all had Chinese food which Lily ordered. She doesn’t really like Chinese food, but she ordered it to help impress upon the children that the second most common language in Australia is Chinese because of all the Chinese people that have migrated there (we are still learning about Australia as a family). Lily has made learning so fun in our home, and I so love her for all she is doing to teach, raise, and inspire our children.
