Top TEN 2013

Blogging has taken a back seat to other priorities this year.  Honestly, I've missed it.  I've missed being able to look back and have some accounting of our goings-on.  I swear - the older my kids get - the faster time seems to fly.   All of a sudden another year has come and gone and I stare in wonder at how life has changed over the past nearly 20 years that Mr. Nelson and I have been married.  Fiddler on the Roof totally had it right "Sunrise, Sunset....swiftly fly the years"...(or something like that).  And the kids quite often like to remind us how close we are to grandparent-dom.  (just for the record, we AREN'T THAT CLOSE!.....Still SEVERAL years off!)

So, off we go....in no particular order, here they are.....10 things I never want to forget about this year.

Tanner running his first half marathon.
Can't even begin to say how proud of him we were for first of all committing to do it, secondly - training for something that he thought was beyond his capacity to accomplish, and mostly - finishing what he started. He's a stud.

Addie's family night lesson about Christmas.  We learned that the Wisemen brought Jesus gifts of "gold, mercy, and frankenmerry....I mean Frankenstein".  (nope...we didn't take a picture of family night....just of her birthday, so that will have to suffice)

Tylers Eagle scout project.  Organizing and putting on a soccer clinic/camp for special needs kids.  His whole soccer team plus most of the youth from the ward came to be a 'buddy' for each kid.  Ty did a fabulous job pulling it together and even got sponsors to provide food and goody bags.  It did my heart good to watch the transformation of all the youth who came - who at first were a little unsure of how to act toward these special needs kids.  But by the end were high-fiving and hugging them.  Truly was awesome.























Impromptu trip to Bear lake for a couple of days.  Building our sand 'snake', and the castle village (for princess 5 yr old, of course).  Playing in the water.  Four Wheeling.  Spending time together.  Priceless.

To-do's

So, we were sitting in church last Sunday, and the five year old is quietly drawing.  She starts asking how to spell all the days of the week, and I lean over and tell her in my most whispery voice.
When I look down a few minutes later, I see that she has made herself a calendar, with a list of 'things to do'.
Here's her list:

Monday:
Lemonade sale.
Laugh.
Both.

She explained that she intended to do both of those things on her list.  On the same day.

I compared her list to the one I make - day in and day out.  You know, the one that is at LEAST 24 items long, but usually longer.  And never includes "laugh".  And most often doesn't include "Spend time with your children", or "Play a game", or anything of the sort.

It's a list of things that keep me busy day in and day out, things that definitely need taking care of, have to be done, need attention.  But sometimes they are the very things that keep me from the most important to-do's I should be doing.
Thanks for the reminder my wonderful five year old.

Tomorrow, for sure I will laugh.