Catch Up

I haven't been very good at doing posts on my blog lately. Lately, I've been feeling a bit behind on keeping up with the house. Kyle is doing a good job cleaning, but there is something to be said about a "women's" touch in the house. I just had my systems or routine in place and now Kyle is supposed to pick up from where I left off most days and of course, that doesn't happen since we are different people and he's not used to doing everything I was doing. I was glad that this week I was only scheduled to work 2 days so I could be home and do random catch-up stuff.

We went to the zoo today for playgroup. It was a beautiful day and the zoo was a bit crowded with a million school field trip groups, but once you got into the zoo and scattered out it wasn't too bad. It was fun to see the reactions from Preston once he saw the animals. Kate loved seeing the animals too and they both took great naps when we got home. Kyle and I were asked to be Youth Conference Chaperones and so tonight was our first meeting. We needed a babysitter so we just had her come early and ended up going out to dinner before our meeting. The Youth Conference is at Ensign Ranch in July. It should be fun, but I'm a bit nervous to work with the youth. I'm used to the Primary kids. :) If any of you have good ideas for devotionals or get-to-know-you games send them to me.

The other night when I was reading scriptures to Kate before bed (we read from the easy scripture readers that the Church makes for kids) there was a picture of Christ being crucified and picture of Him resurrected. For some reason Kate started making comments about how she was too small and when she got bigger she could fit on the cross (she said this matter of factly). Then she asked if bad men would take her (she asked this with a sad face). I realized that she thought she had to be crucified like Jesus was and that made my heart break. I emphatically told her she wouldn't be crucified and that bad men wouldn't take her. I thought it was so cute and so sad she thought this would happen to her. It's just amazing how little kids interpret things. I was telling my Mom this story and she mentioned that there was a story of a little boy that was going to give his blood to his sister thinking he would die after giving his blood to her and yet he was willing to do it. Of course, his parents told him he would live even after giving his sister some blood. Kids are such good examples to us.