Scraped Up, But Still Smiling

The kids have been enjoying the extended playtime outside in the warm weather, but the inevitable injuries related to outdoor play have also increased.  We ran out of bandaids once and it's not even officially spring!  E bleeds daily it seems, mostly due to tripping while he's running, but even A has experienced some spills of her own.  J has has only suffered a few skinned knees, but he is also outside less (and in the classroom more) than the twins.  I am amazed by their resilience--I stop the bleeding, adhere the bandaid, and off they go again.

Similarly March has been an oddly stressful month for the big people in this house.  Job stress.  Financial stress.  Friends and family stress. House stress.  You-name-it stress.  We even found out on a well child visit that A had developed pneumonia.

And you know it's a crazy month because I now have a Facebook account after resisting it for five years!

Somehow we have had an amazing month all the same.  Though I haven't posted on this blog about all the ways we have been knocked down I also haven't documented here all the ways in which we were blessed.   With a sure foundation in our understanding of our purpose as a family.  With hope in "the sunlit uplands of a better life" and the power to move in that direction.  With one hundred (it seems) choices regarding our future.  With so many ways to recover from pain and depression and discomfort and anxiety. 

Regardless of all of that, our church's semi-annual General Conference(which everyone can view on-line at Lds.org) is just five days away and if I find myself psychologically limping into it, I know I'll be patched up, pepped up, and ready to return to life's inevitable challenges, so I'm not worried about how March will end up.

Tell me this:  have you had any really good "bad" months?