Twice a Year Blogger

I decided I am really good at blogging every six months. It really doesn't feel like my routine changes that much from day to day. Dishes, laundry, driving in the car and always looking forward to a nice tall Diet Coke from the Maverick fountain. Makes my day complete. Once in a while things come up just to throw things out of whack for a little while and then we are back to the daily grind. I decided not to long ago that I needed to be better at keeping a journal...well at least my style of journaling which always involves a calendar. I have a calendar obsession. As long as I can remember I have always kept a calendar...several actually. In October I got my first iPhone and absolutely love the calendar on it. I have little dings for everything. Tighten the retainer...ding! Take the kids to piano...ding! Change my birth control...ding! And I also love that my husband's phone also has all my calendar items on it as well. So when he thinks I am at home blogging in my pajamas in the middle of the day (who me?) he has several dings to tell him differently. But I have to admit I miss my paper calendar just a little bit. After going through a little withdrawal I bought a desk calendar. Not really to write on, just to look at on my fridge. Then I bought a little planner calendar. I decided this would be a great way for me to journal. I still remember my mom keeping a calendar journal. One notation was of my brother walking with his older sisters to school in his snowsuit. It was August. Priceless. I love that the small calendar gives me just enough room to write down a little snippet of my day and I don't have a whole blank page staring at me to fill. This past Sunday I noted that while I was getting ready for church, Luke was sitting on my closet floor also getting ready. After a few minutes he started to sing his own little jingle..."I like Jesus, but I don't like church, I like Jesus, but I don't like church..." So Luke. This is also the child that cannot physically shut his eyes for any of our daily prayers. And who also told us that maybe Joseph Smith was the one who decided that we should give candy with our valentines. So its these little moments this year that I am going to jot down in my precious little calendar notebook. Especially those days when I need to remember why I do each day what I do and my purpose here on this earth, no matter how hard it is some days. I know having a family has nothing to do with me teaching them. Its how they are going to teach me to be a better person. I need to jot that down a little more too.