Tonight Marty and I (and Carolyn) went to his mission reunion while Grandma stayed at our house with Peter. It was a really humbling talk that was given about both temporal and spiritual self reliance. At one point the speaker asked the audience a series of questions about self reliance and you were supposed to ask yourself if your answer was always, often, sometimes, or never. One of the questions was "do you treat your body like a temple?". There were several questions that I could say "always" to, but I couldn't say "always" to that one.
That's what I'm pondering on tonight.
That and whether or not Carolyn will sleep through the night tonight. Her night and day sleeping is like, well, night and day. They are so different. She naps great and wakes up happy (most of the time), but at night she can't sleep very long and wakes up really upset. Until the morning, when she wakes up happily again. It is so odd. Tonight I am trying out putting a lamp in her room to make it much brighter. There was already a little nightlight but it was still nice and dark in the room, and a dark room always helped Peter to sleep well. I'm wondering if the opposite is true for Carolyn. So we shall see if maybe she just doesn't like being in the dark! Thank goodness yet again that my mom is here, she took a couple of the wake up's last night and let me get a little bit of sleep. This has been lovely. Maybe I'll just have her move in with me. Whose idea was it to raise children all by yourself anyway?Labels: Motherhood