before you read this, you need to read the post below.

i woke this morning laughing at myself for what happened yesterday. i thought to myself...there had to have been a reason for yesterday's experience, there had to have been a lesson that needed to be learned. sooooo i said a prayer and read my scriptures and after i was done it all came to me. i had the most perfect opportunity to teach my children SO much yesterday. i could have taught them about the creation of the world that God has given us. i could have talked to them about the changing of the seasons and collected things along the way and made a craft out of them. i could have taught them about the laws of the land. i could have taught them about the trials and the scarifies that the pioneers went through.(since i thought so much about that yesterday) i could have taught them more about the listening to the promptings of the spirit( i did a horrible job at that yesterday) i could have taught them about having faith and the importance of our relationship with our heavenly father and Christ. i could have played with them at the park and sang songs along the way. i could have taught them about the importance of always being prepared for any type of situations.(which by the way will be our next family home evening lesson) i could have taught them about how important it is for us to do gods work through service. i could have taught them about forgiveness because i was carrying around a lot of anger yesterday and because of it i missed out on this wonderful opportunity. you getting the point of all this. in my defense all that was on my mind of keeping my children safe. getting them food and water. i was mad at the fact that i didn't have a cell because we can't afford one. i was mad at myself for not having a high tech. garage opener that i could have just punch in a code and were home free. i started thinking about all the things that we don't have that i wished we did. but i'm realized today that those things don't matter and shouldn't matter to me. (expect for the cell) what matters is our time that we spend with our children and how we use that time to do the one thing that were put here on earth to do. TEACH THEM! every moment is precious, so use every chance you get. enjoy them. love them. protect them. and have fun with them. nothing else matters. in president monson's talk durning conference he talked about those little fingers prints all over the nicely cleaned furniture, the scatter toys throughout the house, the pile of laundry that's hasn't been done. those things don't matter, because one day it will all too soo vanish. instead put off your house work, skip the dirty clothes, skip playgroup and instead have a mommy and me playgroup. who cares about the spilled milk and the muddy footprints. all our children want from us is US. so be a friend and a teacher and have fun!!!!! wish i could say more but were out the door for disneyland!!!!!!!!!! see ya:)