Josh is on his last shift of his rotation in Ohio and will be home tomorrow evening!! Well, just til Sunday
when he leaves for another 4 weeks, this time in Indiana. But we are excited and can't wait for him to get here! It has been hard, but it is a lot easier when I keep us busy. So we have been soaking up every last nice moment outside, going for walks and of course raking lots and lots of leaves.
And who can resist a good pile of leaves?
We hit up our favorite park as often as we can,
and spend lots of time with friends. We went with some to the pumpkin patch again and the kids had so much fun tromping through the mud in the patch.
Shane was too hesitant to do this last year but LOVED it this year!
But this Thomas train is still the favorite.
Most days I do pretty good but some days I just feel sapped and feel bad because my patience starts wearing thin. On one particularly hard weekend when it rained the whole weekend I spotted a break in the rain and told the kids to get ready to go for a walk. Of course by the time we got shoes on, pottied, etc. it was raining again but I said what the heck and we went out anyway, then danced in the rain for awhile since we were already soaked anyway.
I know so many people have had much harder situations and I really appreciate their strength even more now. We have learned a lot from people about service this past month. Josh has had a family from the ward there have him over several nights for dinner and send him with lots of food, which is no easy task on his diet and even more impressive because they knew he would only be there for a month but said they had had lots of friends go through medical school and have the husband be away and knew what it was like and just wanted to help. I have been really grateful for friends who have us over so I won't get lonely or insist on taking the kids for a little bit so I can do something for myself. We have been really impressed by these examples of people who show the Savior's love by really trying to find ways they can help someone, and we are inspired to make a better effort to do the same for others.
3 comments:
ah, Kelly! You are such a trooper! I know some days I am about to lose it and of course Kris comes home, so I can't imagine. Like you said, it could be worse, but it's doing little things by yourself even that give you a boost. You are such a good mom and I am glad you let people help and serve you. Wish I could be there for you! (and as always, your kids are freakin' cute :) )
That has got to be hard. I hope his next rotation goes by fast. Pretty soon you guys won't ever have to be apart again!
after this next four weeks, will he be able to stay in michigan for the rest of rotations? i hope so! you're so impressive kelly, you do everything with such grace.
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