Thanks:

1. Life's comedy. So Sunday I was in the middle of sacrament; Josh and Dekker both with runny noses that were needing to be wiped about every 3 minutes, Josh all excited to explore the Sunday diaper bag and pull out every bit of its contents, and Dekker being wiggly with discomfort on my lap. The sacrament was being passed when Dekker decided to start pulling at my shirt and eating my neck (his way of saying "please nurse me!"). I reached for the cheezits Josh had pulled from the bag and tossed aside and gave one to Dekker to try and pacify him. Unfortunatly Josh saw this and jumped on top of the two of trying to pull it from Dekker's hand. I grabbed the container, and not realizing the lid was not secure, shook it at him saying, "Look, there's plenty more..." just then the top slipped off and they spilled all over the floor. This could have been a good laughing moment- but I scowled instead. Jake somehow came to the rescue and got Josh to help him pick up the mess. I take the water and try to take my thoughts back to a reverent place, but I'll be honest, it wasn't coming easily... its at this moment that I glance down at Josh (still picking up the last of the Cheezits) and notice something stuck to his ear! Looking closer I realized it was a mushy cheezit remnant that must have fallen out of Dekkers mouth in the chaos and somehow landed and stuck to Josh's ear!!! I pointed it out to Jake and we both began to snicker. It lightened the mood just enough to help me get over my frustrations and return to more reverent thoughts.

2. Inspiration. Jake and I have both recently felt inspired to try and hold real family scripture study. Up to this point we've mostly worked on companionship study- since the boys seemed too little to really understand. After the general relief society session though, I realized that Josh really needs us to start including him, and making it more applicable to him. Then the other day Jake came back from bishopric meeting (he's the ward executive secretary) saying, "We need to make some changes..." So last night we pulled out the children's pictured New Testament Stories (the only Book of Mormon one I could find was in Spanish) and sat down to read and then pray together. I was worried, because Josh doesn't sit still for too long most of the time- but he was very attentive and reverent. It was a success, and I'm excited to improve in this habit.

3. A heated home.