life with stinky boys

It’s been months since I posted last – guess I’m having a hard time making this blog thing a priority!  I love looking at all of your blogs, laughing, smiling, coveting a bit, envying your creativity.  Then I turn off my computer, go about my day and forget about it all.  Oh well, maybe it’s not my thing – I can think of much worse things that I don’t do than keep a regular blog….. much worse things.  no, I won’t share them.

Here’s my Lukey after yet another trip to the ER – amazingly enough, this was his first time with stitches.  7 big fat juicy ones.  I couldn’t watch, it was much to nauseating to me.  Lucky for me, Chris was able to meet me at the hospital to take on the role of the “strong one” while I sobbed in the waiting room listening to Luke scream while I beat myself up for not making him wear his full face helmet.  Not sure if I will ever let him walk out of the house with out it from now on.

We had a great FHE tonight talking about promptings of the Holy Ghost.  I shared with Luke and Mikey the prompting I had while throwing all the gear into the car on the way to the skate park.  It went something like this – “Luke should wear his full face” and I thought “hmmmm, yeah, but Mikey wants to and I don’t want to start a battle.”   “OK, but he really should be in his full face, that is why you got it for him.”  Ignored.  Bad Mom moment.  Lesson learned.  How do you look at your 5-year-old (with a smashed, bruised, cut-up face) and say “Mommy didn’t listen to the Holy Ghost, and that is why you had to have shots and stitches and scream at the doctor in the ER.”