Monday, February 19, 2018

Family Day

We had such a wonderful Family Day today.  We got the opportunity to attend the temple and do sealings with my parents and four of my siblings and their spouses.  We had two rooms going - one with my parents, Uncle Scott, his daughter Loural and her husband and Mindy & Dan; then the other had us, Shauna & Matt, Melissa & Mike and Roger & Trisha.  It was such a great way to spend the morning.  Both Lennard and I were brought to tears and we sat and listened to the promises and blessings given as couples were sealed together and children were sealed to their parents.  What an incredible opportunity to be able to participate in this work. 

An huge added bonus for the day is when Emma decided that she could handle being with the rest of her cousins out at my parents house (without an adult)!  For her, that is huge!  A number of my nieces and nephews are old enough to babysit, but usually she absolutely refuses to go if there won't be an adult.  Another huge breakthrough was when she went with my brother and his kids this morning instead of us having to drive her out there!  It feels like there just might be a little light at the end of the tunnel!  She did so good all morning too!  She was happy when we got there and she was upbeat about getting to play with her cousins!  Hooray!  Ben is so easy going that I sometimes think I forget to write about him.  He was absolutely fine going and was just glad to get to watch a movie and play with his cousins.  He didn't care how he got there or who was watching him... as long as there was a movie!  ha! ha!

We had a delicious roast beef dinner afterwards and got to sit and visit with everyone that was there.  We didn't stay too long after the dinner, as Lennard wanted to take the chance to plow out the airport while the Town machinery wasn't in use today.  There is SO much snow that it ended up taking him WAY longer than he thought it would take.  It didn't even get completely done in the almost five hours he was out there, but it's better than nothing!

The kids and I had a lazy afternoon and watched a couple movies together.  Emma played with her dolls some of the time and Ben played a few games on the PS4.  It was a perfect 'family' day.

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