Whew!

Well, only two more days to finish my last two projects. I decided to take a break tonight due to the fact that I knocked my paintbrushes over and spilled water all over my bristol board. I'll probably get up early and dig in again. ......ah well.....Monday is my design porfolio final so it will all be over with soon. I got a chance to catch up with Sandra today for a bit. I haven't seen my girls in two weeks and I'm missing them...Christine called tonight worried about Meagan. I remember the woes I used to feel as a young mother....the concerns and struggles to try to figure out what was the right thing to do. Sometimes the answers didn't come very easy and as I look back I realize a lot of things were just the ebb and flow of life. Nowadays there is more to be concerned about. Keeping a good perspective helps....I really liked this quote from President Thomas S. Monson from the April conference......

"Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order to be tested, we must sometimes face challenges and difficulties. At times there appears to be no light at the tunnel’s end—no dawn to break the night’s darkness. We feel surrounded by the pain of broken hearts, the disappointment of shattered dreams, and the despair of vanished hopes. We join in uttering the biblical plea “Is there no balm in Gilead?”

"We are inclined to view our own personal misfortunes through the distorted prism of pessimism. We feel abandoned, heartbroken, alone. If you find yourself in such a situation, I plead with you to turn to our Heavenly Father in faith. He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face."