Highlights and Lowlights

So, today has been one of those days.  Let me break it down for ya:

Lowlight – because Lise was still feeling a little under the weather this morning, we didn’t go to the beach with a friend

Highlight – Said friend offered to take Kate with her.

 Lowlight – Kylie threw such a fit when I put her down for her nap (yelling “no!” at me and refusing to lay down) that she tried to climb out of the crib and instead fell out.

Highlight – when I put her back into her bed she was much nicer about it and let me put her blankets on her and went straight to sleep.

Lowlight – Aly’s mouth has been hurting since they put a new bracket on that final tooth today that’s coming in.

Highlight – I found out from Aly’s ortho appointment that since we switched to Metlife for dental we should be getting a refund back from the orthodontist

 Lowlight – Kylie pooped a 6” log on Kate’s floor this morning (potty training in progress)

Highlight – She was completely dry the rest of the day, including at the Orthodontist and during swim lesson drop off/pick up

 Highlight – since we didn’t go to the beach, I was able to make up 3 batches of Strawberry jam

Lowlight – I’m hoping that no flu virus got into the jam as I was making it.  I don't want to get sick in 6 months when we eat it. (But the boiling pectin should have taken care of that right? Or the freezing?)

Lowlight – I’ve been feeling dizzy for the past two days.  Something is wrong with my equilibrium; I feel like the world is spinning and when I lay down I feel like I’m going to fall through the floor.

Highlight – I went to bed early last night because of it.

Lowlight – Kate got herself so worked up at swim lessons today that she made herself throw up.  It freaked all the other mom’s out because the flu is going around.  But she is totally NOT sick because the minute she got out of the pool she perked right up and said she wanted scones for dinner.

Highlight – Since the other mom’s left early, Kate got a private ½ hour lesson after they left and acted just fine in the water.

So yeah, that’s been my day, a snapshot of my life so to speak.  But I read an awesome article in the Ensign and I wanted to share a quote from it:

“As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the Atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed.  We will become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon.”  - Elder Bednar

I love that quote and hope to be able to implement it into my life - to be able to draw on the power of the atonement and be an influence for good to those around me in my daily life.  To act and make changes for good rather than be acted upon.