About 6:30 this evening the girls came running in from outside yelling "Mom, Mom, there's a rainbow, there's a rainbow!" There was indeed a rainbow. They each wanted me to take a picture of them with the rainbow. My first inclination was to say no, not right now, because I was in the middle of making dinner and tidying up a few things. Greg went out with some friends to see a comedian and I was missing him being around at this time of the evening. (Now, lest you think, poor Angie--Greg left her home with the kids while he went out--that is not the case. Just Monday night, I left him home with the kids while I went out with friends to see Bon Jovi in concert!) The words of Elder Ballard this last conference were ringing in my ears as I was thinking this. Not that I am a YOUNG mother, but I am a mother of young children. I loved how he quoted author Anna Quindlen who said she wished she "had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."
So I put my "get it done" inclination aside, and enjoyed looking at the beautiful rainbow with my girls, and let them enjoy posing for the camera with it in the background. Even as I write this, my sweethearts (who are supposed to be in bed) have been in to see me at least three times. They are very scared of thunderstorms and hail, which it will more than likely do tonight. They wanted to be reassured that they could come and get in bed with me and Greg (when he gets home) if they got too scared (which they always do). I never mind when they do, but I will try to enjoy them being close, and wanting to be with us when they are scared a little more. They are the rainbows in my life and I am going to make every effort to enjoy the doing more than than the getting it done!
