June is coming

It's never ending is it? There is always something coming up. Next is Caleb's birthday and he's going to be two. If anyone has any ideas for presents for me, I would be grateful! It's in 3 weeks.

I feel like I am more of a House Administrator than a Mother most days. I need to change something. I feel like all I do is tidy up or instruct the kids on tidying up, or cook or wash. Blah. I want to spend more time WITH my kids, interacting with them, playing with them. Leah and I spent some time doing her nails today and that was nice. Alternating purple and blue with sparkles, but still.....
I'm not asking for ideas or comments here, just voicing how I feel. Of course the housework still has to be done to help our home function but there just seems to be more of a focus on that then on being a family.

The girls both got good school reports last week, they are usually above where they need to be in all subjects. Emerson is reading "Once" by Maurice Gleitzman (I think) in her class, so we got a copy so we could see what she was reading/studying. It is from the viewpoint of a young boy at the time of the Holocaust. It's a simple read but I have yet to talk to Emerson about what she thinks of it and if she is 'getting' it. It has parts 2 and 3 - "Then" and "Now" and we have been given them also. I just struggle to pick it up because it is written from the first person and definitely for a younger audience, I just want them to hurry up and tell the story :).

Leah has fallen in love. With basketball. Is super excited to be playing and even wrote her speech about it. She gives the speech tomorrow she says and even got pictures from Papa to go with it. She wants no help though in writing her speech. We're trying to get her to be a little more descriptive and working out which pics to show when, but nope she has it sussed thank you very much.

I am enjoying being back in primary. For Mothers Day we got to have a day off and go to Relief Society class instead but I realized how much women waffle. I received a good witness that I am in the right calling right now. Nathan is still in the Bishopric.

I am very much into my family history at present. What a surprise eh? The focus has been on my ggg grandmothers family on Mum's side - Mary Jane Tims who married Jeremiah Grace. She had three husbands. Another I was working on had four! Sometimes it is a tangled web yet quite fun to figure out.

Must go, I am making Bacon and Potato Soup. Smells good so far.