AnnaKate

Yesterday I went to the temple. It was good. It was what I needed. I felt so much better even though I didn't really get any specific answers. Sometimes answers come loud, clear, specific and drenched in love. Sometimes answers come like ideas coming from outside myself, whispered in my ear by an unseen friend. 

Sometimes answers come from something I read or hear on TV. 

Recently answers have come in  phone calls with divinely perfect timing from my mom or my best friend.

I'm always looking. I'm always straining to hear.  I'm always trying to find my way closer to Him. 

Don't you think it can get exhausting? 

This life I mean.

Supposedly it's really short so I'm sure we'll all survive. 

I posted this song AnnaKate sang for her recital. (Nate's video posting instructions are excellent)

I love the words of the song. 

AnnaKate is my second baby. 

She is 10 years old now. 

 She was scared to sing and didn't want to do it. 

She did it anyway and sounded great. 

I was a very proud mama.

She sang this song again today at a nursing home. She was scared again and didn't want to do it. 

She did do it.

I was proud again.

AnnaKate has taught me and continues to teach me and stretch me as a mother and as a human being.

Sometimes I resent being stretched but I'm sure before we came to earth we agreed we both needed to learn from each other. 

I am her mother and she is my daughter but we are both teachers for one another. 

I have just as much to learn from her as she does from me. 

She reminds of this almost daily. 

From the moment I heard her first cry 

 I could feel the intensity of her spirit. 

I could tell I was in for it. 

Thanks for choosing me as your mother AnnaKate. 

I needed you.