Family

Does the surprise that your children just keep growing ever end. Some days I just look at them, and can't believe they are mine, much less how big they are getting.

Today in fast and testimony meeting the bishop's testimony really hit home to me. He gave us a challenge from our Stake president to focus on our families this month, especially in FHE, and to center all our Family Home Evenings around The Proclamation to the World: The Family. He then bore his testimony on the importance of families, stating how this is the one chance we get at it, and how he doesn't want to blow this one chance. It made me think about my priorities, and where I have been putting them, and then think back to my starting thought... how big my kids are getting, and every day how much they grow and change.
This is my one shot. This is my family, and the one chance I have to raise children. What am I doing with it? How much does this mean to me? And where do my husband and my children rank in my priorities? All I can say is that there is always room for improvement, but more than anything, I want to be able to look back and say that I really tried, and put everything I could into it. This is one area that I don't want to have regrets in.