I live by my calendar. Every night before I doze off I review my day and make sure all prep is accomplished so we can be victorious ha ha.
My alarm goes off at 5:03am, I read once to make the time exact and a little odd and you'll get up and I have to say it works for me. I am not one who struggles to get out of bed typically but I thought it would be fun to set an alarm for 5:03 I head to the rec center for my boot camp class. I am getting stronger and my stamina is returning so that's amazing. Once I am finished and I return home, I am usually greeted with a quiet house that shouldn't be quiet so its a sing at the top of my lungs to get my peeps stirring. Malia is gone to dance so its just the two little ones, who are not morning girls at all!!!!!
Once I get the girls off to school I come home and shower if I didn't earlier. Every Wednesday I attend the temple. It's my happy moment of the week. I set a goal years ago, back when Ada was 1 to attend weekly and as I haven't been perfect I have been consistent. I thoroughly enjoy this time. Some times its an endowment session and sometimes it's initiatories, it just depends on the names I have been given and what their needs are. Today, I attended the Draper Temple as the Oquirrah is closed for cleaning. Jordan will open in May and I can't wait. It's literally 5 minutes from my new house and Jordan is my favorite temple. I have missed her these past two years for sure.
Anyway, so I am grabbing a name out of my pile and I head to do an endowment session. I set my name card on the counter and washed my hands and the card was saturated. I was waving it in the air trying to get it to dry. I talked to several ladies and they were all helpful. As I sat in the session about 10 minutes into it I realized the initiatory had not been done and should have been completed prior to the endowment. So I got the attention of the temple worker and she assured me it would be ok and she would help me. Whew!! What in the world.
So after the session she helped me get the initiatory completed and it was all recorded and Mary Stevenston you now have your saving ordinances completed. As I was driving home I was pondering the situation and realized Mary had to have a hand in this. So many coincidences and so many ladies and not one caught the mistake. Mary wanted her work done and she made it happen. I called my mom to tell her about the experience and she assured me that knowing that lady's great grandma it was not a surprise to my mom she was so proactive. I love it! I love being a part of this great work and thank goodness for exceptions when mortals make mistakes.
Later today I attended NPA for Ada's sing around. Our school doesn't do parties or any kind of celebrations but we have sing arounds for the students to perform what they are learning in choir. It is a highlight for me. Ada was so cute up on stage belting out her songs. Bria sings tomorrow and I am confident she will excel as well.
So, have I mentioned we are building a new home, selling a 4 plex, renovating a duplex, and purchasing and renovating a building for Corby's new office. I know a lot all at once! Corby is so busy with his traveling for work(he is in Tennessee and then he will fly to Vegas this next week) and meeting with clients I have become the "go to" gal for the 4 flex and duplex. I don't mind it at all. In fact it is really fun. I love real estate and learning more how it all works. So I do a lot of reviewing offers and signing contracts. So we had our 4 plex on the market for 1 day and we had 6 solid offers all above asking price. That's a good problem to have ha ha.
Long story short, after reviewing the offers we went with the $365,000 (mind you we were asking $339,500) and we will pay $5k in closing costs. We will close in April. Corby is encouraging me to get my real estate license and I told him you don't want me to do that honey, if I get a taste of life outside of motherhood I will never come back. Time and season and my season is my little girls. Careers are close but for now my first priority is to be in my home even if its less fulfilling and I am longing for more I belong home for them. Let's just say we are looking for another property to roll our profits from the 4 plex into. When I say we I am referring to the company we work with in particular Kody. I am sure there is more on this topic in a few years.
Anyway, most days I am making decisions on our home we are building. I have progress photos I will add soon. Today the framing is happening and the basement is completed and our garage is completed it is so fun to see it evolve. Corby and I were laying in bed one night and we both were like we are doing it we are building our dream. It seems unreal. I can't wait to decorate and start a new life in our new area, in our home we created. We have very aggressive goals but we plan to have our dream home paid off in 5 years or less. When this dream becomes reality I will have to be pinched because for today is seems so unreal. I can't explain how ecstatic I am over the whole situation.
Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting with our CPA. We found a new CPA this year as our businesses are just bigger than our last CPA could handle. It cost us $1,600 to learn we owe $45K in federal and $12k to state. Sound like a good deal???? I am so ugh.. but its a higher quality problem. We are in the tax brackets of 32% yes, you read that correct. Quinn, our CPA, told me basically to just plan on every dollar corby earns is really only .60 cents. UM, OK.....Thank you our government for hosing us. In the end, we make a lot of money and this is the down side, we pay a lot of taxes. From here on out we will pay quarterly taxes so we won't have to cough up $58k with a moments notice. Luckily, we knew we would be paying so we have been saving but I can think of 1 million other things I would rather spend $58k on besides taxes. Such is life!
Have I mentioned I am the Stake Sports Specialist for our stake? Well, I am and its basketball season and so what that means is region tournaments and organizing and officiating and scorekeeping and informing teams of locations. It is a lot and it has been going on for 2 weeks. I kind of like organizing tournaments and I especially like playing and I was fortunate enough to do both. Our next sport is pickle ball. Have you played it? I have a little bit but I think it has potential.
Malia is on seminary council and she speaks often in other sacrament meetings. I love that my calling allows me to support her and listen to her bare her testimony so valiantly. She is just an amazing young woman. I am in awe of her and that I get to be her mother.
Bria and Ada have piano lessons on Wednesday. We are still learning to love piano. Bria really wants to play the violin but her teacher won't let her until she develops a better baseline for piano. I did not take music lessons as a child and it's one of my biggest regrets. I can't even read music(embarrassing I know) I will take piano lessons one day, I will, when life slows down.
So there you have it my week, things change all the time but for the most part we are gone every night and its lucky if my little girls get in bed before 9 or 10(poor little nuggets)
Dinners are always tricky so I rely heavily on my crock pot and my most recent acquired kitchen appliance...a Fagor(it's the original instant pot but its commercial grade)Corby purchased it and totally surprised me for our anniversary. I am getting use to it but so far so good. It will be fun in my new home where it will have a place in the pantry. I plan our menu for the week on Monday and then grocery shop on Tuesday. I let each family member tell me what they want to eat and bam...I only have a few days left to come up with ideas. Brilliant haha
I am slowly getting back into meal prepping my breakfast, lunch and snacks. I do best when my meals are already measured out and easy to grab from fridge as I am constantly on the go and I require quick fast meals. I love this way of living but I constantly fall off the train due to unexpected schedule items plopped on my lap. My motto "Was I better today than yesterday?" if yes, celebrate if no, I will recalibrate and try again.
I hired a housecleaner to help with the mundane tasks. I use to be embarrassed and now I am like Girl, hire a house cleaner. It is so nice. My girls still do chores and we still clean but having the whole house cleaned while I am busy doing things with my girls rather than scrubbing toilets is a much better use of my time. I love being a manager of my time and choosing how I spend my time. So next time you are curious and want to treat yourself hire a housecleaner. Mic Drop Experience!
Our weeks are full and I love it most of the time. Life is about creating memories and I will feel successful when in the end I have deep rooted connections with those who are in my life.
I really have had to dig deep and realize not everyone who has been in my life really wants to be there and I frankly have been begging them to like me. I decided I can walk away and it's ok. Some people don't value me and don't want me around and this is not because there is something wrong with me. Some of it is due to lack of forgiveness. Some of it is due to differences of priorities but really in the end I welcome people who want me in their lives and make an effort to want me around and I love and let go of those who don't. I heard a quote the other day and I just love it.
"As a mother you can be the thermometer or thermostat of your home(really life) choose to be the thermostat"
and another goodie
"Of this be sure: you do not find the happy, you make it"
So this is a little glimpse of my crazy life and there is so much more. Life is full and I wouldn't want it any other way.
Peace out friends!
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