Let's be real.

Every time mom sees the title of the last blog post, she gets annoyed. We, in fact, have not been "frolicking" through fall. A more accurate description of this Fall would be frenzied, frantic and at times frustrating. As usual, Dad's schedule is crazy. Working with both football and basketball teams and teaching a class leaves little time for us to spend time with him. Plus it leaves him utterly exhausted. He was also recently called as the executive secretary for our ward's Bishop, so that takes him away yet another evening of the week as well as some hours on Sunday. Our bishop is extremely grateful for Mickey though, as he offers a great deal of needed support. We admire daddy for being such a hard worker and still being willing to serve. We have many people that live around here who struggle temporally and spiritually. Our selfless Bishop strives to help each one of them and Mickey plays a large supportive role in that. He is such a great man and we (and many others) are blessed by his work, efforts and faith.
Mom has a very full plate as well. On top of all homemaking and mothering responsibilities, she babysits, organizes Damon's preschool group, teaches 16 piano students (while a certain 21 month old destroys her house) and serves in our ward's Young Women's presidency (this includes being involved in 18 young girls' lives, teaching them one Sunday a month and helping to organize and attend weekly activities). Something that has also been a burden while trying to juggle all of these things is frequent and long lasting headaches. They are associated with fatigue (and most likely stress) and no combination of medications has proven effective in relieving them. Only a few times have they reached migraine level fortunately. They are minor enough for mom to still function but bad enough they can be draining and depressing. Mom is aware that many many people deal with headaches and they are quite hard to treat and diagnose but mom continues to try different things to try and help. Overall mom loves teaching piano, serving the Young Women and has a great babysitting situation. So even though days and weeks are long and hard, being grateful for all she has especially her 3 amazing, happy, healthy boys and her loving, strong husband gets her through.

10pm grocery shops are pretty normal for mom because that is the best time to go