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emily and nils pages home bored list toddlers friday august 31 2018 what s new with us it has been quite a while since i ve posted i ve been managing another blog as many of you already know www momtalkspolitics com nils started a new job working for a new political party united utah it s been a fun adventure so far and for me at least feels a lot like all the start up companies i ve worked for everything starts from scratch and you gotta do a bunch of stuff yourself we re back in utah still slowly getting settled in and not yet fully unpacked but the kids have started school and are happy to have made friend with neighborhood kids in other news i discovered i had breast cancer at the beginning of the year and made it through three surgeries getting it removed and making everything look normal i feel so grateful for the many many people who have researched cancer because of all the information available they were able to pinpoint the type of breast cancer i had and i was able to avoid radiation and chemo we ve been involved in several parades this summer helping spread the word about the new political party they kids have been great tagging along and eating their fill of candy in one parade jane and i got to stand on the float as superheros that was a lot of fun hopefully life is treating all of you well and that you are finding joy and fulfillment in whatever you re doing posted by emily at 1 55 am no comments friday november 24 2017 myanmar traveling with three kids to myanmar in october was a special treat here are some of the highlights yangon myanmar schwedagon pagoda schwedagon lighting up for the evening one of my favorite things when traveling visiting the local ward green water matching the green boat or is it the other way around love these adventurers there may have been a little complaining about all the walking bagan myanmar traveling in style shwezigon pagoda you can buy gold leaf to add to the temple shwezigon pagoda father and son statues give thanks through blessings our own tourist attraction this group of ladies walked by with glum expressions until they saw rosy smiles and photos all around sulamani guphaya temple fun with a korean tourist group on our way back home the kids got so much candy posted by emily at 5 01 am no comments friday august 25 2017 a lesson in sewing i like to finish what i start i mean who wants to be a quitter no one likes failure to get over some obstacle standing in my way i usually coach myself through it by saying things like are you going to let this beat you and you can do this once in a while though i realize i m not going to win no matter how hard i try it s just not going to work out the way i want it to it s hard to swallow my pride and admit defeat but that jagged pill goes down eventually and i move on however i learned a lesson recently my sister molly is a great example of seeing things from multiple angles she opened my eyes through her own experience to learn something from a project i ve been working on i like sewing it s a fun little hobby i m no professional but this isn t my first time either i started working on a dress for myself last month as a mother of three i expect projects to take a while i just work on it when i can and eventually it gets done this dress however is a different story first i didn t have enough material for all the pieces i decided to add in some other material and get creative with the design uh that s always a risk then as i completed the top part i tried it on to make sure things were fitting right what major problem the top wasn t fitting the way it should i checked the pattern i checked the pieces i couldn t tell where i had made the mistake or maybe the material was making it fit differently maybe it was just the pattern either way this dress didn t fit i didn t have any more material to start over i d either have to fix it somehow or scrap the whole thing i got to thinking of ways to fix it it would mean unpicking work and redoing several pieces that didn t bother me too much i learned from my mother that when you sew you gotta be ready to unpick and redo work in order to get it right my main concern however was what i saw in the mirror i couldn t tell if i d even like the dress if i did manage to fix it would it be worth it would i put in all this work and end up with a dress i only wear once that s happened to me before so i decided to call my mom as the seamstress who taught me pretty much everything i know i figured she d have some perspective and help me iron out this little wrinkle i was surprised when she suggested i just forget the whole thing what give up in that same conversation she also managed to put wind back in my sails moms are amazing at doing that and i decided to go ahead and try to fix it even if it didn t work out i reasoned i could turn it into something else like a skirt i wasn t ready to admit defeat yet and with renewed energy i set to work fixing the pieces i fixed and fixed and re fixed i attached and detached pieces surprisingly i didn t feel frustrated maybe this dress was a challenge for improving my sewing skills the fixes i made did work but then another challenge would come along hmm what to do i pray pretty regularly so when i hit the first snag i prayed about whether it would be worth finishing i had this thought early on that maybe this dress was meant for someone else that thought made me feel cheery and i think that contributed to my overall good attitude after all the changes and fixes the thought came again that this dress was well made but made to fit someone else despite all the improvements more design flaws appeared based on how the dress fit me so maybe it isn t meant for me sometimes as we strive and strive to do something we look around us and see only failure we aren t getting the results we hope for maybe we reason we just need to try harder so we try harder still nothing that looks like success are we wasting time and energy in my personal scripture study during the week i was reading from the book of john chapter 4 it s the pleasant and layered story of jesus talking to the woman of samaria i like that story but buried in the verses i came across this statement from jesus one soweth and another reapeth john 4 37 ah ha see jesus is telling me that someone else will reap what i have sewed okay i couldn t help that joke it was just too perfect but jesus does goes on to explain that it s not a simple formula of i reap what i sow there s a mixture of efforts that includes other people not just me and that makes me happy this dress will move on to be reaped by someone else whoever does receive it will have to put in some labor of their own since it isn t finished but i hope she will be inspired by what i have started or maybe she will be inspired to turn it into something else i don t exist only for myself whatever effort i make in this life is for the good of someone maybe that someone is me maybe it s someone i have in mind already maybe that someone is coming along to finish what i started weeks months or years ago the real success comes when i put in honest effort learning and growing along the way the outcome might not be within my control but i can feel happy knowing that every good effort sowed will produce good fruit matt 7 16 18 ahhhh now i m free to go sow i mean sew something else the dress that i sowed for someone else posted by emily at 6 33 am no comments friday february 24 2017 oh so rosy life is so rosy with rosy you can see she s scared but i admire how she stops her crying to scoot just a little cry some more scoot some more i can relate to those feelings yep jane awwww posted by emily at 2 12 pm no comments flex some muscle life yikes it s complex isn t it good days bad days life changing events boring normal events we don t even remember i m not the best example of being in touch with my feelings or recognizing stress but i think we all have those moments of feeling sad powerless happy and often grateful looking back on the last few years and especially this past year i am amazed at how much has happened this morning while reflecting i realized something the daily tests of emotional and physical strength slowly build up stamina and ability when we need those muscles and muscles speaking figuratively they are there ready to work for us lifting us and carrying us through whatever new thing life is throwing at us it s kinda like this i don t have a regular exercise program except wrestling three kids and a diaper bag yet i m constantly doing things that test and try my muscles and this morning looking in the mirror i discovered this no way how cool is that kinda feel like saying bring it we don t have to be body builders speaking figuratively too to be strong we don t have to go through a constant barrage of tough things to be strong enough to handle our own personal burdens each one of us day by day is testing and trying our limits and slowly increasing our ability to handle whatever comes our way and not only that we all have countless family friends and random kind strangers who help remind us that we don t have to do it all by ourselves there are others who lend their strength to ours and share our tears of joy or sorrow that is super cool posted by emily at 5 12 am no comments rosy s first word posted by emily at 5 05 am no comments wednesday august 24 2016 kidzania crazy cool soon after arriving in jakarta we decided to take the kids to kidzania nils read about it in a list of cool things to do so we thought we d give it a try it s located inside a mall where the whole family enters through immigration taking us to a world run by kids kids learn by doing various activities and careers kidzania main square i like how they make the room look bigger with the painted sky jane learns about the hotel industry harry had to get a physical exam and go through the process of getting a driver s license before he was allowed to drive pretty cool fill er up 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