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t i followed a three day program where they wear only underwear and you pretty much clear the schedule of anything but sitting at home watching him drink juice and asking him if he will tell me if he needs to go potty oh and cleaning up all the inevitable accidents at the end of three days i was feeling excited because he was totally dry for a day and all was going well then i realized it had been a while since he had a bm then oh boy i realized just how not potty trained he was he pooped his pants 7 times seven in one day it was rough i was worn out and sick of poop and wondering what to do i was feeling super frustrated and sat down to write in my journal i was feeling pretty stuck because i was so proud of him for making so much progress on the training he was doing great on staying dry even at night he was waking up dry he loved his big boy pants actually he loves his underwear so much that even now over a month later he is still talking about the day he got them every night at dinner we discuss our favorite parts of our day charlotte always talks about something she liked and every night elliott says i go to target and get my underwear and when he says underwear he jumps so yea he loves his underwear and he has made so much progress anyway there i am feeling overwhelmed and smelling poo on me ugh no matter how many times i wash my hands i can still smell it and writing in my journal then it occurred to me that sometimes that how it is in life we start on something that is difficult and we make a whole lot of progress and improvement but the truth is we are still crapping ourselves we still have a lot of progress left to make to get where we want to be i partially regretted even starting to potty train elliott because it was hard and the results weren t perfect and the little failings he was having a long the way were frustrating when i think about taking on a new responsibility learning something new or looking for a job i know that it will start with lots of accidents failings at the beginning and then i will get more proficient but i have to remind myself that even once i make some improvements that i doesn t mean that i have totally arrived there is no going back to where you were before you can t go back because even if you try you are letting go of progress already made alright i wrote this a month or two back and i believed it still do sort of but it was still a major struggle and on one fateful sunday elliott pooped for the 4th time in his underwear as we loaded into the car to go to church richard s brain almost exploded all over the car and i looked like the girl in exorcist with my head spinning all the way around we put him back in a diaper holy moly the guilt a felt about this was major i was certain that all i needed to do was keep going and gosh this kid loved his underwear so much i felt mean super mean and like i had given up on him and i had even written a blog post about his process for heaven s sake he was back in a diaper and we were late for church but i promised him that if went potty by himself at church i would let him put his big boy pants back on we got home and i put his underwear back on and no less than twenty minutes went by and he pooped in his pants again richard went to the store and bought pull ups that very sabbath day we were done now 3 weeks later he is still in the pull up but doing better than he was before i don t know what that means for my big old allegory of life but that s where we are now in other news i believe everyone who actually reads this already knows but we are moving back to richmond richard is doing the endodontics program at vcu i am excited that i think i have found a job that is a good fit and now all we need to do is find a place to live and a nanny nbd ha maybe all these changes made me get all deep about moving forward and doing hard things and not going back on the progress you have made i don t know for sure i have a feeling i will write even less once i go back to work i like reading old blog posts and remembering the way things make me feel and think even my journal rarely gets written in anymore but i guess these child raising years are just busy and may just be a big blur with the only versions of what happens recorded in skewed versions in your kids memories i suppose i am cool with that and if on a rare occasion i feel like recording my adventures in poo on this little old blog i sure will do that charlotte constructed our family and out of snowmen so proud of the cake they made for doodles vivian wearing elliott s t shirt after having a blowout and that was all i had elliott helped at my dental appointment and may have sprayed water all over my face she started soccer and sadly for her she got my ball handling skills and aggressiveness we went to a party where we dressed up as a character for a book and we went as fancy nancy s parents elliott had a stomach bug on easter sunday so sad charlotte was more than happy to collect his eggs for him a friend bought this for charlotte it says i m my favorite princess true yup every single week it is the worst i may be a terrible mother for taking this picture for two years i have been talking about dying my hair red i finally did it i was super excited about it until i got home and realized it was more brown than red this is the picture it looks the most red in but mostly it looks brown how is that for epic life decision posted by richard sedwick at 2 56 pm 3 comments wednesday january 27 2016 oh the humanity i have been writing a post in my head for about two months now clearly the post never graduated from my head the computer and it won t 9009 it was all about gratitude and thankfulness i have other things i want to write about but basically the combination of these four things has had me thinking a lot about my ability to be happy and choosing happiness http www ted com talks dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy http www businessinsider com a neuroscience researcher reveals 4 rituals that will make you a happier person 2015 9 https itunes apple com us movie inside out 2015 id999607190 https www lds org general conference 2014 04 grateful in any circumstances lang eng alright so coming up to the christmas season i was feeling a little worn thin my eye was twitching that used to happen during finals a lot and i my mind felt jumbled and anxious over inconsequential things my plans were all coming together though i was putting together a luncheon for the youth to host for the elderly people in our church and then the next day christmas eve we were flying to utah the luncheon turned out so nice and made me rethink any complaints i had about adding one more thing right before christmas i loved watching the youth waiting outside to escort people in i was worried about getting everything all packed and even though i started packing a week early so much of what we were taking we were still using until the last minute anyway i got everything packed and got to bed at a decent hour on christmas eve morning i got up early and went for a run and it felt great the weather was good at all of our airports and everything was packed all i had to do was get my kids out of bed and head out we drove two separate cars up to dc and only left 15 minutes later than planned and hit zero traffic in dc the kids were happy and cheerful and we didn t have to pull out any electronics for our 3 hour drive up and that meant they would be excited to use them on the plane we got to my sisters house and paid her friend to drop us at the airport and park our car at their house does it sound like i am bragging well i am i was bragging to myself in my head everything was going exactly as planned and smooth i was so excited that we were going to get to my parents house and just be excited to be there and not complaining about the amount of work that traveling takes we got in line to check in and there was a huge line up that happened right behind us and i thought about how lucky we were to have beat the rush i started chatting with the woman in line behind us she was flying to atlanta where the weather was bad and they cancelled her flight her 8 year old looked near tears i again was thinking about how lucky it was that we weren t flying through atlanta and how unusual it was was for the weather to be good in cincinnati and slc but not atlanta i wished the woman luck and walked happily to the check in counter can you feel it coming everything was going too good right turns out our flight to cincinnati was delayed for some unexplained reason and we would miss our connection to slc there were no flights out of that airport to get us there and there was no way they could get all us out together today rich and i finally came to the decision that myself and the girls would fly out of a different airport today and then richard and elliott would fly in on christmas day thankfully my sister s friend was able to come back to pick us up so we could drive to the other airport i was still hoping that maybe there was a flight still available out of the other airport for richard and elliott too it was not meant to be we were super fortunate that richard noticed before we checked in that the way they had booked charlotte viv and i was wrong and we would have been stuck in la overnight so instead we were all going to be staying at a hotel together we got to spend a really nice christmas eve together as our little family we went to see santa claus we hadn t had a chance to do this yet went swimming and went out to dinner at a delicious mexican place so here is the thing it was crummy and i wanted to be in utah with my family and i wanted the traveling to go well but i was happy to be hanging with my little family but here are the two really cool parts of that day that brought tears to my eyes as i was checking in to the hotel i told them we would need to park our car there for 11 days and 7 days came free with our stay so i needed to pay for the other days i had been quoted 10 dollars a day but then they said don t worry about it merry christmas i got a little choked up and said thanks i needed some christmas cheer because our flight was cancelled today then the really sweet thing was that evening when we were watching charlie brown christmas in our room there was a knock on the door it was an employee of the hotel that had his arms full of gifts for the kids they were nice gifts brand new and bought with each of my kids in mind charlotte got a princess teddy bear with a sofia the first puzzle elliott got a stuffed spiderman and a truck vivian was given a stuffed tiger that the man assured me they had checked to make sure the eyes wouldn t come off when she was playing with it and a talking teddy bear toy i just started crying people are good the next morning we were scheduled to fly to oakland ca and then connect and fly back to utah to cut part of this story short i ll just say i was extremely anxious and trying hard to get us on a direct flight later that day it didn t happen but sometimes hope leads to more disappointment than if you hadn t had any chance i decided to go for a walk to keep some of those feelings at bay as i walked through the airport i saw charlotte alone on the moving sidewalk and i was mad and confused and kind of worried when i saw her there by herself then she looked up and realized it wasn t her just a look a like in the same outfit they turned out to be on the same flight the girls became friends as you do when you have on a matching outfit and then i became friends with the mom as you do when your children are the same age it was nice to have somebody to hang out with while we waited for the maintenance issues on our plane to be resolved and distract me from thinking about my layover time that was disappearing we finally boarded the flight and made sure to sit by our new friends as we took off they announced the current time and flight time and i realized we were going to miss our flight in oakland i started to tear up and get frustrated richard reminded that i may as well just relax because there is nothing we could do about it he s right he s right i know he s right we are just chillin on a 6 hour flight and charlotte has a special love for airplane bathrooms because because they are small i don t know but we were on our 2nd trip to the bathroom when the flight attendant asked charlotte if her new little twin friend was her cousin char said no my cousins live in utah we are going to see them today she said well you aren t going to utah you are going to california i explained our whole predicament and how not only were we on our second attempt to get to utah and this time going through california but we were going to miss our connection too here s where it gets good again the flight attendant picked up the phone and called to the front and explained what was going on and asked for them to check on it as we got closer as we were getting closer to landing over head they asked will the family that is trying to get to slc please press their call button then they said will everyone look back to where these lights are this family needs to get to a connecting flight and we would like everyone to stay seated to they can get to their flight my new friend and i were mid conversation when it happened and both of us started tearing up haha the flight attendants took all our bags to the front of the plane and everyone stayed seated so we could sprint to the slc flight that they held for us people are good as unfortunate as it was for our flight to be cancelled i really feel like it gave me a chance to see some great examples of good in humanity i know it sounds ridiculous because it wasn t the end of the world to not end up where we wanted but when people went out of their way to make things nice for us it meant the world to me another people are great moment we asked my sister s friend to teach charlotte and carter a ski lesson he was willing to do it despite a super busy schedule and when we texted my younger brother s 19 year old friend to tell him we were taking the kids ski at the resort where he works he stopped by to say hi and take a few runs with them how cool is that okay but here is the best part of that ski day i wanted to ski because i only get a few days a year when i looked up the prices it was totally not worth it for me to buy a pass since the kids lesson was only two hours for some reason i still decided to bring my ski stuff to the resort just in case jennie dropped charlotte viv and i off so we could get charlotte her rentals while she parked i had viv in the bjorn and had just walked away from the ticket counter with charlotte s ticket this man walked up to me and said do you want a free pass what seriously yes i do here s the kicker he said you looked like you needed a pass oh really what in the world made you think that was it my lack of ski clothing or the baby strapped to my chest i really can t figure out what ...