MaeLyn's Musings

The days pass quickly. It gets to the point where thinking back, it is difficult to even distinguish between one day and the next because they all blend into each other. Each day we awake and go through the established routines, getting the kids to school, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, fixing meals, sometimes going to meetings or other activities, but not much stands out. The days pass quickly, and each weekend I look back and realize another week has passed in a blink. Meanwhile my children are a little older. I'm a little older. I worry that someday I'm going to look back and realize that my children have grown and gone and that I missed it. Do I enjoy my children at the stage they are at? Do I appreciate that every moment only comes once? Steven and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary in a few weeks. It seems amazing that ten years have passed. I still remember driving to the temple the morning we were married, when Steven presented me with a book, a coll...

For a while now Steven and I have been thinking of moving. Our three bedroom condo has served us well for the last five years, but it is starting to feel a bit tight, and every night that we lay awake listening to our neighbor bang around in his kitchen on the other side of the wall from our bedroom we dream of having a home where we own all four walls. It was one of those things we thought about, but didn't do much to promote. A few weeks ago (Tuesday, April 22, 2008) I was looking around online and did a search to find out how many four bedroom, three bedroom homes were for sale within our ward boundaries and in a price range of less than $250k. I found four, although at least three of those were split level, and Steven and I don't like the idea of opening the front door to stairs. I mentioned my search to Steven coming home from church the next Sunday, and the following week he did his own search and on Thursday, May 1st he was looking online and came across a house that cap...