Everyone Should Have a Twin

So I've been comtemplating what I have been showing the world about my mothering life. I haven't been happy with it. I have been showing the hard stuff. (Which is there all the time). But does it dominate my perspective? I'm afraid it does more than I'd like it to. My husband is so much better at making things fun and happy. We had about ten minutes between dinner and bedtime last night...and so this is what we did. It was awesome.

Just in 24 hours I've had conversations in which people have said:

"I don't know how you do it."
"you're my hero"

I hear these often.  And I LOVE hearing it; don't stop :)

But I also had this convo: (after seeing twin b push twin a over to me after calling her over a few times).

"You have two sets of twins? That's fantastic."

And I definitely need to hear this more often and believe it and share it! Because yes, it is FANTASTIC!

Managing to Nourish

Yesterday I went to the funeral of a fellow mother of multiples (twins plus five!).

She was DeAnna Welling Packer, but we knew her only as Mother Packer. It was said that "I'd rather see a sermon than hear one." And how she was a living sermon of Christlike qualities. And the sermon this angel Mother left me is this:

She did not manage her children at all. She simply nourished them. Like a gardener in the soil, she planted the seeds, provided all of the water, nutrients and sunshine they needed, and then let them grow. And what a beautiful garden she turned out to have!  Some daisies, some roses, some extras (like me and my friends) that got added to the pot along the way.

I'm so blessed to have Lori Packer Truman in my life. And we both are in love with our friend Jeanine's baby :)

Her light shone so bright that it was tempting to only see your own insignifigance and shrink in her presence. But as a true Mother she never allowed that. She opened her blanket of warmth and wrapped you up in it so tightly that you couldn't help but be reminded of your own light and to feel only inspired to make it grow.

She was so good at validating the weeds you think you have, but only inspiring you to  turn them into flowers again...not by force or grit, but only invitation and love.  Not unlike our Savior. So much like our Savior.

So now the only thing that I want to "manage" is myself-to become more like the mother He wants me to be. And hopefully I will help them see  more flower than weed.