Today I'm thinking about...
How I can have a positive influence on others
Taking a break from the ever seemingly reminders of the office
My new commitment to staying healthy
My luck being chosen to be Lourdes' Daddy
Lulu and I are trying to get our life's back to the routines that we once enjoyed. No matter how hard we try, it will never be the same for us. In a way that fact is exciting and we look forward to our new future with four kids, a wife with cancer, and a new direction career wise. As you can tell, I'm not as frequent with my updates these last few weeks. I have been selfish with my time. Deciding to spend more of it with my family. I can't tell you how much that I have a new appreciation of my time and how I use it. Not that I've ever been frivolous with my use of time, but I'm just more aware of how limited it can be.
My lovely wife has been spending her time organizing her and our families life's. That I take is a good sign for continued improvement in her health? Lulu has been voicing her concerns about her future as Dr. Molina the strong, compassionate, and devoted pediatric dentist that she once was. She, I believe, is fighting those thoughts of self confidence and wondering if she can return to the pace and the devotion that she showed before starting her life altering journey almost one year ago? That constant balancing act of motherhood and a professional career. Just a little bump on either side of the continuum can cause a fierce anxiety in her life. It is all just another chance to grow as a human being. A part of becoming a better, stronger, and wiser person. I can't wait to see how this all will shape my best friend and hero?
Lourdes I think has grown more in this last week then the whole last couple of months? I spent most of the afternoon with her today, and we had fun playing Peek-a-Boo, rolling around on the floor, making a mess of her face and clothes while attempting to eat, and changing it seemed like a endless supply of poppy diapers (I think that she holds it all in until Daddy is in charge)? I just love to look at her round fat baby face, and I can't help but see both Mommy's features in there. Her nose is a miniature form of Lulu's, and those big eyes seemed to have been plucked right from Mommy's face (even though her eyes are blue? Lourdes was sucking down the milk tonight. Just when I thought that she had had enough of the white sweet cow juice, she would make sure that I knew that she wanting more. I think that I put her to bed twice now. She wasn't having going to sleep in her crib on her own. She has been held to fall asleep for most of her 9 months, and isn't adjusting to having to cry herself to sleep. (how can you blame her, I think all of us like to be held when we fall asleep no matter what age we are)? This girl thing, so far, has been one of the best things that has happened to me. I can barely wait until tomorrow to see what new experiences that we can share together?
My most recent book I finished again give me a thankfulness and appreciation of what we have in the US. Anderson Cooper's, Dispatches From The Edge,was an enlightening story of courage, humility, and caring that opened me more to my promise of giving back to people and caring for less fortunate persons somewhere on this great big world. I have completed some of the details of my missionary trip to Belize for January 2011, and I have been researching what more I can do? It's in all of us this need to give back, some people call it "pay it forward". If we can all just act upon these feelings, we can have a better world to live in. Next time you have a opportunity to change a life, take it, the time might never present itself again?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment