The tender mercies of the Lord

Lately, I have felt overcome by the tender mercies of the Lord and for the safety of my family, love ones, and self. This feeling of gratitude became more apparent a couple weeks ago when a co- worker went missing from work. She has been missing for two weeks but was found this week in a creek near our home. Authorities believe she slid on ice and went into the creek on her way home. She is deceased and they believe she drowned . It would be selfish of me not to acknowledge the Lord's hand in my safety each night coming home and that I come home to three children and a husband all safe and snug in the bed. Yesterday, I was even more overcome with feeling the tender mercy of the Lord. On the way to take the girls to school, Jake was going straight and a car turned and hit him on the driver side and pushed him into another car, so both sides of the car were damaged significantly. The car had to be towed but to the astonishment of everyone involved and the police officer, the injuries were minor. Most damage to the car happened in the rear where the girls sit. They each have knots on their heads and Ginny has an abrasion on her eye but we feel extremely blessed that our girls are okay. Jake has a sore back but feels more guilt than anything that he was involved in accident with the kids. Fortunately, the accident was not his fault but as a parent, I think you still feel guilt when one of your children is harmed or put in harms way.
So lately, I have felt the tender mercies of the Lord more abundant in big ways in my life. I know daily, His tender mercies are here in my life and evident. I know that Heavenly Father knows me and is mindful of me and my lived ones.

The minds of little girls

The other day we were driving in the car and the girls were chatting away, mainly about their new names they will have if something happens to Jake and I. Sandra will rename them each to incorporate her name or so she says. They were also telling me they have picked out their wedding dresses and then Aubree tell me that her wedding "is going to be perfect". She proceeded to tell me that she and her dad were going to dance to hoe down throw down by Miley Cyrus.
Ginny has begun to plan her baptism, of course the plans change daily on who she wants to do what but she is excited for March to get here. Currently, her favorite Primary song is also "Baptism". Aubree loves the song "Follow the Prophet" and "I am a child of God".
Will is all boy but loves the color pink. He is into everything and loves to help clean up, although it usually turns into more of a mess but at least he is trying.
I am excited to see what this year holds for us. I know we will be adding another little man to our family, baptizing our oldest baby, and who knows what else.
Here is a cute story. Aubree said the closing prayer for FHE tonight and afterwards, she freaked out and said she needed to pray again because she forgot something. We asked her what she forgot and she forgot to pray for Michael to do good on his test he has coming up. Aubree proceeded to say, not the Michael with brown skin but the Michal with skin like mine. How cute is she to be so concerned with others....