Just thoughts

This afternoon we went swimming, after swimming I was brushing the boys' hair (Ben, Jack, and Josh (my nephew). A nice young grandma lady said to me,

"Oh, three boys! I had five boys before I had a girl."

Then I said to her, "that means you had at least six kids, how many did you have?"

Her, "Eleven."

Me, "wow, I have two and it seems to be as much as I can handle. Sometimes it is more than I can handle."

Her, "How ever many you currently have seems to be as much as you can handle."

In my head I was thinking, so how exactly did she end up having eleven kids. Wow!

She told me that after every kid she had she just had to give up something else. She said scrapbooking and playing the piano were a few things she gave up. She said that there were three things she wouldn't give up-

• Doing the laundry.
• Doing the dishes.
• Having a clean house.

Um, okay. Those three things take up a lot of my time. And I have two kids. You know what she didn't mention that she wouldn't give up? SLEEP. I guess I could always stop blogging, but it wouldn't really save me much time.

So lately I have been thinking that I would like to be able to do more things for other people and I feel bad that I'm not. I have two friends who are very pregnant that I'd like to do something for, my grandparents would always love a visit, people would always love to get an e-mail or a nice note, and I would love to get together for playdates to visit with friends. (If you are reading this blog, you are one of the people I would like to see.)

So, I would like to do more, but often times it seems that taking care of things in my own little world keeps me plenty busy. Everything seems to take so much effort. I find it interesting how I belittle the importance of what I do for my family. It's a big deal, it's a lot of work.

I love my little family, but I think it's important to socialize outside of that. A guy in my ward once said me, "people are friendly, but they aren't friends." I think it's so true, but how do we balance very important family time with other things as well? Has anybody figured that out? I think we are all trying to figure that out, aren't we?