FAMILY gives you wings

A family gives you wings when you have forgotten how to fly. Perhaps the road gets too long, you've lost your way or you have just given up.
I wanted to post this because when things were so hard it was family that held us together. Not just my own immediate glorious family but the family support of our extended family.
I love my grandmother, I call her almost daily. I love my parents and my siblings and their children. It feels good to go home. My parents have helped us many times in so many ways. Aunts and uncles on both my side and Mr. Incredible's side have been so gracious and helpful.

My husband's family have become such a source and strength to us. I know my mother in law has been the resounding ear for my husband. WE didn't speak but knowing she was there for him and for our family has been a great help. I love going to the Solomon Reunions because they are rooted in the gospel. They have stories and a family history of how the gospel has blessed their lives and the Testimony Sunday that we have is amazing. It's my most favorite part of the reunion, besides eating.


My brother in law and his family have been a source of hope and relief to countless days of just hanging on. It is good getting together. I know the strength not only lies in family but that their family is grounded in the gospel of Jesus Christ. That they believe the same things that we believe, that they have the same aspirations and goals for their children as we do ours, not just in life but through out eternity. Their children understand the concept too and it rivots roots deeper than anyone can imagine. Life's choices and decisions are not made just on the here and now but forever. WE have similar goals. We don't want to be millionaries but we want to be secure and happy, we don't want to be fanatical but we want to be faithful. My brother and sister in law have been a part of the wind beneath our wings!

I'm so thankful to my extended family, my husband's extended family as well as our ward family. Thank you for blowing and being the wind beneath our wings! What a great family my children are lucky to be a part of.

Love, MG and all who reside at her nest!

12 Days of Christmas

I had a photo session yesterday afternoon and got home around 6pm. Mr. Incredible and I were like passing vessels in the dark. As I entered our warm home, the smell of something delish enveloped all around me! Mmmmmm.... he was on his way out the door very quickly. The missionaries called him last minute to go visit a family. Dash and Sweetheart were outside playing in the dark. They had dinner and played until 9pm. They quickly came inside and we read from the Book of Mormon, one of my most favorite books, said evening prayers and Dash was ushered upstairs to quickly take a shower before retiring to bed. He was naked about to step into the shower and the door bell rings! He believes its one of his friends. Sweetheart shouts, "I have a dog", and I do not move one muscle because when it's after 9pm, I really don't wish to see any of Dash's friends. Dash rushes down the stairs in nothing but a towel.

Sweetheart, Kekoa and Beauty rush to the door open it and scream! Panic rushes through my body as I realize, "OH CRAP, someone has come to visit and our house is a mess!"

TWO large boxes wrapped in Christmas paper sit at our front door. Stunned and shocked we three just stare at it a bit, quickly look for the perpetrator and then Sweetheart yells, THANK YOU and we quickly carry both boxes inside!

Guess what?? It had a song attatched to it also!

Beauty begins singing and she gets to Fiiiiiive paper bills! It processes for her and she stops singing and immediately looks to the box! She's like $5, yes we can all go to McDonald's and get something from the dollar menu! She didn't find it so she continued to sing the rest of the song. Sweetheart found the envelope and passed it to me! I figured it was $5 also and put it in my pocket. WE enjoyed the contents of the boxes! We ravished through it like it was Christmas morning! It sounded like it was Christmas morning and I was so touched and grateful for the Christmas Angels that thought of our family.

I've been a bit weepy lately but it made me sad and happy at the same time to see my 3 children going crazy over cereal!! I may or may not have heard, "YES, it's not Aldi's". They have never once complained about the food they have been eating. Never have they asked for a particular item but each of them said, they were waking up extra early to have time to eat cereal! ::Lucky charms, frosted flakes, pops, coco puffs, captain crunch and raisin brand crunch:: Each of these were someone's favorite cereal! (Simply amazing)

There were bags of snickers, nestle crunch, mm's and reeses Christmas candy. I can't say there were any reeses left when the dawn came. I was left amazed that my children had missed chocolate and were so appreciative over the simple small things. I had not known they had missed these things. (Halloween was only a few months ago)

And how would anyone know that moments prior someone was upstairs yelling for some toilet paper, and who knew that I was wishing we had ordered oranges and a ham on our church food order?? Again, another sweet tender mercies from above where simple wants and desires of the heart are instantly answered.
I had wished that Mr. Incredible was home to feast upon the sounds of joy that had come from our home and although, I had thought we were a fairly happy family, I too had realized I hadn't heard that true happiness in quite sometime. When all was quiet I opened the envelope that had scrawled on it, 5 PAPER BILLS and fell to my knees in gratitude and shared with my children that in deed there were 5 paper bills inside but not one of them were the expected $1 but were in a higher $ amount and the feeling of the house changed from excited joy to humbled reverance.

I'm almost 100% sure that this was from someone in our ward. I'm not sure if they even read my blog but I am 100% sure that the Solomon family is truly grateful and touched by your generosity, love and kindness! I wonder if you knew about the cereal boxes and about the candy that they were favorites in this house hold.

So, I share this with anyone who may know of a family or person who might need some extra help and encourage you to bless the lives of those around you, and be an answer to someone's prayers. God uses each of us to answer the prayers of others! I can't wait to share the joy with another family when we are able to give again.