Special Two Hour Meeting

I haven't blogged much lately.  I guess I have had a lot on my mind and a lot going on otherwise.  And until I get a new camera, I have a really hard time posting without pictures (don't worry, I am going to remedy that soon).  Actually I haven't been able to decide if I wanted to blog about what is the front runner of things in my thoughts.  But I think it important because it will change our lives quite a bit.  

A few weeks ago, our stake president announced during our Sacrament Meeting on Sunday that the meeting for the following Sunday would be a special meeting that would last 2 hours and would be shared with another ward in the stake.  Of course, everyone was wondering what the implications of this meeting were.  A boundary change was suspected, but the fact is that the current bishops of both wards had both been serving over the unwritten 5 year mark had speculation running rampant.  But I was not caught up in all of the gossip and predictions of what might happen because, well, I already knew.  

You see, we had a visit from our stake president . . . to our home.  Now seriously, how often does that happen?  Adam kept saying that he was just being thoughtful because we have young children and needed our temple recommends updated.  But I don't think that either of us really believed that.  So, as a result of that visit, during the "special meeting" Adam was called and sustained to be bishop of the Apopka, FL Ward.  

Now, earlier I mentioned that a boundary change was suspected, that assumption was correct.   I doubt that everyone knows this but my parents and I are in the same ward.  Which has been great since Adam was called to be 2nd counselor in the bishopric last June.  Having a new baby along with a 4 year old is hard by yourself, and they made up the difference.  Also, I am a primary teacher and my dad always took Ian for the last 2 hours of church so I could teach my class.  Well, as I am sure you are suspecting, the boundary change has taken my parents out of my ward.  So I have a bishop for a husband (which means he won't be around a whole lot, and not with me at all during church) and no family to help with the kids.

I don't want you to think that I am complaining.  I just wanted to share some of the thoughts swirling around in my head.   I have been especially concerned because Ian is almost 1.  And he is an extremely active little guy.  Church is a 3 hour wrestling match (and I only had the first shift, Dad took the last couple hours).  Clara is pretty good but seems to know when I can't do anything about misbehavior because my arms are full of Ian.  I know that things will work out, they always do.  In fact, after the meeting was over I had a couple wonderful women come to me from my ward and say that they knew I would need help now that my parents wouldn't be there and they are volunteering!  I am a little embarrassed to admit that my tears are welling up a little bit even now as I write that.  People can be so kind.  I am still a little anxious, but I believe that we will be blessed.  

Please, please, take this post as it was intended.  A sharing of some huge changes in my life.  I believe that everything is as it should be and that Heavenly Father will bless us, and while I know that it will not always be easy, I know that we will grow as a family and as individuals and that we will be happy if we earnestly seek to serve the Lord the best we can.