{"id":4683,"date":"2014-06-08T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2014-06-08T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:10:03","slug":"finally-time-to-sit-back-and-relax-and-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/finally-time-to-sit-back-and-relax-and-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Time To Sit Back and Relax and Enjoy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my son\u2019s formal homecoming talk that return missionaries give at our church meeting once they return from their LDS Mission.\u00a0 We had loads of family members fly and drive into town on both my side of the family and Rollin\u2019s side of the family so they could attend our church meeting today and here Dalton\u2019s talk.. We also had tons of friends come to hear him as well and the meeting was packed.\u00a0 Dalton gave an AMAZING talk and reported on the experiences he had during his two years spent in Mississippi and Louisiana.\u00a0 He shared experiences of how he saw many people change their lives for the better over that two years.\u00a0 He talked about the amazing influence Jesus Christ can have in people\u2019s lives if they allow him too.\u00a0 He talked about how the Savior is always there for us and will always be there for each and every one of us, no matter what mistakes we have made and no matter how distant we feel from him.\u00a0 It was a talk full of hope and faith and I could not have been more proud of him than I was today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following his talk, several hundred people stopped by our home to say hello to Dalton and to take a tour of the new house.\u00a0 We have put so much work into preparing the home for this very day that it was incredible to see it all come together the way that it did.\u00a0 It was so fun to see people enjoy the house as much as they did and to have so many of them appreciate all of the details we have put into the home.\u00a0 It was like watching the culmination of years of hard work finally come together in one incredible afternoon.\u00a0 People were coming by from 10:15am all the way until this evening so it was an event filled day for sure. But finally when the last people had left there was this amazing feeling of \u2026exhale\u2026.and so I did, but there was also that feeling of \u201cI can\u2019t believe its over\u201d\u2026.all that hard work preparing for this day to come\u2026all the focus of every waking moment with very little sleep for months on end\u2026.all the hard work and preparation and we did it\u2026we made it\u2026and it was a huge success\u2026.and it was over\u2026.<\/p>\n

As I sit here on the couch tonight I realize that for the first time it is actually time for me to sit back and relax\u2026.for the first time in over a year of building the house and preparing for my son\u2019s homecoming, we did it!\u00a0 And now it truly is time to relax and enjoy it!\u00a0 Which feels really weird to be honest.\u00a0 The thought of relaxing and enjoying it is so foreign to me right now because I couldn\u2019t for so long\u2026it was work work work and having to have everything finished and complete\u2026but now it is complete\u2026and now it\u2019s time to enjoy the fruits of our labors…<\/p>\n

My only fear is what if I have forgotten how to relax and enjoy it\u2026yikes!\u00a0 I am so not used to just being able to relax. My life has been filled with one huge project after another and one huge responsibility after another.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if I know what it means to relax and enjoy at this point of my life\u2026but I am dang well going to try!!!!\u00a0 My two children are safely home for the summer, our home is complete, and for the first summer ever in my two children\u2019s life their mom is able to take a summer off of work to spend it playing with them, so that is exactly what I intend to do.\u00a0 I am dedicating this summer to playing with my husband and children before they both leave to college in the fall.\u00a0 For once, business can take a backseat to my family and I will pick it up again in the fall.\u00a0 Let the relaxing and enjoying begin \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 (PS. I know my husband is laughing as he reads this because he didn\u2019t know that I even knew that the word \u201crelax\u201d existed\u2026but hey\u2026I am willing to try!).<\/p>\n

Another PS.\u00a0\u00a0To everyone who came today I want to say thank you for supporting my son and being a part of our lives! We feel incredibly blessed to have so many good friends in our life!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n

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Today was my son\u2019s formal homecoming talk that return missionaries give at our church meeting once they return from their LDS Mission.\u00a0 We had loads of family members fly and drive into town on both my side of the family and Rollin\u2019s side of the family so they could attend our church meeting today and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1021,1118,2926,1145,179,2177,717,178,29,2064,231,1636,635,1501,823,3591,764,3593,80,351,2179,1707,821,1918,3383,854,4281,3026,647,4282],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing","tag-church","tag-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-college","tag-dalton","tag-elder-anderson","tag-enjoy","tag-faith","tag-god","tag-homecoming","tag-hope","tag-house","tag-influence","tag-jesus-christ","tag-labor","tag-latter-day-saints","tag-lds","tag-louisiana","tag-mission","tag-missionary","tag-mississippi","tag-new-home","tag-play","tag-playing","tag-proud","tag-relax","tag-sacrament","tag-savior","tag-talk","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}