Posterity

My husband and I just had a baby. It is a strange new way to look at life. Immediately I felt a difference as we were driving home... the world is not such a safe place. I always felt secure enough and never felt threatened, but I feel this urge to protect her. Now when I drive with her in the back seat, I think about how I must drive extra safely because not only is my invincible self in the car, but also my daughter who I want to protect.

Someone once said, "It is annoying how people do not return their shopping carts. Why don't they just walk 20 feet and return it to it's spot?" Well I have an answer. I do not want to walk 20 feet away from the car to put the shopping cart away after I've already put my baby daughter in the car. I want to keep her within my reach always. She is too small to defend herself if someone else reaches in to grab her when I am 20 feet away, and I already walk slow enough that I would never be able to catch up to someone running away from me. So there.

I went to the temple today while our baby was with my husband. I thought about how the decisions and things that my husband and I do together and with our family are part of our earthly test. It has been hard to take care of my daughter who cries and demands attention often. But when I was in the temple I was reminded that caring for my daughter is one of the most important things that I will ever do. I also thought about how our daughter demands so much of us that my husband and I do not have just each other anymore. That makes me sad because my husband is my very best friend and nothing makes me happier than to be with him. However in the temple I remembered that my husband and I are working for a great goal - to be together forever. If we work hard now then I will gain the reward of being with my best friend forever. So I must work hard now and hope for that reward which we can gain through Jesus Christ and His gospel. I love the temple and how it puts things back into perspective for me. The world has a way of distorting my priorities.