WHITTACRE FAMILY BLOG

Today would mark my brothers 49th birthday! He has been been on his "mission" for 32 years! Today I think of my brother Leon. I do not post often enough about any of my siblings. Today I wanted to share about one of my older brother's since it is the day we celebrate the day he was born.  I did not know my brother well. I was eight years old when he passed away. My brother was very young when my Dad and his mom were divorced. So he never lived under the same roof as me and I hardly knew him in this life. All I know and have learned about him is through those I love that also loved him. I have grown to love him in a way that no one really can understand except for me. I have tried often to express it to people I love but it goes far deeper than words could ever express no matter how I try to put it into words.  In a way I look at his death a bit parallel to the Savior.  NOT completely of course because our Savior is the ONLY one who could and was chosen to w...

Time for another blog post after all it has been a few months... We moved! Yup...old news now...LOL! I could go on a tangent about that but well...that is not what I wanted to blog about... Time to VENT! I am confident I am not the only mother who feels this way but I am so FRUSTRATED and torn with the idea of being a "perfect" mom. What is perfect anyway? Okay I realize I will never be the perfect mom but as a mom we have to make decisions. Background: I grew up with chores. I was cooking by the time I was 10. (if not earlier) But I don't remember having homework in Elementary School (except reading) and honestly my parents never pushed the reading on me.  I was never involved in extra curricular activities until High School. I never had piano. Never participated in Soccer, or Volley ball, or basket ball. I never had swim lessons. I learned all of my musical talent IN school. I started violin in 4th grade. Was I ever very good. NOPE! Maybe because I didn't h...