Slowing in Nature

Corey missed his workout on Monday so he went out and did Clark's last night. I thought he went up the Quarry trail and was interested in seeing how far he got. I checked life 360 to see how far up he was and saw that he was in Corner Canyon, drat. When I checked, he was at Peakview and had been there for 20 minutes. He paused his ride to talk with Eth and also his friend, who were needing business advice about stuff going on. Corey's been very helpful to them, he's a good mentor. So anyway, I decided I would have to go check out Quarry myself. I left for a ride today after Sophi and Natalie got home from school. (Abi had Lyceum and Lily went to Wayne's). On my ride I listened to this BYU speech again "Be Still and Know That I Am God" by Shayla Bott. A few parts I liked on this second listen through - 

"Slow down your body, slow down your life." 
"Where we spend our time shows us what we worship." - Mary Oliver

"You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships." - David Foster Wallace

I decided to put some of her counsel into practice and didn't listen on my whole ride. For some of it I listened to nature and talked to God, Tevye style. It was nice to be outside. The trail was clear up until the 2nd bridge, and after that there were a few stretches of snow here and there. 

Had to HAB the last 20 yards to the ruins. I got the Lisa Rocks today!

These Granite canyon walls are sacred - the stone here was prepared by the Lord and used for the Salt Lake Temple. I'm so grateful to live here.

I haven't been up to the ruins since Feb 7! So yeah it was good. Girls all had YW tonight - they went on a hike from Hidden Valley to Bear Canyon bridge. That's a nice hike spring is almost officially here. 

Peter was home sick again today. He woke me up at 4:45 am this morning with a knock at our bedroom door cause the poor kid #2'd his pants during the night. Thankfully not a lot in volume, but whatever sickness he has sure has an exceedingly putrid odor. (Sorry again for tmi, but it's real life.) I gave him a quick bath, started laundry, sent him back to bed, washed my hands well and then went down to get my sourdough ready for breakfast. I divided the 1000 gram dough into 3 loaves today instead of two, and they are smaller and so cute! I had them ready for the kids for breakfast. Two out of the oven, last one cooking. 

I wanted to get a pic of all three but I sent one with Corey when he left with carpool while the last one was still cooking. I think we might never go back to store bought bread. Also gave him some chili & kimchi and also stuff for his yogurt fruit breakfast of champions. 

So Peter stayed home once again, and Daniel. K might be getting the bug. She hasn't messed her pants yet but had quite a few bathroom trips yesterday. We'll get through this. I enjoy having them home.