Walking

Kingston is already starting to learn how to walk. He walks around holding on to furniture, toy walkers and our hands of course. Well I got out his toy that he can hold onto and walk so he could practice. As we started I noticed that it was crooked and already headed for disaster! And I'm the one that got him on it that way. Which then made me think about how it is also my job to get him on the right path in life. In many ways we can do this but particularly the gospel. If at home we aren't reading the scriptures together as a family or saying family prayer or having family home evening or setting high standards or...ok you get the point, then we are putting them on a path to destruction. It's our job to lead the way, set the expectations and essentially place them on the straight and narrow path.
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/04/a-matter-of-a-few-degrees?lang=eng
I loved this talk by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf about "a matter of a few degree's". Even a slight degree change can change the course of our lives. If we don't have it set straight for our children in the beginning then chances are we are not leading them to the right path.

work

    I find it amazing that the mentality from the age of infancy is that if you want it bad enough you'll work as hard as you can to get it. While Kingston and I are upstairs in our loft doing laundry I put him in a big open area with 3 very desirable things in his sight. A printer, a cord from the keyboard and scriptures. At first he chose the scriptures. It was funny watching him b/c he didn't know quite how to crawl yet but he'd reach! And stretch! And grunt! He used all of his little baby energy just to get to them and he made it. He did it! Then was so happy he did! When he had his satisfaction with them he decided to go for the cords. Always trying to push himself.
   It was such a lesson to be learned that if you work really hard for something you can get it! Eternal principle...definitely! All through the scripture we see this example. The first one that comes to mind is Job. He worked his whole life to be obedient to the commandments so that he and his family could have eternal life and no matter what came his way he over came it. Much like Kingston today. Even though he couldn't crawl to it he'd get there somehow and he never gave up. We need to stretch, and reach and maybe even sometimes grunt to reach our biggest goals. And never give up until we've reached our Eternal goal.