Blaine and Carrin

Blaine and I were married on Aug. 10, 1982 in the Los Angeles Temple. We have 7 children. I gave birth to 4 and then we adopted a sibling group of 3. We love all of our children so much!! We now have 6 grandchildren. I love the ocean and Catalina is one of my favorites places. Blaine loves the mountains and fishing and hunting, he also loves Catalina. I have traveled across the US on the southern route. We went to college in Rexburg, Idaho when we first got married.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

A Little Bummed

Parenting isn't always easy, just reflecting on a lot of my flaws and there were many. I can admit I made a lot of errors. Even when you know what you should do doesn't mean you always do it, even when you know you are messing up it's hard to change how you approach hard situations. I guess some people are better in some situations than others. I am still learning, I guess it never ends. I guess until you walk in someone shoes you can speculate how you would react but you never know for sure, even when you KNOW how you should react it's not always that easy, I'm beginning to understand that now and regret ever putting down someone when I thought I could do better. Hopefully my kids will be a lot better at parenting than I was, but my shortcomings were not from any lack of trying and I love all of my children sooo much.

2 comments:

Em said...

You are the best mom in the world!!

carrin said...

I really wasn't fishing for compliments I was just feeling down, but thanks, I love you