Nuggets--literally--of thought

Well, I am a ward widow again today. Burke is gone with the youth to youth conference. He is in charge of planning and organizing it. The interesting thing is, we are leaving for my family reunion tomorrow, and youth conference doesn't end until Saturday. Burke made the only choice he could (and remain married) by coming to the reunion and letting the youth conference leaders finish it out on their own. The reunion has been planned for two years, and youth conference has only been planned for about 5 months. Besides, family is supposed to win out right?
Because of my widow state, I thought it would be lots of fun to take the kids to the splash pad again today. We were there for all of 10 minutes when all "heck" broke loose. Kade was running around (after I told him not to) and fell and skinned his knees and elbows. Annika was walking but not paying attention and ran into another little girl who was running (I am sure she wasn't listening to her mom either). Annika sustained most of the impact to her nose and it began to bleed which in turn led to a bout of hysterical crying and dramatic screaming. After I calmed Annika down, Adrienne chose that moment to answer the call of nature and pooped in her swimming "soup"(as she calls it). That was the last straw! We decided to leave and try again another day.
The interesting thing is that in all of this, I was able to make a spiritual point. Kade was lamenting his poor skinned knees and bleeding elbows (he had to emphasize the bleeding portion--at our house we had to make a rule that you aren't allowed to cry unless you are bleeding). I was giving him a lecture that it happened because he was running around after I told him not to. I asked him why he thought I didn't want him to run (I guess this may have been rhetorical, I was a little frustrated). Did he think I just didn't want him to have fun? (Rhetorical again). No, it was because I knew what could happen to him, and I didn't want him to get hurt. I was impressed to tell them that Heavenly Father gives us rules to live by as well, and if we follow them, life will be easier because we can avoid some things that are painful.