Steps, steps, steps!

We needed a shed to make room for more of our stuff. Actually, we have stored all our camping supplies and summer toys inside the storage room that I want to have full of our food storage. So we decided to put up another shed outside, to hold all the stuff we have inside, because we have no room in the other shed outside. First Dad and the boys began. They pulled everything out of the boxes and got ready to go. They began! But, they got one wall up and was going on to the next, when they found out they were missing a piece(a vital wall piece)and a piece was broken. So being that it was a weekend and the company was not open, we had to put it all away till I could call the company and request them to ship us the missing and broken part. So the day I wanted to have a shed put up and filled so that I could organize the food room was messed up. Then when the parts came a few days later. Nathan, Aaron and I were trying to put up the shed, along with our neighbor who loves to help. I soon left when the instruction booklet was found to be wrong on several occasions. I left it up to the Men to figure it out. Finally it is mostly done and Aaron comes up with a little piece from a bag and wants to figure out where it belonged. Belonged? Well it actually belonged up on the very top. About 12 steps from where they were. I think Nathan wanted to kill his younger brother. Nathan had to take the roof off again and rebuild the roof with the little top thing put in it's rightful place. I tell this story because, When I asked how it was going, Nathan said "Mom, we are taking two steps forward and one step back". Later when something else occurred I thought to myself the same thing. In life sometimes we tend to do that. Take two steps forward and one step back. If the boys had given up and stayed on one of the "backward" steps then I wouldn't have a shed. On our path through this life our decisions sometimes make us have to take a step backwards in order to move forward. After a decision I made turned out bad, my wonderful husband told me to look at it, as if I had just taken a college 101 course. I needed to learn from it and do better. So here I am embarking on new paths and trying to do better. I pray that all my endeavors lead me on the right path, or I will just take two steps back and find a new one. I am grateful to a Loving Heavenly Father for giving us the opportunity to do so. Through Christ's Atonement we can make mistakes and fall to the wayside and still get up and make it back to our Father in Heaven.