Weekly Reveiw March 27 '10

I have a lot of things written on my calendar this week, also. Life is busy!!

I guess I left off Monday morning. That afternoon (after school) I had a mammogram—I feel like a pro at that now, since I’ve had so many in the last year. This was my “annual” check up and the results came back normal, so I’m good for another year this time.

Tuesday I had book chat; we discussed “The Help”, which I read several months ago. I was assigned to bring a vegetable, and in honor of the book, which takes place in the south, I brought okra. I was surprised how many people had never had it. Most people liked it, though. We had a pretty interesting discussion about prejudice, and ways that we still are prejudice in our society today. Good “food for thought”.

Wednesday the boys had basketball practice and scouts and I had an appointment to meet with the bishop to discuss children I’m concerned about. I dropped the boys off for practice and went to Wal-Mart to get oil for the Expediton (I know it has a leak somewhere—every few months my oil light starts coming on) and a couple of things for Seth’s quiet book, which I was working on earlier that day. When I got back to the church for my appointment, I found out that the bishop wasn’t there because the RS president had been in an accident and he had gone down to help her. (She’s an older single lady with no family close by.) However, one of the den leaders didn’t show up for cubs, so I stayed to help the other den leader. By the time cubs ended, the bishop was back, so I met with him then. We had a lot to discuss, so we got home a lot later than normal. By the way, the RS president is fine—the accident was fairly serious, but she wasn’t injured and it wasn’t her fault.

I took Tanner to the doctor Thursday afternoon and after discussing it for a while, she decided to increase his dose of medicine and we’ll see how he does. Hopefully it will help him focus more without negative side effects! That evening I had a visiting teaching appointment.

Friday was a crazy day. I took Scott to Seminary as usual and Frank took him to school. Frank had work plans that day, but someone was coming to fix the furnace that morning, so he stuck around for that. The furnace guy was still not able to stop the loud noise, but he thinks he’s figured out what the problem is and he ordered a different part. I’m so glad it hasn’t been cold enough for us to need to use the furnace much, or I’d be very frustrated by now with the long, drawn-out process of getting it fixed! While the furnace guy was still here, I went out to take the boys to school, and the Expedition wouldn’t start. Lights would come on and everything, but when I turned the key—nothing! So I had to take Frank’s car instead. Frank tried jumping it, but that didn’t work (and we were pretty sure the battery wasn’t the problem, just had to rule that out) so he called our favorite mechanic and our insurance company, and arranged to have the Expedition towed over there to be fixed. He suspected the problem was the starter. I was working on the budget, but in the meantime I started to feel pretty sick to my stomach and while Frank was out buying a new starter to send to the mechanic with the car, I finally succumbed and lost my breakfast. After that I felt better for a while, as long as I didn’t eat anything! The tow truck arrived and while Frank was out talking to the driver, I got a phone call from the school. It was the principal, letting me know that another boy in Tanner’s class starting hitting Tanner in the arm. Apparently, he wanted to sit in the seat where Tanner was sitting. She said Tanner had not provoked the other boy at all, but after the other boy had hit Tanner several times, Tanner reacted by hitting back (just once, in the arm also). She told me that the school district rule is that if you are in a fight at all, even if you don’t start it, you can be suspended. However, because it was obvious Tanner was not at fault, she was not going to suspend him, but she did have a talk with him and explained that he could be suspended for doing that, so he shouldn’t do it again, and she kept him with her for lunch that day. I’m not sure what happened to the other boy. (I forgot to ask.) Anyway, she said I could talk to Tanner if I wanted (I did) so we chatted for a few minutes. He wasn’t hurt, and he didn’t sound upset or angry. I asked him why he hit back—was it just instinctual?—and he said yes. Hopefully there won’t be any more problems after this. But anyway, at that point I was kind of afraid to know what was going to happen next—what a crazy day!

As the afternoon progressed, I started to feel worse and got sick a couple more times, even though I hadn’t eaten anything. I called one of my counselors that afternoon and asked her to attend the baptism the next morning. I’m glad I did that because although I was able to start keeping drink and small amounts of food down on Saturday, I was still very weak and my kidneys and joints hurt a lot. I didn’t do much at all on Saturday; just lay on the couch reading. Unfortunately, Frank started feeling sick Saturday morning and he got worse as the day went on. He never did throw up, but he was very nauseated all that day and all of Sunday also. Scott ended up making dinner Saturday night, and all of the boys did a lot to help take care of Seth that day.

We had a few really nice days this week, and quite a few chilly, raw spring days. I managed to get some weeding done in the front yard and Scott mowed the lawn so the yard, which was looking pretty scraggly, looks a lot better now.

We are looking forward to Spring Break, Easter and General Conference!