Weekly Review February 26 '11

The question of the week is: Will the day come that everyone in the Cleveland household is well? I'm sure that wonderful day will come some day, but it hasn't yet. Frank and I both started getting our energy back on Monday. I have some lingering mild stomach upset still, but other than that I feel pretty good. It's nice to be back on my feet! Frank was able to go to work on Tuesday and he has worked hard all week. Meanwhile, Seth threw up once early Monday morning. He seemed to be fine that day and ate whatever he wanted, but he started having some diarrhea that day, which lingered throughout most of the week. I didn't feel comfortable sending him to school until Friday. Jared threw up several times early Wednesday morning, so he spent Wednesday and Thursday at home. Tanner and Scott both felt sick Thursday morning and stayed home from Seminary. I made Scott go to his chemistry class, which is 2nd block (starts at 9:00) and he stayed at school for the rest of the day, even staying after to make up a quiz he missed last week, but he didn't feel very well and after he came home from school he laid around all evening and didn't eat much. Tanner stayed home all day but didn't seem to be all that sick; I was about to tell him Thursday evening that he needed to go to school on Friday but then he started throwing up, so he stayed home Friday also. Scott went to school on Friday, to my surprise, and when he came home he said he was feeling better. Tanner was feeling mostly back to normal by last night, but then Frank started feeling sick to his stomach and he is still feeling pretty sick today.



No one had school on Monday because of President's Day. Frank had the day off as well. We didn't do anything special because we were just trying to recuperate from being sick (or just getting sick, depending on who you are).



No one had school on Tuesday, either, because Monday night we got about 4-5 inches of snow and freezing rain. Tanner and Jared went to help shovel snow at the church that morning and then spent most of the day at Ryan & Bryson's house. It was strange to have all that snow again after our warm temperatures of last week--almost all the snow had finally melted! I'm still mad that I was too sick to really enjoy the beautiful weather we had last week! We've had some really cold days this week, but the temperatures are back up a little now, and yesterday it rained most of the day and most of the snow melted again. I hope we get some more nice days soon!



Other than people being sick, this week was pretty uneventful. I've been trying to get caught up on things I didn't do last week. I went visiting teaching on both Tuesday and Thursday evenings. I had a presidency meeting Thursday morning. Last week when I was sick, I finished the book for book club (Evidence of Things Unseen) and also finished a newberry medal winner called Rifles for Watie. I started another newberry winner--M.C. Higgins the Great, but haven't got very far into it yet.

Last night we had a ward activity--a light dinner and a talent show. For dinner we had soups, salad, and rolls along with some appetizers and desserts. The talent show was long, but what I saw of it was very good. There was a variety of talents including singing, piano solos, dancing, magic tricks, etc. They also had displays of talents--photography, artwork, needlework, crafts, etc. (I displayed my friendship quilt and some embroidered pillowcases.) I didn't see a lot of the talent show because I was making trips home. First I took Frank home because that's when he started feeling sick. Then I took Seth home because he was getting tired and restless. I went back to get Jared and by the time I got back home, Seth was sound asleep on the couch! Scott was invited by our bishop's daughter to go to her house, along with some of the other youth, to play some games after the talent show. Then he went to Ryan's house to spend the night.

The sister missionaries got transferred out of our ward this week and now we have Elders again. We haven't had Elders for about 5 years. We were sitting next to them last night and while getting acquainted with them and introducing them to our boys, we discovered that their first names are Scott and Tanner--we thought that was pretty cool!!

Frank and I had planned to go to the temple today. He wasn't feeling up to it, but I still went and really enjoyed being there again. There is such a great feeling in the temple; it can't be beat! Scott had a basketball game; they lost as usual. Now all the boys are playing games. Jared's friend Joseph, from church, is here because his parents had to go to a swim meet for his older brother and I am going to give him a ride, along with our three oldest boys, over to an activity tonight. The activity is a reward dinner for all the youth in our ward who met a scripture reading challenge that our bishop gave them last year. I am really proud of all of our boys for meeting the challenge!

I think that is everything for this week. Two things I forgot to mention last week: Scott had to get his blood drawn (for some acne medication he was starting) and to my surprise he wanted me to go back with him. I jokingly offered to hold his hand, and he said "actually, I really want you to do that. I hate needles!" So I held his hand. The lady who drew his blood thought that was so sweet! She also expressed surprise that I was his mother--she was assuming I was his older sister. I love it when that happens! The other thing I forgot is that Seth had a rough day at school one day. His teacher called and asked us to come inside when we picked him up because he had refused to do his work that day and to clean up the work he was supposed to be doing. She told him he couldn't have a snack if he didn't clean up, and he refused and didn't get a snack. So she told him he needed to clean up or he couldn't go outside to play, and he still refused to clean up. So she told him he was not going to be able to go home until he cleaned up! That's why she asked us to come inside. I was sick that day so Frank picked him up and by the time he got there, Seth had decided to clean up. We never could find out what got into him, but he has been very cooperative ever since. The next day he brought home a big paper sun with a note saying that he did all his work and cleaned up; he was pretty happy about that. Who knows what gets into his little head sometimes!

We hope you are all happy and much healthier than we have been!