Weekly Review March 26 '11

I hope I will be able to get this week's review typed without too much trouble. My left wrist hurts a bit because I injured it yesterday. Yes, I am so graceful! I was taking Snickers out and I tripped and fell flat on my face! But before I face planted, I threw both my arms out to break my fall, and so both my hands / wrists got jarred pretty good too. My left wrist has been bothering me ever since, but I don't think it's anything serious. Amazingly, the only thing I can see on my face so far is a tiny scratch. It felt like I did a lot more damage at the time, but it doesn't look as bad as it felt! I am pretty sore today, though. My arms, shoulders, and back are definitely feeling the effects of that hard fall, and there's some bruising on my hands. It could have been a lot worse, though; I'm grateful it wasn't.



I probably spoke too soon when I said that it wasn't likely we'd have any more snow days this year. This week has been wet and cold! We might get some snow tomorrow, but I hope not. My poor daffodils are looking pretty droopy. We can use the rain, but I wish it was a warmer rain. Frank and the older three boys are out today aerating lawns. The rain this week has softened up the ground, which will make their job easier. Thankfully, it is not raining today or they would have had to postpone their project. It is quite cold, though--below freezing this morning. Hopefully they won't be too miserable--at least the work they are doing should help warm them up.



This week was fairly busy with phone calls and errands and visits. I had a visiting teaching appointment on Tuesday during the day and two Primary visits on Tuesday evening. One of the Primary visits was to visit a new family in our ward who have three Primary age children. They are very sweet children; we had a fun visit with them.



Scott was very busy this week with play practices--he is on the technical crew for his school's production of Phantom of the Opera. The play starts this Thursday, so they are in final rehearsals. He was also busy getting caught up with all the school work he missed when he was sick because this week was the end of term. Because of that, all the boys got out of school two hours early on Thursday and there was no school yesterday.



Scott also did some work for his Eagle Scout project this week. He finally got in touch with the park ranger (he's been trying to do that for months) and there is one adjustment she would like him to make to the turtle cage lid before she signs off on his project, so Frank and he went up to look at that to try to figure out what needs to be done. Hopefully it won't be too difficult to fix--they don't think it will be.



We all watched the BYU game Thursday night, of course. Very disappointing! But we feel good that they played a pretty good game (until overtime, that is). You can't say that they got completely creamed, at least! Scott and Tanner went to a friend's house to watch the game, along with several other YM from our ward.



I took all the boys to get haircuts yesterday. I spent the rest of the day doing financial stuff. I had the usual budget update to do, but I also wanted to make some adjustments to the budget that I've been meaning to do for several months now. I also got to talk to my friend Marci on the phone which was very nice since I haven't had a chance to talk to her for months! The three older boys had a night hike (for scouts) along the C&O Canal last night. Frank, Seth and I watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice. It was pretty good; not fantastic or anything, but fairly entertaining.



To help encourage Seth to get more interested in Neil Armstrong (his part in his class play) I decided to show him parts of the movie Apollo 13--the part where they show television footage of Neil Armstong on the moon, as well as the parts where the rocket takes off and where they splash down in the ocean. Seth was fascinated, and actually wanted to watch the whole movie. It held his attention a lot more than I thought it would. Now Apollo 13 is his new favorite movie, and he's watched it a few times. There are a couple of times that Neil Armstrong comes into the story, and when he does, Seth says "That's Neil Armstrong. He's me!" Showing him the movie had it's intended effect, too--Seth is now interested in learning to say his part for the play! He's learning it fast, too--when I repeat the part to him, he is able to join in and say a lot of the words.


This morning Seth and I are going to go to a baptism for 3 kids in our ward. I'm not sure what else we will do all day while the rest of the family is gone. I'm glad I don't have a lot that I have to do since I'm so sore. I have a little bit of work to do, but hopefully we will mostly be able to relax and have fun together!