Weekly Review July 22 '11

Let's see if I can get blogger to work this week! I am thinking pretty seriously about going back to email, but I'll give it another try. Especially since my address book got wiped out several months ago....

This week was fairly eventful, with some sort of event nearly every day. On Sunday evening Frank went to a resume writing workshop done by a guy in our stake who has been in HR for about 30 years. He enjoyed the workshop and learned some valuable information. Afterwards, he ended up talking to the guy giving the workshop for a long time, so he didn't get home until late.

Frank had an interview with a recruiter Tuesday afternoon and a job interview Wednesday morning, so the job hunt is starting to warm up a little. The job interview went very well; the guy said he'd probably hire Frank on the spot except that he couldn't pay him enough. Frank told him if he made an offer, he'd consider it. The guy was going out of town for a few weeks, though, so we won't hear back from him for a while. In the meantime, Frank did quite a bit of work this week which always helps.

I got my hair done on Monday, which meant that Seth got to play with his good buddy Tyler (his mom cuts my hair). Tuesday I had book club. The book we read this time, Perelandra, made for a very interesting discussion! Wednesday night our ward had a combined Preparedness Fair / Pioneer Day celebration with lots of booths on various topics such as making homemade bread, food and water storage, 72 hour kits, disaster preparedness, etc. There was also pioneer music, dutch oven cooking, a pie eating contest, first aid demonstrations by the cub scouts, a taffy pull by the activity days girls, and a candy store. I thought it was pretty nice and we had a pretty good turn out. I think there would have been even more people if the weather had been more cooperative. We've had temperatures in the 100's this week with humidity to boot--not very pleasant weather to be outside! (The fair was held in the parking lot, not indoors.) Jared's friend Sage came to hang out all day on Thursday. This morning Seth went to a birthday party for Tyler and this evening all the boys and I went swimming. My visiting teaching companion has a pool at her house and she thought it would be fun to invite all the ladies we visit and their kids over to swim. The kids swam while we visited. We had fun, but only one of our three ladies was able to make it today. We'll have to catch the other two another time. Tonight Tanner is spending the night with his friend Seth--I think they are going to go see Harry Potter 7, part 2. Scott is staying with his friend David's younger brother, Danny. The rest of Danny's family went to DC to see the play Wicked, but since Danny is autistic, they didn't want to leave him alone for that long. (Danny is Tanner's age.) Danny came over earlier and went swimming with us. After dinner, Frank took Scott and Danny back to Danny's house.

Besides all that, the older kids had various social activities. Tanner and Jared spent the night with Ryan and Bryson Tuesday night. Scott met a girl at Youth Conference that he really likes; he spent Wednesday afternoon and evening at her house. Scott's friend Ricardo came here one day and Scott spent time with his friend David another day. I'm sure I'm forgetting something! These guys really keep me going, trying to keep up with their social lives.

The older three boys, to my surprise, watched the movie Pride and Prejudice with me one evening. I had to explain a bit to them about how 19th century English society operates! They didn't think it was a great movie or anything, but they did watch the whole thing.

Frank and I went to the library to pick up a book for Jared and while Frank was browsing in the Sci Fi section, I ended up in non fiction and wound up bringing home The Idiot's Guide to Geography, Life 20th Century in Pictures, and The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told. I'm still wondering what that combination of books has to say about my personality!

Fun quote from Seth. He asked me Wednesday night at bedtime where Scott was, and I told him Scott was hanging out with a girl that he likes. Seth asked "Is she a hot girl, or a warm girl?"

We are really glad that Anna & Buck's little Ivory June arrived safely this week! What a sweetie for coming a little early. :) So now I'm a great aunt! I can't wait to meet her someday...