I'm posting a day early this week (although I'm pretending it's Friday) because tomorrow is going to be a busy day. It's our stake temple day (stake conference is this week end) and Scott is going to go to the temple to receive his endowment. He is excited and we are excited for him!
Last Friday Frank & I went to our ward activitiy (for adults only). We had a fun time. We played a "Ward Jeopardy" game with questions about different members of our ward. There were different categories such as "Sisters" (questions about sisters in the ward), "Callings", "YSAs", "Families", "Work" and so forth. They rigged it up on the computer so that the game board looked just like the one on the show. We didn't have just 3 "contestants" though. When a question was asked, whoever got their hand up first got to answer the question. And anyone getting a correct answer got a little candy bar. Frank and I both got several questions right. There was a lot of joking going on and it was a lot of fun. After the game we enjoyed the desserts everyone brought and we got to vote for our favorite. They gave awards based on the number of votes each dessert got, and guess who came in first?
Frank did, of course! You can see him above with what was left of his "Chocolate Cavity Maker Cake". He was awarded the "1" candle as a prize. Ok, in all honesty he tied for 1st place. Another dessert received the same number of votes so they tossed a coin to determine which dessert got 1st place and which one got 2nd place. But still, pretty good, right? Besides, the person he tied with is the stake RS president. :) The cake was very delicious. I hope he makes it again soon.
They also gave out some "door prizes". They were pretty creative...one of them was a certificate exempting the holder from fasting next fast Sunday! I said I would rather have an exemption from giving a talk...or better yet, from accepting a calling! :)
Seth was still sick on Saturday but he didn't seem to be too bad. But that evening he started to feel worse and when Frank carried him up to bed he suddenly announced that he had to throw up. Thankfully, he made it to the bathroom in time. And even more thankfully, that was the only time he threw up. He did complain that his stomach hurt occasionally and he certainly didn't eat very much throughout his illness, but mostly he just had a fever (very high at times) and some congestion / cough.
Saturday was fairly busy. Scott worked from 10:30 to 4:00, running sound and lights for a spelling bee. Jared had a basketball game at noon. Tanner stayed with Seth so Frank & I could both go to the game. It was the end of season tournament, but they lost the game so they didn't have any more games after that. It was a little frustrating to watch but they are good sports about losing and the team is definitely improving. We also worked on taxes a lot and we mostly have that done. The good news is that it looks like we'll only have to pay a little bit to the federal government (a lot less than we set aside) and we're actually getting a refund from the state. I was surprised about that because we usually owe more state taxes than federal. But I'm not complaining!
Scott's friend Colette came over Saturday night and she and the older boys played games and watched a movie. They were up pretty late and Colette needed a ride home. Frank ended up going with Scott to drive her home because Scott was really sleepy. So he was up until the early hours and wasn't too happy on Sunday because he was really tired. I went to bed because I had Ward Council at 7:15 Sunday morning. I woke up in the night a few times and realized that my throat and head were hurting but in the morning I didn't feel too bad so I was able to go to all my meetings. Frank stayed home with Seth. Tanner was giving a talk (he did a good job) so it was only Scott, Jared and I sitting together which seemed a little weird. Scott and Jared talked to each other a lot, too...the little rascals! You'd think by now I wouldn't need to sit in between them!
I did decide to skip choir practice Sunday evening because I still wasn't feeling too great. I continued to have a headache and to generally not feel really great for a couple of days, but it's never turned into anything serious, thankfully. Seth still had a fever Sunday morning but by afternoon he was bouncing off the walls. I figured Monday would be his "stay home just in case day" but then Monday night he totally crashed. His fever went back up (way up) and from about 6:00 on he kept falling asleep. We put him to bed at 8:00 and he slept through the night. About half way through Tuesday he started feeling better again but since he still had a fever that day, I kept him home Wednesday. He finally went back to school today (Thursday).
So besides taking care of Seth and the usual household chores, these are other things I did this week:
Monday I went to the library to pick up the new book for book chat. It's called The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Children on 25 Words or Less". It's a fascinating, somewhat sad but also funny true story. I'm about a third of the way through it and enjoying it so far.
Tuesday I had a presidency meeting. We had the Elders over for dinner. And I made some phone calls and was thrilled when I actually got in touch with two hard-to-reach people who both agreed to let me visit them.
Wednesday I spent a lot of time trying to decide on clothes for Scott's mission. We did a lot of searching online and finally figured out what we needed to do and got his suits and shirts ordered. We also went to a shoe store to have his feet measured. We still have some shopping to do but we have a lot of the major things done.
Today I volunteered at Seth's school--took kids to the library and took down some artwork. I'm going back tomorrow to take down more artwork and hang some new artwork up. I exercised for the first time in ages, bought groceries, got the laundry done, and updated the budget. It's been a very productive day but I'm tired! Scott went to appointments with the missionaries for a few hours this afternoon and now he is at Institute.
I'll finish up with a few pictures. I took a picture of our dinner last night because I thought it looked like something you'd get at a restaurant (tasted good, too). This is one of the recipes from a new low fat cook book I've been using a lot lately:
It's shrimp and sugar snap peas in a lemon dill sauce, over rice.
Since today is the last day of February, I got out new salt & pepper shakers for March:
I found these rainboots at a grocery store last year.
And I found this leprachaun & pot of gold online, shortly after St. Patrick's Day last year. I've been waiting almost a whole year to use them! Pretty cute, right?
I'm feeling cheerful because March is the beginning of spring! We had a lot of rain on Tuesday but it was pretty cold. Wednesday got into the 50's which was very pleasant and both yesterday and today were sunny, which I enjoyed. I don't do well with gray skies, day after day. Our high temperatures are usually still in the 40's but it's uphill from here! (Mostly)
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