Weekly Review March 1 '14

There is not a lot to write about this week because Frank and I were both sick most of the week.  Remember how I wasn't feeling very well when I wrote last Friday?  Well, it turned into the full blown flu with fever, body aches, congestion, headache, cough, sore throat, etc.  Not much fun!  I was down from Sunday to Wednesday and Frank was down Monday through Friday.  He seems to be quite a bit better today. 

It might be better to list all the things I didn't do this week:  I didn't have a presidency meeting, I didn't go to book club, I didn't go to the dentist to get a crown (had to be rescheduled).  I didn't do much of anything except lie in bed feeling miserable.  Thankfully, by Thursday I felt much better and was able to return to a normal routine.  Now my stomach is troubling me a bit but it isn't too bad.  Tanner was sick when I wrote last week, you may remember.  He stayed home from church with me on Sunday but he was able to return to school on Monday and he's gotten better every day.  Jared stayed home from school on Tuesday and Wednesday, but he never got as sick as Frank and I did.  Frank did a little bit of work from home, but he mostly just rested.  He also made several trips to the client who just moved, trying to help them resolve some issues with their phone system (not his fault).  It seems like he can never get completely away from work!  He did go in to work yesterday morning for a meeting with his boss, but after that his boss told him to go home.  The meeting was about his raise for the year and he did get one, and a bonus as well, so we are happy and grateful about that.

We actually haven't seen much of Tanner this week.  He has been going to rehearsals for the play Bonnie & Clyde nearly every day.  Plus he also ran tech for the school's annual talent show, so he had that (plus a rehearsal for that) to attend.  Jared has been busy with song practices and they also performed the song for the YW's New Beginnings program.  (Just a practice run, though...the real performance is for Ward Conference.)

Last Saturday I went to our stake's women's conference.  It was really good.  I attended three classes and they had a nice luncheon afterwards.  I wasn't feeling very well on Saturday either but I really wanted to go to the conference, so I did and I'm glad I made it.  While I was gone, Frank drove down to his co-worker's house and picked up the new freezer.  Then he spent a good part of the afternoon (with some help from Tanner and Jared) taking apart the old freezer and moving it out onto the back porch, and then moving in the new freezer and getting it set up.  It is nice to have a freezer again!  The new one is smaller than the old one, but it is nice and having a smaller freezer is probably a good thing--I won't be as likely to forget what I have put in there!

Yesterday was our stake temple day and thankfully I was well enough to go to that.  We had a special meeting on the 7th floor of the temple.  Those are always nice, because we can be taught by the temple president and in that setting he can discuss the temple ordinances with us freely...something we can't do anywhere but in the temple.  I learned a lot of things that I hadn't really realized before.  After the meeting, I did initiatories.  I wanted to do an endowment session, but that would have put me getting home around midnight, and I didn't feel up to that yet.  As it was, I ended up having a terrible coughing fit during initiatories and had to go out and get a drink every time I finished a name.  But it was still nice.  Since Frank wasn't feeling well enough to go, I found a couple of other women who were meeting their husbands at the temple and gave them a ride down.  One other sister's husband wasn't going either, so she did initiatories with me and rode back home with me.  So I had company going both ways, and that was nice.

The biggest news of the week is that Tanner has been accepted to BYU-Provo!  We are very excited about that.  He got the email very early in the morning...before Seminary...and woke us up to tell us!  I don't know if he has decided for sure if he's going to go to Provo or Idaho, but he will probably go to Provo.  His friend Elisabeth was also accepted.  They were the only two seniors in our ward who applied to BYU.  They've known each other since they were three, so it is fun for them to be going off to college together.

That is about all there is to say about this week.  The weekend was kind of warm but the rest of the week has been really, really cold.  We're supposed to get another snow / ice storm on Monday.  Ugh!!  It's March now, though, so this can't last forever, right?  RIGHT?