Did you know that the liquid inside glow sticks will strip paint off of furniture? We learned the hard way:
We gave Seth some glow sticks on Halloween so he'd be more visible while trick or treating. We put them down on the coffee table that evening and Saturday morning we discovered that they had leaked. Rats! We've only had the table a little over a year. So learn from our mistake!
Seth has been really into building with Legos lately and one night he wanted me to look at what he had built on my bedroom floor. I started to walk around my bed but he stopped me and said "No! It looks better if you look at it from above, over the edge of the bed!" So I did, and this is what I saw:
Haha, pretty clever I thought! The arrow is pointing at a little General Grievous Lego figure, if you can't see it.
This week was not terribly eventful (although still busy) so I don't think I have a lot to write about. On Saturday Frank and I did some more shopping for the half bath that we've been working on. It's amazing how many things we need for one little bathroom, but we are basically replacing everything except for the toilet and sink (and even the sink is getting a new faucet and the toilet a new lid & seat). Our neighbor came over on Wednesday evening and painted the trim, so the painting is all done and we just need to find the time to install the new towel racks, faucet etc. I will get pictures when we finally get it all done, but for now, a sneak peak. Here's the new light fixture:
And here is a picture of the wall.
As you can see, the color of the wall looks different depending on the light. The paint chip says it's slate gray, but most people say it looks blue. It's definitely a bluish gray. In the picture of the light, it looks more blue. In the picture above, I think it looks gray.
Frank and I also went to the temple on Saturday. It was our ward temple night. We enjoyed that a lot. We took one of the sisters he home teaches with us. She isn't able to make it to church very often but she did make it the next day--we were happy about that.
The boys didn't have school on Monday or Tuesday. Friday was the end of the term, so Monday was a teacher work day and Tuesday was election day, of course. On Monday I got some things sent off to Tanner to help with his mission papers and I also visited a sister in the hospital. She had surgery last week and had gone home but ended up back in the next day. When I visited her, she was feeling very down and discouraged so I basically held her hand for an hour while she cried and talked. I think it helped her to do that, though. She got to go home last night, thankfully, so she's doing a little better.
On Tuesday Frank and I voted and I had my monthly meeting with the bishop. I had lots of other chores and things to do those days, so they went by fast.
Everyone went back to school on Wednesday. We were cheered up by the election results--much better than two years ago! Besides the Republicans regaining control of Congress, a lot of local Republicans won their races as well and Maryland has a Republican governor again too. I'm sure that won't solve everything, but it's hopeful at least. I did two food orders that day. Frank worked from home because he needed to go to the doctor. His cough has never gone away and besides that his knee started hurting a lot on Tuesday. The doctor prescribed an inhaler for the cough and sent him to get his knee x-rayed. He thought it was possible that Frank had cut a ligament or something when he injured his knee last month. The x-rays didn't show anything, though, so we have no idea why it is hurting. Hopefully it will stop hurting just as mysteriously as it started. I went to pick up his inhaler yesterday but it turns out the insurance company has to pre-approve that particular medication and they hadn't done it yet so we haven't been able to get his medicine yet either. Kind of frustrating!
Yesterday I had a stake RS auxiliary training meeting to attend. It was really good. Today I've been busy with the budget, writing to Scott, RS phone calls, and exercising. I haven't even taken a shower yet and it's after 5:00!
Besides all those things, I was squeezing in some reading whenever I could this week. We are reading a book for book chat called Unbroken. It's a true WWII survival story and it is very compelling...hard to put the book down! (Mom, we decided to save the books I suggested until next month because someone mentioned they were reading Unbroken and everyone was interested in reading it.) I also watched some Downton Abbey...I saw season 1 on Netflix over a year ago and I was finally able to get season 2 on DVD from Netflix. It's been in the queue for a long time, but kept getting bumped to the bottom! I didn't mind because I've been too busy to watch it anyway. At any rate, I enjoyed the 3 episodes I got and sent that disc back. The next disc probably arrived today but I haven't checked the mail yet.
Frank has been playing with the camera some more this week and here are a few pictures he took:
It's definitely feeling more like November...and looking like it too. Gray skies and lots of leaves blowing around! But it's still not terribly cold and we've even had a few sunny days that were reasonably pleasant. When the sun shines, it still looks beautiful outside, even though the fall colors are fading somewhat. It's kind of a mellow beauty, but beauty nonetheless. Frank is hoping it will snow soon, of course! Today it has been really windy...I've been listening to it howl all day.
Can't think of anything else to report and it's time to make dinner so I'll sign off.
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