Weekly Review September 4 '15

Let's do this week by days. 

Saturday:

Frank got up saying he "felt like baking" so before the day was half over we had this:

And this:

The top photo is strawberry tarts and the bottom one is banana bread. Did I mention that I really like it when Frank feels like baking? Jared actually helped him make the strawberry tarts. Jared went to a birthday party for a friend for most of the afternoon and into the late evening (it was a swimming party). But first he wanted to get a gift for his friend, so I took him to the mall to pick something out. He settled on earrings and I guess she really liked them. I also went to the library, took the dog for a walk, cleaned the kitchen floor, did some sewing on the baseball projects, and finished visiting teaching changes. Jared worked on his Eagle project a little bit too...he did the last coat of poly acrylic on one side of the signs.

Sunday:

Pretty normal Sunday: I had meetings all day. Except that I didn't have the meeting I usually have after church so that was nice for a change. We also had a combined RS / Priesthood meeting since it was a 5th Sunday so it felt like kind of a day off in a way!

Monday:

Besides the usual (vacuuming, sweeping, laundry, grocery shopping, and exercising) I also went on a walk with a girl in our ward. I used to be her visiting teacher but I'm not anymore; I still want to keep in touch though. She has a dog so we took the dogs for a walk. It was very hot and humid (has been all week, actually) so I suggested a short walk. Somehow it didn't end up being short...we walked over 2 miles! I was pretty tired after we did that. I wasn't expecting a long walk, so I just had sandals on and my feet weren't very happy about that. I also went through our shoes that day. I've been meaning to do it...Scott and Tanner both left shoes behind that they aren't planning to use anymore...and then I found out they were collecting shoes to donate at Seth's school so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to do that. I knew we had accumulated too many shoes (and it doesn't take much in our small house to have too many of anything) but I was totally shocked that I was able to fill two tall kitchen bags full of shoes to give away! The situation was even more out of control than I thought. At least the coat closet by the front door is a lot less cluttered now.

Tuesday:

In the morning I visited a sister in the ward who had a baby a few months ago. Then I came home and did all the Tuesday chores...cleaned all the bathrooms and planned menus and made a grocery list. I also did some baseball sewing. The evening was busy...Jared had a rehearsal for Legally Blonde and the rest of us went to a baseball game. Some friends gave us 4 tickets to a Frederick Keys game (the local minor league baseball team) and since Jared couldn't go, we invited one of the carpool boys to come along and keep Seth company. It was pretty fun. It was late enough in the evening that it wasn't uncomfortably warm anymore. We didn't stay for the whole game because it was a school night--we left at the end of the 6th inning. The Keys weren't playing too well that night...they lost 5-8. So that was kind of a bummer, but it was still fun. One of the Keys players even hit a home run although unfortunately no one else was on base at the time. Seth enjoyed learning about the game and he really enjoyed the candy and popcorn we bought. He also really liked the mascot, "Keyote" who is, yes, a coyote. He gave Seth high fives a couple of times and Seth pinched his nose, so he pinched Seth's nose back. Seth loved it!

I tried my contact lenses out for the first time in a week to go to the game. (I didn't like the idea of getting hit by a ball while wearing glasses. I mean, I don't like the idea of getting hit by a ball at all, but especially while wearing glasses!) My eye seemed to be fine. I didn't have any trouble with it while we were at the game, but after we got home and I took my contact lenses out, it started to sting and got really red and really bothered me for quite a while. So no more contacts for a while! I'm not sure it it's allergies or infection or what.

Wednesday:

This was another busy day. I did shopping at Wal-Mart, dusted, and worked on the visiting teaching report. The coordinator is back in town but now she is really sick with bronchitis AND had a gall bladder attack so she is just needing to rest. So I was doing her job. I went to lunch with my friend Rebekah. After school, Jared worked his first shift at Pump It Up (a kids' play and party place...big inflatables). Seth went to a "Minecraft Club" at the library right after school. The carpool boys wanted to go to it and their mom offered to take Seth too. He loved it, of course. We had the Elders over for dinner, and while we were preparing dinner a pretty decent thunderstorm came through. Frank got out the camera and took a bunch of pictures; here are some of my favorites:

After I picked up Jared from work I took him to YM for a little while but he got off work late, so he missed most of it. Seth was supposed to have den meeting that night too, but because of the rain storm it was too wet and muddy to do what they planned. They are doing it tomorrow morning instead. 

I had a crick in my neck most of that day and by evening my back was hurting too. Then on Thursday my ribs started to hurt and today my hips hurt a little too. It's really weird...I'm just kind of achy all over. It feels mostly like sore muscles. I can't figure out what I did...unless it's a result of the long walk I took on Monday?  I guess I'm getting a taste of how Frank has been feeling the last 3+ months. Hopefully it will go away soon.

Frank had an issue come up with a client on Wednesday afternoon so he was working on getting that resolved until late that night.

Thursday was laundry, grocery shopping, and vacuuming day. I also went to lunch again! This time with my friends Becky and Jane. I finished sewing the baseball stuff that needs to be done for next week. (There are a few other projects that I need to do by the end of October.) I tried to get some RS stuff done too. Jared had one of the other scouts in our ward come over after school to help do some more work on his eternal Eagle project, as we are calling it:

They were able to get all the pictures applied onto the other sides of the signs so that is some good progress. I talked to Scott for a while and got caught up on what he's doing. (He works four 10 hour shifts each week, and Thursday is his day off.) He is able to get some time off from work in December so we booked a flight so he can come home for Christmas. We're looking forward to that! It will be his first Christmas at home since 2012.

Friday (today):

I updated the budget, wrote to Tanner, and exercised. We had a bunch of $15 off coupons for TGI Friday's so Frank wanted to go there for dinner tonight. I have eaten out way too many times this week! It was pretty good though. Jared is at a high school football game now but I'm hearing thunder so I'm wondering what that means for the game.

Now I need to convince Seth to get ready for bed. I started reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to him this week so knowing that we are going to read a chapter or two after he gets ready for bed is a bit of a motivation for him. I am enjoying reading it with him, too.

That's everything for this week.