This week has gone pretty well. Frank has improved quite a
bit, and he’s starting to be able to do more things without as much pain, so
that is nice. On Saturday, my Cub Scouts did a little service project to help
the Primary leaders. The following day was the Primary program, and the Cubs
helped the leaders prepare a treat to give to all the kids in Sharing Time
after the program. They built “walls” out of rice crispy treats. (They were
supposed to represent the wall Samuel the Lamanite stood on.) It was a fun and
easy project, but nice that they could help the Primary a little bit too.
I
spent a lot of time on Saturday doing Cub Scout stuff. Our ward (pack) just started
using an online program to track the Cub Scouts’ and Scouts’ progress so I put
in the information for all my Cubs on Saturday. It took a long time since I was
putting in all the information for all of the Bears at once, but it will be
much simpler to track their progress from here on out. I can go in each week
and record what they did after each den meeting, and the parents can also go in
and record things that the boys do at home. It’s a pretty nifty little program.
Besides that, on Saturday I tried to watch the BYU game but
it wasn’t on a channel that we get and I couldn’t get the online live stream
thing to work, so that was a bummer. Unfortunately, the game tomorrow is on the same channel, but maybe I’ll
have better luck with the live streaming thing this time. Sam was here on
Saturday, and he wanted to go to a movie so I dropped him off at the theater,
and Frank picked him up. A guy in our ward helped Dad out a lot by changing the brake
pads and rotors on his car. Frank got the wrong parts to start out with, though,
so he kept busy running back and forth to this guy's house and the parts store.
As I mentioned, Sunday was the Primary Sacrament Meeting
program, which is always one of the best meetings we have all year. This year’s
program did not disappoint. Frank was able to stay for all the meetings, too!
After church, my visiting teachers came to see me and Frank had a presidency
meeting. Then I went to choir practice. After dinner, Frank and I took Sam back
to Fort Meade. He will be back again for Thanksgiving.
Monday was busy because I was getting things ready for den
meeting the next day, shopping for Tanner's birthday, and Seth and I had dentist
appointments, besides all the usual things. For den meeting on Tuesday, we did
a bunch of little science experiments. It was pretty fun, and we got a lot
done. Frank had a PPI with a member of the stake presidency while we were at den meeting. He says
that went well. On Wednesday I did some service in the morning—about four of us
went to help a lady with some house cleaning. She had knee replacement surgery
so it’s hard for her to do all the cleaning herself. I got Tanner's birthday package mailed that day too, and we had the Elders over for
dinner that evening.
Frank and I have been trying to figure out what to do about a
kitchen table and chairs, so on Thursday we decided to go to IKEA and check out
what they have there. We had already looked online and found some things we
liked but we wanted to get a closer look at them before deciding. We actually
decided to get a different table than we originally planned and we also decided
that as long as we are at it, we want to get a bed (headboard / footboard) for
us as well. (We got a King size mattress about 4 years ago and since then we've had our mattress on a metal bed frame. That's actually fine except that the frame is lower than most beds so the underbed storage containers we had under our bed don't fit under the frame. So all that underbed storage has been sitting on our floor for all these years, which I don't like.) Anyway, there wasn’t enough room in our car to bring all that home, so we
just got the chairs (so at least we have 6 chairs with backs now, although they
still need to be put together) and we were planning to order everything else
online. But after looking at things closer online after we got home, we have
some questions about what bed to get for sure, so we may possibly go back to
IKEA tomorrow. We haven’t figured it all out yet. The IKEA furniture isn't exactly what we wanted and it is certainly not as high quality as the dining set we originally ordered, but it is also much less expensive, so I'm happy. It probably won't last as long but it also isn't a huge investment and I won't be as upset when the inevitable scratches and dents come along.
By the way, there is a great view of the temple from the Capitol Beltway on the drive back from IKEA. I tried to get some pictures, but I only had my phone so they aren't too great:
The trip to IKEA took a good part of the day, since it is
about an hour away. It was hard on Frank walking all through the store (there
weren’t any carts for him to ride on) but he survived. When we got home, I
hurried to get vacuuming done and then went to the grocery store before picking
up Seth from school. I had book chat that evening, which I always enjoy.
Today I’ve been getting all the finances caught up, which
has taken most of the day. We are had the Sister missionaries over for
dinner tonight.
Frank had physical therapy on Monday and Wednesday, and he is
done with that for his knee (he will start on PT for his neck and back next
week). He also had his follow up appointment with the surgeon today. The
surgeon said he can go back to work when he feels ready to do it. The physical
therapist warned him not to rush it too much, though. He won’t go back next
week, but he may go back the week after that. We’ll see how well he does this
coming week. It is encouraging that he is doing so much better. He really
seemed to “turn a corner” this last week. I don’t want him to rush back to work
too soon, though. Last time he really went back to work too soon and it was
very hard on him.
This post is short and boring, but that is about all that is going on around here!
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