Here's what we did this week.
Friday: We had the car pool boys over to play with Seth for
a couple of hours after school. One of them was sick, so we only had two of
them. That evening was the stake Fathers / Sons camp out but since Frank isn’t up
to camping at all right now, he decided to take Seth out to dinner instead.
Except he invited me to come too, so I went also! Seth chose to go to Cracker
Barrel and I decided to try something new—the rainbow trout—and it was really
good. I also enjoyed browsing extensively in the store, and I did NOT buy
anything but I saw a lot of cool stuff.
Saturday: This day was quite busy although most of it isn’t
stuff that would interest the world at large. Frank went down to La Plata to set
up a new computer for a client so he got up early to do that and got back by
early afternoon. He also went shopping for some clothes because he needed a few
things for the cruise so he was gone for a good part of the day. I helped Seth
write thank you notes to all his friends for his party. In the evening, Frank and
I went to a little open house for a couple in our ward who recently got married.
Sunday: Wanda was at church and we sat with her and I helped
her with her lunch and took her to the restroom and everything, so that kept me
busy. It is really nice to have her back in our ward again, though! The rest of
Sunday was really relaxing.
Monday: Nothing out of the ordinary happened this day, so
that’s it!
Tuesday: Also mostly an ordinary day. Frank and I checked on
things like our plane tickets and our cruise tickets to make sure everything is
ready to go. One of my visiting teachers came to see me in the evening. Not
long after she left, the doorbell rang again and it was a set of Elders. Turns
out they are serving in the stake YSA branch and they were given a list of all
the YSA age people in the stake who are not attending the YSA ward so that they
could visit all of them. The list was from January, so they were looking for Jared! We told them they didn’t need to worry about Jared since he is on a
mission. J We did invite them in and
talk with them for a while, though, and gave them some ideas of some of the
YSAs in our ward that they should try to visit.
Wednesday: I did birthday shopping for Seth and started
making a list for Frank's parents of all the things they need to know
about Seth’s routine and so forth. We also had the Sister missionaries over for
dinner. They have a YSA guy they are teaching right now and they asked us if
they could teach him in our home. It was kind of funny because they said they
needed to ask us for a huge favor and seemed kind of nervous about asking us,
but then when they asked we immediately said “Sure!” I don’t really consider
that a huge favor. That’s a simple thing to do, and we are looking forward to
it. We had the missionaries teach a different investigator in our home about 18
month ago, and it was wonderful. Really brought the spirit
into our home! That evening after the missionaries left, we called Sprint
because we needed to renew our cell phone contract. That ended up taking WAY
longer than it should have, but we finally got that taken care of and our bill
is supposed to be lower now (I’ll believe it when I see it!) On Wednesday I
also went to an adult religion class that recently started in our stake.
It’s held every Wednesday and it started about a month ago, but I haven’t
been able to go until now. The class is based on the doctrines of the Book of
Mormon, but it’s not going through chronologically, each class is focused on a
topic. That’s nice because it means you can show up whenever you are able, and
you are not “lost”. Anyway, this particular Wednesday I just felt like I really
should go. I remember thinking that there must be something in this class that
I needed to hear, and we did talk about one idea that I felt would help me with
some of the people that I visit teach, so I’m pretty sure that is why I was
there. Pretty cool!
Thursday: Again, just an ordinary day with the usual things,
plus a few trip preparations. Sam has a four day weekend because of Memorial
Day, so he came up to stay on Thursday evening. He’ll be staying until Saturday
evening or Sunday morning—he wants to go to his own ward on Sunday.
Friday: That’s today! I spent the morning updating the
budget, making a birthday cake for Seth, and washing and changing the sheets on
the beds. Frank's parents will be here tonight and they are staying in our
bed while we are gone. Seth got out of school 2 hours early today. When he came
home, he cleaned up his room a bit and he also had to pick up a bunch of
Bionicles that he spread out all over the floor in the other upstairs bedroom
because Frank & I will be sleeping in there the next couple of nights (our
flight leaves Sunday evening). Now he is playing video games with Sam. Frank's parents will be here in about an hour and we are all going to go out to dinner together.
We've had a lot of rain this week. Today it rained early, then cleared up and was sunny, then rained again, then cleared up again, and now it looks like it is going to rain again!! Crazy! I am hoping that it will stop raining long enough tomorrow so that I can mow the lawn, because our lawn looks like a jungle.
I did a lot of crocheting this week and I got to use two new colors--both purple. The blanket is getting really long! I will be finishing it before June is over. Here's a few pictures:
Close up that includes the purple rows.
The whole blanket!
That's all I've got for this week!!
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