Saturday: It was a typical busy Saturday. Seth had swimming in the morning as usual. One new thing, though...he was wearing a new swimsuit! He was outgrowing the old one.
After we got home from swimming, he took a shower as usual and then he did some homework, we did a few assessments, and we worked on Cub Scouts (which involved planning a hike that we are going to go on tomorrow). After that I practiced ukulele, cleaned the kitchen floor, and Frank and I did some cleaning downstairs in his office and in the downstairs bedroom, which also involved a fun & exciting trip to the county landfill. ;) Jared went with the missionaries to teach a lesson, which of course got cancelled so they visited some other people instead.
Sunday: We don't have church meetings until 1:00 so most Sundays I spend the morning reading scriptures and reading the material for the lessons that I will participate in that day. I often do some indexing as well. I have come to really enjoy these quiet, unrushed mornings! Frank had ward council and correlation meeting with the missionaries and Jared met with our bishop to discuss his current plans for the summer. Jared attended the YSA Sacrament Meeting and afterwards they had a "Break the Fast" potluck dinner which he attended also.
Monday: A guy came in the morning to measure the downstairs bedroom for the carpet. We are still waiting to get a quote from them, though. Seth's school was having events for teacher appreciation week and I signed up to help with some of that. I took in some clementines for a snack table they had for the teachers that day and stayed for a little while to help set up. The rest of the day while Seth was at school was pretty normal with the usual chores and I made some brownies for family night treat too. My friend who has been in the hospital a lot lately was released from the hospital that day but not until later so I picked her kids up from school again. I actually picked them up every day this week except for yesterday. I did a few extra days to give her more recuperation time and today I am picking them up too because she had an event she needed to attend. Today I am taking them to another ward member's house to play after I pick them up, though. Anyway, picking up the kids was a little complicated because Seth had an orthodontist appointment right after school (I actually had to pick them all up a little early). It all worked out, though. They just came with us to the appointment. I brought snacks for everybody and they have puzzles, books, and a television showing cartoons in the waiting room at the orthodontist's office so everybody kept pretty happy. The orthodontist decided to re-evaluate Seth's teeth again in about 4 months. He has 10 loose teeth that need to come out and he is hoping most of them will come out on their own rather than needing to be pulled. (I hope so too!)
Tuesday: I'm not remembering much about Tuesday so it must have been a pretty regular day. For den meeting that night we all met together and went on a hike. I think everyone had a good time.
(We stopped for a few minutes at a little "tot lot" on our way back to the church.)
Not long after we got home from Cub Scouts, I got the email from the church about the decision to not charter any more Cub Scout packs or Boy Scout troops after December 2019. I was surprised! Not really surprised about the decision because I thought that was inevitable, but surprised about the timing. I thought it would happen much farther in the future. I feel a little bit sad about it but I know it was an inspired decision and that the new program will be wonderful. I was surprised that when I told Seth he was sad about it, too. I didn't think he cared that much. I told him he could still join another Boy Scout troop, but he said "I want to do Boy Scouts with my friends" (in the ward). I guess we'll just see what happens, but realistically it's more likely that he won't continue with Boys Scouts than that he will. If he really wants to continue, though, I would be willing to support him in doing that. I do think it is a good organization that provided some great learning and growing experiences for my boys, and I respect that.
Wednesday: I didn't have the religion class because the teacher was out of town but it was still a busy day. I helped clean up the teacher appreciation breakfast at Seth's school. I ended up picking Jessie (Jared's girlfriend) up from work (long story). We had the missionaries over for dinner that evening and afterwards I had book chat. We discussed the book Inside Out & Back Again (very good book). Now we are going to read a book called 7 Women and the Secret of Their Greatness. Some of the women featured in the book are Joan of Arc, Corrie ten Boom, Rosa Parks, and Mother Teresa. So far I have only read the introduction, but the introduction was fantastic. The author basically says that one of the main reasons these women are great is not because they were like men but because they did the things that women are so uniquely good at doing, that they admirably used the unique traits that God has given to women. And that that's how it should be--women shouldn't want to be like men because they are great the way they are. I'm not putting it as well as he did, but anyway, I loved that idea.
On Wednesday we also found out that Frank had not been chosen for any of the positions that he interviewed for, so it looks like he will definitely be laid off on June 1st. He will be getting more information about severance today. He did find a couple more positions that he thinks he is qualified for and he already applied for one of them yesterday so there is a slight possibility he will still not get laid off, but we're not feeling incredibly hopeful at this point. Therefore, he is getting his resume out to some other people he knows who work in the same field and in general starting the search for a new job. Obviously, we aren't thrilled about any of this but we're hoping he'll find something new soon. All of his job changes in the past have turned out to be huge blessings in disguise and I think in the end things will work out somehow.
Thursday: Mostly a usual busy day. I had all the regular Thursday chores, and I also purchased some yarn to make an afghan. I did some more assessments with Seth and we are mostly done with those--I just have to go back and do a couple of things that we skipped. I'm eager to move forward with figuring out what we need to do to treat him now.
Friday: Today I updated the budget and that's mostly all I've done so far (It's still fairly early in the day.) Frank had a follow up doctor appointment for his diabetes and that went great. His A1C1 is down to 5.2 (it was at 9.8 when he was diagnosed), which is considered normal. (Pre-diabietc is 6.0 and diabetes is 6.5 or above.) He has lost 25-30 pounds since being diagnosed also. The doctor said "That is fantastic!! What are you doing? Keep doing it!!" He says Frank is in the 5% of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who actually do what they need to do to keep their blood sugar under control. So I am proud of him for being so disciplined and working so hard at it. Now he gets to decrease the dosage of the medicine he is taking for his blood sugar. We'll see how that goes.
Other than that, I can't think of anything else to report. Jared has continued to work a lot. He has worked 8 hour shifts at Chick-fil-a every day this week. He also worked at the Frederick Keys stadium on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings and he will work there again tomorrow afternoon. For his one evening off (Wednesday) he went to Jessie's house, so as I predicted, we aren't seeing much of him but that is okay. It's good for him to be busy and to be saving money.
Seth gets out of school 2 hours early today which means I have to pick him up soon so I'd better post this and go eat some lunch.
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