I feel like I kept pretty busy this week. On Saturday morning we met up with Darlee (Tanner's girlfriend) and her mother at Arlington National Cemetery. Frank and I have been there once, but it's always an interesting place to visit and Seth had not been there yet. We walked around the cemetery and got to see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. It was nice to meet Darlee's mom, and we enjoyed talking with them and getting to know Darlee a little bit better. Here mom is very warm and friendly. Here are a few pictures that we took:
We couldn't stay very long because we had stake conference and Frank had to be at a meeting at 4:00. In the short few hours in between our Arlington trip and going to the adult session of conference that evening, I did some Cub scout planning, cleaned the kitchen floor, and worked on a project for Christmas. I was singing in the choir for the meeting, so I had to be there early to practice and a couple in our ward had also called and asked me if I could give them a ride (she's in a wheelchair and neither one of them can drive) so I had to leave early enough to pick them up too. I got dinner ready and took some dinner for Frank with me. We ate together quickly and then I went to the practice. The meeting was really good. Frank couldn't sit in the pews that long (especially since he had already had a 2 hour meeting) so he sat out in the foyer for most of the meeting. He wasn't feeling really great that day anyway (dizzy / woozy) so he ended up going home a little early. I took the couple in our ward back home after the meeting was over, so I got home kind of late.
On Sunday we were able to watch the general session of stake conference from our own church building. It was really good also. It was nice having the whole afternoon and evening to relax. I don't remember everything we did, but I did some indexing, worked on Faith in God with Seth, and read to Seth too. We finished Little House in the Big Woods and we are several chapters into Little House on the Prairie now.
I'm not going to do a daily play-by-play of the rest of the week because it was mainly the usual things--regular chores, exercising, brain balance, scanning and Christmas projects, Wednesday religion class, and practicing the ukulele. Here are the other "not ordinary" things that we did. Seth didn't have school on Wednesday. That evening we went to the library and we also picked up the ceramic piece that he made at a birthday party a few weeks ago. (I need to take a picture of it--I will try to do that before next week!) Yesterday I got my hair cut. Today I mowed the lawn (first chance I've had to do that in a while and it was very long!) and tonight I had Pack Meeting. This is the first one we've had since Seth turned 11, so Frank and Seth didn't come with me and that was kind of weird (but it was okay). The Cub Master planned a fun "escape room" activity which the kids really enjoyed. We have a very small group of Cub Scouts and a couple of the families didn't show up so we were a pretty small group but it was still fun.
Frank has been keeping fairly busy with his business, although I don't think he was as busy this week as some he's had lately. I have continued to explore options for jobs for me but haven't found much to go on yet. I think I am going to do an online Quickbooks class so that I am more up to date on that program. I also looked into taking a tax preparation class from H&R Block (which could possibly lead to a job) but when I looked it up, I found out the class has just started last week and there weren't any seats left (I wish I had thought of that idea sooner!) There wasn't any information about the next class but I will keep checking on that. I also looked into some seasonal jobs but most of them require lifting, which I'm not sure I could do on a regular basis. So all of that is a little discouraging but I will keep looking and hopefully something will turn up eventually. Thanks to all the work that Frank is doing, I think we will be okay until the end of the year at least, so that is a blessing.
We just found out that the DC temple is going to be closed longer than they originally thought. It was supposed to be closed for about 2 years, but now they are saying it is probably going to be 3 years. We are sad! I guess they are finding more issues than they expected.
That's all I've got for this week!
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