I mentioned in last week's post that I was heading over to Pack Meeting that evening. Pack Meeting went well. The boys got their awards and the Cub Master had prepared a fun "escape room" type activity that all the kids really enjoyed. Here's a few pictures:
Saturday was pretty busy. I had a bad headache all day and really didn't feel my best but there was a lot to do so I kept going. I did some scanning, cleaned the kitchen floor, did Cub Scout planning, and worked on a Christmas project. Frank was doing some cleaning in his old office and I helped a bit with that too. It's still not completely cleaned out but it's getting closer. In the afternoon we went to a birthday open house for a lady in our ward and enjoyed visiting with her and a others. That evening I had a job interview--sort of. I heard a family in our ward was looking for an accountant for their small business so I sent them an email to let them know I was interested. I sent the email weeks ago and had decided they didn't want to talk to me but then out of the blue on Friday evening I got a message from them asking if I could meet with them over the weekend to talk about it. Turns out they saw my email but accidentally deleted it and they had been trying to figure out how to contact me. So I went over and talked with them and found out more about what they are looking for. I think some of what they need I could definitely do but they have some tax situations that I am not so sure about. I was honest with them about what I thought I could and couldn't do, so we'll see what they decide. They were going to be talking to at least two other people and I haven't heard back from them yet. I'm sure it will work out if it is supposed to work out--I'm not positive it's what I want to do so whatever they decide will be okay with me. I've seen a number of other positions online that I need to apply for but I haven't done that yet. Yes, I think I am dragging my feet a little! Job interviews are not my favorite thing.
On Sunday I gave a lady and her granddaughter a ride to church. They are planning to come again this week. She's a really nice lady. The choir sang a song that day--I didn't even realize until we got to practice that we were singing that day!! Church was interesting because (as we expected) there were a whole slew of releases and callings, including a new RS presidency and a new YM presidency. I think that is just the beginning! The new RS president is one of my book chat friends, and she will be great. She was a counselor in the YW presidency so there were some changes there too and the wolf den leader was called to be a counselor in the YW. They didn't call a new wold den leader either but hopefully that will happen soon. For this week, she asked the mom of the only Wolf who shows up to help me with den meeting and that worked out well.
On Monday I spent the morning on a ministering visit. This sister is expecting her first baby in November so my companion and I were answering a lot of her questions about baby care and giving advice about a lot of things. We also helped her with some cleaning outside her house--cleaning siding and the front screen door. She has a lot of health problems and she has had really bad heartburn with her pregnancy--especially if she bends over--so we offered to do some things that require bending over! Anyway, we had a nice visit and also made plans to have a baby shower in October. The rest of the day was standard stuff except I also worked on cutting out some laminated items for Seth's teacher.
Tuesday was also mostly the regular chores but that kept me busy all day. I also did a few things to get ready for den meeting and finished the laminating project for Seth's teacher. Frank spent a lot of the day doing work for a client at their office, which is over an hour from here. We had the Elders over for dinner that evening. One of them was getting transferred the next morning and Frank had agreed to drive him to Columbia and pick up the new Elder. I guess one convenient thing about him being unemployed--he's available to do things like that during the day and he's the ward mission leader, so that is helpful.
Frank was up early on Wednesday for the missionary transfers. I got Seth to school and then went to Walmart to do the grocery shopping. Frank met me there on his way back from transfers--I was almost done so he helped me finish up. Then I went to the religion class, where I ended up doing a role play where I was presenting our church's beliefs about the fall of Adam to a group of people from other religions. I had about 2 minutes to prepare, too. It went pretty well, though. I mostly read a bunch of verses from 2 Nephi 2 and then explained them. It was kind of cool because as I was talking, I kept getting chills all over--I felt the spirit testifying that what I was saying was true. We're so fortunate to have such a clear understanding of the fall and the purposes of the fall--it is an event that is so widely misunderstood! That evening I had den meeting. We learned about a famous American (Harriet Tubman) and then we watched a few videos of Rube Goldberg machines and the boys built a little chain reaction thing out of Legos. Next week we will actually try to build a successful Rube Goldberg machine.
Yesterday I spent a few hours reading my book about temple symbols and doing some indexing. I also finished scanning all my photos from my mission. (But don't think I'm done with scanning projects--there are still a lot of other photos from other years!!) We were going to have visitors that evening--a sister missionary who served here and her family (she just finished her mission this week and her family came out to pick her up) but they got behind schedule so they are coming tomorrow morning instead.
This week has not been too eventful, as you can tell, but we have kept pretty busy with all the usual stuff, including exercising and brain balance. Seth is improving in some of the brain balance exercises that we are doing--others, not so much! I am interested to see what his teacher has to say--if she has seen any improvement in his focusing at all. I feel like emotionally he is doing pretty well. He seems to be a little more on an even keel--most of the time he is fairly pleasant and cooperative and doesn't seem to be getting angry as easily although he still does get upset sometimes.
It looks like Frank will be signing off and submitting his paperwork for his job at the end of next week. It's going a lot slower than I'd like, but that is a big step in the right direction.
Seth and I are still reading Little House on the Prairie and he is enjoying it. It is funny sometimes the comments he makes about things. We read a chapter this week where the Indians visited their house and took all of Pa's tobacco. Seth's comment was "He's better off without tobacco anyway!" Another time he mentioned they shouldn't be drinking coffee. He also said this week "it bothers me that they keep calling them Indians". I explained to him that it wasn't intended to be disrespectful and that the term "Native American" is fairly new--even when I was a little girl we were still using the term "Indians". He was surprised to hear that.
This morning Frank helped me get the budget updated. I spent so much time on it last week that there wasn't much to do this week. Now I am going to take him on a date to Red Lobster for lunch (thank you for the gift card, Amy & Nate!) and he is getting hungry so I'd better go. Never keep a diabetic waiting when they need to eat!
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