Saturday: It seems like ages ago, not just a week ago and I don't remember details anymore. Frank wasn't feeling very well at all. I took Seth to the library and I spent a lot of time working on stuff for my music calling. I set up a spreadsheet where I can keep track of the hymns we sing each month and I also chose all the hymns for January. I also finished preparing my Primary lesson and talked to Jared about who he wants to invite to his wedding reception. (Jessie's family have been wanting to get a ballpark idea of how many people will be coming to the reception.) Oh, and I took Seth to look for some church pants because he has grown too tall for the ones he has. We looked at Walmart and Target and they didn't have any church pants at all. I wanted to take him to JC Penney too but he started feeling sick on the way to Target so after we finished there I decided to take him home. And a good thing, too--he threw up right after we got home. We were pretty sure he was just car sick, though, because he had been reading in the car on the way to Target. He never got sick again and felt fine after that so I think we were right.
Sunday: Frank was feeling worse so he stayed home from church. I didn't have choir practice but I did have a practice for the song I was singing in Sacrament Meeting with a small group. I think the song went pretty well. I would have liked to have had more time to practice it, but overall I think we did a pretty good job. I taught my last lesson to my current class--I'm teaching the CTR 6 class this year. I really enjoyed this class and I will miss them! But hopefully I will love the CTR 6 class too. It is very different from my Valiant 9 class. Besides the obvious difference in the age of the children, my Valiant 9 class had 5 kids--4 boys, 1 girl--and only 3 of them came regularly. My new class has 8 kids--6 girls and 2 boys--and most of them will be there every week. I don't have a team teacher yet, but she is supposed to be sustained this Sunday. Anyway, I actually wasn't feeling too great on Sunday myself, although I was nowhere near as bad as Frank. I had a headache and a slight sore throat. And actually--I still do. I've been feeling that way off and on for a couple of weeks. I'm glad I haven't come down with a full blown illness, but I wish whatever it is would go away completely.
Monday: I kept busy with the usual chores, plus I took down all the Christmas decorations. That's always a big job and I'm always kind of sad to see them go down but I do enjoy that my house looks a lot tidier and more spacious when I'm done. We have a small living space and the Christmas tree takes up a chunk of it! Frank was feeling a little better, but still not very well but Seth helped me get the boxes out of the storage unit. For New Year's Eve we stayed home and watched movies and worked on a jigsaw puzzle. I realized when I was talking to Seth a few weeks ago that he had never seen The Wizard of Oz or The Sound of Music, so I got those two movies at the library and we watched them on New Year's Eve. He really liked them both and even though he hadn't seen them before he had heard a lot of references from them so he enjoyed those moments when he realized where phrases he had heard came from. I laughed when they started singing "Do, Re, Mi" and he hit the pause button and said "Wait! This is where that song came from?!" We spent a lot more time watching movies than we did working on the puzzle, so we didn't make a lot of progress on the puzzle. It looked like this on Tuesday morning:
Frank actually didn't make it to midnight (remember he wasn't feeling well)--he went to bed around 11:00. Seth and I stayed up to welcome in the new year, but then we went to bed shortly afterwards.
Tuesday: We enjoyed a quiet New Year's Day and mostly did the usual chores. Frank started to feel a lot better, which was nice. We worked on the puzzle quite a bit more that afternoon and by evening it looked like this:
We decided to go out to eat that night--we used some gift cards that some nice person left on our doorstep. Then we went to JC Penney and found church pants for Seth. Actually, we didn't just get pants, we got him a suit. He's been wanting one and he will need one for Jared's wedding anyway.
Wednesday: Seth went back to school and we all tried to get back into a normal routine. I didn't have my religion class so instead I worked on the guest list for Jared's wedding and got it mostly done. I did all the other Wednesday chores, including Walmart shopping, and Frank and I took all the Christmas decorations to the storage unit (they had been sitting in the back of the car since Monday). That evening Seth went to YM for the first time and he enjoyed it. They were having an Eagle Court of Honor and he and the other 11 year old scout helped with the flag ceremony for that--they carried the flags. I was feeling kind of sick to my stomach on Wednesday evening so I didn't eat dinner and Frank took Seth to YM and picked him up. Thankfully, I felt better by morning. We worked on the puzzle more and it really started to come together. I was surprised how much I got done in a short amount of time. It is definitely a much easier puzzle than the one we did last year! By evening, it looked like this:
Thursday: I went to work for a couple of hours. The lady I support forgot that I was coming! So we just worked on some things for a couple of hours and then I came home. I'm not helping out much financially, but I was glad for a couple of extra hours to get things done around the house (plus I still had a headache, even though the stomach ache was gone). Thankfully, I haven't needed to work much anyway--Frank has been keeping busy enough with his business that we've been okay. I got my Primary lesson for this Sunday ready to go (the new manual is awesome!) and I made it through the rest of my "to do" list also. We worked on the puzzle and finished it! (sorry it's sideways):
Friday: Today Frank needed to go down south to purchase some computer items for one of his clients so I went with him and then we went to lunch at a place down there, and met a couple of his former co-workers for lunch too. He enjoys seeing them again and getting caught up on what's going on with everybody. That took most of the day, but I also got the budget caught up and I've been working on getting some financial information that Tanner & Jared need to adjust their FAFSAs (since our financial situation has changed quite a bit, they can petition to get better loans). I don't know if it will help them much since our income for last year (2018) was a lot better than you'd expect, considering that Frank's full time job ended half way through the year. I'm definitely not complaining about that--we're very grateful!!--but it's not very helpful for the boys.
That sums up our week. Seth and I got back on track with brain balance and I exercised every day except Thursday. We finished reading The Long Winter, but we haven't started the next book yet since Seth is still engrossed in the Wings of Fire series. By the way, we haven't decided yet when we are going to have Seth ordained a Deacon. Whenever we talk about it, he gets upset and says he wants to finish Faith in God first. So I guess we will wait until he finishes that. Hopefully it will only take a month or less.
Now I had better go make some dinner!
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