Saturday: Seth was begging me to make muffins on Friday night, so I made muffins for breakfast on Saturday morning. I also made a pan of brownies for my Primary class--one of the kids had a birthday and that is the treat he asked for. The rest of the day I kept really busy filling out my time sheet for the Arc, cleaning the kitchen floor, practicing the ukulele, working on stuff for my music calling, completing a projected income worksheet for Jared (part of his petition to get financial aid), helping Seth prepare a lesson for YM the following day, and working on the quilt. Meanwhile, Frank was doing laundry (I helped with that) and packing because he had a business trip this week and he was flying out on Sunday afternoon.
Sunday: Frank came to church to take the sacrament, but he had to leave after that. Only 4 of the 8 kids in my Primary class showed up; the birthday boy was one of the missing children! I know at least one of the kids was sick, but I think a lot of people forgot to set their clocks ahead one hour for daylight savings time. There were a lot of kids missing from Primary, not just kids in my class. After church I took a nap and did the usual indexing, scripture study, etc. Seth and I also watched Snow White together. Frank arrived in Dallas safely. He was there all week (he's still there, actually) getting training on the system that the Roy Rogers restaurants use. He will be back late tonight. We've missed him and we're glad he'll be back soon!
Monday: I didn't have to work so I got some extra errands done (besides the usual chores). I took some cards over to my ministering companion's house for her to sign (the cards are for the sisters we minister to) and I ended up having a pretty long chat with her. Her husband was laid off from his job about the same time as Frank was, and he still doesn't have a job (although he has a part time temporary job at least) so I asked her how she was doing. She's handling things pretty well but I think she really needed someone to just vent to for a while. So I'm glad I asked. I also took Snickers on a walk (it was chilly, but not too cold). In the evening, Seth and I got ice cream at Dairy Queen and played a game for family night. I worked on the quilt a lot that day, too.
Tuesday: After dropping Seth off at school, I went to a "new" store here in Frederick because I just wanted to see what it was like. I put new in quotation marks because it actually opened last summer but I decided then that I was not going to go there while Frank was unemployed. I would probably just see a lot of things I wanted and feel depressed that I couldn't buy anything. The store is called At Home, and it's a home furniture / decor store. It's huge and I wandered around that store for an hour and a half! But I didn't buy anything--I'm proud of myself for that! Actually, I really wasn't tempted. I saw a lot of things that I liked, but nothing that I really need right now. In the future if I am looking for a specific item like a piece of furniture or a rug or something to hang on the wall, then I will probably go there to look because they have a really wide selection so I will probably find what I want there. But for now, I am good! After "shopping", I came home and got all the regular chores done and worked on the quilt a bit. That evening I went to the monthly RS meeting, which was the RS birthday celebration. It turned out to be really fun. One sister showed us how to do several cake decorating techniques (she had 5 display cakes that showed different techniques) and then we had a little cake decorating competition. We were seated at tables according to our birth months, and each table made a cake. (There were only 7 cakes because some of the tables who didn't have a lot of people combined together and some tables had two months assigned to them in the first place.) I was at the June / July table (of course), but it turns out that all of us were born in July. We decided that we should make a summer themed cake, so this is what we came up with:
We used one of the techniques we learned to get the different colors on the side of the cake. They had several bags of different colors of frosting available for us to use, as well as a lot of sprinkles, fruit, and some flowers. They didn't actually have black sprinkles but they had some sprinkles that were black, purple, green, and blue combined, so we went through it and picked out a bunch of black ones to sprinkle on our cake for the "seeds". It turned out looking pretty good, don't you think?
Here are the other cakes (including ours) I think they all turned out really nice:
That last cake, if you can't tell, is a rendition of "The Three Little Pigs". Here is our bishopric judging the cakes:
Third place went to the cake with the flowers "growing" on the side, second place went to the 3 Little Pigs cake, and first place went to our watermelon cake! We were so proud of ourselves! :) The people on the second and third place teams each got a candy bar for a prize. But the members of the first place team each got to take home one of the display cakes. Here they are:
This is the one that I got:
I picked that one because it reminded me of the cake that Jared & Jessie want for their wedding. Seth wanted a piece when I brought it home, of course, but then he decided that he didn't like it! (Probably because it is different from the boxed cake mix / canned frosting cakes that he is used to. This one was made from scratch and has homemade buttercream frosting.) That has left me with the whole cake to myself...yikes! I mean, I think it's delicious, but I can't eat a whole cake! Anyway, after the judging, we had a spiritual message and then they cut all the competition cakes and we ate those for refreshments. Look how cute our cake looks when it's cut...kind of like a slice of watermelon!:
Wednesday: I was super busy with just the usual things. Having the religion class in the middle of the day always makes Wednesdays busy...I get Walmart shopping done in the morning and then go to the class. After class, I only have a little bit of time before I have to pick up Seth from school. Then there is brain balance and dinner before taking Seth to YM. So I feel like I run from one thing to another all day! I did manage to work on the quilt, but just a little bit. I also was texting Tanner a lot that day about wedding stuff and texting with Jessie's mom about wedding stuff too! And I called Mom and talked to her for a while also.
Thursday: I got chores done in the morning and then went to work for a couple of hours in the afternoon. After work I took Snickers for a walk and worked on the quilt a little bit. I took Seth out to dinner that night and let him choose where we went. He chose Golden Corral, which is not my favorite but it was pretty good. It's a buffet place and I usually end up eating too much because there are so many choices! On the way home we stopped to drop off something for one of the sisters I minister to. Her kids were outside playing and I got to visit with her for a bit while Seth played with her kids. I haven't seen her in a while so it was good to get caught up a little bit.
Friday: Today so far I just got the budget caught up, and of course now I have this blog post mostly done!
Meanwhile, Frank was in Dallas all week, as I mentioned before. I don't feel like I've been able to talk to him much because the times he was available to talk didn't line up very well with the times I was available, but we did talk a little bit every day. There were 3 other people getting the training with him...one from Seattle who works for Taco Time, and two from Jamaica, who work for KFC. The two guys from Jamaica didn't have a car so in the evenings he often took them to dinner with him and he also took them shopping a bunch of places. I laughed when he told me on Monday that he took them to Best Buy to do some shopping...this is what computer nerds do when they get together!! But actually, he said that they can get a lot of things here in the states that they can't get at home and a lot of things are less expensive here too. So another night he took them to a clothing store and a third night he took them to Walmart. He went to see a movie on one of the other nights. He says he has learned a ton in the training. I think he has had a pretty good week but he is glad to be coming home today. At home, Seth tried to convince me every night to let him sleep in my bed (he thinks our bed is a lot more comfortable than his)! I never gave in, though. Seth has continued to struggle with moving quickly in the mornings and he has almost been late to school more than once. Not sure why he is going through this phase, but I'm going to work on getting him to bed sooner to see if that helps. It's not that he's sleeping in, though. He's awake--he just doesn't get out of bed for a long time. Then once he's up, he gets distracted a lot and plays instead of getting ready for school. It's frustrating, but we'll keep working on it.
To finish up, I worked on the quilt a lot over the weekend (not Sunday) and tried to work on it every day this week, even though some days that was only a little bit. I made a lot of progress and actually finished quilting the second row of squares and I am almost half way through the third row. So that is encouraging that I could get that much done in a week. Seems like the first row took me at least 3 weeks to complete. Maybe I will get it finished sooner than I thought! I hope so, because this quilt is actually for Jared & Jessie (they don't know this, so don't tell them if you talk to them!) and I'd like to get one made for Tanner & Darlee now too. I doubt I will get theirs done before their wedding but hopefully I will at least get it started.
And that is all I've got for this week!
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