Sunday: I had choir practice and church meetings as usual. When I got to Primary, my team teacher wasn't there and then her husband (who plays the piano) asked if I got her message. No, I hadn't (because my phone was turned down). She was sick and wasn't going to make it. I went back to let one of the counselors know I was going to need a helper but on the way I encountered one of the moms of one of the kids in my class and she asked me if I needed help and volunteered to help me so that problem was solved! (Bless people who volunteer like that!) After church I stopped to see my friend Wanda because she hadn't made it to church. She was okay, just didn't come because she thought the weather was going to be bad (and it was supposed to snow...it just hadn't started snowing yet). She needed some things from the store, so I promised to come back on Wednesday morning when I was on my way to the store to get a list from her. The rest of Sunday was spent at home reading scriptures, indexing, and so forth. I discovered a bunch of new family activities on Family Search so Seth and I looked at some of those. I did one activity where they matched my features (from a photo I uploaded) to my ancestors and told me who I looked like. The strongest match was...my mom! I was a 70% match to her. It did start snowing that afternoon and we got a couple of inches of snow.
Monday: Because of the snow, there was a 2 hour delay for school. I was supposed to be taking my Arc lady to the doctor at 9:30, but the delay messes up her schedule too (because she works for before and after school care) so she had to change her appointment. Instead, I did go pick her up at 11:00 (after I took Seth to school) and took her to run a few errands. It was a short day, though...I only worked for about a half hour. She had sick family members that she needed to help take care of on Thursday, so I didn't work on Thursday at all. Anyway, the rest of Monday was pretty busy with regular chores, plus taking Snickers to the vet. I did also manage to file our state tax return. (I filed the federal return on Saturday and it was accepted.) The vet visit was his annual check up. He had to have several vaccines, blood work done, and they also drew some cells out of a growth to test them. It all added up to a pretty hefty bill before we were done, and there's more to come because he also needs an ultrasound ( to check his liver) and his teeth cleaned (they should have been cleaned last year but we put it off because of the job situation). The blood work they did showed that his liver still has some problems so we're doing the ultrasound to check it out.
Tuesday:There's not a lot to say about Tuesday. I got the usual chores done and worked on the quilt.
Wednesday: Wednesday was also pretty standard, although pretty busy since I stopped by my friend Wanda's to get her list and I also have the religion class on Wednesdays. I got the shopping done before the class and when I picked up Seth from school he came with me to drop off Wanda's things at her place. I was glad he was there to help me because although she didn't have a lot of stuff, one thing was bottled water and that was pretty heavy, of course. That evening Frank took Seth to YM and back so I could work on the quilt. For YM they learned how to build a fire. Seth seemed to have fun even though they were outside and that was the coldest day of the week with highs in the 20s, plus it was windy! After they got a fire built, they had hot chocolate and s'more pop tarts.
Thursday: Normal busy Thursday, plus I worked on the quilt some more and I got my hair cut. I finished the first row of 5 squares on the quilt:
I also started working on the next row last night. I am pleased with how it looks so far but it is taking a long time!
Friday: Today I got the budget caught up and I met Frank for a lunch date. He is keeping busy at work and it seems to be going well. He was also pretty busy with some work for clients after hours a couple of evenings this week. When I picked Seth up from school this afternoon, we stopped at the library to pick up a few movies I put on hold for Seth and he got another book and a couple of games too. The movies were two classic Disney movies--Snow White and Cinderella--because he's never seen them. We used to have a lot of the classic Disney movies, but they were on VHS and our video tape recorder died a long time ago so I gave away all our VHS movies.
I did a lot of reading this week, too, and finished the book for book chat which is called Confessions of a Domestic Failure. There were things I didn't like about the book when I first started it, but I liked the way it ended and it was pretty funny at times and definitely entertaining.
Update of Tanner's wedding: they have chosen June 28th for the wedding date and will be married in the Payson Temple. The ceremony will be at 1:00. They are going to have a reception that evening in Orem in Darlee's backyard. They don't have very many details figured out yet, but that is the basics. I talked to Darlee's mom for a while on Wednesday evening to discuss some of the plans but most of it is still pretty up in the air at this point. I'll keep everyone updated on important details as we figure things out.
To finish up, here is a humorous piece of junk mail we got today:
Haha, I wasn't aware that I had a daughter!!
Not so funny...in the last few weeks we have received a couple of unexpected bills. One was for some imaging Frank had done on his knees 2 1/2 years ago! (Right after his second accident.) Oh, and it was a $2000 bill! We're pretty sure that they never submitted the bill to our health insurance, or if they did they did it recently and our insurance has changed since then so of course it would be denied. We called the lawyer who handled the settlement for that wreck and they are looking into it. Hopefully we won't have to pay the bill (our insurance would have covered most if not all of it if it had been submitted in a timely manner) but it is just another hassle to worry about. Then last week we got a bill related to a rental car we had during the summer of 2017 in Utah. One of Mom's neighbors backed into it when it was parked on the street in front of her house and caused some damage. Apparently his (the neighbor's) insurance paid most of the bill but not all of it and they are saying that we are responsible for the rest. It's not a large amount, at least, but in principle I don't think we should have to pay anything since we were completely not at fault. (We were asleep in bed when he hit our car, and we were legally parked.) So there's another hassle to work through. Then today I got a bill for a routine doctor visit I had last month, which should have been covered by our insurance. When I called on that one, it turned out that they had one of the numbers in my member ID wrong, so when they submitted it to my health insurance company they couldn't identify me as a member and so they denied the claim. At least that one is being resubmitted to the insurance so it should be taken care of. But seriously! I hope we don't receive any more surprise bills dealing with things that happened a year or two ago!!
That's it for this week.
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