Friday: After I picked Seth up from school, I had an appointment to get my hair cut and the color touched up. I can't remember what we did that evening except that Jessie was here for a while; she picked Jared up from work. I think they went out for a while. Frank was gone until late but I can't remember why--either he had a project at work or he was doing work for a client.
Saturday: Jessie was going to the temple to receive her own endowment so Jared and I went with her. Originally, we were all going to go (Seth was going to do baptisms) but Frank had so much work he needed to get done for one of his clients and it had to be done by Monday, so he decided that he couldn't go. We decided under those circumstances it would be better if Seth didn't go either, and he was happy to stay home and play games & watch television on Saturday instead of going to Philadelphia and back! Hopefully we'll be able to get him to the temple to do baptisms soon, though. I feel really bad that we haven't done that yet. As it turned out, I think it is a very good thing that both Frank and Seth weren't with us because it ended up being an all day event and I know it would have been really hard on Frank's back and he also would have needed to eat before we were done. We ended up not eating anything between breakfast (about 8:00) and dinner (about 4:30) and that is something that Frank can't do. (Diabetes is a real pain.) Seth would have ended up waiting around for us for a long time and I'm sure he would have become tired and crabby. So anyway--it all turned out for the best. Jared and I left here about 8:30 and for once the traffic wasn't too bad so we got to the temple around 11:30. However, the temple was swamped with people that day! When we got there, the parking garage under the temple was full and we had to wait a while for someone to leave so that we could have a place to park. Then when I got upstairs to change, the women's dressing room was so full that they had run out of lockers! So they had a bunch of large plastic bins and I had to put my clothes in one of those. They had them stacked against the back wall of the dressing room and there were probably 40 - 50 bins that were full. Well, having too many patrons is a nice problem to have, right? It was kind of a mob scene, but still managed to be pretty quiet and calm. Without going into a lot of details, though, I'd say they were really struggling with organization that day. They didn't have anyone to meet us and guide our group around when we arrived, her mom got an escort tag but the rest of us never got tags to identify us as people in her group, they kept losing track of Jessie and when they finally got us all up to the endowment room (her parents, grandparents, and Jared and I were all there with her) they had only saved 2 places up front for Jessie and her mom so her grandma and I ended up sitting in the back. Then they forgot she was one of the new people (there were at least 4 going through for the first time in our session) and didn't invite her escort and those in her group to go up with her at the end. At least her mom went through first, so she had one person to greet her when she finished but the rest of us got there much later. Jared wasn't too happy about that (I can't blame him). But overall, it was really nice to be in the temple again, in spite of the chaos, and Jessie didn't know any different so she had a good experience overall. And I guess that's all that matters! We were in the 1:15 session (Jessie had to be there at 11:45, and Jared wanted to be there then too so that's why we got there so early) and it was totally packed so it took a long time to finish at the end (especially since Jessie's grandma and I were in the very back of the room). It was an ASL session, which was actually pretty interesting and kind of cool. At any rate, by the time we all changed and were ready to leave the temple, it was about 4:30. By then we were all starving and Jessie's mom wanted to get cheesesteaks, so we went to a place nearby called Reading Terminal Square (or something like that) which was a big market where you could buy all kinds of food but they also had lots of little restaurants. So we had our dinner and then headed home--another 3 hour drive! We didn't get home until about 8:00 pm, so it was a LONG day!
(I only ate half of it! I took the rest home to Frank.)
Sunday: It was Mother's Day so I got to talk to both Scott and Tanner, which was nice. It was pouring rain when we went to church (and coming home too)! At church, they had arranged for some of the men to come in and teach all of the Primary classes so that all the women could go to RS and we had a nice meeting with everyone together--they had asked several women to share something from the most recent General Conference that had touched them or helped them. It was really sweet! At the end, we all got our Mother's Day gift from the ward, which was this:
I thought this framed scripture was a really nice idea--better than a plant that I will just kill!! Frank made dinner and they gave me some cards and some presents.
The thing on the right (with a glare on it) is a magnet, which I saw at the fabric store and thought was cool. It looks like a vintage pattern envelope. Seth decorated the mug for me at school.
Jared got the roses for me.
Close up of the other side of the mug-- a heart and "#1 Mom"! I got a nap that afternoon too, which was the best. (I actually wasn't feeling all that great on both Saturday and Sunday. My stomach was a bit upset and I had a bad headache.) Then later, two packages got delivered and I got two more presents--a game called Dead Ringer and a book about the history of fashion. (Both things that were on my Amazon wishlist). Then a few days later another package arrived and it was a butter dish and matching salt & pepper set. So I was thoroughly spoiled this Mother's Day! (I forgot to take pictures of the other gifts; I will try to remember to do that.) I also got to talk to my own mom, so that was wonderful.
Monday: The rest of the week wasn't as eventful so I will be more brief from here on out! Since I hadn't felt really well over the weekend and I was really wiped out too, I decided not to exercise on Monday morning. (I did exercise every other day though, and I started feeling better on Monday.) I worked with my Arc friend for a few hours in the morning. She had a doctor appointment and some other places that she needed to go. Frank left work long enough to take Jared to work because he didn't need to be there until an hour after I needed to meet my Arc friend to take her to her appointment. Since I worked most of the morning, I had a busy day getting all the rest of the chores done in the afternoon and evening. I did a little bit of work for the office furniture website and on Tanner & Darlee's quilt too. For family night activity Jared chose to play Clue, and he actually won which made Frank happy because I always win that game...he kept saying the reigning champion had to step down now, haha!!
Tuesday: Not much to say about Tuesday. I kept really busy all day, but just doing the usual things mostly--cleaning bathrooms and planning the menus for the following week and working on the quilt a little bit. I also called the doctor to set up an appointment for Seth because he needs some immunizations updated (although I think I'm going to have to change the appointment now) and I called the pharmacy to find out why his prescription wasn't ready yet. I found out that they wouldn't fill it until they confirmed that we have health insurance--our insurance just changed at the beginning of May so when they contacted our insurance company they said we weren't covered. Once they talked to me and I told them we had new insurance, they said they would fill it that day so I was able to pick it up on Wednesday. I spent some time looking over our new insurance information to make sure I knew what I needed to take with me to the pharmacy. We also have a new flexible spending account for medical expenses and thankfully when I picked up the prescription, the debit card for the account worked, so I was able to pay for it that way. Also on Tuesday Jessie came over for dinner and Jared met with our stake president to get his recommend for his sealing (he met with our bishop on Sunday). Jessie already has her recommend for the sealing so they are ready to go with that.
Wednesday: My religion class wasn't held because the teacher was out of town. I missed the class, but it was nice to have more time to get things done. Besides the usual chores, I also mowed the lawn (first day that it didn't rain in a while!) and worked on the quilt for quite a while.
I took those photos on Wednesday; since then I was able to work on the quilt a bit more and I finished quilting the second row, so I'm ready to start on the third row now. In the evening, I took Seth to YM and ran errands while he was there, then picked him back up. I actually picked up 2 other kids on our way and took them back home again afterwards. For their activity that evening they were learning about Ramadan and there were actually several Muslims who came to teach them about it and at the end it was time for one of their prayers so they showed us how they pray. Then they had some food for everyone--the sun had set by then so they could break their fast for the day. It was kind of cool to see them pray!
Thursday: I did not work with my Arc friend but I kept busy with the usual chores and quilting. When I picked up Seth from school, I also picked up 2 other kids--the same ones I took to school one day last week. Their mom had her surgery that day so I brought them here and then took them over to their grandparents' house after their grandpa got home from work (the grandparents and this family are both in our ward). This is the same friend who had surgery about 14 months ago and then had a lot of complications afterwards so that she needed a lot of follow up procedures. I picked her kids up from school a lot last spring when she was in the middle of all that. The surgery she had this week was also a direct result of all of that--the first surgery was to remove her gall bladder, but in doing that they inadvertently damaged her liver and it has been leaking bile ever since. She has had a stent in there ever since to help drain the bile and they've had to change the stent several times and have tried changing the size of it too. Anyway, they have not been able to successfully resolve the leaking bile problem so they finally decided they were going to need to remove part of her liver, which is what she had done yesterday. Hopefully she will recover quickly and hopefully this will finally resolve the problem and she can go back to living a normal life. It has been a real ordeal!! After dinner on Thursday I finally got around to working on my cleaning / organizing / decluttering project for the week, which is the bathrooms. I got the master bathroom done, which feels great. I will have to do the boys' bathroom tomorrow. The half bath on the main level is already fairly pristine--I don't think I need to do anything in there.
Friday: Today has been really busy. Jared had the day off work (he worked every other weekday and he works tomorrow too) so he helped me out a lot by going to Ikea with me to get some furniture that I've been wanting to get. He actually isn't feeling all that great (seems to have the same stomachache / headache thing that I had over the weekend) but he still went with me. That was a real sacrifice, too, since he was the one that did all the loading and unloading of boxes, not to mention walking all through the store with me which took a couple of hours. It actually took us all day to do that (the store is about an hour away)--we got home with just enough time to unload all the boxes before I had to go pick up Seth from school. I took Seth to the library on the way home and then we went to Chick-fil-a to get a milkshake for Jared because I told him I owed him something for spending his whole day off helping me. I got a milkshake for Seth too, of course, and since by then it was 3:30 and I hadn't even eaten lunch yet, I got food for me also. After finally getting home (the traffic between Chick-fil-a and our house was terrible for some reason!) and eating lunch / dinner, I updated the budget. Then I made dinner for everyone else (I still wasn't hungry). Dinner was pretty late but Frank was working on a report at work and didn't get home until after 6:30. Tomorrow we have a lot of furniture to put together! I got three bookcases for our bedroom (we have an empty wall to put them on), a storage shelf to put in my office / craft room, and a shoe storage piece to put next to the front door. I eventually want to get a few storage pieces for the kitchen too, but I was having a hard time making up my mind and I knew we were probably going to fill up the car with the other items (and I was right) so I decided to wait on that. Here's Jared on our fun Ikea adventure:
(I took a photo of this little office unit because I liked it. My office isn't very big so something like this might work in my office. Another thing to maybe do later!!)
Now it is almost bedtime, so I will sign off for this week!
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