Friday the 11th: I helped chaperone Seth's class--a field trip to the park--in the afternoon, and it was a perfect day to be outside Sunny and warm! There were several adults chaperoning and I mostly just had to help keep an eye on the kids, but since they're all 12 and 13 year olds, that wasn't very hard. So I ended up talking with a couple of the assistants in Seth's class most of the time, while we watched the kids play. They both had good things to say about him. One even said "Oh, I love Seth! He is so kind and considerate to all his peers!!" Well, that was nice to hear! I don't always see that kind of behavior from him. It's encouraging. The trip to the park was at the end of the day, so I brought Seth home with me and we got him packed for his camp out. I found out shortly before I left for the field trip that he didn't have to bring any food after all, so we just had to worry about a sleeping bag, warm clothing, a flashlight--stuff like that. Frank came home from work shortly before Seth needed to leave, so we took him over to the church together and then we went out to dinner. We have several gift cards that we haven't used, so we used one of those.
Saturday the 12th: The city was having a free drop of for hazardous household waste (things like motor oil, antifreeze, aeresol paints, lithium batteries) and we had a few of those things so Frank and I gathered them up and took them to the landfill. I did the usual Saturday chores (cleaned the kitchen floor, worked on stuff for my music calling, and practiced the ukulele). I also wrote the monthly music spotlight for our ward newsletter and prepared my Primary lesson for this Sunday (but then found out the next day that I won't be teaching this week after all). All of that stuff kept me pretty busy all day. Seth got home from his camp out around 1:00; he said he had fun although he got a little cold. They were camping at a camp ground that is owned by several of the stakes in this area (the same place I went for Girls' Camp and the older boys went there for trek and for various camp outs) and in the morning they took down all the canvas portions of the platform tents because they need to be stored until next summer. Seth was only home long enough to unpack and shower because he was going to a birthday party that started at 2:00. It was for one of the former carpool boys (we watch the cats for this same family sometimes) and they went to a place where they did indoor rock climbing. Seth actually did the rock climbing--I wasn't sure he would. He said it was "okay"!
Sunday the 13th: We had a hard time getting Seth going that morning and he actually caused us to be a few minutes late to church. I guess we are going to have to adjust our Sunday morning schedule, because we have been almost late a few other times. Seth takes too long to eat breakfast, so from now on he will have to shower first and then eat--he can always eat in the car if he doesn't move fast enough. Anyway, for Primary we practiced for the Primary program, which is this Sunday. So I didn't have to do much--just sat with my class and helped them stay focused. They are only have one teacher for each class sit on the stand on Sunday, and I got elected to be the one for my class because the other teacher has kids who are still in Primary, so she can sit in the audience and see her kids do their parts. It's fine with me--I'm sure the kids will keep me entertained! :) All the Primary teachers have a teacher's council the second hour, so we won't get to see the kids then, so it's nice I will see them during Sacrament Meeting. Next Sunday (the 27th) we will finally have class with them again (the first time all month)! We had a few events later in the day on Sunday. Frank and I went to visit the guy in our ward who is in hospice care. His daughter and I played a few hymns on the ukulele for him and I didn't do too well but his daughter is really good so it wasn't noticeable! He enjoyed it and sang along. Then Frank and I read to him for a while--he recently received a detailed life history for one of his brothers, and members of the ward have been going over once a week to read it with him. (It's hard for him to read now, and he likes to talk about it with someone, too.) It was actually really interesting, and we enjoyed reading and talking with him. I also had a chat with his daughter about some of the music calling things that have been stressing me out, and that helped me feel quite a bit better about most of them. After that visit, we went to a farewell openhouse for a couple in our ward who are moving--actually, he was the one who was teaching the religion class. They moved here shortly before we did, so we've known them nearly 20 years. They will be missed!
Monday the 14th: It was a pretty busy day for me; besides the usual Monday chores (laundry, vacuuming, some grocery shopping) I worked on music calling stuff, contacted all the sisters I minister to, and picked up a prescription for Frank. Actually, I'm not sure why that took all day, but it did. We had family night in the evening. It was Seth's turn to do the lesson and he chose to watch the newest Book of Mormon video (Lehi's Dream). Those videos are all really good, but I especially liked this one. I've heard the story my whole life, of course, read it numerous times and discussed it at length in classes over the years, but for some reason watching a portrayal of the vision was just so powerful!!
Tuesday the 15th: I mostly did the usual chores, but I also worked a bit on one of the Christmas projects. Frank managed to track down a company that takes our insurance late last week, so he had an appointment that morning to go get his new CPAP. Hooray!! We've both been sleeping a lot better, for the most part. Frank also had a meeting in the evening for work which was down in Virginia, so he was gone until bedtime that night. Out of the blue, I got an email from a guy that I did some sewing for in the past--mostly hemming and adding elastic to baseball pants that he has purchased. (I also sewed numbers and patches onto baseball jerseys for him.) He had a pair of baseball pants that needed elastic added to the legs. He needs them by Monday evening, so he wondered if I would have time to do that. And since I'm not totally swamped right now, I said I could so he brought them over that evening. Until this week, I hadn't heard from him in a couple of years so I thought he had found someone else to do his sewing for him, but I guess he just hasn't had as much that needed to be done lately.
Wednesday the 16th: It rained! Pretty much all day!! That hasn't happened around here in so long. Our front lawn is looking slightly green again. I might actually need to mow it soon. I went to lunch with my friend Rebekah. I found out that they actually asked someone else to teach the religion class already, but as I said--I was starting to feel like I should be doing something else with that time. However, the new teacher is one of our former stake presidents and I think he will be really good, so I might go sometimes, just not every week. I got the usual chores done, worked on preparing some remarks I have been asked to give at a RS activity next week, and worked on the other Christmas project (haha, I love being so vague!) I also called the vet to order a bag of food for Snickers and Frank picked it up on his way home from work. I was hoping the bag we had would last until the next day because I was taking Snickers to get his blood sugar checked, but I could tell it wasn't going to be enough. Frank spent the evening doing maintenance for all his clients, but he got it all done.
Thursday the 17th: I got the usual chores done, made an extra trip to the store for some things I forgot (plus elastic for the baseball pants), worked on one of the Christmas projects, worked on the baseball pants, and took Snickers to the vet to get his blood sugar checked. His blood sugar has improved dramatically--down to about 130--which is about where it should be. So it looks like this insulin is going to work after all! That's mostly good news except for the monthly expense of the insulin. At his current dose (6 units, twice a day), a bottle will only last about a month, and it costs $170 a bottle. Ugh!! Really not sure how we're paying for that, but it'll have to work out somehow. Snickers does seems to feel somewhat better--at least he hasn't been needing to go out in the night at all, which makes life easier for him and for us. I'd still say he doesn't feel great, and being blind is stressful for him. I feel so bad every time he bumps into something! He also occasionally stumbles off the edge of the front steps. He did that on Monday, and afterwards he was licking his left front paw and it was bleeding a lot. He left bloody paw tracks all over the floor. I got the bleeding to stop and looked at his paw and couldn't see really what was wrong. It didn't seem to be bothering him too much but on Wednesday he started limping. So when I took him in to get his blood sugar checked, I asked them to look at his paw too. It turns out he pulled a nail (claw) off but fortunately it was healing up well and didn't look infected or anything. (More good news!) Not sure why he started limping on it when it was healing. He's mostly stopped limping now. Frank put in a regular day at work yesterday and then he had to go back to work around 7:30 in the evening because they were installing a new digital menu board at one of the Roy Rogers stores. (He did the same thing at another store about a month ago.) As anticipated, he was gone all night--didn't get home until about 6:00 this morning.
Friday the 18th: Frank didn't go into work today since he was working all night. He actually woke up around 8:30 am and was awake a lot of the day (he still was on the phone and answering emails and such from work) but he took a nap around 1:45 for a few hours. He's awake again now, though, and I'd say he still hasn't had nearly enough sleep! He's playing video games with Seth right now. Meanwhile, I exercised and got Seth to school and read scriptures and updated the budget. Then I picked Seth up from school and have been working on this post since then. They are having a "Fall Festival" at Seth's school tonight and Seth is required to be there for that as part of a big assignment for one of his classes. Frank and I are going to go help for about an hour too. So I'd better go make dinner in a few minutes so we can all have something to eat before we have to go to that.
The temperatures have really cooled down this week and it feels like fall. Sweater weather!! My friend Wanda got a sweater for me when I took her shopping a few weeks ago. We were at a thrift store and it only cost $2.99, but look how cute it is:
And it actually fits, even though I didn't try it on. That's a bit of a miracle since most shirts and sweaters are too long on me (unless I get petite sizes). So it was nice to get to wear it this week.
In between everything else, I've been reading a series of books that Seth really likes, called Wings of Fire (all the main characters are dragons). I read two of the books a few months ago and in the last few weeks I read the 3rd and 4th book. I just started the 5th book today. I started reading them because Seth really wanted me to, but they are pretty good and I am enjoying them.
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