I feel like my life got a lot busier this week. It's a combination of my new church calling, appointments, and the fact that the world is starting to pick back up a bit. Here's the highlights for this week:
On Saturday Seth got to hang out with one of his friends from school for a couple of hours. We met his friend and his friend's mom at a park so that they could get together for a while. This is the first time he's seen this friend in person for a year! Seth will being seeing his friend more often now though because his friend started attending in-person school this week and they are in the same cohort so they go to school on the same days. I also finished our tax returns and filed them. Frank found a recipe for some low carb noodles and he decided to try it. They actually turned out really well, and they taste good:
They are made from eggs, cream cheese, and a little bit of flour (not regular white flour; some other kind). We had meatballs for dinner that night and I had planned to make a little bit of spaghetti to go with them, but we had the egg noodles instead and that worked out great.
On Sunday Seth gave a talk in Sacrament meeting. His topic was Kindness. He did really well...he doesn't seem to get nervous at all and he is really good at speaking clearly and looking at the audience. Honestly, he looked like he was enjoying himself!! Many people told him afterwards what a good job he did and I have had others in the ward comment on it to me as well. Maybe he has a public speaking career ahead of him. I got set apart for my new calling right after Sacrament meeting. The blessing I got was really amazing; I wish I could remember it better. I mostly remember thinking how well it fit who I am and the kind of things I want to accomplish in this calling. Everybody laughed when the counselor asked me if I had a middle name, and I said "Yes, my middle name is Annette, actually." After we got home from church, Seth had a presidency meeting. Frank had to work overnight that night. When he left, it had started to rain and we got a pretty decent thunderstorm for a little while. The sky looked pretty:
Rain has actually been the theme of this week. It was either raining or cloudy almost the entire week. We did get a little bit of sunshine on Monday, a little bit on Tuesday afternoon, and a little bit more this morning, but that's about it. (It's already cloudy again.)
Frank didn't get home until nearly 6:00 am Monday morning but some kind of emergency came up so he ended up working most of the day on Monday as well. I'm never happy when that happens, especially when he has to work overnight again, which he did have to do on Tuesday night. I feel like he's been catching up on sleep ever since. Seth didn't have school on Monday (again!) because Friday was the end of the 3rd term so Monday was a teacher work day. I was busy because I had a presidency meeting for YW that morning. Originally we were going to meet in person but we ended up having to change it to a Zoom meeting. I'm glad that happened, though, because it was a long meeting (our first meeting; we had a lot to discuss of course!) and I don't like leaving Seth alone for hours on end. (Even though he probably doesn't care at all.) One of the main things we needed to discuss was who to call as advisors...both the other new counselor and I were advisors for one of the classes and the other class didn't have an advisor. When the president asked if we had any impressions about who to call, the other counselor said "I made a list". She had five names on her list, and four of them were people that I had felt like we should call too! And then the president said she had also thought of three of those four people! So that was a pretty easy decision. I really love it when that happens! I guess I forgot to mention...I didn't know who the other counselor was going to be until she was announced in Sacrament meeting on Sunday. She is one of my really good friends, so I am really happy about that. I get to work with two people that I really love and enjoy being around. After my meeting, I spent the rest of Monday getting chores done. I told Seth he should mow the lawn, but he put it off and then it started raining so it didn't happen on Monday. Instead, he had to do it right after school on Tuesday--luckily we had a brief hour or two of sunshine that afternoon. On Monday after Frank got home from work, we had dinner and family night and then he took a nap for a few hours before he had to leave for work again. He got home a lot earlier that time...I think around 2:45 am which is good since he had to go into work around 10:00.
I got Seth to school on Tuesday and then did my usual chores and my shift at VITA. I talked to Amy some more after I got home since she had some more tax things she wanted to discuss. That evening Seth had an in-person YM activity. We were supposed to be meeting in person for YW too (as well as have a virtual activity for those who can't meet in person) but we found out on Sunday that nothing had been planned yet (none of us had been in charge of planning this particular activity) so we just had to do something quick, last minute. Plus the new YW president couldn't be there that night because it was her daughter's birthday and with only 2 leaders available (me and the other counselor), we couldn't have both an in-person and a virtual group. (We have to have two adults at each activity.) So anyway, we decided to have our own General Conference trivia activity and to do it virtually. We didn't have a lot of girls come, but I think those who came had fun. It went really well. For Seth's activity, they did ice cream sculptures. He says he made the Hill Cumorah.
On Wednesday I ended up spending a lot of the morning texting with the rest of the YW presidency. It was practically another meeting! I had a dentist appointment in the afternoon...finally I got my teeth cleaned after over a year! My hygienist is in our ward and I'm one of her ministering sisters, so I was happy for the chance to talk to her. (She rarely comes to church.) Plus, her daughter is in my YW class too so I got an update on both her and her daughter. It was really great! On Wednesday evening there was a virtual RS activity. A sister in my ward who is originally from Chile taught us how to make empanadas. I forgot to buy the ingredients so I didn't make any, but I watched so that I will know how to make them. Then at the end of the activity she encouraged anyone who wanted to come by and get some of the empanadas she had made. She doesn't live very far from us, so I went to her house and got some empanadas. They were really yummy!! Even picky eater Seth liked them. Frank had to do a short job at a restaurant that evening...he left around 8:30 but he got home by 11:00.
Yesterday I had all the usual work to do, plus in the evening I had an online training meeting for YW. It was a training for our whole region, broadcast from SLC and the two main speakers were Sister Cordon and Elder...somebody!! I can't remember his name now! Ballard (not the apostle) or Bateman or something like that. Anyway, the meeting was really good and I have a lot of things to think about now. But it did last 2 hours, so that took up my evening. Yesterday I called a friend who is recovering from surgery as well and I also got to talk to Mom for a while.
That's been my busy week. I haven't had much free time but when I do I've mostly just been reading. I don't have a book to read for book chat right now (already finished it) so I've been re-reading some Newbery winners that I haven't read since I was a child. I read The White Stag, King of the Wind, Caddie Woodlawn, and now I am reading The Wheel on the School. (They were all fairly short...quick, easy reads.) I liked all of them when I was a child and I still thought they were pretty good (The White Stag is a little weird.) I actually can't remember much at all about The Wheel on the School, and it seems like it didn't engage me much when I read it as a child but so far I am really enjoying it this time and wondering why I wasn't more interested in it when I was young.
I noticed another change in Seth this week. I kept thinking his hair looked a little different and then on Thursday I realized that it's getting a little bit wavy. The texture of his hair just seems a bit different and it's not as straight as it was before. Tanner and Jared both got wavier hair as teenagers too so I guess Seth is going to follow in their footsteps. Poor Scott is the only one who got my straight hair (although I think his hair looks nice.) Here is Seth's hair:
I'm wondering what else is going to change practically overnight this coming week! 😉 First his voice, now his hair!
This morning when I went out to get the mail, it was sunny (for the first time in days) but clouds were starting to roll in on one half of the sky. Everything looked so pretty; I had to take some photos so I will finish up with those.
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I always kind of envy your pictures because you have that big plot of land behind you with the river so close. Houses are way too close to me on my back fence. I wish I could’ve heard Seth give his talk. Sounds like you had a busy fulfilling week. I haven’t been in a presidency for sometime and I kind of miss those days because I always felt like for the most part they were such special experiences to work closely with people around you. Right now I serve as a secretary, which I don’t really do very much right now, on the Stake Humanitarian board, I am one of the three organists in the ward and it’s nice to split it up, and I do get to teach relief society so that helps to keep me engaged a little more. That’s been interesting through all this pandemic because teaching over zoom is definitely a new experience. We are meeting in person now so that makes it a little easier in some ways but I think I got used to my home environment too much. You didn’t mention if you had gotten your test results back from the cardiologist. Hope they were OK. Have a good week.
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