My mind feels pretty muddled today, but hopefully I will be able to compose a coherent post about our last week. Why does my mind feel muddled? Well, it's been a frustrating / stressful day. Seth was supposed to get his wisdom teeth out today but...he didn't. He had one of his stubborn / anxious / freak out moments and refused to let them put in an IV. We all tried to talk him into it for a good 20 mintues but finally had to give up. The teeth have to come out, though, so now we have to reschedule the procedure and go through this whole process all over again. Needless to say, I'm not happy about it!! He insists that he just needs time to mentally prepare himself. I hope that's all it is. In the meantime, this day has been a bust since I wasted 2+ hours of my time taking him there (it's 30 minutes away and when we got there, they informed us that they were running behind and we'd have to wait 30-45 minutes...I wasn't happy about that either), he missed Seminary and school today for no reason, he fasted half the day for no reason, and I haven't accomplished much since we got back because my mind has been muddled so I can't concentrate. Can I go to bed and start this day over again??
The rest of the week went much better than today, thankfully. Last Saturday (the 26th) turned out to be really busy. I went to the church in the morning to help sort donations for Afghan refugees. We still didn't have a lot of donations coming in, but I had a nice visit with the other people who came to help. After I was done there, I just had time to have lunch before I needed to leave again...this time to go to a baptism. The baptism was for an 8 year old girl in our ward...her older sister is in my YW class, so I wanted to go to show support for the family. I'm really glad I went because not only are baptisms always really sweet but the older sister in my class was called to be the 1st counselor in the class presidency at the beginning of the year but had not yet been set apart and the bishop decided to set her apart right after the baptism. So I was able to be there for that, too. After I got home from the baptism I thought I would have a few hours before needing to go to the adult session of stake conference that evening. Frank had a leadership meeting at 4:00, but I didn't need to go to that meeting. We planned for me to make dinner and bring it over to him when his meeting ended at 6:00; then we would have time to eat together before I had a song practice at 6:30 followed by the adult session at 7:00. But shortly after I got home from the baptism, the other counselor in the YW presidency texted me saying "did you see the email that just came from the stake executive secretary saying that counselors in ward presidencies are invited to the leadership meeting too?" (Originally, only presidents were inivited.) At first I thought there was no way I could make that work last minute, but ultimately I decided to make the effort to go. It just meant that we had unhealthy McDonald's for dinner instead of the healthy meal I was planning to make! I'm glad I went because it turned out that meeting was almost entirely focused on the youth, so there was a lot of great information for me in that meeting. It was also nice that Frank and I were able to go to the meetings and come home together instead of taking two cars. Both meetings were excellent and I think our song went pretty well too. We had one of our area authorities, Elder Pace, come to this conference and he brought his wife with him. It just so happens that his wife (whose maiden name is Margaret Watson) grew up in the same ward with Frank, so he got to talk to her and that was fun for him, of course. So that was Saturday...by the time we got home it was time to go to bed.
Sunday wasn't quite as busy. We had the general session of stake conference in the morning--we went to our own ward building for that because they broadcast it to the buildings in our stake. That meeting was good too but I admit I had more trouble focusing for that meeting. Afterwards, we did have a few more meetings over Zoom. I had a class presidency meeting with my YW class, and Frank and Seth had a meeting with the bishopric and all the YM quorum presidencies (there are so few boys in YM that they meet all together). Then Frank had bishopric meeting via Zoom also.
The rest of the week has actually been pretty routine, with all the usual things going on except that Seth had an orthodontist appointment on Thursday after school and of course he had the oral surgeon appointment today. At the orthodontist yesterday they said that all he has left to do is to move his teeth together (bite is correct now and teeth are straight; there are just some small gaps between them) so they put a different kind of wire on his teeth. Of course, that means his mouth / teeth are quite sore today. They said it's possible they can remove the bottom braces on his next visit (which is in 6 weeks) and then possibly the top braces the visit after that. Well, that was dependent on him having his wisdom teeth removed and molars exposed today, which didn't happen, so I'm sure that will push back his braces getting removed. Another reason why I wish that had happened today as planned!
Frank had a quite busy week with work. He had to work last night because two contractors were doing jobs at one of the restaurants after hours. It wasn't too bad, though...they got done a lot sooner than he anticipated so he was only gone from 7:00 to 10:00. When I wrote last week's post, he was in the middle of a job interview. That interview went well. They are still very interested in him but have interviews to do with other candidates before they narrow it down. I'm still concerned that if he got that job he would need to travel down there a lot more often than I'd like. In the meantime, he was contacted yesterday by another place. He applied for a job there a few months ago and had given up on it since he never heard back but I guess they are just moving a lot slower than we anticipated. He has an interview set up with them on Monday. This job would also require commuting, but not nearly so far.
I have to report that we played Mario Kart for family night activity on Monday because I actually won!! Yes, me!!! This is a really big deal because I'm no good at video games. It took me 10 years to reach this point. 😂 I was so astonished that I had to get photographic proof:
Yes, I know it says "Peach" instead of "Annette", but who else in my family would play as a girl?? You can see it was close...I beat Frank by only 1 point and Seth (Yoshi) by 3 points. But after 10 years of being way behind those two, it felt pretty good to be in the top spot! It may never happen again!
My VITA volunteer day went well again this week. Once again, we weren't very busy. But I actually kept steadily busy and completed 4 tax returns. They were all pretty simple so they didn't take long. Too bad 3 of the 4 taxpayers had to pay instead of getting refunds. That doesn't happen very often...as a matter of fact, those were the first balance due returns I've encountered this year. Never fun for the taxpayer, but they all took it in stride, thankfully.
For youth activities this week my YW class planned our movie for a film festival that we are doing with all the YM / YW at the end of the month. We had to start all over on the plot because we previously chose to do a Russian themed film. With everything going on with Russia right now, though, we thought maybe that would be in bad taste. So we started all over, planning with a totally different idea. The YM played kick ball and had donuts...Frank was in charge of bringing the donuts. Luckily, he found plenty of people at the church who were willing to eat a donut so we didn't bring any home with us!
When I finished reading Ben-Hur last week, I started reading another book called A Gentleman in Moscow. It was one of the books I checked out of the library to suggest that we read for book chat. We chose Ben-Hur instead, but I figured since I was done with that I might as well read this book since I had it. (Plus it sounded really interesting so I wanted to read it.) I'm glad I decided to read it because it's a fantastic book and I am enjoying it immensely. I will probably finish it in a couple more days. It is super interesting, clever, funny, but also poignant. I definitely recommend it if you want a good book to read.
That is all the news from these parts so I will finish up with a photo I took while I was waiting for Seth to get out of Seminary yesterday morning.
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