Last week when I wrote we were all home because it had snowed and everything was shut down. Today it got up to about 70 degrees...what a change! It's dark now and it is still 62 degrees outside. Tomorrow will not be as warm, but it will still be pretty mild and definitely above average for this time of year. I'm enjoying the change from the really frigid temperatures we had last week. Needless to say, most of the snow has melted (with the exception of piles made by snowplows, and they have shrunk down a lot). Here's a few more pictures from last Friday's snowstorm, which I took later in the day after I wrote last week's post:
In a lot of those pictures, I was trying to capture the snow coming down. There were some pretty big flakes, and it was coming down pretty hard for a while. You can also see that combined with the snow from the week before, we had about 8 or so inches of snow all over everything.
I can't remember much about Saturday. I probably worked on Seminary lessons and did some reading. On Sunday after church we had Jared & Jessie over for dinner and a game as usual. We decided to play the game Dominion, which Ben & Dee gave to us a few years ago and we have never got around to playing, for some reason. I remember we got it out once and decided we didn't have time to learn all the rules right then and we have never got back to it. Only four people can play but Frank's toe was hurting (it still flares up sometimes) so he wanted to lie down and put his foot up anyway. The rest of us played and really enjoyed it. Much to my surprise, I managed to win the game. I can see how this game could get addictive, for sure!
I had a dentist appointment on Monday. Just my 6 month cleaning and check up, and everything looks good. Afterwards, I went to see my friend Wanda who lives in a care center nearby. She had been calling me, but I kept missing her calls and she isn't able to answer her phone or pick up voicemails so I don't have a way to communicate with her unless I happen to see that she is calling. She does leave voicemails for me, but since her speech isn't very clear, it is really hard to understand what she's saying. We had a nice visit and I was able to clear up what she had been trying to tell me! I'll be visiting her again with another friend next week and in the meantime I am trying to find a few items she needs (she gave me a list). Actually, I have been able to buy most of the things on her list already but she wants some shirts and I haven't been able to find those.
I taught Seminary on Monday and Tuesday as usual and both of those lessons went fairly well. It does seem to go better if I simplify and slow down. I've been scrolling through some FB groups for Seminary teachers this week and finding lots of good ideas. I really don't know how people manage to be so clever! Coming up with creative ideas for ways to do things is not my forte. My brain doesn't seem to work that way.
I don't remember a ton about Tuesday or Wednesday either except that I worked on Seminary lessons a bit (still haven't done much beyond read the scripture blocks, read the lessons, and bat around ideas in my head). On Tuesday I got to talk to Amy on the phone for a while (I was cleaning bathrooms while I talked to her and she was folding laundry!) On Wednesday I also went in search of some shirts for my friend Wanda but as I already mentioned, I wasn't successful at finding anything. Frank took Seth to his YM activity that evening and then went back later to pick him up. I went to bed when Frank left to pick Seth up, and I was sound asleep before they got back.
Yesterday I talked to Tanner for a while and I took Seth to pick up his new glasses. I had book chat last night. I spent some time this last week reading bits of some of the books I got at the library to try to decide which ones to take to book chat. I actually got really interested in the book I mentioned last week, The House is on Fire, and finished reading it over the weekend. I didn't end up taking it to book club, though, because I didn't feel like ther would be a lot to discuss about it. I did enjoy it, but it wasn't fantastic. Last night at book chat we discussed Lady Tan's Circle of Women. The book the group chose to read this time is called The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-year-old Man, by David von Drehle. I'm glad they picked that one because I've already read about half of it. It's pretty good so far.
Today we had kind of a fun day in Seminary. My team teacher gave each of the kids one of the doctrinal mastery scripture references and they were supposed to come up with a picture to use as a memory trick to help them remember the reference and key phrase. They weren't incredibly successful at coming up with effective memory tricks, but they did have fun. It was fun to see them working together, talking, and just being a lot more awake than they usually are. I wish they could be that way all the time, even if we are doing something a little more serious. Another good thing that happened today is that one of our students came who hasn't been able to come in a long time. He has severe asthma and hasn't been able to come since sometime last October. It was awesome to see him again!
After Seminary I went to the temple. I can't remember if I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'm helping a friend get some work done for some of her family names and that last time I did initiatories for 6 sisters, two of whom we think are twins because they were born the same year and have the first names Mary and Martha. I was thinking earlier this week that I wanted to go to an endowment session today and I thought that I would really like to do the endowments for those twin girls. I was thinking about contacting my friend to see if she wanted their endowments done and before I had a chance, she emailed me their ordinance cards and asked me if I would be willing to do the endowments for the twins. So cool! I got Mary's endowment done today and will do Martha's next time I go. I was glad to go to the temple but I was struggling to stay awake today. Not surprising, considering how little sleep I get these days.
It was probably about 68 degrees, not 89. It was hot in the car since the sun had been shining into it for hours, so I actually turned on the A/C for a little while to cool it down a bit.
After I got home from the temple, I spent the rest of the afternoon doing administrative stuff for Seminary as well as looking for ideas for my lessons. I got a guest teacher lined up for 2 weeks from now, which makes me happy, but I had to send him an email with a link to the lesson and a bunch of information to help him prepare and it took a while to put that together. I also put together an email to send to all the parents about make-up work. A few parents had asked about it and we decided it would make sense to send an email each week with links to the lessons we cover that week so that kids who are absent and need to do make-up work can do make-up work throughout the semester. (Last semester we ended up sending separate emails to each of the kids who needed to complete make-up work at the end of the semester and some of them had to do a lot of make-up work all at once which I'm sure wasn't too fun.) That email took quite a bit of time to put together too--especially since I was adding in links to lessons for the last 4 weeks.
Now it is getting late (I made dinner and Scott called also) so I guess I will be updating finances tomorrow and finishing my Seminary lessons too. There's never enough time to do everything! I am enjoying teaching from the Book of Mormon though and it is definitely easier than preparing lessons from the epistles of Paul! (Don't get me wrong...the New Testament is great also. I'm just a lot more familiar with the Book of Mormon, which makes it easier.)
Tune in next week to find out if we have more snow or if it still feels like spring.
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