We had another busy week and it's all jumbled up in my head so don't expect this post to be organized. I'll do my best! I left off last week saying that Seth had a job interview the following morning (Saturday the 10th) so I'll start with that. Frank took him to the interview and when they came home Seth said "I guess I got the job because she (the interviewer) said 'we just need to do a background check and when that goes through I will contact you so watch your email and I will see you next week at orientation.'" I think it definitely helped him that Frank was there and that the interviewer knows him well. 😄 It took her a while, but she finally did contact Seth yesterday and he has orientation tomorrow morning. We are pleased that he has a job and Seth seems pleased about it too.
Meanwhile, he has been earning some money this week too. Our friends who often ask him to check on their cats while they are out of town asked him to do that this week. (He lets the cats in or out of the house, prepares treats for them, replenishes food & water, etc.) He's been getting up every morning to check on them at 6:00 am, so he's also getting back into the habit of getting up early which is good since school starts on Wednesday. I go with him and he drove there and back every morning except Wednesday because he felt really sleepy that morning. Tomorrow will be the last morning that we need to check on them.
Seminary preparation mostly dominated my week and I don't feel like I got much done in any other areas. Seth definitely didn't get as much driving time but besides driving over to check on the cats, I did have him drive to Costco and back last night so we could get him some shoes and on Saturday he drove to an activity at the Stake Center and back home afterwards. The activity was a post-FSY activity and even though he missed most of FSY he went anyway. They actually asked him ahead of time to say the closing prayer. He seemed to enjoy the activity...they had some of the youth share their experiences and an adult talked about goal setting and then they had a pizza dinner while watching a slide show of photos that people shared from FSY. Seth was even in a couple of them from the first day. There are probably a few other short trips that he drove, but I can't remember now.
For Seminary, my team teacher and I visited another new girl coming into our class on Monday. She is a sophomore in high school...her family moved to Frederick over the summer from the Reno, Nevada area. From talking to them, it sounds like they aren't super active and she didn't attend Seminary much last year but hopefully we will see her sometimes. (Her family is not in our ward so we don't see them at church.) On Wednesday my team teacher and I met to do more planning and had a very long meeting; then I came home and worked on more stuff! That's about all I did on Wednesday. Frank is mystified about what we are doing for all those hours and I myself cannot explain why it takes so long to get ready...all I know is that we are not making up stuff to do! I've had a few other things I've done for Seminary on other days too but Wednesday was the busiest day.
Going back to Sunday, we had the missionaries over for dinner. We miss having Jared & Jessie here so it was nice to have someone else over that night. One of the Elders got transferred into our ward recently so we enjoyed getting to know him a little bit. I wanted Seth to start attending mission prep class that evening but the Elders were 30 minutes late to dinner so by the time they left, it was too late to go. (It's a bit of a drive to get there.)
On Tuesday (yes, I realize I am jumping all over the place...I did warn you) I went to lunch with my friend Rebekah. She left on a trip to Utah (taking her daughter back out to BYU) late this week so we wanted to get together and get caught up on things before she left. We went to the Honey Baked Ham cafe and since I had a gift card for that place, it was my treat. I always enjoy my visits with Rebekah. After lunch I went to Jo Ann's to get muslin, thread, and batting for my pillow cover project. I also ended up getting fabric for the August pillow covers. I hadn't intended to do that but noticed some of the fabric I had in mind for that was on sale. It ended up taking quite a bit of time for me to make decisions so I was there a lot longer than I had intended. I need to buy fabric for only 3 more sets of pillow covers now, though. The more I get done before Seminary starts, the better.
I didn't make a ton of progress on pillow covers this week. I did finish sewing together the other September quilt block, though, and added border strips to both of them and I also sewed the quilt blocks--including border strips--for the October pillows. I washed all the fabric that I purchased this week and I cut out muslin backing and batting pieces for the September and October pillows. The September pillows are now ready for me to start quilting. I guess that's a decent amount of progress. Here are photos of the September and October quilt blocks. I really like how the September ones turned out. I'm not as pleased with the October ones...they look busier than I would like...but that's okay.
On the housecleaning / organizing front, I was able to finish the master bathroom and I got a few things done in the basement. After I cleaned up the area around the printer table in my office / sewing area, Seth came downstairs for something and he stopped and said "Whoa! Something is different down here!" You know you've done a good job when your 17 year old son who doesn't care a thing about clutter and doesn't even seem to know it exists notices that something is cleaner. 😂 I also started going through some of the files. Yesterday I went through two big files we had of all the documents related to the two car accidents Frank was in. (And basically threw everything away...just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything in there that was important.) Just going through those files reminded me how difficult those times were and one thing that was really difficult was the mounds of paperwork Frank and I had to fill out...he was in loads of pain but it was like a full time job filling out all the necessary paperwork and going to doctor appointments and such. What a nightmare! I'm so glad we made it through all that and that he's a lot better now (even though his back and his knee will never be the same).
We have stake conference this weekend and today is our stake temple day. Frank and I planned to meet at the temple for a 3:00 session (he works about 7 miles from the temple) but he started feeling sick Wednesday evening and didn't go to work yesterday or today. He feels feverish and has a headache and is achy all over. He's been pretty miserable the last couple of days. Since Frank wasn't feeling up to going to the temple, I decided to go by myself but to go earlier so I would beat rush hour traffic coming home. I was able to get a last minute appointment for a 1:00 initiatory session. The temple has been closed for the last couple of weeks and I haven't been able to go very often over the summer so it felt really great to be able to go today. I encountered fairly heavy traffic coming home, but it wasn't as bad as rush hour traffic.
Yesterday was Scott's 30th birthday. I'm not sure how we got old enough to have a child that age! Frank and I both had text message conversations with him yesterday but didn't get to talk to him other than that. Hopefully he felt loved. We got him one larger gift that he wanted and we also asked Tanner to get him a few treats from Costco from us (saved on shipping costs). I did get to talk to Tanner yesterday and I talked to both Scott and Jared last week.
I started getting up at 3:30 most mornings last week and this week I continued to do that. It's been harder to get to bed at 8:00 pm, but I'm working on it. I've been sleeping really great most nights, actually. Hardly ever wake up at all, from the time my head hits the pillow until the alarm goes off. I hope that will continue.
I am trying to read the book for book chat but haven't made much progress yet. I've been too busy with all my other projects to have much time for reading. The book is called Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien. I've only read a couple of chapters and it seems fairly interesting but as I said...I haven't had much time to read it.
That's everything I can think of to tell you about this week.
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