Let's see what I can remember about this past week. When I left off last week, Frank wasn't feeling well. He still felt pretty sick all day on Saturday and didn't feel super great on Sunday when he got up but he seemed to turn a corner on Sunday afternoon and he's been fine since then.
Meanwhile, Seth and I had haircuts Saturday morning. Seth was supposed to have orientation for his job after that but shortly after getting home from his haircut he started feeling sick and he threw up, so he had to call and change his orientation to Tuesday. Apparently it was one of those strange episodes that he sometimes has when he feels sick, throws up once, and then he's fine. I was glad he didn't have the stomach flu or anything like that, but the timing was not ideal.
Even though Frank wasn't feeling well, he had a few things he had to do on Saturday. Our stake conference was that weekend and Frank is in charge of the technology for our building. The Saturday evening session for adults is not broadcast to our building, but the general session on Sunday morning is broadcast from the stake center to our building. The guy in charge of the technology for the stake wanted to do a test broadcast, though, so it made sense to do that on Saturday evening during the evening session. So Frank had some things to do to set that up and then of course he had to be at our building on Saturday evening for the evening session to make sure the broadcast was working properly. Since Frank was going to our building, we decided that it made sense for me to go with him and watch the meeting from our building instead of going to the stake center by myself. I missed the interaction with other stake members, but since we were all alone, I didn't feel like I needed to dress up and I also took one of the September pillow covers with me to start quilting it. The broadcast worked fine, all the talks were excellent, and I got a lot of quilting done so that was great. I did stop quilting occasionally to write down some notes and thoughts that came to my mind as I was listening.
On Saturday I also made two batches of muffins and froze them for later use during Seminary and I did the regular Saturday chores and a bunch of other Seminary things. I can't remember details now, I just know I was busy all day.
Frank had to be at the church a bit early on Sunday morning to make sure everything was ready to go for the broadcast of the general session. That broadcast went fine too and once again...all the talks were excellent. The temple president spoke and mentioned that they really need more temple workers. That's something I want to do but I don't feel like I can do it right now; however, it occured to me that Frank probably could do it and after the meeting he mentioned that he was thinking about being a temple worker. I told him the same thought had occured to me so he contacted our bishop and started that process. He asked to work on Tuesday evenings because he works from home on Wednesdays and doesn't have to get up as early. He can do his temple shift after work which is really convenient because the temple is only a few miles from his work.
On Sunday afternoon we had an information meeting for the Seminary youth and their parents. At the end of the meeting we had refreshments and the parents had time to talk about carpools. We didn't have a great turn out so a lot of people were missing and it turns out that all of the people who were there from TJ didn't need a carpool...either their youth is driving now or going to a special program at a different school or something. It's actually not a really big deal to me either because Seth can go with one of the boys who is driving (he often went with him last year) and on the days that boy doesn't come to Seminary, I can take Seth to school myself. He actually has CTC in the morning the first half of the year so if I have a lot of cleaning up / wrapping up to do after Seminary I can take him directly to the CTC instead of to school to catch the bus to the CTC. I think it will all work out. That being said, though, for some reason I left the meeting feeling really anxious and kind of down. I'm not sure exactly why. I didn't sleep well that night either, but thankfully I've slept great the rest of the week and the really down and anxious feeling I had went away after a day or so. I mean, Seminary starts on Monday morning and I'm not ready yet so I'm not feeling totally calm about it but I'm not in a frenzy of nerves, either. I expect I'll be working on a lot of things tomorrow but by the end of the day hopefully I'll have Monday's lesson all ready to go. It's actually more of an activity than a lesson.
Monday evening was back to school night for Seth's high school which we normally would have skipped at this point because he knows his way around but they had a meeting for all the Seniors and their parents so we went to that. He also had to pick up a chromebook because starting this year the school district isn't letting students bring their own device from home anymore...they have to use a school issued chromebook. At the Senior meeting, the principal was talking about how fast the year would go by and encouraging the students to make the most of it. I had this weird moment where I suddenly remembered taking Seth to freshman orientation and it seemed like that was just yesterday...the last three years really did go by in the blink of an eye; how did that happen?? I'm not sure I'm ready for all this Senior stuff, but I guess I will have to be.
On Tuesday Seth had his orientation for his new job at Roy Rogers. Then the next day they called him back and said they forgot to have him do one thing so he had to go back in to get that done. I got all the usual chores done that day and I also made some breakfast things for Frank so that he has some quick options he can grab in the mornings before work. I made a batch of muffins, a batch of banana bars, and some egg bites. (These are all recipes for the diet that he's on.) We enjoyed being a part of Ammon opening his mission call via Zoom on Tuesday evening. 😊
Wednesday was the first day of school.
His last "first day of school"! Seth is wearing a jacket because it was only about 53 degrees that morning. The weather really cooled down this week and we have had chilly mornings but gorgeous days with highs in the low 70s.
I tried to get a lot of Seminary lesson prep done on Wednesday but I wasn't very successful. I'm not sure why...I got interrupted a lot by texts and emails...but really--I should have been able to get more done. I did a lot of other things for Seminary too, though, including a trip to the fabric store to get supplies for the bulletin board we are making for Seminary. I was really good and didn't spend any time looking at fabric for pillow covers, even though I wanted to! Another thing I did on Wednesday was to fill out all the school forms for Seth. Most of them are online now and I only have to go through them to make changes or updates, but it does still take time. Then he brought home a few things from the CTC that I had to fill out. He seemed to enjoy his first day back.
On Thursday I met with my team teacher again and we got the bulletin board mostly put together and did a bunch of other things too. As usual, it took hours to get everything done. Frank did some work for a client after work so he got home really late. I got to talk to Tanner for a while that evening...great to get caught up with him! Our ward activity night is on Tuesdays now but this week it was on Thursday because all three wards that meet in our building had a combined activity. They all watched the Church's youth music festival together. I actually forgot to ask Seth what he thought of the festival. I know he stayed late because he was talking with some friends from another ward.
This morning I went to the temple, which is always wonderful.
On the way home, I called Amy and talked to her...always love talking to her!
Now it is Friday evening and I am home alone because Seth is at work (his first shift) and Frank is at the church. There is a special devotional for the youth tonight at our building...8 stakes in the area are invited and a member of the Quorum of the Seventy and his wife are there to answer questions. Frank is there to help with the microphones and all the other technical stuff. I'm kind of bummed that Seth is misisng it but we didn't get his work schedule until Tuesday and it was too late to make any changes at that point.
Our baby all grown up and on his way to his first day of work!
I will be going to pick him up in about an hour. I got a text from him about 30 minutes ago that said "On my break, this is honestly not that bad." I'm glad it seems to be going okay so far.
That's mostly what I have to report this week. I can't remember a lot of details...just know I was busy all day long every day. In between lots of Seminary preparations and all the usual things I need to do, I did make a little bit of progress on projects. I went through a few more files and did some more organizing in the laundry / storage room. On Wednesday Seth and I took some things to the storage unit and now the laundry / storage room looks a lot better. I also did quilting whenever I got the chance and today I finished quilting the first September pillow cover. Seth is not getting much driving done but our plan is to have him drive whenever he has to go somewhere. It's going to take a long time to get 28 more hours, but we'll just keep chipping away at it when we can. I feel like even with the little bit of driving he's been doing that he's been improving and gaining confidence, so that's good.
I'll finish up with this humorous moment. I've been trying to gather up a bunch of nerf guns for an activity we are planning to do the first day of Seminary. I wanted to get a gun for each youth, if possible...we could have up to 25 in our class this year. I borrow 10 guns from one friend and I had asked another friend too. She said "I have a few guns and a lot of bullets". I went to pick up what she has last night and she gave me this bin:
Ready or not, here comes Seminary! If I survive, I will write again next week and tell you about it.
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