Today is definitely a gray November day. The colder weather seems to have caught up with us this week, although it's certainly not miserably cold. We got some rain this week also...including yesterday and today...which is good since we've had a really dry autumn so far.
As usual, I can't remember a lot about last Saturday. Frank had to do some work for a client and was gone a few hours doing that. Seth helped sort food at the food bank for a couple of hours and then he went to work. I didn't have Seminary lessons to prepare for once, since I had already completed them, so I felt like I would have a lot of time to get a lot of things done but it didn't really turn out that way. I did weed the front flower bed which desperately needed it so I'm glad I got that done. Frank and I watched a couple of episodes of 24. We did not stay up to watch the BYU / U of U football game--it started way too late for us.
I was glad to hear Sunday morning that BYU won the football game although it certainly wasn't a decisive victory. I'm glad I missed watching the game since it sounds like it was a real nail biter. We did record it, so maybe we will watch it sometime but we haven't had a chance to do that this week.
Sunday I had choir practice after church--we are learning Amazing Grace. All the sopranos except for one 9 year old girl were not able to attend so the choir director asked me to sing soprano. I may be moving back to alto if more sopranos come next week, so I practiced the alto part as much as I could as well. I talked to Jared in the afternoon and my Seminary team teacher and I went to visit one of the boys in our Seminary class. He has a health problem that makes it really hard for him to attend Seminary a lot of the year. We visited to see how he is doing and also to encourage him to complete makeup work every week so that he doesn't have to do a lot of makeup work all at once at the end of the semester. We had a nice visit with him and his family. They are all really lovely. Frank took Seth to mission prep class that night so I was able to go to bed on time which was wonderful.
I taught lessons on Ether 1 and Ether 2 on Monday and Tuesday this week. They went okay overall. I had a little bit of time to sew on Monday and Tuesday and I was able to finish sewing the 2nd quilt block for January's pillow covers.
I spent quite a bit of time on Tuesday trying to decide what fabric to use for the borders for both of the January quilt blocks. I asked for feedback from both Seth and Frank. Frank was at work and then at the temple, so I had to send him photos of the different options and it took a while to hear back from him and to clarify what he said so I didn't get anything else done on those that day (or since then) but I do think I know what I'm going to do now. On Tuesday I also finished reading the book for book chat (As I Lay Dying) I'm glad I got to revisit this book because I actually enjoyed it and I understood it a lot better than I did when I read it in high school. I understand now why my English teacher thought it was such a great book.
On Wednesday morning we had a guest teacher for Seminary. It's always really nice when we have a guest teacher because I always learn something (often more than one thing) from watching the way they teach. It's nice for the kids to have a change too. This teacher did a great job calling on kids to answer questions and he wasn't afraid to tell them that they needed to pay better attention, which I loved. 😊He brought donuts, so the youth were happy about that and at the end he sang and played the ukulele for the closing song (and got the kids to join in after the first verse) so that was awesome too.
I spent most of Wednesday working on Seminary lessons for next week and I had brief outlines for both lessons by the end of the day. I got a call on Tuesday that my wedding ring set was ready for pick up so Frank and I went to pick it up on Wednesday afternoon (he works from home on Wednesdays). I'm really happy that I can wear it again now!
When we took it in to be resized, I was surprised to discover that it was originally a size 3 1/2. I thought it was a size 4. Wow, I used to have tiny fingers! I thought I would need to get it resized to a size 5, but we got it resized to 4 1/2 and it fits perfectly.
On Wednesday night Seth and I went to a financial planning meeting at the high school about filling out the FAFSA. I haven't filled one of those out for quite a few years and I can't say I've missed it. 😂 The process is simpler than it used to be, at least. I'm almost positive Seth won't qualify for any government financial aid, but he needs the FAFSA for a lot of scholarship applications too (and he may not get any scholarships either, but it's worth trying).
Yesterday morning Seth hit his head on the door on his way into Seminary and got a cut and a bump on his forehead. I put a bandaid on it and gave him some ice and he was fine by the time Seminary ended.
I spent most of Thursday getting household chores done and I also got to talk to Mom on the phone for a while. Seth had to work that evening. Frank worked on maintenance and I worked more on Seminary lessons and got most of Monday's lesson prepared. I still need to work out some details and finish Power Point slides for Tuesday's lesson but I'm getting there.
This morning in Seminary we played games to review the Doctrinal Mastery scriptures.
There was not a lot to do to update the finances (for once!) so I got that done quickly today. It will be nice to have some down time this evening.
Scott took the licensing test for selling health insurance yesterday and he passed it, so that is great news. 😁 Today Seth got an acceptance letter from BYU-Idaho, so that is great news too! 😊I didn't expect them to make a decision that soon. It is nice to know that option is open for him, and I think it is a really good option but we'll see what Seth decides. (He's happy about it too, though.)
I'm pretty sure that is all the news from us for this week.
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