I got a lot more sleep than usual this week, and it felt amazing!
Saturday November 7th: I started my day with a RS activity. The other members of the committee and I got to the church at 9:00 am to set up. Seth came over to set up tables and chairs for us, which I really appreciated! (He came back afterwards to take all the tables and chairs down, too.) The activity went well. About 25 people came and I think they all had fun and they made some beautiful centerpieces. This is mine (front and back):
Everything ready to go:
After the activity, I made bread, cleaned the kitchen floor, and practiced the ukulele. Frank and I also made a trip to Costco--he needed to put gas in his car and we needed a few other things. Seth spent the afternoon with his friend Emma. That evening, I finished watching the Twilight movies.
Sunday November 8th: Frank had stake meetings in the morning. When we got to church, he got a message from his sister Dawn saying that his mom had just been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. She was at church and got very faint and dizzy and then felt sick to her stomach. It took quite a while to get any more information. At the hospital, they ran some tests and couldn't find anything significant, although her blood pressure was high. They decided to keep her overnight for observation, but she was able to go home the next day. They officially decided that she just had vertigo, but she's been to the doctor this week and they are doing more tests.
Meanwhile, Frank went to YSA Branch meetings and I went to our ward meetings. Several women who signed up to make a lantern centerpiece weren't able to come to the activity, but they all made it to church, so I distributed all the leftover lanterns. After church, I had choir practice.
Frank had planned to start teaching a temple prep class after church that day, but he postponed it because he was worried about his mom and not sure if he needed to go down to NC. Seth invited Emma to church and she was planning to come, but then she got sick, so she didn't come this week.
Frank came home with me after choir practice. Seth came home later and we had dinner and FHE, then Seth went to mission prep class.
Monday November 9th: Frank woke up in the night with a bad headache, so he decided to take the day off and he turned off the alarm. This meant that I didn't wake up until around 6:00 am. Seth worked from 7:00 to 3:00. I got chores done and did my mission work (which included getting help with a technical problem). Even though Frank didn't feel well all day, he still fixed the kitchen sink, which wasn't draining properly. He had an appointment to get his blood drawn (to check his uric acic levels) and he also got an eye test (he needs to do that periodically because of his diabetes). His uric acid levels have dropped a lot, so that was good news.
After Seth got home from work, we had time to do FHE activity before he went to the YSA FHE. We played Phase 10 dice, and I wasn't having much luck and got behind the other two. But in the end, my luck changed and I came from behind and ended up a close second to Frank, who won the game.
Tuesday November 10th: Frank woke up in the night with a headache again and turned off the alarm so I woke up around 6:00 again. Frank felt better after he got up, so he went into work late and also did his temple shift that night. I was busy all day with chores and mission work (which included the weekly devotional and biweekly record hints training), and I also needed to take Seth to work at 2:00 so I could have the car to go to the temple.
My friend Sherrie came with me to the temple--she got a concussion about 3 weeks ago and she didn't feel comfortable driving that far. It was nice to have someone to visit with on the drive down and back. At the temple, I was a hostess, worked in the laundry for a bit, and worked in initiatories. Frank was able to leave the temple the same time that I did, and he picked Seth up from work.
Wednesday November 11th: Since Frank works from home on Wednesdays, we didn't have an alarm set and I woke up around 6:20. Seth worked 8:00 - 5:00. I did my morning routine and got chores done, then worked on mission work from 9:00 to 2:30. I was working on a hint in my own family tree for part of the time, and it was really interesting! After I finished mission work, I had a video chat with my friend Marci. It was really great to talk to her! After dinner, Frank and I looked at his benefits for next year and signed up for those. We also reserved tickets for the SLC temple openhouse. We picked a date in July, because the temple here will be closed then. After that, Frank and Seth had an online leadership meeting for the YSA stake--they have their stake conference this weekend. While they participated in that meeting, I read scriptures and then read some in Dracula.
Thursday November 12th: Frank worked from home, which means that once again I slept until about 6:00. I did my morning routine and then purchased groceries and vacuumed. After that, the RS president in my ward came to see me--she used to have the communications calling that I have now, so she has a lot of valuable information to share with me. She also told me that she has submitted names for my replacement as RS activities committee chair, so hopefully I will be released from that calling soon. After lunch, I finished the laundry and Tanner called so I was able to talk to him for a while. Then I listened to some of the Follow Him podcast before meeting the sister missionaries for a lesson they had at 5:00. The lesson went well; the guy they are teaching had a lot of good questions. Frank made dinner while I was gone, which I really appreciated. After dinner, Frank did maintenance while I worked on the dollhouse tower roof shingling (I listened to more of Follow Him podcast while I did that). It is slow work because every row is tricky, but I'm making a little bit of progress.
Friday November 13th: Today I woke up around 6:30 again. It was really nice to sleep later than 3:30 every single morning this week! Seth had to be at work at 8:00 (he had a lot of early shifts this week). I did my morning routine and then updated finances. Frank worked from home this morning. He has been worrying about his parents--particularly his mom--all week, so he decided to make a quick trip to North Carolina this weekend to check on them. He left around lunch time today. He will also be able to bring back the two ebikes he purchased from his cousin. I expect to be busy the rest of the day; I need to do some baking and also a few things for my church callings.
We have mostly continued to have above average temperatures for this time of year, but we did get some rain yesterday and the last few days have been quite chilly in the mornings. Today the temperature has dropped quite a bit; the high temperature today will be 49. It's been a bit windy the last few days too, and a lot of leaves have fallen off the trees. It's still very beautiful outside, but winter is going to set in pretty soon, I think. I'll finish up this week's post with a few photos.
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