Today has been a great day for me. I got several little projects done that have been scattered all over the house, such as finishing Jason's set of photo coasters for his office at work, and baking cookies for a Mutual activity. Wade helped me with some of the cookies so he could bring them to the Blue & Gold banquet tomorrow and cross off a requirement for his Bear badge. I also put 57 baby shower invitations in the mail, and, no, I am not hosting this one at our house. :)
Because I felt caught up and things were in order, I was blessed with some opportunities to serve others today, too. I dropped in on a friend who's on bed rest and expecting her baby any day. It was good to sit with her and laugh/empathize for a bit! Then in a few minutes I'm going to accompany the full-time missionaries on a visit to a 12-year-old girl who's taking lessons. The elders called me this morning and asked if I could stop by with them and invite her to church activities.
Then I'll end the day with a busy night of Mutual with the 14-15 year-old girls.
Tomorrow will be all about Oscar--I didn't get my walk in with him today and I think we're both feeling it!
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Fast week
This past week is already becoming a blur--it went by so quickly!
Monday was a sub day in a wonderful 2nd grade class, followed by field trip meetings in the evening. I hated to mess up family home evening time, but I'm also glad I went to the meeting because there was a LOT of helpful information that I needed to get. I'll be going with Rhiannon and most of her 5th grade down to San Diego for 3 days next week as a chaperone. There's a fair amount of things I need to do to get ready, including getting the wonderful Mr. Mom (aka Jason) everything he and Wade need in my absence.
Tuesday was Stay At Home with Sick Boy Wade Day. I did lots of laundry that day, too. Wade missed his last regular baseball game that day, but he should be okay to play in the playoffs!
Wednesday I spent some time preparing items for the Mother's Day craft we're doing in Primary tomorrow. That evening Jason and I "divided and conquered"--he took Wade to the high school drumline concert to watch one of the young men in our ward, and then Wade went to Mutual with him. Rhiannon and I went to the middle school open house (more on that in the next post!), and then we went to the church for a wonderful Mother/Daughter activity with all the other Activity Day girls. The girls did a talent show and there were yummy refreshments, too. Rhiannon played the piano and showed some artwork she'd drawn.
Thursday was Errand Day--WalMart, post office, library, grocery shopping, Walgreens. Happy Belated Anniversary to Brett and Jaymie that day, too!
Yesterday was Stay At Home with Sick Boy Wade AGAIN Day and get him to the doctor. He had a low-grade fever and had been cough, cough, coughing all week long. Thankfully he didn't have any secondary infections, just a bad cold. Jason came home early from work, the boys packed up the van (including some hopefully good cough medicine from the doctor), and then they left for the Father/Sons Campout! I hope they had half as much fun as Rhiannon and I did last night!
Our girls night included:
--driving around in Dad's fast little car
--going to the Disney movie Prom
--going shopping at a cute boutique store called YouNique
--getting burgers at Carl's Jr and talking, talking, talking
--finishing off the night with another movie--Willow!
Monday was a sub day in a wonderful 2nd grade class, followed by field trip meetings in the evening. I hated to mess up family home evening time, but I'm also glad I went to the meeting because there was a LOT of helpful information that I needed to get. I'll be going with Rhiannon and most of her 5th grade down to San Diego for 3 days next week as a chaperone. There's a fair amount of things I need to do to get ready, including getting the wonderful Mr. Mom (aka Jason) everything he and Wade need in my absence.
Tuesday was Stay At Home with Sick Boy Wade Day. I did lots of laundry that day, too. Wade missed his last regular baseball game that day, but he should be okay to play in the playoffs!
Wednesday I spent some time preparing items for the Mother's Day craft we're doing in Primary tomorrow. That evening Jason and I "divided and conquered"--he took Wade to the high school drumline concert to watch one of the young men in our ward, and then Wade went to Mutual with him. Rhiannon and I went to the middle school open house (more on that in the next post!), and then we went to the church for a wonderful Mother/Daughter activity with all the other Activity Day girls. The girls did a talent show and there were yummy refreshments, too. Rhiannon played the piano and showed some artwork she'd drawn.
Thursday was Errand Day--WalMart, post office, library, grocery shopping, Walgreens. Happy Belated Anniversary to Brett and Jaymie that day, too!
Yesterday was Stay At Home with Sick Boy Wade AGAIN Day and get him to the doctor. He had a low-grade fever and had been cough, cough, coughing all week long. Thankfully he didn't have any secondary infections, just a bad cold. Jason came home early from work, the boys packed up the van (including some hopefully good cough medicine from the doctor), and then they left for the Father/Sons Campout! I hope they had half as much fun as Rhiannon and I did last night!
Our girls night included:
--driving around in Dad's fast little car
--going to the Disney movie Prom
--going shopping at a cute boutique store called YouNique
--getting burgers at Carl's Jr and talking, talking, talking
--finishing off the night with another movie--Willow!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The power of a quiet day
Yesterday I was feeling a little off, like I might be coming down with something. After the kids went to school, I did some cleaning while I felt up to it (mopping, laundry, porch sweeping) and then I took it easy. The calendar was completely blank for the day (rare!) so I relaxed, drank a lot of fluids, had soup for lunch, and took a nap. By the time I had to go pick up kids, I was feeling better and had enough energy to get us through the rest of the day (turns out there were things to do after all--took Wade to WalMart, helped Rhiannon finish a school project and took her to piano group lesson which we'd forgotten about, and made some 3-ingredient pumpkin cookies for our new neighbors!) I'm thankful for quiet days that seem to come around right when I need them! I'm back to normal today and don't feel sick at all!
We've got some fun things to look forward to this weekend:
We've got some fun things to look forward to this weekend:
--a visit from Uncle Matt, Aunt Heather, Sam, and Tyler!!!!!!!!
--Halloween fun on Saturday at a big trunk-or-treat activity!
--first Primary program practice (okay, maybe not so fun, but it'll be good to get through it)
And then on Monday I have my first sub assignment: a 1st/2nd grade combination class from 9am to 12pm. I'm looking forward to it and trying not to dwell on the fact that it will be the morning after Halloween!!! :)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
There and back again
Tomorrow is Wade's big day. He's been counting down since, well, since his last birthday! We've got a fun day planned: birthday donuts for breakfast, some "goodies" to hand out to his class at school, lots of gifts to open, and his requested dinner (tacos) and cake/ice cream in the evening. Then on Friday after school we'll have a small "friends" party with an Iron Man 2 theme.
It's been a weird week for me so far. Even though I've been driving across town, back and forth, over and over again to pick up supplies or check prices or whatever, I'm not lagging or exhausted like I feel I should be. I'm not complaining--it's nice for a change.
So far today, I've vacuumed, visited a friend, picked up paperwork to complete the sub process (almost there!); stopped by Dollar Tree, the thrift store, and WalMart for the third time this week (thankfully NOT normal), and gone to the bank twice to fix and then fix again a PIN for my new debit card. There's still quite a lot to do today, too: visiting teaching, pick up library books, mop, fill out sub paperwork, and make a cool birthday cake!!! Somewhere in there I'll make some dinner and find time to RELAX with the fam!
It's been a weird week for me so far. Even though I've been driving across town, back and forth, over and over again to pick up supplies or check prices or whatever, I'm not lagging or exhausted like I feel I should be. I'm not complaining--it's nice for a change.
So far today, I've vacuumed, visited a friend, picked up paperwork to complete the sub process (almost there!); stopped by Dollar Tree, the thrift store, and WalMart for the third time this week (thankfully NOT normal), and gone to the bank twice to fix and then fix again a PIN for my new debit card. There's still quite a lot to do today, too: visiting teaching, pick up library books, mop, fill out sub paperwork, and make a cool birthday cake!!! Somewhere in there I'll make some dinner and find time to RELAX with the fam!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Off to a good start
Weekend report:
*Jason survived (and enjoyed) the final session of BOLT/OWL Scout training Friday night and all day Saturday. This was a blessing since both of us have had some mixed/bad feelings about it. The training turned out to be fun and was very well-attended by LDS members, too.
*Wade had a stomach bug all day Saturday and is thankfully starting to feel better from it. We're keeping our fingers crossed that the rest of us won't get it!
I'm off to a good start today. Before 9am I went for a walk, listened to a General Conference talk, vacuumed, sorted laundry and folded 2 loads of it, started up the dishwasher, skimmed leaves from the pool, got the kids out the door for school, and checked email/blogs. I hope to crank out the Primary program, do some clean-up in the front yard, cash some checks, go to Wal-Mart, and get a TB test done for substitute teaching, too.
To reward myself, I will be watching more of the 2005 BBC production of Charles Dickens' book Bleak House. Man, it's good stuff. I started watching a bit of it because it came up on a Netflix instant-streaming search. I'd never heard of this book and was on cloud 9 to find that our small local library had a COPY of it, a beautiful, ancient-looking copy! So I am in heaven, reading the some-700+ pages that Dickens wrote at night, and watching a TV version of it during the day! Sometimes I wonder if I was born in the right century, but then I remember how much I appreciate modern-day conveniences! :)
Tomorrow is a big day for Rhiannon--we'll find out if she won the election for Historian/Photographer! We'll keep you posted!
*Jason survived (and enjoyed) the final session of BOLT/OWL Scout training Friday night and all day Saturday. This was a blessing since both of us have had some mixed/bad feelings about it. The training turned out to be fun and was very well-attended by LDS members, too.
*Wade had a stomach bug all day Saturday and is thankfully starting to feel better from it. We're keeping our fingers crossed that the rest of us won't get it!
I'm off to a good start today. Before 9am I went for a walk, listened to a General Conference talk, vacuumed, sorted laundry and folded 2 loads of it, started up the dishwasher, skimmed leaves from the pool, got the kids out the door for school, and checked email/blogs. I hope to crank out the Primary program, do some clean-up in the front yard, cash some checks, go to Wal-Mart, and get a TB test done for substitute teaching, too.
To reward myself, I will be watching more of the 2005 BBC production of Charles Dickens' book Bleak House. Man, it's good stuff. I started watching a bit of it because it came up on a Netflix instant-streaming search. I'd never heard of this book and was on cloud 9 to find that our small local library had a COPY of it, a beautiful, ancient-looking copy! So I am in heaven, reading the some-700+ pages that Dickens wrote at night, and watching a TV version of it during the day! Sometimes I wonder if I was born in the right century, but then I remember how much I appreciate modern-day conveniences! :)
Tomorrow is a big day for Rhiannon--we'll find out if she won the election for Historian/Photographer! We'll keep you posted!
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