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:

--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!!! :) 

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!