October 23, 2016
I have been sick for the last two weeks. I never had a fever so I didn’t go into the
doctor. I’m not sure they could have
done anything for me anyway. I had
congestion that turned into a bad cough that would give me a headache and leave
me tired at the end of each day. It’s
been exhausting, more mentally than physically.
I am tired of being sick and tired!
I’m mostly better now, except for a little bit of a lingering
cough. I mostly cough when I lay down to
go to bed at night. It isn’t so bad that
it makes my head hurt anymore though.
Last week Oct. 13th – 16th my
three girls and I spent the end of their fall break in California for my niece
Jaki’s baptism and my niece Carli’s baby blessing. They are my sister Kayla’s daughters. We drove over on Thursday with my Mom in her
nice Jeep Grand Cherokee. After we
arrived in town and checked into our hotel, we went over to Kayla’s and she fed
us dinner. We didn’t stay and visit too
long since Kayla’s kids had to go to school the next day.
On Friday the 14th Tilly got to go to
Natalie’s kindergarten class to be Natalie’s show and tell since Natalie was
student of the week and was able to share something with the class each day! Tilly was so excited. That afternoon after Kayla’s kids got out of
school, I took my girls and Kayla’s older girls to the beach while she and my
Mom took Carli and Colt to a doctor’s appointment. We had a nice time at the beach and there
were only a handful of people with us at the beach. I didn’t even touch the water since I was
suffering with a bad cold and didn’t want it to get worse by getting in the
cold water. Karalee, Rachel and Jaki
didn’t mind the cold water one bit and they went boogie boarding and had a
great time. Marlee, Tilly and Natalie
mostly built sand castles, but they got in the water up to their waist from
time to time.
Saturday morning we watched Natalie and Jaki’s
soccer games. That afternoon we attended
Jaki’s baptism. It was very nice. That evening we drove to Fontana, CA about an
hour away to watch Jordan, my niece Shelby’s husband, dance with the BYU
Ballroom Dance team. He is on the Latin
Dance team. Shelby is on the tech crew. They were touring southern California,
putting on shows for about a week. They
put on a wonderful show. My girls, Mom
and I LOVED it!!
Sunday morning we attended Jeff and Kayla’s ward
and were able to listen to the beautiful blessing Jeff gave Carli. I have attended their ward a few times and love
the people in their ward. They have a
strong ward. After the block of meetings
we ate a nice taco salad lunch at Jeff and Kayla’s and then headed for
home. We got stuck in some traffic near
west phoenix and so we got home later than I had hoped, but all in all it was a
great trip except for the fact that I was suffering from a terrible cold and
was self-conscious about all the coughing and nose blowing I did. When I got home I asked Chad if we could not
drive any more long distances for a while.
After our AZ/UT road trip and this drive to CA I’m all drived out!
Chad and I weren’t reunited for very long. He had to fly out to Orlando on Monday
morning. He had business meetings and
didn’t get home until Wednesday night.
Monday afternoon I had my normal chiropractor appointment and it brought
me some relief from my cough and cold.
Tuesday night I had pack meeting so most of the
day was spent preparing for it. The
theme for this month’s pack meeting is Creepy Crawlers so for a gathering
activity I had the boys make an ant out of marshmallows, straight pretzels and
m&m’s. It was a big hit!
Wednesday evening I took dinner to my friend Susan
Griffith who I also visit teach. She is
going through chemo therapy for throat cancer.
She had thyroid cancer last year and it was successfully treated, but
now it has come back to her throat. I
hope her treatments are successful. She
caught it early so she has a good chance.
I don’t like cancer.
Thursday Chad and I were able to attend the temple
together for Stake Temple Day while Tilly was at preschool and he was on his
lunch break. We did a sealing
session. It was nice to go together!
Friday I scalped the rest of our lawn, Spencer did
1/3 of it on Thursday night. I don’t
like scalping the lawn anymore, but Chad couldn’t do it this weekend because he
had a camporee with Bryant and the scouts right after work that day and we’ve
waited so late to do it this year I didn’t dare wait another week. Hopefully next year Chad or the boys will
scalp it all or we will hire someone to do it for us. Friday evening I spread out all the seed and
set the timer to water the lawn 4 times a day to keep the seeds wet so they’ll
grow. I hope by this time next week we will
see lots of green grass shoots growing in our lawn. I do love nice rye winter grass. All the work of reseeding is definitely worth
it.
Saturday morning the girls and I went to a big,
fun tri-stake preparedness fair. They had
several booths to learn different ways to be prepared and also carnival games
for the kids and a pancake breakfast.
Spencer went to a ward service project that morning.--It was 12 and up
or the girls and I would have gone too.--Chad and Bryant were at the Camporee I
mentioned earlier. After that we watched
Karalee’s soccer game. Karalee scored a
goal on a penalty kick! …Or at least I thought she did until the end of the
game when she told me it didn’t count because it was supposed to be an indirect
penalty kick and she kicked it through all the players and it didn’t touch
anyone. I didn’t even know there was
such a thing as direct and indirect penalty kicks! I keep learning more about soccer and I love
watching my kids play it.
Chad got home from the camporee around
1:30pm. He had to leave early to be home
for our stake conference priesthood leadership session. He and I went to the adult 7:00pm session. I played the organ. I miss playing the organ each week. After conference several couples met at a nearby
restaurant for a late dinner. It was a
lot of fun. We are so lucky to have such
good friends in our ward and stake.
Today I had to decide between going to my nephew
Jake’s mission report or going to stake conference to see what counsel our
stake presidency had for us. Since we
were able to attend to Jake’s luncheon today we decided to go to stake
conference. Conference was wonderful and
I learned some great things. Our stake
president gave us 4 priorities he feels we need to work on:
1.
Family History
2.
Serving others
3.
Gathering Israel – Missionary work
4.
Being more temporally and spiritually self
reliant
I wish I could have cloned myself so I could have
heard Jake’s talk and attended stake conference too, especially since my sister-in-law
Jennifer also spoke with Jake. Luckily
she sent me her talk and I got to read about her conversion story! It was nice to visit with Jake and many
family members at Jake’s luncheon. It
was held in Wynn and Kami’s neighbor’s beautiful back yard. It had a very nice pool and Karalee wished
she could go swimming in it. She got her
wish when my brother Tyler threw her in!
It was all in fun and she didn’t cry, which tells me she’s ok with it. However, we’re helping her plot her revenge
now so you better watch out Tyler! Tithing
settlement, a nap, a biscuit and gravy dinner, and a dessert and game night at
Heather and Elliot’s filled up the rest of today, making a nice Sabbath day.
My quote for today is from a comment made in
relief society last week when I was visiting Kayla’s ward in Huntington
Beach. “Make yourself mind yourself.
Sometimes your spirit and your body are at conflict and your spirit has
to give your body a lecture. Make your
body mind your spirit.”
Love,
Mindy
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