Monday, September 05, 2016
Happy Labor Day!
We’ve had a relaxing long weekend in our home. We finished up a few projects around the
house on Saturday but mostly we have just relaxed and done as we’ve pleased.
Last week went well. Sunday night we started watching Mina
Anderson. She is being raised by her
grandparents. They used to be in our
ward before it was split this spring.
The grandparents were going out of town and needed someone to watch
Mina. Mina has a tender spot in my
heart. I was her nursery leader when she
first moved in with her grandparents, then I was her primary president and
watched as she learned to sit still instead of run all over the primary
room. We’ve watched her for one night before,
but this time it was for five nights!
She can be quite a handful, so I was a little leery, but she was a good
girl and aside from her taking something that didn’t belong to her when she
left it was a good experience. I will
watch her again if I’m asked though.
She’s had quite a rough life and I like to give her love.
Monday Spencer got his permanent brace off his
finger and was cleared to play football again!
He has to wear a removable brace for practice and games for another
month, but he’s happy he can play now.
Tuesday Bryant had an orthodontist
appointment. I had cub scouts. Chad and I played volleyball that night. We still play almost every week. I sure love it.
Wednesday I finished pulling all the weeds out of
the garden as a surprise for Chad so he wouldn’t have to do it before he filled
in the holes in our yard that had pearl scale in them. It felt so good to see him walking back to
the house on Saturday morning with an empty trash can because I had already
removed all the weeds. It was worth the
sore hamstrings I had for a few days after that.
Thursday Tilly and I made cookies for her cookie
exchange at preschool while learning about the letter C. That afternoon Marlee and Tilly had choir
practice. They are in the Gilbert Youth
Choir. That evening I had scout round
table to learn about re-chartering. I’m
not looking forward to re-chartering.
I’ve heard it is frustrating.
Friday evening Spencer and Bryant went to their
friend Blake Taylor’s birthday party.
Chad and I stayed home with the girls.
He watched a movie and I read Little Women.
Saturday morning Chad and the kids shoveled and
hauled some dirt from the garden to fill the holes in the yard (luckily we had
too much dirt in our garden) while I made some fruit, puff pastries. I read most of the afternoon while Chad and
the kids played and watched movies.
Saturday night Chad and I went on a date to the temple to do
initiatories and then went out to dinner.
At the temple there was a cute little old lady, who was stooped over,
walked with a cane, and couldn’t see very well.
She brought the most amazing spirit with her to the temple though. I told her that I felt like she brought a
special spirit with her and she said, “oh good, I was worried about that
today.” She was so sweet. She made me feel good to be around her. I met another lady at Brenda’s birthday party
who also made me feel like a million bucks.
They both made a big impression on me.
I’ve thought about why they made me feel so good and I think it is
because they have exercised and developed their faith and it radiates around
them. I hope to be like that.
Yesterday we found out that Chad is going to be
getting a new calling. We have a pretty
good idea what it is, but we will find out for sure tomorrow night in a meeting
with the 2nd counselor in the stake presidency. Are you so curious??? Don’t ask me what it is yet though. You’ll just have to wait. Last night we invited five families from our
ward over for cookies and visiting.
There were kids running and playing all throughout the house and fun
conversation among the adults. It was a
fun evening.
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| Chad helped Tilly give a talk in Primary yesterday. Hopefully it is ok to take a picture in there. I know it is not ok to take pictures during sacrament meeting because there is an ordinance that takes place, but hopefully its ok in primary. |
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| Sunday family fun |
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| The kid's boxing ring. Spencer told Tilly that he was going to have a boxing match with her. She said, "ok, I'll go get the boxes." And ran out to get some boxes. Ha ha. |
I finished reading Little Women late Saturday
night. It is one of the best books I
have ever read. I want to be so good
after reading it. I love how the book
depicts the love between the mother and daughters in the story, the morals that
were beautifully expressed throughout the book and the marriage advice for new
mothers in Chapter 38. It is a wonderful
book. My quote today is from that
book. “A woman’s happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of
ruling it not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother” (Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women, pg. 381).
Love,
Mindy
P.S.
Thank you to Jennifer Lee, Crystal, Hunter,
Shelby, Jake, Molly, Sarah and Brenda for responding to my letter last
week. I haven’t forgotten about your surprise. Hopefully you’ll get it this week!
P.S.S.
Here are some more photos from this week.
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| Chad finished refinishing our kitchen table. It looks wonderful. |
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| I got a pretty bruise today. It turned purple within a couple of minutes. I tripped while walking. I did a nice belly slide though and didn't get scraped enough to bleed so at least that good. It was just embarrasing. |
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| Chad and the kids watching something funny. |
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| I am still laughing about the funny thing Amy's daughter Sally said about my brother Travis. |
