Journaling

- One of my responsibilities as first counselor in the Primary is to take a Primary class to the Care Center in our Stake, one Sunday a year, to teach a Sharing Time lesson.  This Sunday was our big day.  I chose Charity's class based on who had been in years past, and who I thought would be old enough to handle it.  It can be very overwhelming.  I also brought Kelly and Bradley with us, since they made our group bigger, and because I knew they would enjoy it.  The kids were nervous, but they did such a great job.  Most of them participated most of the time.  It's hard to not stare, but they really were good about it.  Charity and Kelly made me proud because they were not too scared to sit among the residents.  I liked that.  They were so brave.
I have to echo Stephanie Jones when I say, it is incredible to think about how different everyone's life is.  How Heavenly Father has mapped out a different course for every single one of his children.  These people who spend their lives in a Care Center like that, hooked to all kinds of machines, unable to speak, or care for themselves.... it's just incredible.  I wonder what kinds of things they experience in opposition to that.  Not to sound weird or anything, but there is opposition in all things.  So I wonder what positive they have to counter that negative.  Just a thought.
It was strange to me to realize that some of those people have been there since I was in Young Women's and went there with my ward growing up.  Unbelievable.
It was a neat experience.  I'm grateful my kids were able to participate, I'm grateful I was able to participate, and I can't wait til the next time.

- I had a crazy incident with the car on Wednesday.  It's a long story, but it involved me, slamming my hand in the car door that doesn't open from the outside, while parked outside of the school, with no cell phone or other way to open the door.  Let me just say, it was interesting.  Luckily I was able to pull the top of the door open a little, and squeeze my hand out.  It was painful, embarrassing, and well.... I hope we get that door handle fixed before it happens again. 3-28-12

- I felt really prepared for Conference this time.  Had our packets printed, bingo cards colored and laminated, coloring pages, with crayons, colored pencils, markers handy.... we were SET!  We decided to try a game I heard in a talk in Sacrament meeting about assigning a topic to different bowls of snacks and each time you hear the word, or topic or whatever, you get a snack from that bowl.  It was fun.  We went all out and got some really fun things at Costco for this game.  And I think I would still do this again, but I need to come up with a way to make it a little more reverent..... it just was a lot of up and down at some parts, and whining about when they are going to say the words at other parts.  But overall, my kids did GREAT!!  For all four sessions.  We missed the girls on Sunday, they were at their cousins' houses, so they didn't get to join in on the traditional creamed eggs on toast breakfast, or the goodies, and prizes for Bingo.  But all was well.  We enjoyed Enoch' company instead.  I loved conference.  I can't wait to watch it all again, thanks to the dvr.  I needed to hear a lot of it!  I think Elder Packer's talk was my most favorite though, and it totally felt like an answer to my recent prayers.  I love it when the Spirit goes, "There you go!!  That's it!!  That's what you've been needing!!!  Tell Heavenly Father thank you, and move past it and be better!!!"  It was lovely.  3-31-12

- I'm really disappointed with my April Fool's performance this year.  It's depressing to me, how little I do anymore.  I need to convince Nate that he misses being pranked, because it really puts a damper on my pleasure when I know how much he hates it.... Better luck next year.  4-1-12

- Sunday, right before conference, we convinced Noah to let us attempt to freeze his wart off.  It was horrible!  He screamed bloody murder.  I wanted to cry, but I wanted to leave it on long enough to be worth it!  It was sad.  And it better work.  4-1-12