MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY
Well, it was a day off from school, and apparently a day off from life for all of us :). Minus all the laundry that I did (seven loads- holy moly!), we really took it easy! The younger kids went outside during the first part of the day- we had been dumped on with some beautiful snow that morning- so Luke, Noah, Erika, Jack and even Molly were out there making forts and slides and throwing snowballs- it was a lot of fun! I loved watching them! I think my favorite part was when Noah came in to help Molly some more (he had gotten her all ready to go and done all the hard work) and she had a hair in her mouth. She couldn't get it out with her gloves on and my attempts to get it out were failing, and so she took her glove off and pulled the hair out. As soon as she got it out she said, "There. Now help me put dis back on, Noah." HA! He had seriously just slaved over the gloves, getting them on was not easy, so now he had the job of putting that one BACK ON. His face was priceless, but he was actually willing and carried through. These kids love their little sister- it's so evident and so fun to witness. They both went back outside. They played out there for quite a while. Then came in and vegged with the rest of us on the couch. We did pause the shows to play a few games. The girls and I played Scattergories. Then everyone played Apples to Apples and some Telestrations. That was actually the funnest part of the day- Telestrations. There were some funny happenings during that! Erika's, "Oh, I thought it said, 'Couches'!" to Noah's "Krutches". Then her, "Oh, I see it now." Hahaha!! And Luke's, "Dorito holding a bomb" answer! Still makes me laugh! And Charity's drawing of an invisible snowboard... good times. I think we managed to make the day pretty fun even though we were lazy and being super frugal. The kids pretty much ate anything that was edible in the kitchen that day. Time to start rummaging through the food storage maybe. 1-21-19
FHE
Nate taught our lesson about Christ being The Light, from Come Follow Me. I loved the lesson. Everyone got into it and participated too. I am LOVING the Come Follow Me program. It's been so good for our family. Such a breath of fresh air I think. We played the game Jack got from his primary class- well, it wasn't really a game, but he turned it into one- we colored the pictures of the nativity and he would ask questions about each of the people and we would hold up the person it applied to. He wanted to bear his testimony when we were done and talked about how he knows that when we lose something we can pray to find it and that it is exciting to have a new baby. I loved his testimony. He's so cute. We had sherbet for the treat and then we all retired to the family room for the Jazz game. It's amazing how much everyone looks forward to those. Unfortunately our six game winning streak came to a screeching halt. 1-21-19
DAY 33 OF THE SHUTDOWN
This is getting to be a little much. We had the talk with the kids about how this is our trial, we need to handle it the right way, praying and doing what we can to save money. They are geared up now and seem to understand that this is temporary, but that we need to be strong. One of the coolest things happened though. We took some pictures of the meat Nate made for Lynn last week and Nate put out a post with them on Facebook about the shutdown and his role in it and offered a few smoked meat items and immediately orders came pouring in!! It was awesome! And such a cool miracle! We seriously can see blessings that we may "not have room enough to receive" them! Well, hopefully, Nate can follow through and we can deliver on all these promised orders. But how cool is that! We will have plenty of money to last us a while from this. Makes me so happy to think that Heavenly Father would bless us that way. I was so happy that Nate had come up with a way to EARN the money rather than just asking for handouts- I'm sure some people only ordered because it was something nice to do- but at least they're getting something in return. So cool. I think we will make it out of this shutdown alive. I'm not even worried anymore. Another cool thing- my minister Christie May stopped by and handed me a card with some thoughtful words and a Walmart gift card for more money than I feel I should accept! It was so nice and SO generous of her. We have been so blessed. I really can't complain at this point. 1-22-19
TIRED
I was SO TIRED on Tuesday! I did produce, which may have contributed, but I think I am just coming down with something. Brad stayed home for the first few hours of the day then went to school when he was feeling a little better. Jack stayed home with the cough he had all night and all morning. Poor guy. But Molly, Jack and I really just laid around MOST of the day. Kind of embarrassing, but much needed apparently. I didn't mind the blessing of produce going well (minus the few little mess-ups by Mitch), everyone picked up their baskets and paid! I didn't have to nag anyone except a few venmo payments. It was a nice little tender mercy. I'm really happy for those lately. 1-22-19
BOARD MEETING
The Parent board meetings for Lacrosse are SO BORING!! And they feel so very pointless!! I wish there was a way to not go without not going. This will be a fun season though- I hope Kelly has fun. 1-22-19
PLAYGROUP
I'm about ready to retire from playgroup right now. I feel like it isn't what it used to be for me. I go and sit there for a half hour trying to get Molly to want to be there. Then a few people show up and we get to talk which is really nice, but it seems like every week I say something, or something is brought up that I end up regretting talking about or even thinking about. It's frustrating. Then that's all I can think about all day and it kind of eats me up. 1-23-19
SHOPPING WITH DAD
As per tradition, my dad and I planned my birthday/Christmas shopping trip. We usually have to drive around all over the world and back, or spend hours at the mall, but this time, I knew exactly what I wanted, I just wasn't a hundred percent sure if I would find it in a store. We went right to Hobby Lobby, and there it was! The Cameo 3! My dad so generously bought it for me and then took me to dinner at a place in Station Park- the name of it is not coming to me. We had a good time and talked a ton, which is nice. I wish we could hang out more often. 1-23-19
PRIMARY AUXILLARY TRAINING
We have known about this meeting for about a month. They called it a mandatory training. We didn't know anything else about it! All day Thursday I was dreading it. I did not want to go. I was tired, I was hungry, I wanted to be with my family, I wanted to watch the girls play YW basketball. I was really having to drag myself to it when it was time to go. It's a good thing Barbara offered to drive because I really don't know if I would have made it otherwise. So on the way there we were jokingly saying that this meeting "better be revelatory". That was the word Barbara used- I thought it summed up my feelings perfectly! So we walked in, a little early, and all these people with special, fancy pinned on, like REAL name tags with official titles came and started hugging us and introducing themselves to us, in that order, and asking about our callings and really trying to show an interest- it was funny. And sweet. I must say I liked it! Then we noticed Michelle King who Barbara and Terrie knew was on the Primary General Board, and THEN we noticed sister Cristina B. Franco! From the Primary General Presidency! I remembered her accent and her talk from conference about the chocolate cake! It was awesome to see her in person! She came over and introduced herself as well. I started to get a little excited for this meeting. So anyway. To say this meeting was "revelatory" would be the understatement of the century! It was so amazing! I LOVED it! They had us participate in their discussion, raising hands in the huge chapel that was full all the way to the back, but they talked about all the things we have been having concerns about. They simplified the new schedule for us and gave us a little more confidence in it. It was totally the jump start I've been needing with primary! It was really really neat! I totally loved it.
Some of my notes:
"I am a disciple of Jesus Christ".
The temple gives us perspective.
I want to be more aware of the kids on Sunday not just the functions of the schedule.
Convey love!
Go without haste!
We cannot be casual in the way that we teach children- in our home as well.
Diligent and consistent prayer opens up up to revelation.
Consistency in small things brings great blessings.
Identify the doctrine in Primary Songs--- this was really cool- they had us sing some of the primary songs and then identify the doctrine- very cool! I tried this with the kids later in the week and they seemed to like it as well. It's crazy how easy it is to find doctrine in the songs the little kids are learning.
So I really appreciate the opportunity I had to go to this meeting! Made me feel like I can do this! Not just my calling in Primary, but my calling as a mom. I loved it.
1-24-19NOAH'S STEM DAY AND SPELLING BEE
Nate, Molly and I got to go to the school to see all the kids' STEM projects in Noah's class. This was pretty fun! Sure beat all the work of the Science fair! I'm not going to lie- I LOVED not having to do that this year! Noah's project was a noodle car! They worked really hard on the design of their car and making it work- it was fun to see them fixing it up and making it work for us. They did a good job. I enjoyed looking at the other projects too.
PORK BITES, WINGS, AND POPPERS
Okay, so we experienced one of the hugest miracles we've ever had this week! Nate put a little cry for help-ish post on facebook, telling people about the shutdown and how we are not getting paid, bla bla bla, and then put a menu of these three items for people to order. Well, the post exploded! As of Thursday it had been seen by 4,000 people! Everyone was sharing it and making nice comments and a LOT of people were placing orders! It was CRAZY how quickly all the orders came rolling in! Almost overwhelming at times. I got on the computer and made a table with all the information so that we didn't lose any orders and could keep it all straight. By the time we were delivering the meat we had about 40 orders. Nate smoked about 80 lbs of pork belly for 40 lbs of pork bites, 172 jalapeno poppers, 355 wings, and then 3 lbs of pork for pulled pork. How crazy is that! In one weekend! It was nothing short of a miracle that we got that many orders, he was able to cook it all, that we packaged (thanks to my revelation in the wee hours of the morning) and delivered it all (I'm still kind of proud of my awesome mapping job- getting them all out in the quickest route possible, all over Kaysville, Layton, West Jordan, and West Valley) on time, and that we stayed happy through it all :). We were completely exhausted by the end, but it was a really cool experience otherwise. It did take us about five hours total to deliver it all. I made Nate promise we wouldn't do deliveries ever again :). The food was great, we're still getting compliments days later, and pretty awesome that Nate pulled it all off! 1-25-19
JAZZ GAME- THANKS DAD!
So every year my dad gets Nate Jazz tickets for Christmas. This year he wasn't able to buy the tickets at Costco, so he just said he would buy them when we picked a game. Well it came time to order, which happened to be during this shut down, so it was slightly awkward to be choosing a Jazz game to go to when we weren't sure if the Government was ever going to reopen again and Nate was going to get paid. So anyway. We picked the Timberwolves game. We had no idea how busy and stressful that day was going to be with Nate's orders and deliveries (also Noah's STEM day AND Spelling Bee), so it ended up being a really great reward when it was all over. And to top it off it was a really fun/exciting game! We were ahead by like 20 points almost the entire game! It wasn't until the last 5 or so minutes that the other team caught up! Then we were neck and neck for the INTENSE last few minutes/seconds! Luckily we won!! That would have been a bummer to lose, but man, it was intense! Possibly too intense for Nate! He was still feeling the pressure from his huge weekend. But it ended up being a lot of fun. I'm so glad we went! and actually, while we were out on deliveries, we learned that the government was going to reopen for three weeks and Nate would slowly get paid back everything they owe him, so that was another huge relief! Life is good!
1-25-19
SATURDAY CRAZINESS
Saturday, we recovered. We cleaned the church in the morning, and then we
went to basketball games! We had one every two and a half hours! Kinda nuts, but lots of fun! Everyone did great at their games! We were happy to beat Mike Flood's team, even though he so generously had ordered some meat from us :). We ran the last few orders of people who had wanted their food that day, and tried to get in some rest before our huge evening. Nate had to work which was a bummer, but we were all just a little less stressed with the opening of the government and Nate knew there'd be more people at work... so nice day. 1-26-19
CHARITY'S HONOR CHOIR CONCERT
Charity has been working on these honor choir songs for quite a while, singing parts over and over again with her phone recordings, going to rehearsal after rehearsal, then a long all day one down at Murray High, and then the last one at the tabernacle. It has been a huge ordeal! I had no idea how big it was and I'm not sure she knew either. They had honor choirs from all over the state come together on these songs which was really cool. Grandma Ruthie, Grandma Hatch, Simon, and Aunt Jen (with the Taylor kids in tow) all came out to support Charity! Well, we brought them out :). We drove the grandmas and Simon. The program was AMAZING! It was really neat to witness. They did great, the songs were entertaining, and it was just a really cool feeling there. I loved it! What a cool experience! Jen especially loved it as well. I loved her reaction afterwards. Charity seemed pretty proud of herself. So after, she went home with friends to go celebrate and we took Jen and the Taylors to her car at the train station, then Grandma Ruthie to her house, and then dropped off Grandma Hatch and Simon! It was a very long night for Noah, Erika and I (Nate was working, Kelly was babysitting the under 6-er and her big brother who wouldn't have loved going, along with Luke who just lazied his way out of going. Brad was out with friends.). I think we got home at about 11:30!! Pretty fun night though- really great experience for all of us! 1-26-19
Took us a while to find her before it started! Good thing we were an hour early!
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