Friday, November 06, 2009

For Every Thing There is a Season

Things change in our lives: jobs, hair color, underwear, weight (unless you are Honey Jo or Briton) ... and callings. I was released last Sunday from my RS calling. Bearing in mind that the characters I served with are still pulling the plow, I have to admit (as they will, I'm sure, when they are released) that life is pretty good right now. Some highlights from the past week:

* I had my first patient with H1N1. Nope. I have not had the vaccination myself. (this is interesting, rather than "good", I suppose).
* Fall afternoon walks with the kids. Once we ran into the Jacobson's:* Made some of these turkeys for the Apple Fest tomorrow:
* Transformed the house into a preschool classroom. It's my turn to teach our seven 3-year-olds in a home-school co-op Talmage attends.
* Watched these monkeys. For snack today they had a strawberry/mango/nonfat yogurt smoothie and cheese/apples. For lunch the kids had cupcakes.
* Folded mounds of laundry.
* Started morning scripture study with my companion
* Went to get the H1N1 vaccination 10 minutes before doors closed at a public clinic and were shooed away. They said 3,000 people came and had started lining up an hour before the clinic started.
* I didn't go to my last prenatal checkup. My doctor wasn't too thrilled.
* Organized the wasteland of the art cupboard for $10 (thanks, Ikea).

Looking over this list, it doesn't seem like that productive of a week. Some of you do more than this in a morning. But that's the beauty of it all. Just kickin' it here in Hillsboro.

Kid updates:

***They both have runny noses.
***Talmage spelled "mom" on his own using wooden alphabet letters. He couldn't find an "o", so he used an upside down "e" as a substitute. He likes to play the game, "What does '____' start with?"
***Syd sings her ABC's and can name many of the letters by sight. She counts to 10. We give credit to Talmage and Starfall (and by extension, Erin, who told us about starfall.com) for jump-starting Sydney's introduction to academia.
***The baby is kicking a lot. I like it when she moves around. It's like she's swapping "howdy's" with me and reminding me she's on her way.

1 comment:

Donette said...

Oh so your having a girl? Fun! Your week sounds pretty productive to me. Last week all I did was change a billion diapers because Colby accidentaly ate some cheese and had diarrhea forever! The kid was named after cheese and he is lactose intollerent. Go figure.