So this weekend Landon and I finally ended up staying home and enjoying ourselves. We ended up running around doing errands and whatnot, but what weekend isn't full of those tasks in a mom's scheduled day off?
On Thursday or Friday, I helped my roommate, Andrea, load up her bookshelf and some odds and ends. If you haven't known it yet, my good roommate is moving out. I will miss her tons! The late nights and endless chats and reading together... but she'll only be about a mile away so it's not as bad as it seems. I am going to miss having 2 sets of clothes to choose from, her fashion knowledge, and her funny stories that always seem to make me laugh regardless of what mood I'm in, but most of all I'll miss her knowledge. She always brought things to light that I would not have thought of otherwise and I am grateful for that. I will miss you Andrea and I hope that you know you are always welcome to come and have a "sleep over", "movie night", or "shoot the breeze" session whenever you feel like it! :)
So back on track with the weekend... We went outside on Thursday when I got home and Landon made me a dirt cake which he constantly told me was hot and needed to cool and then I helped him ride up and down the driveway on Linzey's big girl bike (apparently he thinks he's ready for it even though he can't get his little leg over the seat without teetering over...). When I got tired with doing that he moved to his tricycle and started to go up and down with it... funny guy is always on the go and we had beautiful weather which didn't even require a jacket!
When we went out that day I noticed that I have some tulips and flowers already starting to bloom along my walkway! I was so stoked! Landon helped me take some photos of them and I loved to see their colors (yellow and purple so far!) and variety! I love flowers and gardening... it's my meditative activity. I can think about nothing at all while I weed, water, and admire my flowers. Usually it leads to a sunburn on hot days.... but those aren't near yet...
Then I dropped Landon off to my sister's house on Saturday when I went over to curl my friend's daughter's hair for Sadie Hawkins Dance she was going to. That took a couple of hours and then I went to a Twilight Party at Andrea's parent's home and we watched it on the projector downstairs. It was so much fun, Andrea had to leave during part of it to go babysit, but I ran it by to her once we were done (She had just bought it that night!). Her mom was constantly chattering away with questions about everything throughout the entire thing, which was funny. Then I went home, read my book, and crashed.
I got Linzey and Landon dropped off on Sunday morning at 7:45 and we had breakfast, played, and then got ready for church. It looked like a beautiful day outside so I didn't have the kids wear their coats/jackets into the church, but after church got out it was pouring cats and dogs while sometimes alternating to hail and snow chunks! We made it to the car and were soaked and cold when I realized I had lost my cell phone! I went back into the church to look for it, while a kind sister watched my car with the kiddos buckled in. I searched every room I had walked into including the chapel area where we sat for sacrament meeting, but to no avail...
I handed the kids off to Leah, who was at my house, who was heading to a birthday party for Maxum, and went back to the church to search one more time... that was when I caught up with the Bishop LaDow and let him know what happened. Later at the birthday party, I found that Bishop had it in his possession and I was planning on going to their house later that night for a gathering anyways, so lucky me!
That night after the birthday party and dinner... I went to a Priest/Laurel Fireside where we watched a clip of Rachael Esplin, a 20 year old Junior at Harvard who answered questions that were posed to her about being Mormon on a Harvard Religious Board discussing Faith. Her answers were amazing and composed and you followed what she said! I have attached a link to youtube that you can view the first of three parts to... it was amazing! I loved it and am going to get a copy of it! I one day hope to be able to answer questions half as well as she did during this discussion about religion and how eloquently she spoke her beliefs and mind were inspiring! I know you will enjoy it if you watch it and you will be amazed as well!
I went home, wrote in my journal about the Fireside, finished my Anita Stansfield book, and then watched Hope Floats which was soon followed by me dozing off in bed and not quite ready when the sun finally peeked through the blinds in the morning...
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