May 12, 2013

• So, on Tuesday Logan performed with the Kindergartners at the PTA meeting. They sang two songs and he did a good job. Cameron went over to a friend’s house to make blankets for a service project; they need the hours for Scouts. On Wednesday, Emma and I went on a tour of HEB with a bunch of her preschool friends. They got little hair nets and went in the bakery and saw how tortillas were made and got a cookie. Then they went behind the produce section and saw how fresh orange juice was made. Then they went in the meat section and the seafood section and got a glove to touch the crab legs and live crawfish. Emma wouldn’t touch the crawfish though. Then they went on the second floor where you could see the whole store from up above. Then they got to scan things out at a cash register and then meet HEB buddy, the mascot. They each got a goodie bag to take with them and Emma had fun. Afterwards she played with her friends at the park.

  On Thursday, Cameron got bottom braces and an expander on top. He was hurting really badly by the end of school and his tongue was rubbing raw in two places because of the new wires. He’s a lot better now, but I feel bad for him. Emma also had her last dance practice on Thursday.

  On Friday, Cameron’s friend Josh came over to do their Personal Fitness Assessment again, and then Cameron went with his friend to help him move boxes to their new house. Kevin came in the late afternoon and we all enjoyed seeing him. Errolyn and Logan wasted no time teaching Kevin how to play Bang. He seems to like it and we’ve been playing a lot of it since Kevin arrived. Friday night we all went to Emma’s dance recital. She was cute to watch. Then Mike and I stopped by a wedding reception real quick and then we came home and talked with Kevin.

  Saturday, I had my annual Stake Music Training. It took a lot of preparation but it turned out well. Afterwards, we had the Stake Music Workshops and I taught a composing class. Now that Finale Notepad is free, and I got permission from the Family History Center to use their computers, I installed the software on the church’s computers and had a step by step tutorial on how to use the software. It was fun to see how excited people were to learn how to use the software, write the notes, and hear what they had written played back to them. Mike took Logan to his t-ball game and Logan hit both of his balls from pitches from the coach instead of the tee, so he was excited.

  In the afternoon, we took the kids swimming and then I took Cameron to the library. Then I took Errolyn dress shopping. We went to at least eight stores a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t find a single modest dress that fit Errolyn. She’s in between sizes right now. So, I finally broke down and took her to the mall and found four dresses that she liked. Kevin spent the day at Grandma’s taking pictures of her family history and then helping her with yard work. We all got home in time for dinner and then we played games and talked. Mike and I wrote/ finished writing our talks in the evening.

  So, this morning the kids made me breakfast in bed, sang me a song, and gave me their cards. It was sweet. Mike and I both spoke in church. Mike said some really wonderful things about me in his talk and even got choked up when talking about me several times. I think he’s in love with me. I was supposed to talk about promoting love in the home. I started off talking about Band-Aid fixes and that a lot of the things we do to promote love in the home, incentives, consequences are Band-Aid fixes and don’t change the root of the problem. It’s the whole doctrine, principals, application concept. If you teach you children the “why”, then they will naturally do the “how.” If you teach them to have a firm belief in the Savior and how to feel the Holy Ghost then there will naturally be more peace and love in the home. How can you feel the Holy Ghost and yell at each other at the same time? I talked about teaching our kids to feel the Holy Ghost and to have firm belief in the Savior for the majority of the talk. And then we came home, ate, and played some games together.

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