Trump-Thor and February fun!

Blessing of finding Thor for Mom! She renamed him Trump, but he was just perfect for her. Sleeps all night, total lovebug, soft and squishy, and she told us when we surprised her with him that she had already decided her next dog would be a white Pekingese... we didn't even know that! We trained him a few weeks while Mom was on her roadtrip with Sterl (partying in Tijuana...) So when she met him, we could already tell her all the good things about him... including that he loves tubbytime! 

 

 

 

 

 

Taking lunch to Kenny at 6th Grade Doerre, watching Kas shine at YWIE, all of us helping with an Eagle project, singing at a funeral, and Kenny ranks up to Star and plays violin!

 

Love for our favorites on Valentines ~

  

  

I love reading Mom's old journal entries...

Saturday, 5 January, 1980: "Well, Jenny went to a slumber party last night at Shauna Bellamy's.  Then today they went skating from 12-4.  So Jenny hasn't been home.  We miss
her.  She called us this morning to say "Good Morning".  That was sweet.  She
has been sick a lot in December - tired and weak.  I hope this party hasn't been
too much for her.  Bernt and Mildred have been here visiting for 3 days - just the two of them.  It was lots of fun.  We went to an Amway Rally Wednesday night and then Thursday
to the Denim Broker (restaurant) and Friday to Casa Bonita.  We watched "Goin' South"
and "Jaws" on the video tape also.  Stephen had to go to work for a couple of hours today.  Something went wrong with one of the programs.  I miss him when he is gone.  Kassie, Melanie, Sterling and Stephanie are cutting and coloring with cardboard. I have a cold that never goes away - it kind of hangs on at varying degrees of severity for months. Well, I have dirty dishes in the sink and clothes to fold.  I mopped and vacuumed this morning. It's a never ending task (to keep house) when there are children in a home.  But we wouldn't have it any other way."

So grateful that Dad took the time to transcribe some of them for us. When I read one last week, it just amazed me the non-stopness of her busy life with 5 little kids... I wondered about my life now with older teens and no littles at home. So I started to jot down everything I did ~ I was tired reading the list by the afternoon.

From 5-8:30AM: Breakfast, lunch and dinner for all 5 of us, including a meal for a luncheon I’m attending

Watched a Jeffrey R. Holland speech

Mowed/edged backyard

Did laundry

Prepared Sunday Primary Chorister music lesson

9am on:  Endoscopy prep for tomorrow

Temple grounds cleaning - guard told story of fish caught in the gate post-Harvey, he couldn't touch it b/c everything had to be left for insurance to see

Baked bread 3x this week already

Writing Bridget's missionary email

Practiced violin with Kenny for competition performance tonight

Refilled Daron's meds 

Oil change

Library pickup

Kas hair appt

Gave Geneve heartworm meds

Daron's interview to be new ward clerk – so proud to hear him say “I’d love to – when do I start?”

And yet all these things pale in comparison to bigger things happening... all our family and Sterl's ward constantly fasting/praying for Maxwell’s concussion recovery. So glad his MRI came back clear, but waiting patiently for his healing.