I bet you were wondering what happened to the Laws...Well Christmas just became too painful to blog about. I think enough time has passed that I can write about it with my stomach churning.
One Christmas Day 4 of our kids had the stomach flu. We did try to open presents about 1pm but it only lasted about 30 minutes before we started loosing them one by one to the bathroom. So we gave up and had Christmas the next day. It still was nothing like Christmas all the yummy food was not as yummy. The house was not warm and fragrant. It was a DISASTER! I guess that we will appreciate Christmas all the more in years to come
Life had been running a record pace. The kids started a new school semester. We switched over to some on-line classes. It has freed up my time somewhat, but just it time for something else to swoop in and take its place. We had a request from our ward for 60 humanitarian quilts by the 2nd week in March. Yikes! that is a tall order. For some reason I got put over the project. So every Thursday my mom and I head to the church for 3 hours of sewing, cutting, tying. It is more like 4 hours with all the set up and take down. I spent another 5 hours yesterday and the church tying until I thought I was going to loose all feeling in my poor thumb. I am really enjoying it, because fabric and sewing machines are two of my favorite things on the planet. It is just time I have to rob from something else.
But that is not all...if you look behind door number two you will be introduced to my next time commitment. Teen Organizer for our local home school group. I have invested a fair chunk of time getting it off the ground. I think it is off to a good start and hopefully the major time is invested and now I just have to maintain what I have got in motion. We have a great group of teens. This maybe a time commitment, but it is enjoyable work.
Behind door number three you will find our Feel Fine in '09 program that out Relief Society carried over from last year. It is a fun program but to get the most amount of points you have to do certain things. Exercise being one of them. Anyone who knows me know I am a little competitive. Michael would prefer for me to type little in large bold letter. So to get the maximum amount of point usually take me about 75 minutes or more a day. That was time I used to spend organizing my life.
Behind Door number 4 is Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts is all Michael's fault. If he had not spent so much time scouting with the boys, my girls might let me off the hook. But they won't, so this month we sold cookies. Next month I get to spend my Saturdays outside of some store selling yummy cookies that I can't eat (I would loose points for my competition). I have to admit that Brownies and Girl Scouts selling cookies is just the cutest thing.
There is the 1st month of 2009 in a nut shell! Or is the nut house! Or am I am nut case! These are stricktly rhetorical thought ;-)
So here is the best story of the month. Taylor has had his Eagle project planned for about 8 months now. The one hang up we have had was that he needed to secure Rail Road ties. Over spring break we thought we had it. Taylor had contact a Rail Road tie supplier if Vacaville. It is a couple of hours away from us. One day they called us and said they had ties for us and to come and get them. Taylor and I were so excited. We got down there, I have never seen so many RR ties. They told us to load up what we needed, so we did. I went in to thank them when we were loaded and ready to leave. The owners response was what Free RR ties, Eagle Scout, what are you talking about? I was shocked. Apparently he did not get the whole message. He was not feeling generous either. So we left our lowly 7 RR ties and came home. Did I mention this was at the height of the gas prices. GRRRR. Taylor and I felt defeated.
I could not get Taylor to touch his project for months after that. He finally called a place closer to us. They did not make it any easier on him. The owner demanded a letter, on scout letterhead, with a project description, his leaders names and phone numbers. By the time Taylor got off the phone I thought he was going to throw in the towel on the project. But he didn't, during Christmas break he drafted up the letter and headed to Oroville to see if we could get this project going again.
It all had a happy ending. Taylor walked in and told the guy who he was and handed him his letter. The gentleman did no even look at it. He just smiled and said, I had to go through the same thing do my Eagle project, what do you want? Taylor explained that he needed 7 RR ties. The guy then gave him a bundle of 15, just because. I was just about in tears. Now we have the RR ties now we just need to find the time. Maybe we can coordinate his Eagle Court on Honor with Aimee's baptism. The date for Aimee's baptism is July 4th. We will see if the paper work gets done by then ;-)
Enjoy what few pictures I have taken this month
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