I had a really wonderful Sunday. Honestly, I was feeling a little bit foggy and stressed, but all in all it was a very blessed day. I did my monthly values meditation this morning, but I didn’t choose to keep going very long, I think, in part, because I was so tired.
But it was a nice way to start the morning and Lily and took a nice and slow start to the day.
Early in the day I played play-doh with Lydia. She’s here with me now and she wanted to comment on our time together.
“This is Lydia speaking. Dad and I had a really fun time playing with play-doh. He also started to teach me how to make pizza. It’s hard. No to you dad.”
Play-doh really was fun with her. We listened to songs like “The marvelous toy” by Peter Paul and Mary, and we made things like clothes and food with the Play-doh. It was so fun to hang out with her and I’m so grateful that she came to me and asked me to play. Towards the end, we rolled out Play-doh in the shape of a pancake and I tried to remember how to twirl pizza like I did when I was a cook at Gepetto’s. I tried to teach Lydia also. It was very fun.
Home church was very nice today. We listed to “Spirit of God” by Voice Male to open, listened to Paul Cardall’s “I Know that My Redeemer Lives” while I prepared the sacrament and shared thoughts/feelings/testimonies after the sacrament. Georgia shared a beautiful heartfelt testimony. I talked to the children about recent miracles I’m grateful for like that Georgia didn’t break bones when she fell, Lily is feeling a bit better, Lydia’s breakthrough with the harp, my work going well, and Mary’s super nice notes (Ammon, Clarissa and Lily weren’t present).
After that, I cleaned my grill deeply. I’ve only done a solid clean on it once in 5 years, and I’ve had a couple grill fires lately that I think were from all the grease and gunk under the grill. I took about an hour to watch a video, dismantle it, and clean it and re-assemble it. It was a joy to cook on it after that. I LOVE SALMON AND PINEAPPLE. Today we brazed the pineapple in molasses and it was DELICIOUS.
Lily and I set up a lamp for Ammon so he could play with his toy as he drifted off to bed.
After putting the kids down, Lily and I watched the first two episodes of season 3 of Designated Survivor. We just watched Contagion and loved it and now we are on a bit of a Pandemic kick!