This is Abe again. I’m trying to help by blogging on the weekends. Lily gets pain in her wrists from all the typing she does, plus, I just want to contribute. This blog will be such a treasure to look back on when we are older. I value it so much and want to make sure I’m pitching in.
Due to the new year, there were a lot of first today. I will list them below:
- Church now starts at 9:00.
- Ammon is now a Sunbeam in primary (no longer in the nursery).
- Church is now only two hours long
- We started the new suggested home curriculum by reading the parable of the sower over dinner.
Overall it was a good Sunday. Lily and I substituted for Mary’s primary class which was a lot of fun. I absolutely love kids and their innocence. It reminds me of the simplicity of my own childhood. I’m not sure if we taught them anything, but we did try :).
When it was time to pick kids up from class, I wondered where Ammon’s new classroom was as I started through the hallways. Then I heard two boys yelling in a steady “ahhhhhhhhh!” unbroken for maybe about ten seconds. I followed the sound and found Ammon with another boy just standing and yelling. Ugh. Poor teachers.
On the positive side, Ammon’s potty training is going INCREDIBLY well. He didn’t have a single accident. Major kudos to Lily who had the guts to initiate the undertaking. I was definitely intimidated.
I had financial clerk stuff for about two hours after church and enjoyed talking to Moroni Hair. The new schedule is great because Lily puts Clarissa down as soon as she gets home so it’s not too crazy.
Lily and I have felt quite daunted by life lately, and we both napped to catch our breaths. She made a beautiful grill-cheese, tomato soup, roast cauliflower and spinach salad dinner.
Afterwords, Lydia led the most wonderful family home evening that she prepared. She wrote out three gospel stories that taught principles about forgiveness, tithing and prayer. Lily and I so grateful she led out on our family home evening.
Lily and I retired early tonight. Winters can be hard on us feeling cooped up with all the kids messing up the house over and over and over again, and not getting as much sunlight. But all in all, things are going very very well.
Below are pictures of Clarissa at church. She was so darling in her cloak!
(This is Lily editing Abe’s post. On Sunday night Abe discovered the girls playing a game of “owls.” They had started off by playing board games but ended up fighting, so they made up this owl game where they pretended to build a nest in Mary’s bed. All of their socks were mice that they gathered for food in the bed. They begged to sleep all night in their “nest,” so Abe caved and let them. Here’s the picture he took.)
