Holding a Picture

Holding a Picture

Sunday, October 30, 2011

You know there are interesting things that happen in life.  People that you meet, things that you hear, places that you go – there really is a lot to take in all the time.  There is a lot to be grateful for all the time as well.   Last week the lone Deacon in the ward came and asked if I would help pass the Sacrament.  I asked if I could be excused as I had Jack and Andy on the bench and wasn’t so sure they were ready to sit quietly through that ordinance without me there.  Today when we walked in to church mom was walking in at the same time.  She came for the primary program.  As we sat down I looked up and there again was the same lone Deacon inviting me once again to help pass.  Mom was good to watch the kids so I went and helped.  Always enjoy being able to do that and am grateful that the opportunity came again. 

The Primary Program, what an event.  It went very well.  The kids, meaning my kids, all did a fine job with their parts.  Andy was sitting on the front row and was so short you could barely see him.  He did great when his part came up – he just got up there and got it done.   What a good boy.  Jack did quite well for most of it.  He did great on his part and sometimes he would join in singing, a couple of times he even stood up…..and then he was done.  Don’t know who the primary teacher was that was sitting next to him but she did a great job.  He gave her a little run for her money at the end.  I wanted to thank her but didn’t have a chance; next week perhaps.  Natty was up in the back corner.  She seemed a little chatty at times but that is Natty.  Her part was great – she had it memorized but they had a copy at the podium and so she read the paper.  I would have done the same thing.  Shoot, until I was 16 or so I still had mom writing my talks for me and read them word for word. 

We seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties with the internet here the last two days.  Not quite sure what is wrong now as I am showing a strong signal.  It is moving very slow or not at all.  I won’t even bother with posting until I venture in to the Little Brick House.  Actually the kids skyped with their mom so we were there for a bit earlier but I wasn’t going to make wait for me to do my blogging.  

We are back to Natty being terrified.  She went to a Halloween party on Saturday night and there were ghost stories shared.   She was freaked out and now doesn’t want to sleep in her room.  She is afraid to go down stairs by herself.  Last night she was in hysterics at 2 AM.  I don’t think I will be letting her go to anymore party’s or sleep overs.  I know, I know, I am a harsh parent.  Maybe so but I really don’t like dealing with the aftermath.   Fortunately we have not gotten to the stage we were at a year ago when I had to sit in her room with her for 1 to 3 hours a night.  I am not trying to be selfish or anything but that is my time.  It is when I have a chance to relax from kids, work etc and just do what I want to do which basically means I write my blog post for the day and I do a little cleaning.  Pretty dang exciting.  Natty managed to go into her room and go to sleep fairly well tonight.  We had to make a few adjustments to our routine but she didn’t put up too much of a fight.  She did wake up and started yelling for me.  I opened her door to find her standing in the middle of the room holding what I thought was her phone and a picture of Jesus.  It was not her phone as it is up here so I don’t know exactly what it was but she definitely had the picture of Jesus.  I thought that was great. 

I started reading Book of Mormon stories with the boys and they are really into them.  This is in addition to our regular scriptures.  I changed up routine to try and get Natty in bed and the order of scripture reading and Book of Mormon stories reading got switched.  I failed to prepare Jack for the schedule change and he was a little concerned that he was not going to get his story time.  “Dad, you forgot to read me the stories from your phone”.  I downloaded the Gospel Library app and that is where we read from.  He was quite relieved when I told him we were still going to read from the phone.  Well, Natty ended up sitting and listening as well.  Good times.  Good stories.  Good night.