Alyssa

Apparently I was wrong about Alyssa not being able to climb into the bathtub. Alyssa had already had her bath and was ready for bed when it was Sarah's turn for a bath.

Subbing in Primary

One of our teachers left us without a sub today and what was ironic was that I ran into her in Boston. That is not part of the story. I decided to play a baseball trivia game with the class and was alarmed at the number of what I considered to be the amount of easy questions they were unable to answer. That is not part of the story either. So I finally decided they could work as a team rather than answer as individuals. That is also not part of the story. I asked what the name of the priesthood was that worthy young men could get when they turned 12. Aaronic was the answer and they got that. That's the beginning of the story. Next I asked what the other priesthood was called after Aaronic. One young girl, named Kennedy (her name isn't crucial to the story) responded enthusiastically "Moronic! The Moronic Preisthood!" That is the story.

Vampires

So while I was in Boston I gave in and began reading the Vampire books by Stephanie Meyers. I admit I didn't want to. I basically decided to read them to appease certain sister-in-laws and neighbors who I am sure wouldn't give me any peace until I read them. To his credit Alan helped get me intrigued. I had brought book 1 onto the plane just in case I should decide to read it. I started with Sudoku and Alan tried to get his laptop to play a movie which it wouldn't do so I gave him the book to read. He reads twice as fast as I do and so occasionally when I was stuck on a puzzle I glanced over and read some before he turned to the next page. I admit I became intrigued. The start of the next day found me reading on a bench outside the conference center while he went to class. I couldn't put the book down! Two days later I went to the Barnes and Noble and bought the 3rd book. (I'd only borrowed books 1 and 2.) By the time I got home yesterday I had almost finished reading book 3 through the 2nd time having already finished books 1 and 2 again. You could say that I'm hooked. Alan found Stephanie Meyer's web site and I loved reading about Edwards first day. (Can't remember what she called it, but it's a chapter long version of Bella's first day at school from Edward's perspective.) I'm quite worried about having to wait until next fall to find out what happens next. These are my new favorite books!!

postponing

I just read through all the blogs again. Coralee set up my google home-page to let me know if anyone posts a new blog but I sometimes I just go through them and check anyway hoping it might have missed someone. Some of you haven't posted in soooo long and I miss the blogs. (Alan are you paying attention? Rob? Dawn? Julie and Scott?) I thought if I was going to miss other's posting I aught to post something myself so as not to have a beam in mine own eye. We leave for Boston on Monday and so I am not doing chores the last few days. I figure I will do them all on Saturday so Mom Wessman won't have to come tend children in a dirty house, at least not as dirty as it would be if I didn't do any chores. So this morning I made a carrot cake. I had to, there was not a choice involved. You see, I pulled three carrots from the garden last week that were huge! The largest was about 3" across at the top. Yesterday I made spaghetti and so I shredded the carrots and zucchinis to put in the sauce. After I added some carrot to the sauce, I still had about 3+ C of carrot left. What does someone do with that much shredded carrot. Well I could have made a 5 pounds of jello salad but I thought carrot cake would be better. Anyone who wants carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is invited over for desert tonight. (Now I will know if anyone reads this.) I also have about 2 C of shredded zucchini and later today I will make zucchini bread or something. The end.

F-e-e-lings, nothing more than feelings...

Yesterday was the 2nd day I was cranky, short-tempered, and alternately depressed. Poor girls. I've been a bad mother. I hate to admit it knowing that people might actually read this but I will own up to it. Yesterday evening, being a Friday (date-night) Alan hung out with me and we watched the beginning of Big. I like the beginning and end but not so much the middle. Anyway I realized that life has suddenly become quite unsettled and everything has happened in the last month. Add on top of that the body trying to adjust the hormones and no wonder I'm crazy. Last month we were normal. No possible job change, expecting in January, no primary program, no painting the house, no child with asthma (although to be honest we did have a child with asthma even if it wasn't diagnosed), no upcoming trip to Boston with planning and organizing involved, and no crazy mood swings. I can't wait for October.