A long night...

for dh. We were just getting ready to close our eyes, when dh got paged. This was at midnight. At 2:30 I woke up to find dd S in bed with me but no dh. I finally put dd to sleep and then checked on dh. He was still up talking away on the phone. I think he finally got to sleep around 3, but not sure. So this morning as I got up at 5:25 to get R up for Seminary, he was still asleep. He's going to be very tired tonight since he still has to be to work today. He told me he would be staying at R's class this morning since he has a call coming at 6:15.

Today will be our first Tues with no art or gym. We are done for the yr. So now our Tues will be a bit calmer. The kids still have their church classes, but we're not running around in the afternoon like chickens with their heads cut off lol. Kind of need the break, but looking forward to next fall. Dd S really liked her art class once she got into it. I even had her enrolled in the gym program, but she doesn't like all the contact stuff, which comes with sports, so I took her out of that. She did great with art.

Ds is now over half done with his Eagle project. His troop first attached bags to all the neighborhood doors. Then they collected all the bags from off the doors filled with books(he did very well with that). Now he just needs to contact the person at the library who is in charge of donations, and find out when and where to donate. Then take the Teachers Quorum and the leaders to the library one Tues evening and give the books to them. So he's getting there. Seems interesting since it's been almost a yr since he came up with the plan. He's done very well in doing it 95% on his own(we transported, provided food and bags).

Yesterday when I checked the mail, I discovered the insurance checks from dad. FINALLY there are here. It's more a relief for my oldest brother G since he needs to pay the morturary(4 months later). I'm hoping they haven't been bothering him much. But at least now we have them and now just need to help pay whatever dad's part doesn't cover, then the rest is for us siblings to share. Nice last gift from dad.

This Sun is Mother's Day, and as prepared as I was a month ago, I've spent most of that time only thinking about what to give mom and then getting caught up in ds's project. Now I find that the one thing I wanted to give mom, I won't be able to for a bit. I had wanted to frame a photo of my brothers and I and give to mom. I probably still can, but it won't be there for Mother's Day. I will be sending some $$ to her so she can get some nice things, but the photo will have to wait.

As I'm sitting here typing dd S is asleep on the couch, but is wiggling so much that she's not even in the same place I layed her in. She's such a wiggly sleeper. I sure hope she's feeling better from her cold and slight fever. I think big brother shared his cold and such last week. Thanks a lot big brother lol.

Karie
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