Our ward is in need of a lot more active members to serve in callings. Most people have several callings and our bishop, the time he spends serving our ward is beyond the call of duty. Here I sit putting together and coloring much needed photos so that our primary children can learn some of the songs that - yes, they haven't started working on it. Every year, they put on a program where they sing and have speaking assignments in front of our congregation on what they've learned through the year. I've posted before about how I am one of a very few who have any ability in music, and so far, no one replaced our previous chorister who left this summer. I volunteered/was asked (translation, I'm not sure how it all happened) to lead the music for our primary children. Although it's not an official calling in our church, it has been a lot of fun.
Today, Nini woke-up at 5:00 a.m. - what's up with that? She climbed into our bed and tried very hard to fall back asleep, but after an hour of her restlessness, I got up wrote a blog post and cleaned our main floor on our home. My days with the girls in school are not as long as I had anticipated (Barb-you were right!) so I am having to wake-up early anyway to get all of my goals accomplished. I still am not very productive, but I think I'm playing hooky for bit, while I enjoy the quiet and "me time" of my days.
GoodMail
Goodmail arrived at my door from Donna! The package was opened and took forever to get here. Luckily, the chocolate covered cherries were still in tact! Whew! Tuesday, I received goodmail from Mique, it was fun to open the envelope and see this wrapped box...hmmm...I was very excited to open it, but happened to get my mail before an errand. So I had to wait to open it until I got home so that I could take a picture of the pretty wrapped box.
Mique sent two beautiful tokens, a friendship necklace and this four leaf clover. I was really grateful for her thoughtful words about friendship and our family's hope for successful fertility treatments. Mique, you are a gem - Thank you!
I have several projects I'm working on and one of them includes these cards that I have been making and will be sending off this week. The length of time it takes to get to your homes is ridiculous, so it's kind of fun to drop a little hint that goodmail is on the way!
Do you have early risers?
Do you find your time with the kids at school goes by quickly?
How do you organize this time?
How do you organize this time?
12 comments:
YEAH! I'm so excited for good mail...love that you teased all of us. Can't wait to see something in my mail other than bills! :)
And you are so welcome for your good mail. You've been an inspiration in the friendship department.
Early risers? We have 3 alarms at our house- their names are JJ (5:45ish), Jules (5:30ish) and Drew (lately 5:00am!!!!). I am NOT a morning person at all. It kills me every day.
My son seems to have a talent of waking about 10 minutes before my alarm goes off. The strange thing is it goes off at different times depending on the day. How does he know?
Fun good mail and very cute cards. You are so creative!
What someone open up the package? Oh i am so sorry!!!!!!!! They took out the lotions that was in there. I hope th cherries still taste good.
love the good mail you got and are sending-- cute to preview!
early risers on days that i don't "want" them to get up quite as early more often than on the days they NEED to get up. hmmm. why is that?
Being the primary chorister has been one of my all time favorite callings. Do you find that being musically talented often takes you a little out of your comfort zone? When you are the only one that knows how to do something you just swallow your pride/fear/whatever and step up to the plate. But I think we get blessed for that! Good luck with your program.
Hi, I love your fun blog! I found you by way of my friends at Bricolage and Butter! You have darling girlies, and I have a kindergarten girl as well....and a three year old! They are the most precious things to me! I felt the same as you, leaving my girlie at school for the first day! She's loving it though. :) Come see my blog! Laurie~
I have early risers who are up around 6am most days. But, as I previously admitted on my blog, I am not the parent who gets up with them. At least while Maxwell is still getting up during the night. But when he starts sleeping through, then I am back to sharing morning duty.
I almost never 'use' that time though. We spend 30-45 minutes cuddling on the couch with a cup of milk talking about all the wonderful things we dreamed about the night before. (My kids usually describe the zoo or circus)
I cannot realisitcally picture myself getting up at 5am and cleaning.
We have early risers only because we are out the door no later that 7am. I hate getting up early, but love the fact I am done with my walk and chores by 8am. School days always tend to go quicker than I would like.
My kids always ask what did you do (in a voice that sounds like I did nothing). I haven't had much time to do any projects..I need to !
I'm with Jen. Primary choirister is a great calling. Last year lots of our kids were struggling with songs as well. I made CDs for them to play in their cars and homes so that could practice on a day other than Sunday. I don't know when your program is, but it might not be too late. (However, it doesn't matter if they sing or not during the program though... the Spirit is still there!)
I am the early riser at our house. I usually am always up right around 5:00. I love the calm of the mornings. The cards you have been making are darling! You are so creative!
I'm still playing catch up with the hours that Erin's in school. I'm still indulging in little bits of 'me time' - like sitting down to drink my coffee, instead of drinking it 'on the hoof'. *sigh*
Erin wakes about 7am, and Isla a little bit after her. They both have blackout blinds, and I think that helps A LOT.
Your cards look lovely, by the way, and so varied! What a symphony of colours!
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