Five a Day is Back!

If you know anything about me, it's that I love to have painted nails and have a need to write. For the last 2 years, school MORE than satisfied the need to write, but now that I'm DONE FOREVER, I can do the blog thing.

Problem is, I can't think of anything to write about. For the past two years, I've covered everything from my great-great-great grandfather to transgendered student support, and I'm out of ideas. So, I'll list my 5 thankful-fors, and you can leave ideas!

Today I am thankful for:

1. No cavities! I learned this morning that the only thing worse than going to work on Monday mornings is going to the dentist.

2. A job. I what's even worse than going to work or the dentist on Monday mornings is not having a job to go to. I'm glad I have a job I like.

3. No school! It really sucked up all my time. And Darin's time, too.

4. Bountiful baskets. It's like Christmas, only on budget and healthy! And more often.

5. This letter I got from my son the other day:

Dear Mom,

I am sorry for begging but can I please please please have a facebook account?

K- your turn! What should I blog about?

Fall 2010 in Review

• Project lead in an upgrade at work
• My mom in hospital 3 weeks (ICU 2 weeks)
• One 30 page paper on the transgender population
• Husband grew a beautiful garden
• Myriad of other assignments
• New cute nephew
• Anemia
• Elder's Quorum secretary
• Lots of reading As a Man Thinketh
• Funeral for an excellent grandmother
• Fall and Christmas parties for hundreds of people
• Hundreds of pages of textbooks read
• Husband worked on basement bedroom
• Not enough games of solitaire
• Son B class president
• Internship
• Week in Arizona
• Fire drills for Son A
• Best spaghetti sauce ever
• Son B wrote a 30 page book
• Daughter and Son A made waffles from scratch
• Excellent report cards Son B
• Funeral for a wonderful grandfather
• Shorts everyday for Son A
• Homemade car, bank teller station, and Mighty Mug Hot Chocolate Shop from daughter
• Son B finished all the Percy Jackson series
• Surprise lunch dates at Crown Burger
• Son A finished Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
• Lots of wacky bus drivers
• An 3.9 GPA
• A husband who kept us all on track
• 2 beta fish
• 2 beta fish burials
• Working TV
• Despicable Me
• Cafe Rio with sisters
• Lots of stomach aches from daughter
• Very little sleep
• Lots of caffeine
• Lots and lots of blessings

Pac-Man and Other Gospel Truths

I just love Family Home Evening. Especially because no matter how awesome you planned the lesson, you never know how it will turn out.

Take last night, for instance. Darin had a great lesson: evidences of God. We started by listing (or drawing) ways we know that God exists. We all went around the table and explained. Darin was last, and explained, among other things, the water cycle. The water cycle (rain, lakes, evaporation, etc) is so perfect, it would be hard to believe that it happened without a God. He went on to explain other cycles that are perfect in nature.

My last-born son, demonstrating that he understood this concept of perfect cycles and the existence of God, mentioned how it's like Pac-man (the bad one, not the good one). Pac-man eats things. If we let him eat too many things, he'll eat the Holy Ghost.

Um, yeah. So we ended and called it a night.