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.

Over It

So last night, one hour into my almost 6 hours of classes, with watery, blood shot eyes, I wondered:

WHY DID I QUIT CAFFEINE AGAIN?

And I couldn't come up with an answer.

So I had a Diet Coke.

The End.

(I made it 5 days.)