Time for Change

For the past 2 years, I have had the wonderful opportunity to serve as the Relief Society President of our ward. I have loved it! I have been blessed to work with many wonderful sisters. I have always had great counselors.

I have had a feeling for several weeks that my time was close to being done. A week ago I had the opportunity to go with one of my counselors Robyn to the temple. We were there as a couple was there for the first time. It was a good session. I knew than that I was done. Later that night I had the same feeling, so when the Bishop talked to me on Wednesday I was at peace with the decision. I will miss the weekly adult conversations as I will be moving on to Primary and Cub Scouts. It has been so long since I have worked back in Primary. In the past 15 years, I have only been in primary for about 3 years total. I have been working with the Relief Society for the past 4 1/2 years. The rest of the time as been in Young Women's. I know this change will be different and I am looking forward to the change.

I still think it is funny how we don't have any boys, and yet Clyde and I are know both working in the scout program. I have always wanted a little boy to dress up in a cub scout uniform. I guess I will be blessed to have the Bears as my adopted boys. I am very excited to be a part of the Cub Scout program!

For those of you who have worked with me in the past 2 years, Thank you! I couldn't have done it without your support and love. I am thankful for the listening ears and the words of encouragement to help the sisters. Thank you for taking the time out in your lives as well to serve the Arlington 5th ward. I am also looking forward to being able to stay home and help my girls get ready for church. They might even have their hair curled or at least pulled up. I have missed those mornings, but I wouldn't have traded them in for anything.

So, with that said. . . . Cub Scouts here I come!!

What a day!!

Today started off by waking up early to a traditional Texas rain storm. Heather and I waited the storm off and by 8 we were off for a quick trip to San Antonio. We drove down to see my sister in law Paige. We picked up the chairs for Heather's new table and a few things for my mother in law. I love Paige's new house. It's beautiful!

We stopped at IKEA in Round Rock on the way home. We grabbed a quick bite to eat and new dish towels for me, and a bed tent for Heather's youngest, Sebastian. I only wished we had had more time to roam. I love IKEA's dish towels. They are so cheap and hold up so well.

Heather and I pulled into the drive way as Clyde and the priests from our ward were sitting down to Clyde's catfish gumbo. Tonight Clyde and the Priest quorum assistant took the priest to Sid Richardson to camp. Tomorrow morning they are going to get up and go Kayaking. I love that Clyde loves working with the Young Men. He does such a great job!

After unloading the van and getting it ready for the boys to take with them, I went shopping with Michelle, Heather, and Cyndi Perry. We had a great time shopping a Target. We also stopped for dinner at Wendy's. I am grateful to my mom for helping out with Georgah and Rebekah today. I couldn't have gone to San Antonio and out shopping if it hadn't been for my mom. Also, she helped by picking Sarah up from Freshman orientation and taking her to a babysitting job. Thank you Mom!!

I still can't believe that my Sarah is starting High School this year! She is growing up way tooo fast.

The things we do. . .

The things we do for our kids. . . Friday night at midnight the new book, Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer came out. Hannah babysat for Angie again. Sarah and I picked up Angie at 11:30 and off we went to Barnes and Noble.

We stood in line and bought our book. I have never before gone to a bookstore at midnight. I didn't even know you had to reserve a book before it came out. Thanks to Angie I have learned a lot about new book releases. Any whoooo, Angie bought an extra book and was kind to loan us the book so that Sarah and Hannah could both have a copy of the book to read. This has made our weekend quiet. The girls are loving this book. They have giggled and laughed together most of the day.

I still haven't read the series. Angie gave me her set of audio books to start. I put the first cd on and started picking up the house. Within just a few moments, I had a living room full of girls sitting on the couches listening and giggling. Needless to say, I didn't get very far. I am thinking this will be a good thing to start after school starts or as I am recovering from my foot surgery.

1st Babysitting Job

Tonight Hannah had her first "Official" babysitting job! She was so excited about it. I dropped her off at Angie's house, so that Angie and Jon could go out to a movie and dinner. She had a great time and is looking forward to many more babysitting jobs.

Thank you for being brave and allowing Hannah to have her FIRST job with your family!

EFY

Yesterday, I helped drive Sarah and her cousins down to San Antonio for EFY. There were 14 kids total and 3 cars that went to San Antonio. They were all so excited! I am sure that they will have lots of fun. Sarah is rooming with her cousin Mattie. They have interesting girls who they get to share a bathroom with. It was very clear that both of the other girls have never had to share a bathroom with other girls. The joys of having to learn to share with others. This should be a great pre college experience for her.

Friday night Clyde and I are driving back to San Antonio. We will meet up with Sarah Saturday morning to bring her home. I am going to miss her this week!

Can it get any worse????

I know I seem to be complaining lately, but my week just doesn't seem to be getting any better. I am looking forward to tomorrow's Stake Enrichment Night. I am also looking forward to ending my week in the Dallas Temple on Saturday morning at our RS Temple trip.

I finally had a moment tonight to check my e-mails, when Georgah came crying. She has a hermit crab named Queen Lucinda. I call her Queen Lucy. Lucy came to our family last summer after the Sandra moved to Ohio. Georgah has Lucy's cage on a table near her bed. She often talks to her. She takes good care of Queen Lucy. Well, tonight Lucy decided to leave her shell and try out another shell. In one corner of the cage there is old skin. Actually, it looks like her claws are laying there. The rest of her body is upside down in another shell. We had hermit crabs years ago when Sarah and Hannah were 4 and 2. So, that was 10 years ago. I really don't remember this happening. I am hoping this is very normal. I sure can't handle another death of a pet.

There is a faint light at the end of the tunnel. . .

For the past 4 years I have been seeing Dr. Ronica Holcomb. She is my amazing Podiatrist. About once a year I go in and have injections in a nerve in my feet. It hurts for a few days, but usually I am good for a year or so. The past several months I have had major pain in my toes. I don't wear my high heals anymore except for Sundays and even the size of the heals I have cut back from what I wore years ago.

So, today I went back to she Dr. Holcomb. I told her I have jacked up feet and need help. I told her of my pain in my toes. Yesterday, I couldn't walk anymore because I was in so much pain. The did x-rays. I have been diagnosed with having hammertoes! How do you fix hammertoes?? She said my case is really bad. The best option will be to have foot surgery. I told her that I leave in a few weeks to go to St. Louis for Rebecca Nucci's wedding. So, surgery isn't an option for now. I received a shot in the joint of my 2nd toe. This should get me through my trip to St. Louis.

I go back next month to schedule surgery. She said that she will have to shave off part of the toe and than basically break my toe. She will place a pin straight down the toe. It will have to stay there for 1 month. I will be in a boot for that month! After that I will have to wear an Orthopedic shoe for about 2 months! Basically I won't be able to wear a shoe on my left foot for 3 months!!! I am not looking forward to this. However, if it fixes my feet problem and I can leave pain free in my feet. I will suffer for 3 months.

Great Shampoo Deal!!

Tonight I found this great deal off another blog. I went to Kroger and bought 3 Herbal Essences Shampoo, 3 bottles of Herbal Essences Conditioner, and 2 bottles of Diet Coke. My total before my Kroger card was $22. I scanned my card and it instantly took off $6 for buying 6 bottle of Herbal Essences and I also gave them 3 coupons for Herbal Essences totaling $9. My final cost was $2.54!

What makes this even of a better deal is that there is a coupons for FREE Manicure or Pedicure!! What a deal!!

I'm so lonely, oh so lonely. . .

Clyde was gone most of last week for boy scout camp. He came home for 1 1/2 days and left again. He is now gone to staff Wood Badge. Clyde comes home on Saturday. The girls are enjoying their new found freedom of not having to go to bed at a certain time, so Clyde can get up in the mornings for work. We are all sleeping in and I love it!

I am however missing Clyde this year. Clyde is almost always gone for 2 weeks in the summer with either troop camps or district training camps. I will be glad to have him home again. Maybe I am just missing the adult conversions.

I love the fact that Clyde is so determined to help other Boy Scout Leaders get the training that they need to have a great troop, pack, or crew. I am also grateful that he is doing what the General Authorities have asked ALL Young Men, Bishoprics, and Stake Leaders to do. They have asked for all these leaders to get FULLY trained and that means WOOD BADGE trained. They have also said that once you are trained to help others get the training they need. I am so grateful that my husband is listening to the authorities. I think it's comforting to know that my husband has the same training that President Monson and the rest of the General Authorities have.

I also am grateful that Clyde works for such a great company. Clyde is allotted 4 weeks a year and I think most of them are given to Boy Scouts. I did get 1 full week of vacation!! We had a great week. A week full of memories that we are still talking about and will be talking about for years to come!

I think what I miss the most is how Clyde is always happy and trying to make everyone else laugh. This is a picture of us being silly at my sister's house.

Sewing, Sewing, Busy, Busy

The past several weeks have kept me very busy. I have sewn and sewn and sewn. I made 42 place mat purses for the Sandi. Sandi gave these purses to the volunteers from Cub Camp. I also have embroidered 26 t-shirts for our Boy Scout troop. I also embroidered a 2 headed shirt for Clyde to use for Wood Badge. This 2 headed shirt has 5 inch tall letters on both sides of the shirt. Each letter took about 30 minutes to sew. I also did 3 more Troop 933 shirts for the bishop to take to Wood Badge. I have fixed 2 dresses for Sarah to take to EFY. Clyde needed his Venture Boy Scout pants hemmed. SO, I hemmed them as well. I have curtains I have wanted to make and for some reason I can't seem to get behind the machine AGAIN!! lol

On the 4th of July, our family drove down to Edom, Texas to pick our annual blueberries. This was the first time Clyde was able to come with us. We loved our time together as a family. Since than I have made 2 batches of jam. During this time Target had corn on sale for .10 cents a cob. So off I went to get a great offer. I purchased corn and now we have frozen corn on the cob and kernels.

I thought that since we didn't have any major plans for this summer we would have a quite summer. Boy, was I wrong!