Tuesday, November 09, 2004
    
Today Noah, Denver and I went for a "leaf walk" around the neighborhood. I snapped a few pictures of the leaves and Noah and I collected all sorts of leaves for my leaf collection and Noah's leaf book. I also grabbed a few leaves so I could teach Noah how to do leaf rubbings. Then we made our way down to the little river that runs through the town and the boys threw some rocks into the waterfalls. We stopped by a park and played and then hurried home to pick Hunter up from school.
Kak came by just as we got home and brought us White Hot Chocolate, a new favorite from Starbucks. I managed to get the two little boys down for a nap and ran Hunter back to school for his all time favorite class--Kids in Motion. Then Kathy and I attempted to make White Chocolate Peppermint Candy and Sweetened Condensed Candy both of which didn't turn out. I suppose I will count that as a blessing since I'm trying not to gain weight this Christmas.
And tonight was HFPE at the church. I picked up the Sister Missionaries and an investigator and managed to arrive in time to sing the opening song. I don't think I've ever been to a more fun "homemaking meeting" in all my 13 years in Relief Society. Sam had everyone in the ward donate some sort of service. She had people volunteer to do yard work, wash cars, clean houses, type resumes, cook meals, babysit, sew, teach knitting, do hair, give massages, do facials, cut down trees, deliver wood, prepare FHE lessons, etc. The young men and young women donated. The Elder's Quorum donated. The Bishop donated. The Relief Society sisters donated. Anyone could donate a service but only the R.S. got to bid. When we arrived we were each handed a questionaire and given time to fill it out. It was full of items receiving different points. For example, having your visiting teaching done already was worth 15 points, each bed you made that day earned 5 points, changing diapers was worth 5, attending Sacrament meeting was worth 10 points, being on time to HFPE was worth a 20 point bonus, etc. Anyway, we tallied up our points individually and that is what we used to bid on the service items. Sam ran the auction and everyone left knowing they were going to receive some sort of service and everyone left ready to serve someone else. It was so great and really, really fun! I left with 3 hours worth of Spanish lessons for Noah, 2 hours of yard work/help for Mark, a facial for Miss Melody, and a hairdo for myself (since Mark's company party is coming up.) And, all it cost us was 3 hours of babysitting and 3 dozen of Mark's chocolate chip cookies.
posted by Shana # 9:39 PM 
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