I'm Here

Oh my, I missed a day of posting, I don't like that. But my day of freedom didn't pan out because I slept poorly the night before and was zombified yesterday morning, then Landon got sick while sleeping over at my parents' house so Lori brought him home. It was fine because I hadn't made any plans to go out and had just been puttering around the house, but it wasn't a day off at all.


Lori and I ate lunch (she brought McDonald's), talked and then made caramel popcorn to take to Amie's house that night. Since Jimmy is out of town I "encouraged" Amie to host a little night of creativity, so me, Claudia, Michelle, Hannah and Lori ended up hanging out at Amie's house to eat, chat and work on projects. It was very fun, though it took me awhile to detox from the frustrating, traffic-filled drive out to freakin Eagle Mountain. I really must get over that, but it's very frustrating to me.



I ended up enjoying myself and actually got quite a bit done. I framed 3 pictures, wrote 9 thank you notes, cut out some good mail labels and made some cards. Not too shabby. My favorite parts of the evening were when Claudia tried to explain how Mexican's keep their mother's maiden names and their father's last name. It's confusing on a good day, so to listen to her explain it while adding in her own opinions and changes was hilarious. I also thoroughly enjoyed our self-portrait photo shoot. Hannah held the camera and we all tried to squeeze into the frame, it was so funny.


Claudia and I got back to my house around 1:00am and got her set up in our luxurious guest room (a.ka. the couch). She was reading a magazine and I was lamenting the fact that it's hard to reach to turn off the light in that position, and then stumbled onto the notion of giving her a headlight to wear. I ran and got Landon's headlight from his room and set her up with it. She was laughing and slightly reluctant to wear it, but ended up being sold on the idea immediately after trying it and actually said "I'm glad you insisted Missy!" How about that?


Today has been a very casual day at home so far. Whitney returned from the sleepover at my mom's house (courtesy of Amie shuttling her home, thanks so much) sick. Good grief, we never get sick and now Landon is fine and Whitney is on the couch mellow as can be.

Claudia spent the morning on the computer enjoying the stability of the desk, the chair and the keyboard (remember her crazy set-up at home?) and updated her blog. I gave her a little blog tutorial and taught her how to do links and add things to her sidebar, so that was fun.


Tonight I have my ward book club and the kids both have their first soccer games of the season (but it's so hot still, it feels too early for soccer!). I'm not sure what we're going to do because Whitney is in no condition to be playing soccer, but Randy has to go coach Landon's game while I'm at the ward book club. I suppose I could miss if I really had to, but since I'm in charge of it I never feel like that's an option. Fortunately I'm not hosting it or leading the discussion tonight, but I still feel responsible to be there and want it to be a good turnout. We'll see.

**What are you up to today?
What should I do about tonight?**