1. Amie texted me last week to see if I wanted to have a car lunch while I was at work...um yes please! I usually eat at my desk so getting out of the building to spend time with her and to eat gourmet grilled cheese rather than a peanut butter sandwich was a great treat!
2. Every Friday at work the office staff (administrators, secretaries, head custodians and the tech guy) rotate taking turns making lunch for each other. I enjoy getting lunch each Friday but really hate having to take my turn making food for everyone (it's stressful). It was my turn last week and I made 3 pans of chicken enchiladas and a big pan of sugar cookie bars. It was a ton of work and was successful, but left me feeling like it wasn't worth the effort and added stress to my life, ugh.
3. The Primary Presidency and Activity Day Leaders put on a very elaborate Mad Hatter Themed Tea Party for the mothers and daughters last Friday. I was blown away by the effort and cuteness involved. I prefer substance over style though so big activities like these always leave me wondering if it was worth all the time and effort. I'm glad I got to enjoy it though.
4. What is up with the return of the mullet?? Didn't we learn that painful lesson the first time around? The back of this boy looks disturbingly similar to a boy I dated in high school!
5. A 9th grade girl at school brought Wendy and I each a box of turtles to thank us for being so nice to her the other day when she came into the office with a migraine. I have such empathy for people who suffer with those that I immediately put her in the nurse's office with the lights off, got her some Tylenol and a Mountain Dew (her choice) and let her rest. Migraines are the worst, but a migraine at the junior high is unbearable!
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I love these catch up posts Jill.
You have a lot of empathy for people. It's a talent of yours. I'm so glad the girl showed she was thankful.
At least he's got curls in his mullet. I think curly mullets are better than straight mullets. I'm surprised we don't learn more from history...I really am.
Seriously, that activity looks insane! It is all very cute but who has time for that? Especially this time of year?I guess I am an under achiever when it comes to activities.
I am seeing that hair style everywhere! What mom's are letting the boys do it?
You ingredients look yummy for your chicken enchiladas. And sugar cookie bars? I think I might actually make those in bar form. Do you share recipes of both?
That is a cute picture of you and Amie, so glad you could get together now that she is retired.
How nice to get a treat from a thankful student!
The Mad Hatter party sounds fun!
I usually bring my lunch to work to save time, money, and calories. My co-workers tease me for this daily.
I love the line about substance over style. That is going to be my new manta. I don't know about the subtance, but I lack the style so I'm going with substance. And I always feel the same way about activities--100 times moreso when I am involved in the planning and someone wants me to do tons of frivolous work for something I don't find meaningful.
That girl with the migrane was very lucky to have you helping her--and I respect her thoughtfulness and gratitude!
Finally, I totally feel ya on the lunch rotation thing. Those sort of things are just so much extra work and I want nothing to do with them. But social grace sometimes requires going with it, ugh.
Substance over style, that's me, too.
The long hair on boys/men drives me nuts--the 80's ruined me on long hair on men forever!
so fun to check in and catch up - it makes me feel badly that i've been so poor at keeping up my own. i'm in a funk for sure. :)
i LOVE people - especially teenagers so easily into themselves - who say thank you. really, that is glorious.
i don't mind long hair on boys - i think that any kind of hair related rebellion should be mostly tolerated, within reason i guess. really, it might not be my favorite thing, but it won't last forever and it's a LOT less permanent and easy to fix (think clippers) than a tattoo or horrific gauging in the ears.
glad you saw patsy at WC's, felt so sad to miss all of that this year. but seriously, could they plan it during a worse time of year? spring is INSANE!
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