Friday, October 30, 2009
For Want of a Mother
Thursday, October 29, 2009
And that led me to ponder how my parents managed through five children in beginning band. Or how any parent suffers through beginning band, for that matter.
While my ears are hurting, I realize that Randy's head is falling further and further towards his chest.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Just Try to Get His Attention
Sunday, October 25, 2009
AKA
And if you go to a show/presentation/program/play at BYU, it starts with an opening prayer. This one we now know from first-hand experience. Not a bad experience, mind you, just an unexpected one.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Observations on Living in the Mormon Corridor
Orson Scott Card is a well-known author, as well as a professor at Southern Virginia University. He also writes a weekly opinion piece for the Mormon Times. A while back I read a piece where he discussed the "Mormon Corridor." That being the stretch of land from Utah through Eastern Idaho which was settled by Mormon pioneers and remains, to this day, predominantly LDS.
I now live in that Mormon Corridor. I'm sure I'll have more to say on this subject in the future, but let's start with a few things today.
1. There isn't a Starbucks for miles around. No steamers or vanilla scones. Saves the pocketbook, but I think I'm going through withdrawals.
2. Standing in line the other day I met a girl from Albania.
I didn't know where that was and didn't want to ask her and risk looking stupid. Since you probably don't know where it is either, here's a map. She's a student at the University. She's one of hundreds of students from more than 60 countries who come here to study. It was a nice day, but I was still cold (big surprise). She told me to just wait; that this day was a beautiful, warm day. She was on her bicycle and a little while later, I saw her on her bike at yet another store. And then I wondered what she does when it snows and it's impossible to ride a bike up here. But where else do you get to go to the grocery store and meet someone from Albania (except Albania, of course) and know exactly what brought them to this cold place?
3. People think nothing of calling you "sister" in the public library and sharing with you their favorite place to sit in Sacrament Meeting.
4. There isn't a Starbucks for miles around.
5. My friend April makes a cake. It's a yummy cake. It's called Better Than Sex cake. The other day I went to the Cocoa Bean Cupcake Cafe. It's not Starbucks, but it'll have to do. They have a cupcake there called Better Than Whatever Cake. Outside of the Mormon Corridor, it's okay to call it Better Than Sex, but evidently not in the Mormon Corridor. It's just Whatever.
Did I mention that there's no Starbucks?
Friday, October 16, 2009
Straw
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Sunday Afternoon Football
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The Rest of Potato Harvest
I spent a wonderful lunch hour with my friend, Crystal, who lives in Boise. The last time I saw Crystal was 14 years ago. We spent 90 wonderful minutes catching up. It's amazing how parallel our lives are. She is amazing and beautiful. I was actually nervous driving over to the restaurant because I hadn't seen her for so long. There was no reason to be. Now I remember why we became friends in 8th grade.
Then we came home and my kids went back to school and promptly forgot to bring their homework home. It's like starting a new school year all over again...except this time I didn't have to go school shopping.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Spud Harvest Day 7: SMURF TURF
We had an awesome tour guide this morning. He took us all over campus and we got to see some really cool things. Braxton loved all the technology available in the ILC. Tanner was enthralled with the Art department. Personally, I liked the library. Our tour guide knew a lot about the history of BSU and kept the boys entertained with stories of what used to be. Shayne saved the best for last.
Our final stop: Smurf Turf. The football team wasn't practicing so we were able to walk out onto the field.
This is cool tour guide, Shayne, on the field with Tanner and Braxton. Then he let them run up and down the field. They discovered that the field is a lot bigger than it looks.
Potato Harvest - Day 6
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Spud Harvest- Day 5
Now, what are we going to do next week?
Friday, October 2, 2009
Patata Harverst - Day 4
The kids were pretty good while we were hiking all over this property and I was imagining a house somewhere and a floating dock and canoes and paddle boats. I'm not sure where Braxton was when I took this picture. I think he was running around behind the lake/pond to see where the water came in from.
Seriously thinking about this property today.... Could be fun.