Trash day

Thursdays are trash days. It is picked up on Friday, but we have to get it out by Thursday night. Mission accomplished!

Dad's visit ( he looked up when to capitalize "dad" and when I use "dad" in place of his name, I capitalize the "d". When talking about any bodies dad, it would be a lower case letter. Does that make sense?) to the Dr. was uneventful. The Dr. didn't even charge him. Dad will go back if he needs to.

I went to the Blackburn center for Mary Rager's stamp sale. I bought one set and three small stamps. She had saved two punches for me and they were only $3.00 a punch so I got them too since she thought of me. I was looking for stamps to use with my Primary cards and I only found the one set. I'm running out of room in my room for much more stamping stuff. I guess I could empty out my dresser drawers to make more room! I've made several cards for the Primary kids. I don't take a lot of time in them because I know the kids don't care if the card took me an hour to make; they are just glad to get a card!

Summer temperatures

It is June. The temps were in the 90's today. I didn't really notice until I walked to get the mail about 4 PM today. The wind was hot and dry.

Got to the exercise class today. I'm thinking about going out to the Easts Limestone annex on Fridays. I really need the exercise. I get no exercise at home. After class, I went to get my chest X-ray done so it could be sent to the Dr's office. I have an appointment with my oncologist next week. After that appointment, I'll just see him once a year. I guess I've been seeing him every 6 months since 2003. I've been cancer free for 5 years now. I hope I never have to go through that experience again. Tomorrow, I take Dad to the colon Dr. for a re-visit. Seems like we spend a lot of time at Dr.'s offices! I've been getting Gert out of his cage a little bit every night. He's still a bit, or a lot, skittish, but I hope the more I get him out, the more he will relax. The birds need to go to the vet to get their nails cut

I'm reading through old Friend magazines to find stories I can read to my Primary class. They seem to like to have stories read to them and it takes up time. I found a good web site sugar doodle.com but I don't know how to navigate the site. My computer skills are slow to develop. Trudy is coming over Sun. and she can teach me some things while she is here.

Vote Day

We waited to go vote until 2 PM because dad wanted to take his PC to Staples to this dude who could fix it. We voted and then stopped by Dr. Walker's office for a prescription adjustment and then by the bank and then to Staples. It's good that dad's getting someone else to fix the PC because he had spent a lot of time trying to do it himself and couldn't do it. The young man didn't charge all that much either.

While in Staples or rather when we were walking out, I saw a lady that looked like Marie Maro. I didn't stop because we were going out but she was parked in front of us. As she came out, dad spoke to her. Later, she called and we talked for a long time. She really likes the Fayetteville Ward and is happy there.

We are planning to get another storm door for the front door. The old one looks so ratty! I'm surprised the neighbors haven't taken up a collection for us to get a new door! We were both too tired to go to Lowe's today while we were out. I want to get a new door knob too. I want one that has a lever instead of a knob you have to turn.

Monday, Monday #2

Woke up at 5:00AM for my bathroom break and was able to doze until 7:00 when I got up. I got up before dad did and got the birds going, but I forgot Rickki. Oh, well, win some, lose some and forget some. I got ready for the exercise class and went. My body was cooperating today all except my knees! I thought I had an appointment with Dr Shergy . In fact. I had him down for three dates! I called and found out the correct time I go to see him, which is the 18th.

Can't believe it's June already. Time flies whether you're having fun or not. In July, Frankie and his family may visit and Mary Kate and her family are coming around the 7th. It's always fun for family to visit. I hate the cooking part of it, though. Since I never cook anything except beans, I can't cook anything anymore. I won't try a new recipe because if Frank doesn't like it, what do I do with all of the food? Mary Kate and Trudy are always good at helping me in what to cook. When Forrest was over, he went shopping with me and told me what he wanted. That was fun because then I could cook food and know that someone would like it.

Frank finally got the blog addresses of Trudy and Mary Kate and me. He's been missing a lot by not reading them. Now I have to watch out about what I say! Ha-ha-har!

Late Sunday Night

It is late Sunday night and I'm just now blogging. I lost track of the time, I guess. My Primary class only had 3 kids in it and one was a visitor. I get through with the lesson really fast because they don't give much feed back like older kids would, but I had a review game where they dropped a button on a card that had three colors on it and there were cards of the same colors and when the button dropped on a red, the child picked up the red card and I read the question. After playing that, we got the coloring pages and crayons out. They liked that. Then after they tired of coloring, I read two stories out of the Friend magazine and they seemed to like that. Then the bell rang and I was through. One of the girls, Megan,a 6 yr. old, who was in my class last week, drew a picture for me. I was sad to tell her I wasn't going to be her teacher. She is the daughter of the Ward mission leader and I've told him I will play for baptisms, so maybe I'll get to see Megan by herself again and can give her some loving attention.

I don't know.....

I learned I won't be teaching the 5-6 year olds in Primary, but will be teaching the 4-5 year olds! Now, I'll have 6 in my class instead of 4. It'll be another "1st" tomorrow in teaching the young kids. I'll have name tags again. I know about3-4 of the kids names and will learn the others tomorrow. I already know that one little girl isn't used to coming to church and doesn't know how to sit still very long. I might not want to sit still very long either! I hate 1st times. I want to know what's going to be going on before it happens.

Slow day today. I made one card and cut four packs of new paper into card size and then folded three of the packs into cards. That took about an hour and I going to go get the mail now. Dad's been doing his pills and hooping and hollowering with the birds. No wonder people in our family go crazy! I'm putting my name back on the list to go to the "home" any day now.

Studying For Sunday

I had a Dr. appointment in H'ville so Trudy met me at the Drs. office and picked Forrest up. We had such a good time with him here.

Last Sunday was the first time I taught my Primary Class. I have the 5-6 year olds. It was an eye opener! Children are very different than they were years ago. They are more lively than I ever remember. I think I was in shock during and after my class! One little boy is hyper X's three. I had the lesson well prepared and didn't use my book but I still ran out of time. Trudy brought me over some Friend magazines and I will be prepared to read them stories after my lesson is over. I have a review game to play Sun. and some activity games for them and I will review the lesson from last week. Hopefully, that will take some of the time up. I have the 4 children for 50 minutes. We might walk around the church building again this week if I have too much time left over. I have never taught such young children before. I can love them and always be there to teach them, but only the Spirit can teach these little ones. I'll spend most of tomorrow and Sat. learning my lesson and tying up loose ends. I hope it gets easier as I go along, 'cause it's a bit nerve wracking now!