Hole In the Wall 4th

I didn't have any grocery money left to get something special for the 4th of July. It would have been nice to have something special but we get by on the usual. There's fire works at
Athens High football field that I was going to see if Frankie's family wanted to go see, but since Frankie is scheduled for neck surgery Mon., July 7th, they decided it would be best if they didn't do any traveling right before the operation. I'm not interested in going. We'll just watch some fire works on T.V.

Dad just drilled a hole in the wall of his bedroom to hang his ham radio on. He didn't have any room on his other bed. All the available spaces were filled with other important "stuff", so he'll lie on his computer bed to talk on the radio.

I colored and cut out 2 file folder games today. I now have 3 to be laminated. Last night I ordered 3 books of file folder games already colored, cut out and Velcro-ed and ready to go. The games were $3.00 a game and I got three books. They said if the books were already sold out, they would credit my account. If I get those books, I'll never have to make a file folder game again! Mary Kate said, "What if I didn't teach that class anymore?". Well, I'll never resign! They can't get me out! I'll never go quietly! Ha-ha! Why would a Primary Presidency want to get rid of a stellar teacher who will always be there? I am really beginning to enjoy the class. I just need to keep coming up with games and time fillers so everyone will be happy.

Garbage Day

At 4:00 PM I realized the garbage needed to be collected and put out for the neighbor boys to take to the road. That's a small thing but it is really appreciated because I have to take the garbage out to the road.

I went into town to get Dad's shoes from the cobbler. He was having them stretched bigger in every way. I went on to Wal-Mart to get some cereal and found another $6.00 blouse I liked. It's 99% cotton and is a true blue color. I like the green one I got the other day. I was also looking for a boom box for Primary. Wal-Mart didn't have anything that would play CD's and tapes. I got mine from Radio Shack. Mary Kate said to wait until she got here and we would find one. Primary doesn't have one and I don't know about the Ward library. It would be nice to play some music in class. I need to work on my lesson for Sun. I've got a lot done but need to study the body of the lesson more.

Middle of the Week

I went into town for the exercise class. I could tell I hadn't done those movements in a week! After the exercises, I came on home. I colored some file folder pictures. Karen came over at 1:00 PM and I finished up with my second game and we went to the Off Campus Book Store to get them laminated. Karen had some to get laminated too. After that, we went to this new store, Rue something or another, and I bought a purse that will act as a bag to carry the file folder games in. The tag said it was $9.99 but it rang up for $5.00! Then we came home and she showed me how to put the velcro on the folders. It was pretty simple! I sure wish the coloring wasn't so tedious (I think I've said that somewhere before...).

The Primary lesson is on Gratitude and one of the helps for the lesson said to talk about pets and how we are grateful for them. I decided the children would be grateful for birds! I cut out lots of pictures of birds from our bird catalogs (I thought children's scissors would have a hard time cutting the thin paper). I've got some card stock for the kids to glue the bird pictures to and I've got some pictures of our birds for them to look at. Plus, I have a real bird feather to give them. I think I'll add a basket to the large load I take to church each Sunday and we can toss the bean bags into the basket and tell what we are grateful for.

Early Morning Hours

I think I woke up at 3:30 this morning. I listened to the radio and then dozed until 7:00 AM. Got up and took a shower, got dressed, got Dad's breakfast and was on the road to Wal-Mart about 9:30 AM. I got the Velcro plus some card stock and then wandered over to the clothes... I got 2 blouses and some PJ's. On the way to check out, I saw some necklaces and earrings.....I spent a chunk of change when I only went for 2 items! That's okay. I feel good about my purchases.

I cut out and colored two of the file folder games. The next step will be laminating them. I have a lot more to color and cut out. I've started studying for my Sunday lesson. It's on Gratitude. The opening activity has the children coming up and taking a spoonful of water out of a container and putting it into a cup and telling one thing that they are grateful for. At first, I thought I would skip it, but then after I got in the kitchen and collected all of the objects, I knew the children would enjoy the activity. It will be messy but who cares?! I need to think of things I can do with bean bags. Maybe I will go see what Toys R Us has in the way of bean bag games. Surely, I can get something from the internet about it. That's what I'm going to do right now. Bye!

Good Day Again!

I didn't make it to the exercise class today. I'll have to set the clock to get me up at 7:00 AM. Then I'll be able to get dressed, get Dad's breakfast and then leave the house. I can walk in the building until 8:30 when the exercise begins.

I shopped at Wal-Mart this morning. Spent a lot on nothing much. Needed to get some sticky back Velcro but it wasn't on my list. I have to take Dad's new shoes to the shoe shop to get them stretched and they were closed today, so I'll go out tomorrow and then I'll get the Velcro.

I spent all afternoon copying File Folder games onto card stock. First, I had to learn how to use card stock in the copier. I copied one and then colored it. It took over an hour just to do that. Then, I began copying more pages and finally ended up with 6 complete games. The coloring is tedious. I think I have to cut all the pieces out before they are laminated. This is quite a project but I am enjoying it. If I'm going to teach the 5-6 year olds, I'm going to have to be prepared with games and things to take up the time I have after I give the lesson.

Sunday 3rd

I drove Sadie home Fri afternoon and had a nice visit with Trudy and George. I saw Carhartt and Benny. Benny is a standard black Poodle. He's still a pup but is quite large. It's funny to see little Carhartt play with a little dash hound! I got Carhartt in my lap and he fell asleep and it was a joy for me to be petting a dog again.

Saturday, I mainly vegged out. Making up for being on the go with Sadie.

Mary Kate told Frankie she couldn't come up for his operation, and she will be at our house the second week in July (I think this is right....I know she's coming sometime...) Maybe Trudy will be able to go to Knoxville for a couple of days. Dad is recovering from doing a lot of sitting and working on the Ham radio. Tonight is the MARA net where he calls in to all the men who are Ham operators too. Hopefully, he'll be able to use the new radio.

My Primary class went okay. I'll be the teacher for a while or maybe forever. I had all the children on the roll, 5, plus a visitor making 6 children. The lesson was the Savior is the Good Shepherd and I had cut out pictures of lambs for each child. I took cotton balls and glue and we glued "fur" on the lambs. The kids liked that. I tried to tell them to pull the cotton balls apart but the girls already knew what they wanted the lamb to look like and almost used all of the cotton balls before the boys even got started! I had a puzzle for them to put together and they liked that and Trudy had loaned me a memory game she had made and they liked that. We were still playing the game when the bell rang. Some lady , who is here for the summer, will be coming into my room to help in some way. Don't know if she'll be teaching too or what. I told Karen that I wanted to make some of the file folder games and she's coming over Wed. and we'll start making some. I might enjoy teaching this class after all if I can just find enough things for the children to do during the time I have them.

Sadie to Hazel Green

Went to See Dr. Sharp yesterday. He's started me on another antidepressant, can't think of the name of it, I've taken it before. I hope this makes me feel "normal". After the Dr., we went to Hobby Lobby and Sadie picked out a paint-by number set and I had the 40% off coupon, plus I got a big denim bag for Primary stuff. I got some play doh but I don't think it is on the list of approved materials. The kids would love it, though.

I made a cake and Sadie is frosting it now. I think it is her official birthday cake, since she didn't have one. She'll take it home with her so Dad and I won't be tempted to eat it all at one sitting!

Frankie is to have his neck operated on July 7th in Knoxville. He's asked Mary Kate to come up and help with his family while he's in the hospital. She'll come here for a few days and then go to Frankie's house. I'll be taking Sadie home in a little bit.