Not the usual kind of post.

This blog is no longer about the day to day things, but sometimes it helps me to do a review of the week to see where we have been and where we are headed. Here is how we spent our evenings last week.

Monday: We attended the high school musical, Cinderella to support three young men that we know. One was in the orchestra pit and two were on stage.

Tuesday: Richard worked from home and I attended a Relief Society dinner. I prepared rolls, and for the first time in 13 years of dinners in this ward, I went home with an empty container. You can’t imagine how this feels for me after so many rejections. 😂

Wednesday: I prepared 4 batches of pizza dough for a young men activity at another home where Richard was in charge of pizza night. He shopped for all the ingredients and had quite an array for the boys to make personal pizzas. They had fun.

Thursday: Richard worked, and I probably worked on gifts. I had plans fall through to visit a friend.

Friday: Date to Zao for dinner and then a big Costco trip.

Saturday: We watched the BYU football game and I worked on Christmas card assembly.

Sunday: I finished our Christmas card assembly and Richard called his mom.

I am holding back panic about the demands for this coming week. I will just follow the well-worn plan for Thanksgiving and try to stay steady as I handle some extra things on the to do list.

Our charge

The article by President Russell M. Nelson from 2020, The Future of the Church: Preparing the World for the Savior’s Second Coming is amazing. It was listed in the Come Follow Me study guide for Doctrine and Covenants 133. Here are a few passages that I marked.

I have been thinking about building physical, emotional, and spiritual reserves that can buffer me against stress.

The thing about building a reserve, whether it is financial, spiritual, or physical, is that it is done with consistent, small acts over a sustained period of time.

We can do that. We must do it. There are things during these challenging times that, with God’s help, “only members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can accomplish.”

baby boy quilt

This is another recent project, a quilt for a baby boy. I had to hurry to make this gift, so I took the week to sew in my free time. It’s ready!

I am working on Christmas gifts here and there and up and down throughout the house. Shhhh. I have so many secrets.

Two films we enjoyed

It seems like films are getting saltier with language lately. These are exceptions to that trend.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is an independent film with lots of original folk music and an endless stream of comedic moments along with poignant back stories for the characters. Just a quirky, sweet film.

The C.S. Lewis story is a monologue of Lewis’s writings. The actor who plays the aged C.S. Lewis walks through scenes from his life played by other actors, offering commentary about different events that led to his conversion to Christianity. The end scene that takes place in a church I replayed several times. It was beautiful.

Baby girl quilt

This quilt has been sitting unfinished in a cupboard for 8 months. My friend had a baby shower this weekend so it was time to finish it, and I’m happy with the final result. Lots of handwork went into this one.