January 18th and before

Maggie's dance class this week

We had Nathan's kids this weekend.  There have been some good moments but for the most part Maggie is upset about something and she has been telling me and Nathan and Larry that she hates us all weekend from time to time.  I guess she has finally figured out that the arrangement of going to dad's ever other weekend and on Thursday's is permanent.  She told Nathan last time they were here that he needed to come back to the house and not live with Grandma and Grandpa.  This time she just kept telling us that she wanted to go home.  Divorce is hard on kids.

We have a later church now that the new year has come.  We go at 11:00 a.m.  so you would think that we could get to church on time.  Today was one of the most embarrassing days of my life and it was mostly my fault.  We got up early and fixed breakfast for the kids.  Then we all showered and got ready for church.  I thought it was about 10:00 a.m. so I decided to get some hot dogs for the kids so they would not be hungry at church.  All of a sudden Nathan got upset and said we have to go and we looked at the clock and it was 10:58 a.m. and we have to drive 20 minutes to church.  David had to speak in church in Sacrament meeting and we were late!!!! We hurried and got in the van and drove there.  Nathan texted the Bishop that we were coming.  When we got there they were singing and I thought it might be the sacrament song but it turns out it was the intermediate hymn.  We walked in and David walked up to the stand.  I was proud of him.  Then the song ended and the Bishop got up and announced that David would be speaking.  He gave a good talk.  He did not act nervous and talked appropriately.  But I cannot remember ever being that late to Sacrament.  The High Counselor talked after him but I cannot remember what he talked about.  I have forgotten.  But I was so impressed with David.  He could have not wanted to go up and such but he just walked up and gave his talk.

Maggie on the Second row in the purple

We had a great lesson on the importance of Prayer in Relief Society.  The Spirit bore witness to me that we needed to have better Family Prayer together.  I was so excited but then we went home and everyone kind of went off and did their own thing and I couldn't seem to get myself to do anything about it.  Later it seemed that Satan was laughing at me.  I got a very dark feeling and had a hard time shaking it.

In the afternoon the kids and I played a game of Life and that was fun.  I feel like we need to do more of things together but for this week it seemed that Larry and Nathan were off wanting to do their own thing.

Saturday we slept in but we had to get Maggie to dance at 10:00 a.m. so we finally got going and she was actually a little early.  Sara met us there with her dance shoes because she had forgot them the night before when she brought the kids.

After going to dance with Maggie, Nathan wanted to go and get the kids bank accounts so we went to the Chase Bank close to us because Nathan is banking with Chase.  He worked with the guy and we just waited and tried to watch the kids.  It seemed like it took them forever.  At least an hour and a half.  I don't know what took so long but by the time we got out of there it was almost 1:00 p.m.  The kids and I were hungry and we were all tired.

But, Larry and Nathan decided to go get gas and go through the car wash.  That took another half hour at least.  But then we went to the Dairy Queen.  I love Dairy Queen but going there signals eat ice cream in my mind and heart so I had to get a blizzard.  When I looked up the points I found out that the one I got was 22 points and it was a small!!!!  I forgot that they have mini's and they are more economical for points.

Nathan worked with the kids on some scout things and we watched some movies in the evening on Saturday.

I don't remember what we did on Monday and Tuesday of the week.  We were working on getting caught up still.  We went to Weight Watchers and I lost a little but it was not as much as I gained the week before.

Wednesday we worked with the office again.  In the evening we went to take the kids to Scouts.  We have started picking up Sammy and Isaac and then going to get Maggie from school.  That way we can get Isaac to Bear's on time because it takes Sara so long to get all of them.  She picks up David at his school and then meets us at the church and we give her Sammy and Maggie and she gives us David.  Then we go help in the Family History Center while they are in Scouts.  Wednesday night no one showed up even though they said that they would.  So Larry and I worked on some things on our families.  I was frustrated because I went on Family Tree and someone had marked my Mom and Uncles Reed and Lynn and Aunt Hilda as deceased even though they are very much alive.  So I called Mom to make sure she was alive.  She was and she told me she would have told me if one of my Aunts and Uncles were dead.  I sent in a feedback on it for each of them and hopefully they are back alive but it was frustrating to me that someone would do that.

Thursday we went to Wounded Warriers Bingo Night with the kids.  We always have a good time.  Nathan was having a good time but then he won the Cow that they always have for one of the gifts and that seemed to give him a lift and help him feel better.

Thursday Nathan hired a lady from the ward to come and clean for us.  Then he had her take him to take the papers in to the base about his divorce.  He told Sara and she assumed that she had to take her ID into the office immediately and so they would not let her go get David so she was not able to pick up David from school because he goes to school on Randolph Air Force Base.  She was upset so it caused lots of problems getting the kids to Bingo night.  But we eventually got everyone there.  Sara had a rant on Facebook about it because she didn't see the things as Nathan did, so if you wondered what it was about that is that.

The next morning we had to get up at 5:30 and go out to take David to school because he had lost his ID.  Nathan got him an ID and then he bought him a wallet to keep it in with a clip and another wallet for other things.  Then we took him to school.

The kids came on Friday night and we had a home night David had wanted me to make a Cheesy Calazones recipe he found in a kids cookbook we have.  I made them and they tasted really good and some of the kids ate them but I have a feeling that they will not eat them again.  They are not real pizza even though they are made from the same ingredients.  But we love the kids and are so glad we have time to spend with them someday they will learn to like real food!!!