As today was a holiday from public school we had the kids today also because it was Nathan's weekend.
Luckily we got to sleep in some because we did not have to be to the office early. We woke about 7:45 a.m. and as the kids were still sleeping we read our scriptures and said our prayers together and then we began to fix breakfast. The smell of bacon of course brought the kids awake. We made pancakes and bacon and eggs. Most of the kids wanted chocolate milk with their breakfast. Some of them would not eat the eggs because we cooked them in bacon grease and they had brown spots in them. They sure tasted good though.
The kids and Nathan watched a My Little Pony movie about the Equestrian Girls for a while after as Nathan tried to organize them into what they needed to do this morning. He wanted to work with Isaac on his requirements for his Bear Badge and so he let the others watch the movie while he tried to work with Isaac. They eventually finished the one on Famous Americans with help from Larry and I. Isaac was having a hard time concentrating with the movie on.
Then he took all the kids out to his van and they helped him clean it on the inside. They are getting pretty good at it as they have done it several times now. That is when Larry and I took the time to get our showers and get dressed.
Maggie was hungry at about 11:30 a.m. because she didn't finish her breakfast so we had lunch. Most of the kids wanted chocolate milk and popcorn but the rest of us had left over calazones from Saturday night and hamburgers from Sunday night.
When they came in they put another movie on and we watched it during lunch and Nathan was trying to work with them but it wasn't working very good. Larry and I went in the bedroom until the Movie was over. At that time Larry had to go to the mission office to get the vans and trailers that they use for transfers.
When the movie was over I suggested that we turn off the movies and work on the Pinewood Derby cars that the kids had been excited to make all weekend. So we turned off the movie and Maggie, Sammy, and Isaac began to draw the picture of what they wanted their car to look like. Sammy drew a picture on the paper and then got very upset when Nathan asked him to draw it on the car. Nathan asked him to draw it with the wheel sites up and he was really upset because then the wheels wouldn't work. Nathan has built many championship cars so he patiently explained that they could make new wheel sockets so then Sammy calmed down just to get upset because he did not know how to draw the picture on the block of wood. When I offered to help him he calmed down again.
When it was time to cut them I realized that I would have to do the cutting and as I had never worked with the hand saw that Nathan had I was a little apprehensive. I called Larry to see if he could come and help me but of course he couldn't so I went to the garage and got some clamps of Nathan's out and clamped the wood to the outside porch railing and started sawing. Before that I had to say a prayer for courage but after about an hour of sawing I finally had all three cars cut out. I got as many points on my active link as if I had walked a half hours so I guess it was worth it.
Nathan had the kids file the cars smoother and then they decided to stop for today. Then they put on another movie. I worked a little at uploading pictures for the blog and looking at Facebook on my phone but I was really tired.
It was really warm today in the 60's so I like San Antonio in the winter. I remembered that the kids wanted to go to the hot tubs to swim for a while so I asked Nathan if he wanted to do that but he thought that we did not have enough time. So he paused the movie and had the kids clean up all their stuff from the living room and put it away in his bed room. Then I started to make dinner. I specifically asked the kids what they wanted and made what they wanted but Isaac decided his was not good and Maggie decided she didn't want hers either because I had put on a Yo Gabba Gabba for her to look at while I made it and the other meals. It was a little frustrating.
Larry came home just as we were finishing fixing the dinner. I felt like I was a chicken with it's head cut off running around to all the demands of Grandma fix this and Grandma fix that. I was glad to see him.
We got the kids ready after dinner and then we took them home. We thought that we had thought of everything and then when we got back there sat Maggies dance bag that her mother will need for next week. So I put that and some papers from Primary on the snack bar and thought we would take it for Thursday when we had the kids. Larry and I were really tired so we got ready and went to bed at 8:30 p.m. Shortly after that I got a text from David saying that he had left his wallets with his military ID in them by the end of the table and so after thinking about it for a while I decided to take them to them tonight as I hate getting up earlier in the morning than we already do. So I took all the things to Converse, a half hour trip one way, tonight so that they would have them in the morning. Somewhere along the way I got the courage to write down what we did today for the blog.
When I got home Nathan had showered and wanted help getting in bed. So I helped him and wrote this and now I am going to do the same.
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