I thought I would just sit down and try to recap the week...altho I must say I am having trouble balancing the "web log" with my journal... which I really feel a need to keep up; but I guess I am hoping doing this is a way to communicate with all those I love...hopefully:)
Monday morning started with a 5:15 a.m. alarm just to make sure I got up and was ready to leave at 6 for Salem for a music teachers' workshop, "Twixt & Tween," which sounded worth the somewhat immense effort to get there and back:) Just as I headed towards the door I got a phone call from Dean Burks' husband, John - quite upset over the fact that the day before (Sunday) there had been a number of "unauthorized" visitors to Dean while he was there with her at Rose Haven. I felt great guilt for not having made a phone call Friday evening to let him know that while I was there on Friday, 2 sisters from the ward stopped in to see Dean. I had shared with them his desire that Dean not have other than specified visitors because he felt it interfered with her therapy and also could be quite hard on her, and had thought that would hopefully take care of it. But, found out from them that another young sister in the ward works at Rose Haven and SHE had been the one to tell them. I had thought I should share that with John, but then Friday, Saturday and Sunday had been very full and I had not done it. Soo.. the 6 a.m. phone call. I shared what had happened and suggested we have our RS Pres send out an e-mail telling everyone the situation and making it plain that there were to be no visitors. He agreed and I ended up calling and arranging that once we got to Salem (it seemed too early before that).
I picked up another teacher - a little late, because of the phone call - and we headed to Salem. Next time I can sleep a little longer; we got there almost a half hour early after leaving a half hour after we had planned! We really enjoyed it and learned a lot. While waiting for the other teacher to finish going through some music I called John back to let him know what I had done; unfortunately, he had received the e-mail (along with everyone else) and it did not meet with his approval. I guess I should have waited and done it myself once I was home; our poor RS president probably did not appreciate the phone call she got from him:( He is very sensitive about a lot of things, is an avowed atheist and truly has no understanding at all of our church "culture" - as Devennie Lander put it today when we were talking, it is like walking on eggshells. I try to reassure him and to stay in good communication so that I can continue to see my friend, Dean. It gets hard at times.
So - that was Monday, except for coming home to do what chores I could manage and making dinner. Also - I have finished entering the Freedom 200 stuff into quickbooks (Yea!); now I need to spend a couple more hours (hopefully no more) making sure all the numbers balance. Maybe next week we will get our taxes for 2008 filed; that would be amazing - and a great relief:)!
Guess I won't try to go through all the days...takes too long. Suffice it to say it has been long, full of lots of work - and kind of hard. Yesterday I worked really hard so that I could pick up Dad about 4:30 so we could go to Medford together. We ate sub sandwiches on the way down, taking turns driving, checked into a motel when we got there, and went over to the temple. We have been trying to go at least once a month, but I am hoping to increase it to twice a month... On the way down we re-read Elder Richard G. Scott's conference address concerning the temple; I had read it one morning at breakfast and made notes about things to remember - so, re-read those notes too and then tried very hard to apply them while in the temple. It was well worth doing; I recommend the article and its advice to all of you:) It was a beautiful evening.
We returned to the motel and did a few things before going to bed; awakened this morning with a 5:00 a.m. wake-up call. I am really not fond of those:( We ate the breakfast I had brought with us and headed out to the church Pear Orchard; our stake was providing a goodly number of pear pickers today. It was cool and nice and the trees were loaded with pears. We worked from 6:30 until 11:00 and I was glad to see 11 come, feeling my energy ebb. Unfortunately for me the walk back to the car was quite long (we didn't see any of the "trams") and by the time we got to the car I knew I had surpassed my limits. I rested in the car while Dad went to get a few "gleaned" pears for us to take home; when he came back we headed homeward. I was pretty wiped out for the first few hours after getting home but am feeling a little better now, thankfully:)
Happy Birthday to Patrick on Monday:)! (I hope Abby enjoys his birthday at least half as much as she enjoyed hers:)!
This is probably not very interesting... but I would like to hear what each of you is doing, interesting or not - so feel free to share:)
Love you so much,
Mom O
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