I just finished these two over the weekend. I read The Holy Invitation (***) several years ago, but this was my first time reading The Holy Covenants (*****). Nicky will be going through the temple to receive his endowment in a few weeks, and I am brushing up on my temple knowledge and trying to teach him a lot. I bought both of these books for Nicky, but I know he’ll never read them, so I read them and highlighted some passages that I think will be good for him in hopes that he will at least review those things.
Wearing: shorts. I got my stash out from under my bed because we’re starting to have some warm days.
Annoyed by: the youth having to door greet on Sundays (see General Handbook 29.2.1.3). My daughter is in charge of coordinating this each week by herself, and she has a complete meltdown every Sunday morning over it. It’s an unnecessary assignment that puts additional burdens on my kids, and I don’t like it.
Craving: street tacos with fixings (lime, cilantro, and onion).
Buying: a hand tiller for my garden. I need to stir me some soils!
Eating:. I was in a baking mood today, so I made banana bread and egg bites (froze the egg bites for future breakfasts)
Singing: “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears.
Worried about: Zoe going to junior high. Please don’t make her go!
Suffering from: neuropathy pain in my feet.
Watching: a little bit of everything until I find “The One.”
Dreading: sleeping tonight. I don’t like going to bed. Nights are miserable. I wake up too much.
Buying: Purple pillows (the brand, not the color). Nicky won a $200 gift card to Living Spaces from the radio station, and he gave it to me (18 year old boys leaving on missions don’t need much from a furniture store). I scoured the store to find something, and $200 doesn’t really get you anything there. I decided to buy some pillows, but they didn’t have the ones I wanted in stock, so I ordered them online. I feel ridiculous spending that much money on pillows, especially since I love the pillows I already have, and they are $10 a piece at Sam’s Club.
Proud of myself for: getting the garden planted over the weekend. It was no small task. Nicky was home for a few hour on Sunday (a rare treat), and he helped me out a ton. He kept asking what he’d be able to eat from the garden before he leaves on his mission. The answer was NOTHING! unless you want to eat some mint leaves from our mint plant that refuses to be killed.
Drinking: water and Diet DP, but I’m thinking about quitting again… ya know… for like a week…
Enjoying: any minute that Nicky gives us.
Sick of: using a CPAP. I haven’t slept with it for about two weeks. So many people who use one tell me how much it has improved their sleep. I’ve never gotten to that point. I’m due for a replacement mask, so I might try a different kind and see if there’s something that works better for me than my current setup.
Listening to:
Loving: any time Daisy does something with friends and enjoys herself. Her social life has been very complicated. I’m not sure that it’s any more complicated than the average teenage girl, but it’s rough sometimes.
Hoping: that Daisy keeps in touch with friends over the summer and hangs out with them regularly. Last summer I don’t think she did a single thing with friends except for the boy she was “unofficially dating” (that ended back in November after a nine month “relationship,” and it has been so hard).
Wanting: a clean house and a day to do whatever I want. The problem is, I don’t know what I would do on a day to do whatever I want, so I would spend the entire time trying to figure out what I want to do.
Feeling: like I’m on an emotional roller coaster.
Needing: to use up a bunch of food in our freezers - including a ton of frozen fruit. I’m a frozen fruit hoarder because any time we don’t use up our fruit before it starts to get too ripe, I bag it and throw it in the freezer. I have frozen bananas and berries galore. We need to have smoothies and make Yonanas everyday for a month.
Grateful: that Daisy has decided not to go to the upcoming school dance. She also didn’t go to prom, and it’s so nice to not have to deal with dance drama!
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