Spring Break

Last friday as I was leaving school, I was also making plans for what I was going to work on during spring break.
Work on my benefit quilt
Work on my R.S. quilt
Work on my online course which I am behind in.
Clean Jims room while he is visiting with the Barnes'
Go through boxes, repack many of the almost empty and not quite full ones.
Make bread
Make sourdough bread, Yes, I made a start last thursday.
Enjoy being home with my kids

On Sunday we had friends from church come for dinner, we made pizza and It was a fun evening.

On Monday I woke up and felt achy and stuffy and thought I would just take it easy and start on list on Tuesday.

Tuesday was worse, mid-morning I actually decided it would be worth a co-pay to see why I felt so awful.

Wednesday morning after paying that co-pay, I found out that I was suffering from Influenza A. Oh, yay. The nurse practitioner said to go home, get my kids out of school and quarantine ourselves for four days. Technically this was over by sat. nite, but I wanted to make sure We were all well and ready to start our lives again on Monday. So I called and asked the YW. pres to invite the R.S. into her Y.W. she was more than willing to do this. and we stayed home.

The funnest things we did as a family during my spring break,

We watched The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music. What fun, and what memories that brought back for both Tom and I of watching these with our families as kids.

I am back in school, today, though my kids are not, they have it off, do to Easter.
I was sick enough we did not make the traditional easter cookie that you make saturday nite and then leave in the oven overnite, and then eat in the morning. but it is a hollow cookiie. I think this is very sad, a couple of my kids were very sad and missed this annual experience. but Easter will happen again next year.

I did enjoy talking cake decorating with Carrie, as she was learning and growing in this area this last week.

Jim got back from his trip with Brian on Saturday Night, It is good to have him home.

Sunday

Sunday was a good day, we all went to bed early to get us ready for the time change.

We were up by 7:00 and eating breakfast, showering, getting dresses and all the fun stuff that getting ready for church entails.

Carie gave a talk in sacrament mtg about Lehi's dream, and I gave the lesson in R.S. Ooops, I forgot my book (on my desk where I studied it) with all the highlighted parts so I had to fake it, I think I did O.K. except I finished early. which ordinarily would not be a problem, but in our "twig" (my sister in law, Emily, says she thinks my branch is not big enough to be a branch, it's lucky to be a twig), did I mention that our branch/twig is too small to staff sunday school, so we only have church for two hours. Anyway on highcouncil sunday, we have a potluck so that after the highcouncilman drives an hour to get here and be here for the early meetings we feed him before he drives home. the primary is held in the same room where we hold the potluck with one of the classes meeting in the kitchen,

Tom took the leftover cowboy beans from dinner friday, and added more beans, and some cooked bacon, and a pack of polish sausages cut up and added a bit of BBQ sauce. He got several compliments. WE also took our "easy fruit salad"
a big box of vanilla pudding, a big can of fruit cocktail. and some chocolate chips. Several of the sisters commented on how wonderful chocolate was with the fruit. Who Knew?