Beneath the Wraps

25 Random Things Created in 2009 1. I Love having caller ID 2. My faith is often waivered 3. I enjoy rediscovering things through my five-year-old’s eyes  4. I have called the authorities on suspicious people seeming to be lurking around     my neighbors’ yards. One turned out to be a meter reader. 5. Fall is my favorite season with temperatures 60 – 70 degrees  6. I speak Spanish almost as well as my husband does –     I mean Spanglish 7. I don’t care for country music, but admire many performers of country music 8. Served a mission in the Virginia Roanoke mission; my first three areas are now in     three different mission boundaries 9. I have always liked peanut butter 10 I love to scrapbook 11 More than half of my music collection is Christmas songs 12 I remember rotary phones, phonographs (or record players), and a time when all      cars didn’t have seatbelts – let alone mandatory car seats 13...

                I had made contact with different family members about my plans of sending Jenna to Utah by herself to visit family and we would pick her up in August.   It had been a thought is all.   It's not that I was trying to get rid of her during the summer.   I just know that she's been homesick for her brothers and cousins and probably a week would not be enough for her.          She did want to march in the parade at the end of last month and this month - only this month didn't work out for anybody in the group except for Jenna.   We manned the booth instead.   Jenna and I had been assigned for the very first shift, and then she got recruited to stay (see here ).   Her actions certainly helped with funds but even better (in my opinion) was that it gave her   a confidence that she has somehow kept hidden for many years.   She enjoyed doing it, and she en...

          I was really impressed with the primary yesterday listening to their sweet voices sounding more like 30 children and not just less than 10.   The amount of awesome volume has impressed visitors as it often sounds like there are more than there are.           Our pianist teaches a Sunday school class as well as playing piano, and so she is often late getting in.   We chose to sing "I am a Child of God" a cappella.   It was beautiful - especially when Lily started off on her rendition - not taking away from the traditional version - but rather adding more beauty to the song.           Emily was a pill about giving her talk today.   After much prompting and a sad little girl who would not speak, the primary presidency asked the children to stack their chairs.   We still had 40 minutes left.   What?     ...

  This first one I was unable to do by myself.   I turned to the back and gave Jenna the page number and problem number and told her to give me a word.   I figured it out after that.   I was able to figure out the rest on my own. Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. Sometimes when people are generous in small, barely perceptible ways, it can change someone's life foever. Success, for some people, depends on becoming well known; for others, it depends on never being found out. Things are lost only when you're looking where they aren't. Politicians are the same all over the world.   They are always promising to build bridges even where there are no rivers. Cleaning your house, while your kids are still growing, is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing - Phyllis Diller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after - Anne Morrow Linbergh There is a right way an...

I do hope not to offend anyone in Myrtle Creek by calling their parade silly.  It's just that I am used to bands and floats (see here ) and spacing and not everything clumped together.  I certainly did take a lot of pictures - but not as many as I had the first year we lived here.  We did not even attend last year. The Friends of Myrtle Creek had marched in the Rodeo parade (see here ) on the 17th and had planned on walking in today's parade, but with manning the booths and lack of availability, it felt like their were too few to accomplish our desire - so we opted out.   I don't think the parade started on time.  Roland made certain we had ice cream as we had two years ago. The parade stared out with six firetrucks.  I evidently took nine pictures: most had passengers who threw candy.  Roland got a Frisbee from one thrower: followed by a series of monster trucks.  I took a picture of the first one:...