Beneath the Wraps

                Jenna is supposed to return to school this morning.   Thus far the buses have been delayed for two hours because of the frozen roads.   Last time I got the same message (over a year ago) school ended up being canceled altogether.   It's hard being off for two weeks and try to go back to a routine - at least for me.   Roland didn't seem to have a problem with it, and Jenna has been ready to return to school since before her vacation was over.   She was dressed and ready to leave the house since 5:30 this morning.                 I checked on my class just once yesterday.   I decided to save the lectures and posting for today.   I planned to do so just after she left the house, which she hasn't done yet and may not depending on the conditions on the road.   I'm afraid she may f...

                When we lived in Kearns, Jenna and I had taken many walks.  Often we had a destination.  One of her absolute favorite places to go was Big Lots.  Thus whenever we happen to see a Big Lots, it brings back good memories for us and we have to stop in. Kearns Shopping Center         We haven't experienced even half of Roseburg.  We seemed to be locked into our routine of what few places actually bring us to Roseburg. There is a Big Lots in Roseburg, but it doesn't fall into our average drive and thus has been overlooked - even non-existent until one day in November when we just happened to be taking a different route.          "Is that a Big Lots?"  I asked Roland.  "Can we go there?"         We were there for gift tags specifically,...

          Two days after Christmas, I put Jenna to work in her room with the condition that we would take many breaks (I was also doing household chores - washing the kitchen and doing laundry.)   I asked Jenna if she wanted both of us to color in the book I gave her.   But she realized that pictures were printed on each side of the page - which would interfere with cutting out - so we started making photocopies, and I realized that I would have another project of scanning book material in order to preserve it, but would have to wait until Jenna headed back to school.           First break: we started coloring what few pages we had scanned.   Roland even joined for one picture during his break.   We started coloring before reading any of the stories, and Jenna wondered aloud if it might make a difference.   After I had grown weary of coloring, I read through some of t...

                As I mentioned, there seemed to be a game theme going on . . . and of course what Christmas does not come with duplicate gifts?   As I have mentioned on a few posts, we left West Valley and came to Oregon ahead of schedule.   We left behind so many games.   We even had two games of Sequence -  one of Richard's favorites, and I hadn't brought either.   When Jenna and I saw Sequence at   a 2nd hand store, we purchased it for Roland - unaware that Tony and Rochelle would also be sending a Sequence game.   Perhaps it is our lot in life to have two.                 Biff and Jen had sent two games that seemed pretty identical - 5 second rule for Jenna which comes with a 5 second timer and a deck of card with a topic on each side and the player (or team) has five second...

                After the book sale had started last month, I was drawn to two books in particular.   One was a hard bound and the other softbound.   The softbound was an art book that outlined some popular artists and gave a synopsis of their style and background perhaps . . . I hadn't actually investigated through it thoroughly.   The book was in great condition and a subject I knew Roland would be familiar with.                        The hard bound had originally been published in 1963, but I purchased the 18th edition published in 1971.   Same pictures and cover as the original edition I would imagine.   I wondered if one of my granddaughters might like it, but as   I viewed the many naked pictures inside, I thought of Jenna who loves to color.   So I purchased...

            Our bishop read passages of scripture and would pause for a hymn to fit with the scripture.   It reminded me of the many times our family joined Birds for their annual Christmas pageant.   For the longest time, I had played Mary as I was the only girl. The narrator would read passages of scripture and Peggy would direct the cast on what to do, and we would sing carols to fit in with the setting.   Over the years some things were added, like Samuel the Lamanite and his prophecies.   But that wasn't until after my niece had taken over the role of Mary.               I enjoyed playing Mary and was not at all humble about having been replaced as other families had been invited to participate.   Ellen became bored with playing Mary and was ecstatic when the opportunity was given to another.       ...