This Week at Our House # 12

Mostly it was a good week. School went well, the kids are doing well. We had a little dessert for Ruth's birthday, though I am sure that I am not going to eat dessert every time I have a child away from home for his or her birthday, but the kids wanted to celebrate. Then we had to deal with the big mess with our church records and are back to the ward that takes an hour to get to. All I can say is that I detest bureaucracy.

1. John had two interviews and has a huge project requested for another possible job. So while none of these may work out, it always feels good to have something happening, after months of silence.
2.  My good kids are such a comfort to me in times like this. 
3. Ruth had a birthday. We will get to hear how it went Monday or Tuesday when she emails us.
4. Kate is moving along in reading the History of Church. Now if I have a question about church history or a quote from Joseph Smith, I can go to Kate and she knows all the details or looks up the full letter or sermon from Joseph Smith and reads it to me.
5. John has been having Johnny work much harder on computer stuff. He will work with Johnny late into the evening and on Saturday. I think this is good Johnny, though, because it is job training.
6. Adam tries very hard to shirk his school work. Thankfully, John is on my side about keeping him on task.
7. One cold afternoon Rachel, Anya, Adam, Joseph, Josh, and Arwen made a tent city in our home. I heard Rachel and Anya begging to move into Adam's tent and Adam saying they had too much stuff, but the Rachel squeezing her way in with what she said, "not that much stuff". They did clean it all up without much nagging, so I did not mind.
8. Anya helps me hang out the laundry everyday. She turns the clothes right side out and hands them to me with a clothespin. I like having her company.
9. We had a cold week and Joseph ran around and around and around. It is weeks like these that our house seems small. But it will warm up and he will want to run around outside again.
10. Joshua talks a lot. He has so much to say about anything and everything. It's cute, but he does not have an off button.
11. Arwen is reading her books well now. It's really cute to see her hold her books with her cute dimpled hands and point to each word. If she doesn't know a word, she says all the sounds and keeps reading without saying the word.
12. Susan still says she is Lila. She liked the tent city idea and she and Arwen have built smaller versions since the big one.
13. Sam had another grumpy week. I miss my happy baby, but have had enough babies to know that they go through stages and that is normal. He is just unhappy that he can't climb everything and break everything.

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