Well, I just experienced what others have complained of….writing a long and involved blog only to have it disappear when you try to publish…..Groan!!!  It really does sap your energy after all that thought and cleverness (Actually it was really a fairly boring recitation of what I have been up to this last week but since you can’t read it, I can pretend that it was clever)

In looking for how to recover it, I discovered a thing you can download so that you can blog in Word and publish it directly into the blog.  It puts a toolbar so that you can link to the blog.  Pretty nifty.

To more briefly communicate my ramblings, I have had a busy three days.  We went up to Utah last weekend to take in two of Annie’s games…We also had a birthday dinner at the Cannon’s for Marnie….very fun!   Anne’s team won one match and lost the other.  (They won against Wyoming yesterday!  Yea!!!!)  We returned on Tuesday afternoon….Dad took care of the financing details on the Corvette to get a better interest rate and David and the kids came over for hot dogs, a fire, and hot tubbing. It is so fun to have them close!  (Adina was playing bunko with some neighbors)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday…..I attempted to clean up the house amidst a Art Museum trip, a visit to my old company, Westfarm Foods, to see my friends there, Mutual at our house for the young men, a book club, a trip to the temple for Stake temple night and various other errands.  I’m not sure how I could make time for gainful employment.  My life is filling up and I like the flexibility!  Plus my visit to Westfarm confirmed the correctness of my decision to leave….what a nutso place!!!

David and Adina and the kids brought over delicious steaks and corn on the cob last night which matched up with my baked potatoes to make a great dinner.  Treven and Kim came over after dinner and we watched “Kicking and Screaming”.

I need to go get in the shower…very soon…since I need to be at Isaac’s soccer game by 10:30 in Camas. I then will go to half of Taylor’s game  and I’ll go off to the Lion King with David’s family and Kim.  An implant course, mandatory, at work came up for Dad so we had an extra ticket.   We originally planned for Jane or Sadie to take it but Brooke is over at the coast camping with Adam and Mindy and all the rest of the clan.  I’m sure they are having fun, if a little damp fun!!!

Dad and I will go to the adult Stake Conference tonight and then to the “live” broadcast one tomorrow…then take off for Utah to exchange the Z for the Corvette.  Very crazy!!!  I thought I had filled up Dad’s time enough to make him too busy to consummate his dream…Silly me!!!  You’d think that I would learn something in 36+ years.

I’m hoping that we will have a weekend home at some point.  Next weekend is Sean’s wedding in San Francisco!

Love you all,
Mom