And also thanks to Adina and Tracey for posting....I'm glad I have such great daughters-in-law or the blog really would be dead...Mike, Dave, Brent and Tom...you need to do your part too.

So much for my nagging. I am leaving tomorrow morning to go down to SD to see Marnie, Tom & Tracey and kids. It will be fun to see their new house. Dad is coming down late tomorrow...right before midnight! He said that if the flight is delayed or canceled he just won't come as we are leaving to come home on Sunday evening. I think Marnie and I are going for a run/walk on the beach tomorrow...and may take in a movie or whatever she wants to do.

Our painter is still working away. We finally got the right color for the background to the cupboards in the kitchen. We started out with blue but it looked horrible against the cupboards. We then switched to a color that looked grey but turned out to look lavender on the walls...horrible! So Wednesday he repainted it "Almond" which is kind of a grey green. He's doing the family room today which is an earthy gold (Oak) It really coordinates well with the cupboards and kitchen. I think I may go ahead and use the colors that did not work in the kitchen for the spare bedrooms...we'll see!!!

I am on the committee for the trek food so I spent two hours today cutting onions up for a dutch oven meal. My eyes just poured with the first onion...but by the third or fourth one either my tears had run out or I was immune. The rest of the time wasn't bad at all. I walked up to her house and back...up the big hill on 29th so I got my walk in today! I have a bunch of "hard tack" to make next week. Fun!!!

I need to go over to Grandma Esther's this afternoon to visit and change her bandages. I'm trying to do that as much as possible since I am the one who has to answer for it at the doctor's. Her foot sores are really gross!! She is also more and more confused and upset...I wish she was just confused and happy but she keeps wanting to leave. We're trying to get the right medication to calm her down but have not found anything yet that really works. Yesterday she was having a really hard time feeding herself...kind of new problem there!

I'm working on getting a database together for my recipes as they were all a mess in the cupboard. It'll take a while at the rate that I am going!!!

By the way, I will be teaching seminary. They have someone who taught this year that doesn't want to next year but is willing to sub for the time I will be gone...6 weeks at the minimum!! Brooke, I am planning on coming for two weeks after the baby. I'm thinking that will land in the first part of November. Keep me posted on your mother's plans...I can come anywhere from October 22 to November 28 but can only be gone two weeks. I think I'll be teaching the junior class at Bliss Rd. (For Kim, that is Barbara Lay's old class. She has been battling cancer so can't teach any more.)

Love to all...and Happy early Father's Day to all our dad's!!!

Love,

Mom