Thursday May 6

First off, Happy Birthday Yesterday Jackie! Your non-birthday party tonight should be fun.

Busy/boring day yesterday. Proctored the AP English Lit and Composition Test. I'm not supposed to read, but Glen thought it would be OK if I worked on memorization. So I brushed up on my 13 Articles of Faith and some Spanish words. I think I'll go for "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" during today's US History test. Might just doodle.

Anyway, Eric had his final for his community college anthropology class. He came out chuckling. He was bluffing his way through the extra credit question, but he thinks he did OK on the rest of the test. I'm just glad I won't have to shuttle him back and forth twice a week anymore. Well, not until he starts classes in the fall.

The Nevada State Supreme Court was in Glen's theatre yesterday. Since yesterday was also opening night for his new play "Exit the Body" that meant Glen had to dismantle the entire set to clear off the stage...then put it up again after school to be ready for opening night. Once again, Glen wasn't sure if the students would be able to pull it all together, but they did. I'll be going on Saturday night.

In today's school announcements it says:

The Justices complimented CCHS, saying that we had a great school and that the questions students asked were the most thoughtful and intelligent questions they had encountered in the high schools they have visited.  Special thanks to Mr. Perazzo, ... Sarah Jamieson, and everyone else that helped in setting up and cleaning up the theater.

Ryan had his penultimate (second-to-last...I can't remember if it was in my blog or just in Andrew's emails that we discussed that word...) swim practice. His final meet is this Saturday in Carson. I'm so glad he's been participating in swimming.

Hannah went to the worm barn. Don't know if she stapled boxes, filled the cups with dirt, or counted the worms or all of the above.

Alex played with cousins.

Besides AP testing, chauffeuring the kids around, and not putting out any effort to make dinner, I listened to the School Board Meeting on my computer. I had gone to the meeting at Numa on Wednesday so I had had enough live drama for one week. I hope that things get settled soon. Will Alex stay at Numa? Will his cousins join him there? Will we switch him to EC Best? Don't know yet. I just hope everyone calms down and the best answer can be implimented.

I also created a new blog last night. This blog (treadingwater) is mainly for me to let my mom and sister (and anyone else who cares to take the energy to read it)  know what is going on with my family.

My new blog (my pensieve) is really mainly for me. I plan on posting about things I am currently learning...and the topic for right now is politics. Though come Ed Week in August I'm sure it'll be full of whatever I did there. I debated even mentioning that I had another blog, but then I thought there might be someone else interested in some of the things I am. So even though it is for me that I'm writing my second blog, I'm not opposed to others reading it.

http://mypensieve-beth.blogspot.com/

full week-church, work, friends, sports

Elders over for dinner on Monday. I survived. So did the Elders. (I dislike cooking for others...it makes me feel very insecure). They really are nice and it was good to have them over. Served Amy's Ravioli casserole recipe. Yum. However, I killed the yeast on my dinner rolls, though. I warned the Elders they were like soft rocks. The dear, sweet Elder said, "But I like soft rocks!" Bless him. Bless them both.

Quarterly Primary Activity Day on Tuesday. I joke and say my only goal for activity days are getting them over with, but I really do care. I think it went well...but I'm still not good at planning on enough that keeps the youngest ones engaged. So, it could have been better. We'll work on that. We had no power at our house for 5 hours that afternoon (due to the hurricanal winds, I'm sure), but luckily it stayed on at the church so we didn't have to freak about having 36 kids in a pitch-black gym.

Thursday and Friday I subbed. Once again, I joke (well, only half-joking sometimes) and say I set my standards low and that I consider it a successful day of subbing if no one gets injured. I accomplished that (though Glen almost had a girl fight on his hands this week, luckily it didn't go past verbal). I like it when I can really feel like I helped the students. Mixed review in that category for this week.

Friday night I had Intervention/Quidditch at my house. Lots of laughing. I asked Glen if we kept waking him up. Surprisingly, he said no. But we all know he can sleep just about anywhere (see paragraph below). As far as the name now goes...it used to be called scrapbooking, but usually no scrapbooking got done, so we switched the name to Intervention. Some of us really feel it helps to keep us sane and makes us nicer to our families, so it fit. Then the name quidditch got brought up. Jennifer wanted to be able to tell people, "I can't tonight. I have quidditch." I'll have to ask her if she's used that phrase yet. Anyway the fact that broom flying is involved also makes it fit... "Quidditch" is just funner than "Intervention," don't cha think?

The choir's trip to the San Francisco Giants/Colorado Rockies game got canceled, but since Glen and his brothers had already bought tickets, they loaded up a few of the boys and went anyway. It made for a very long day, but they had a great time. Though my nephew Michael tells me they took a picture of Glen, Eric, and Alex napping during the game. Typical...there was napping going on during church today too. What will Glen do with all his time in the next life when he won't need to sleep anymore?

Ryan, who originally was going to go to the baseball game, stayed home and participated in the swim meet. He was scheduled for 2 single events and 2 relays...but the last relay was canceled because one of the 4 boys on the relay team hurt his shoulder in a previous heat. Ryan knows he didn't improve his 50 yd freestyle time but results haven't been posted on his 100 yd free yet...but he thinks he was 1 second faster. Don't know about the relay yet (and I was one of the timers! Didn't think to write down their times).

Saturday evening I began to fear I was coming down with a cold...I hoped my nasal distress was due to the wind kicking things up, but this morning's heavy head confirmed that I caught a little bug. I'm feeling better this evening and I'm hoping for a good week--I'm proctoring some AP tests at the high school, so several half-days of work.

Andrew's mission has transfers this week, so no Monday email. We'll get one on Wednesday instead. He's been training a new missionary in Sioux City for the past 2 transfers, so we're pretty sure he'll get a change. Can't wait to see! It's always so exciting.

So, here's to only 24 school days to go till summer vacation! And Eric's graduation!