Weekend ratings

Christian and Jeanne bought a house! They are excitedly painting all their rooms and moving their things over little by little. They have lots of big and wonderful things happening for them and we’re so proud of them!

I was going to do a day in the life post, but I lost steam for it around 7:30am. But for what it’s worth my first alarm goes off at 5:20 and Matt’s usually been up for awhile before me.

I wake girls up and come down and put away dishes and make sure everything is tidy and lights are on and doors unlocked. Except the one morning I’d accidentally turned my alarm off and Grant, who is always first, found a locked door and dark hallway. 

In September I thought it would be fun to do some crafting but were in a busy season now and these cute ghosts just became another thing to do. Especially when the little brads holding them to the rope keep falling off. 

I got some paperworky things done and I love our cute Halloween decorations. Except a lot of our stuff is old and not my favorite anymore, but it’s hard to get rid of. 

I try to do a little family history every day, which usually consists of clicking through leaves on Ancestry or looking at ordinances on Famiky Search. I found a bunch of cute yearbook pictures of my mom that I’d never seen. And 60’s hair was amazing. 

We’ve got several different house projects going, including finding someone to stretch our carpet in our family room. So annoying. 

Frankie went to a Halloween dance on Friday and it ended up being just Quentin, Frankie and Abby. Adi didn’t want to go and I decided to give her this one. She’s 16 and we’re trying to lead her to make grownup decisions. Anyways, Chelsea said the kids were cute and weird, which obviously. 

Saturday was blaaaaah. Matt wasn’t feeling great and also feeling overwhelmed. I have not been feeling overwhelmed, I’ve actually been feeling grateful for all we’ve been able to do and that we’re making progress, but sometimes goals and attitudes and often ideas are different and take some finessing. We looked at lots of options and talked through lots of plans. 

That evening I dropped Frankie off to babysit at the Gravelle’s and then Amy picked me up for Lana’s book party. It sounded fun but originally I wasn’t going to go. I’m finding myself pulled more towards home lately even though i know how important friends have always been to me. Anyways, I went and it was so nice to be with a wonderful group of women and talk about books and pretty things and I’m so glad I went. 

Everyone made a basket with a book and some fun goodies related to the book and we white elephanted through the baskets. I picked Better than the Movies and got a popcorn bowl with popcorn and movie snacks. I thought it was cute and a little different. I honestly wanted every basket to the point where at my turn I almost said I’ll just pick whatever is there at the end, but I got a cute basket with a book I would never have chosen on my own and I’m excited to read. 

Today I went to the White Plains ward. I was 100% surprised to find it was fast Sunday. Whoops. In RS several people shared testimonies about President Nelson’s beautiful General Conference talk and they’d asked me to share too, so that was sweet. I met with a single sister after, trying to understand how better to minister to that group, and then came home for a missionary coordination meeting over Zoom. Matt and the girls made a yummy pasta dinner (🎉🎉🎉) and then we took the nicest family walk to see the Halloween decorations. The weather has been 10/10 and tonight was so pleasant and Halloween is so fun. We ended up meeting a new to us neighbor who was v friendly and we chatted with him for a long time. We’re in 3 Nephi so family scripture time has also been 10/10 and was a lovely end to the weekend.