miscellany

Yep, that's all I've got right now. Miscellany.

Last week at book club, Jenn brought us all Halloween treats:

Check out the cutest popcorn container in the world! A damask in Halloween motifs and colors! I don't know how they come up with these things -- oh Target designers (or designers that Target has knocked off), I love it.

Lucas was complaining of an earache that was worsening, so I took him in to the pediatrician on Friday afternoon. Nope, nada. Ears were fine, throat was fine, no sinus infection. Not that I want my kids to be sick, of course, but I just love going in and paying that co-pay to find out that nothing is wrong. Like Jill says, it seems like we ought to have a fast-track with this office. Or at least a punch card. (And what's with that last name on the list? That can't be for real, right?)

In between conference sessions on Saturday, Eva and I ran to Target to buy some plastic organizer drawers for her closet. (Jessie had some in Bella's closet and they were just the perfect size and depth for organizing those pesky toys.) I found them -- on sale even! -- and embarked on a complete reorganization of her room. I finished it on Monday, and I am ever so pleased with the results. Her room is actually clean now and seems to be maintainably so. I forgot to take pictures, oops!

On Tuesday night for Young Women, the Laurel class went to Provo High to watch one of our girls play volleyball. It was very close, but we won! (Orem High) I don't think I've been to an event like that since I was in high school, oh the memories.

Our YW president is Elder Oaks's daughter. I told her that I had heard from several people how impressed they were that her dad used the word "texting" in his talk in Conference. She got a kick out of that and said she would pass it on to him. (This is one of those cases where even 15% of my face is too much to be in the self-portrait. Yikes.)

We saw this license plate on a 15-passenger van in the parking lot. Yep, a family that has 12 kids -- 6 boys and 6 girls. I'm not even joking.

On Wednesday I varnished the bookshelf that has been sitting in our garage for over a year!! Marc found it at a BYU surplus sale for $10 and painted it black. It is six feet long and has sliding glass doors. After much searching, I found the shelf brackets we need and now I can dream without despair of being able to unpack all of my books again! So exciting. (Of course I didn't take a photo. I've been such a slacker with the documentation this week.)

Fall is finally here! I've seen leaves turning, the temperatures have definitely been dipping (especially at night), and I saw this cool tree when I dropped Eva off at preschool.

(anyone know what this is?)

And speaking of preschool, Eva went 3 times this week! Her teacher offered to have her make up the days she missed when I was out of town, oh joy! I'm not sure what happened, but she finally decided that it would be more fun to be happy and cooperative at preschool (instead of refusing to participate, like she did last week). Now every morning she informs me that she is going to be happy and good and a grown-up girl. Good choice!

Her teacher has an apple tree with an overabundance of apples this year. She had a couple of bushels of them on her porch with bags for carrying them home. We filled a bag and Eva ate two apples today!

Today during preschool time, I turned on the Relief Society broadcast and watched/listened while I cleaned. I finally heard President Uchtdorf's talk that I've heard so much about -- oh my. Wonderful. And how about this line from Sister Beck's talk?

"Without personal revelation, we cannot succeed. With it, we cannot fail."

I needed that.

Well, that's about all I have, unless you want to hear about how I cleaned out my disgustingly dirty oven today. No? I thought not.