Father's Day

Well, I forgot Father's Day. We have church at 10:00. When they announced the special number by the Primary I realized that I had forgotten to tell Mike "happy Father's day"---what a numb-numb. Dodge and Marc have called to talk with their Dad---that's always nice. The other "boys" and Hayley have their own little families, so we don't expect a call----life just gets too hectic at times.

We chatted with Victor Poulsen today at church. He was just leaving our classroom as we were headed in. He said that this week they became "official empty nesters." You know, after many, many years of having kids around, life is really different when they are all gone!! For us, we just don't spend enough time together. Right now Mike is in the living room listening to a PBS broadcast of "The Moody Blues" and I'm in my computer/sewing room typing in my blog.

I think what I need to do is move in to the kitchen with my laptop when I'm working on it. That way we can at least chat once in a while. When we were at Wyatt's last week, we sat at the kitchen table. I thought it was hilarious----two old duffers working away at their laptops, totally engrossed in the cyber-world. Shades of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory----I hate that show----the grandparents stay in bed all the time----our wasting away at the laptops reminds me of the grandparents who never get out of bed.

Our lesson in Primary today was great. It was about Joseph Smith's vision of the three degrees of glory. I have made PowerPoint presentations for each lesson. It is amazing to me how focused they are when they are watching the computer. We have a couple of boys who are really fidgety---sometimes we wonder if they are listening at all----but they really stay focused on the lesson and participate when we ask questions. I'm always impressed at their knowledge and at the questions that they ask. One of them asked: What if someone had kids and joins the church and then that person goes to the temple and gets sealed to the kids, but the person isn't married? Whew----I suggested he ask his dad because his dad is a former bishop----duh.

I won a contest!! I went to a workshop last week at the Bernina kiosk at Hancock's. The workshop was about machine embroidery. We turned in a contest entry to win a $10,000 Bernina 820 sewing machine. Each store had a drawing before they sent their entries in to Bernina. This drawing was for three people to win an autographed copy of a machine quilting book written by Alex Anderson. Guess what!!! I won----the book, not the machine. The drawing for the machine is this week, I think. Boy, would I ever be in hog heaven if I could win that machine!! I'm excited about the book, though. I hope to go to the store tomorrow to pick it up. I didn't make it there yesterday.