I got called in to school on Friday to a class I had been in before and I was really excited as they had been a dream class last time I was in (except for one boy). I was in for a bit of a surprise, as it turned out. It was a grade three class at Kawungan - there are a lot of girls from Bronwyn's class last year and there was just one boy who was annoying. Since then, another boy has moved into the class and he was annoying as well. One boy wasn't hard to handle last time as the other children were really well behaved and respectful. 'Naughty' boys tend to find each other and set each other off and isn't that what happened on Friday. I was so frustrated at the end of the day that I walked out with the first boy and spoke to his mom after school. She told me he had been 'naughty' at home and had received consequences and she was going to give him more consequences as a result of this behaviour. I don't know her so I don't know if she follows through - I sure hope she does - I know that if I go into this class again, I will not be as patient as I was this time - I will just send the troublemakers off to the office. I really get steamed when one or two children spoil the day for the rest of the class!
Dad spent his day doing a variety of things - sort of a finish up/catch up day for him. He started off his day at the Family History Centre checking some films in and being on the phone with the film distribution centre in Salt Lake City - there had been a major error in shipping and Dad needed to work it out. After that, he finished up working on two of his areas from his census district. After school, having to deal with that class for the day, all I wanted to do was come home and do nothing for the evening - which is just what we did - we even were lazy for dinner and had a frozen McCain pizza. :-)
Saturday was a lovely day and so we spent most of the day outside - well, I did. :-) I wanted to spend some time working out some ideas for a day plan in case I got called into a classroom and there wasn't a day plan. Terri, a grade two teacher from Kawungan, loaned me a book which had tons of ideas and I spent a while going through it and choosing things which would take little supplies or supplies which would be available in any classroom. I plan on typing them out and then keeping the list in my bag which I take my stuff in to school every day - it will be good to have these ideas as twice now I have shown up to supply and a day plan has not been available. If we had not left a day plan at R.J. Lee, we would have been in big trouble. After I finished writing down my ideas, I decided to lay out on my chaise lounge and have a nap outside. The sun was warm and it was just lovely to relax outside on such a beautiful day. :-)
Saturday night we were invited to a 30th birthday for our friend, Tammy, from church - she is the young woman who is the same age as Terri-Ann, has red hair and who also has three boys about the same ages as Colin, Caleb and Benjamin. We were supposed to dress up in 80s outfits or come dressed as a tv/movie character/singer from the 80s. I just came dressed as myself as did Dad. :-) But some people were able to come up with an outfit. Our friend, Leanne, got into her 20 year old son's old dance costume and wore one of those; Tammy came dressed as Strawberry Shortcake and her husband, Zander, came dressed at Beetlejuice. They all looked great! They had 80s music playing (did any good music come out of the 80s? :-) and they had food and goodies to eat. We mostly just sat around talking with our friends from church. After a couple of hours, I could tell that Dad was ready to go and so we said our goodbyes and came home.
Today, at church, the sacrament meeting theme was about prayer - one of my favourite subjects. :-) I really enjoyed the final speaker, Steve, who gave a great talk - he had made notes, but rarely referred to them so kept eye contact for most of his talk - I really like that as it is so much easier to keep focussed when someone does that. He talked about how important it was to say our prayers - to talk with Heavenly Father - to let Him know how grateful we are for our blessings and to ask Him for what we feel we need. He talked about prayer like it was a regular conversation between two people and I love to think of prayer like that. When I pray, I often try to think of Heavenly Father in my mind so that it feels more personal to me.
The missionaries came over for lunch today. They are feeling a bit taken aback as they had their car 'taken away' from them. There are more missionaries in this mission now and so they are sharing some of the cars around - our missionaries have had a car now for 3 months, so it's another set's turn. The mission only has so many cars right now, although now that there are more missionaires in the mission, the mission president is going to ask for more cars. We enjoyed our time with the missionaries as we always do - we had pizza for lunch and spent some time chatting with them. We spent this evening just relaxing - it was a nice way to end our weekend.
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