Sunday, July 24, 2011

Well, I HAD to make sure that I didn't forget to write tonight since Krystal called me a 'SLACKER' for not writing 3 times last week. :-) 

I was very happy to have Friday come - Fridays at school are fairly easy.  Literacy rotations (already set up) and gym, then it was activity rotations (already set up) and show and tell, music, learning about the worm farm, science (with Mr. Keatley) and computers.  After a very hectic and exhausting week, it was a nice way to end the week at school.  One of my 'challenge' children was not there on Friday, but one of the ones who has been pretty good in the past while was totally off, so I was quite tired by the end of the day.  I was able to get a ton of photocopying done on Friday which I was really pleased about.  The regular photocopier which counts how many copies we make has been on the blink and they have a loaner which does not count the number of copies, so I have been trying to use it as much as I can. :-)

Dad met with our friend, Rob, from church on Friday morning - they needed to plan the lesson for today for the Relief Society/Priesthood combined class.  The lesson was called 'Missionary Media Presentation".  The Pacific Area presidency is putting together a media awareness campaign for Australia about the members of the church in Queensland.  They have asked the members to create a written profile about themselves on mormon.org.  They are also asking members to create a video profile as well to be put on mormon.org and to be part of a television/media campaign.  So, on Friday, Dad showed Rob the presentation that  the area presidency had put together and several sample profiles which are already on mormon.org as examples of what the area presidency are looking for members to do.

Friday night we rented two movies - one of which Jennifer suggested we watch and another since we had a coupon to rent two movies for $6.50.  We watched the movie Jennifer recommended on Friday night which was called "The Next Three Days" and we thought it was a good movie - we rated it about a 7.0.  It was a long time setting everything up, but the exciting part kept our attention. 

We didn't have any special plans for yesterday (Saturday) so we just puttered around in the morning and then did some errands - I needed to pick up some things for school - we are doing a fairy tale unit at school and I needed to pick up some paper crowns so that the children can decorate them to be either Cinderella or the prince in that story (that's our fairy tale of the week this coming week) and also supplies to make Cinderella cupcakes as we have a cooking class each week.

In the afternoon, we watched the second movie we had rented - it was called 'Sanctum'.  It was basically about a group of people who go caving (exploring caves underground) and what happens to them when they get trapped in one.  It was a good movie - we rated it about a 7.0 - worth a rent if you might be interested in that type of movie.  There were quite a few surprises along the way which kept it interesting.

Saturday evening was spent doing school and church stuff - more prepping for my literacy centres and Primary Sunbeam class lesson and Dad reviewing his talk for today and also working on the two Family History events which will occur this coming week.  It kept us going until about 10:30pm.  I was thinking as I was doing all of this how nice it would be to have a job where it just went from 9am to 5pm and when I got home, there was nothing to do that was job related.  Oh well - that's never going to happen if I stay teaching. :-)

Today, Dad gave his talk in Sacrament meeting about Family History and he did a great job!  I was sitting in between two friends and both turned to me after the meeting and said what a great job Dad had done.  He was really prepared and the talk was really organized and he made it personal which always keeps people's attention.  One of our friends even told me that her husband said that Dad's talk was so good that he ALMOST convinced him (our friend's husband) to do his family history. :-)

During the Relief Society/Priesthood combined meeting today, Dad and Rob showed the presentation from the area presidency along with samples of written profiles and samples of video profiles of members of the church.  Four of these profiles were well-known Australian Latter-Day Saints and the fifth profile was Terri-Ann's (that was really cool!). 

After church, Dad and I started watching a movie, but both of us were so tired that we were falling asleep, so I suggested we have a nap.  It was a wintry day and so of course we napped outside. :-)  It is the middle of our winter and the temperature (according to our outside thermometer) was 26C, the sky was blue and the sun was shining. :-)  So, Dad and I took our pillows outside and laid down on our chaise loungers and fell asleep for 2 1/2 hours - I think that we are going to have to do this every Sunday. :-)  We spent the rest of the day relaxing - I love Sundays! :-)