Yay for the weekend! Friday was another one of those days - it was so good to be done for the weekend. Baylee had not a bad day, but Brayden was in full form. I ended up having to put him on a Slip 1 because of a situation which occurred in the classroom. He went and hit this boy on the carpet and told him that he was not supposed to be talking while the kids were reading. During D.E.A.R. time, they are not allowed to talk except to themselves as they are reading. But this was during free time. Anyway, I told him that he had to be put on a s\Slip 1 because he hit someone. I talked with Brayden's dad after school and told him what had happened and he spoke with Brayden about it - told him it wasn't acceptable. I'm not sure whether he will follow through at home, though. However, it now means that Brayden has to 'be good' for the next week; otherwise, he goes on a Slip 2 and eventually if it keeps going on, he will be suspended. I told his dad what the consequences would be if he didn't start following the rules. We'll see what Monday brings.
Dad spent the day at the Family History centre Friday - not by design, though. He was only supposed to be there for a couple of hours, but ended up being there all day. He went in to help out a lady who had been at the FHC on Wednesday night and needed some more help - and those who were manning the FHC on Friday didn't know how to help her, so they called Dad. He had just finished helping the lady when a fellow walked into the centre and asked for help - it turned out that Dad knew the guy from SES - and Dad ended up helping him 'til 3pm when the centre closed.
Friday night was so relaxing - I love Friday nights - after we went shopping, we came home and did nothing all evening except watch tv. :-) We have been watching a show called 'The Glee Project' (like American Idol, kind of, but the winner gets a four episode guest spot on the tv show 'Glee'). After that, we watched 'Law and Order UK' and then 'Law and Order' - a lovely way to spend the evening after a busy and stressful week.
Neither Dad nor I got dressed on Saturday - lazy, eh? :-) It was actually really nice. We started our day off with a lovely, but short chat with Terri-Ann and our boys - it was wonderful to see everyone and to find out a little more about what they are doing this summer. Dad spent the day continuing on with census stuff - going over one of his collector's books. I spent the day laminating and cutting out resources for my classroom. Since they want me to teach these kids grade one stuff and I haven't taught that grade in ten years, I didn't have a lot of stuff which I felt I need for teaching what they want me to teach to them. I am also having to get some things ready for those in the classroom who don't even know the names/sounds of all the letters of the alphabet. We spent the evening watching two episodes of 'Air Crash Investigation' - we had seen both episodes before, but it was long enough ago, that we couldn't remember everything about the crashes and so we watched them again - we love that show.
Today, Dad wasn't feeling too well, but decided he was well enough to go to church. The talks at Sacrament meeting today were really good. The topic was about strengthening your testimony through prayer. My first counsellor, Maureen, the Bishop's wife, Diana, an our friend, Goff were the speakers. Dad started looking not too good during sacrament. His nose started running and his eyes, too - he reckons he caught something from someone who was at the FHC on Friday. Anyway, I asked him if he would like me to take him home and he said 'yes'. I returned to church as I needed to be there to conduct Primary.
After church, I drove over to Christine's (my visiting teaching companion) for a luncheon she had organized for a couple of our sisters we visit teach. So, we ate and talked with Amanda (and her daughter, Talia) and Robyn (Geoff's wife) - as usual, I had a lovely time talking and getting to know the sisters better. We have six sisters on our list which will be quite a feat visiting every month (along with another sister which my friend, Denise, and I will visit), but I will do my best to visit every sister visited every month. I have always loved visiting teaching - I remember going to see one sister (Margaret Vinand) every month when I was in the Toronto 1st ward and living on Jackman Ave (Broadview and Danforth in Toronto). I had to walk to the bus stop, take a bus to the subway station, then take two streetcars, another bus and then walk to Margaret's house. My companion and I went every month - I didn't even think about how much time it took to get to Margaret's house. I just loved visiting with her and sharing a message with her.
When I got home, Dad told me that he had talked with Grandma and Grandpa via Skype. He talked with Grandma for about ten minutes before talking with Grandpa (who is now staying in the big bedroom of their unit (where Erika was staying during the school year). After talking a little bit with Grandpa, he asked Dad if he could get a tour of our house, so Dad unplugged the computer and walked around our house inside and out to show it all to Grandpa. Grandpa says our house looks really nice (we love it! :-)
Our friends, Christine and Chris, from church, dropped by tonight for a quick visit and to ask us if we would take care of their dog while they are away for two weeks in September. I was not fussed on it, but couldn't think of how to get out of it. Dad reckons he will be okay to look after the dog during the day - the dog stays outside all the time, so that won't be an issue. I told Christine and Chris that if the dog, Josie, started whining or barking, though, we would be calling them to come home (Chris is going on a course for a few days and then they are going to check out a house they own up near where the floods were earlier this year). They assured us that Josie would not whine or bark and that we wouldn't have to take her for walks, either. We'll see how this goes - they were the ones who let us use their granny flat when we first got here in '09, so we felt like we should return the favour.
We watched a movie tonight called 'Under Siege' with Steven Seagal and Tommy Lee Jones. It was a really good action movie - the only stupid part of it was when the main character used an exotic dancer character to help him shoot up the ship - I hate it when they feel like they have to add a female character to the movie which doesn't make sense at all. Sometimes I wonder who thinks that this is necessary to add to the movie. Why can't we just have a good shoot-em up with guys.
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