Sunday

7:40 a.m. wake to Matthew quietly playing with alyssa...both laying on the floor next to my bed
7:55 a.m. the noise of michaels razor is too awful, i must get out of bed
8:23 a.m. Michael leaves for morning meetings, kids get breakfast
8:27 a.m. read email from my friend, Marianne, whose husband just had brain biopsy, we sent a package to her kids and they got it:)
9-11:30 kids play trains, we read books, bath kids, get dressed for church, finish preparing my sharing time lesson
12 Michael gets home...we are all dressed just chilling for a good 30 minutes until i decide its time to go to church and get there early
12:50 p.m. arrive to a nearly empty chapel, we get the pick of the benches
1p.m. church begins I share my testimony in our meeting...my gratitude and joy at my brothers temple sealing...all of my family there, and reflecting on the talk by Elder Faust that I saw quoted in the Church News..it really struck a chord with me
2p.m. Elder Monte Brough of the 1st Quorum of the 70 visiting our ward speaks to us
2:15 pm. I was asked to give the closing prayer
2:20 pm. Primary begins...so does the chaos:)
2:45 p.m. I give my Sharing Time lesson on Service and the Good Samaritan
3:45 pm. I give the same lesson to the Sr. Primary
4:20 leave church frazzled and tired (fasting today)
4:45 p.m.strawberries, blueberries, vanilla yogurt....oh so yummy!
5pm Imake chocolate cream cheese cupcakes
5:30 p.m. michael and i lay on the floor next to our children happily playing with trains on the train track....until alyssa decides to pull them apart
6 p.m. I leave to share my talent and perform an act of service for my dear friend, Candida, who does a lot for me....her entire extended family is in town, so I snap some family picts of them
7pm home again, i eat a yummy chilled cupcake
7:30 pm scriptures, jammies, teeth, prayer...night night kiddos
8:15 pm. computer on...look at candida family picts, chat with linda online
9pm work on kirk picts (I only do service/family picts on Sunday, not any paid work)