I decided not to make any real New Year's resolutions. I mean really. I already have a LOT of things I want to do on my to do list. I did not need another bit of pressure. Claude and I started watching, again, the Psych television series. There are eight seasons of this show. We would spend a lot of our evenings watching said television series.
Somehow, time has flown by and I have not updated this Blog in two weeks. Here goes the catch-up!
Sunday, January 1st, I posted this meme on our family Facebook page. Cracks me up looking at it again.
Tuesday, January 3rd, I had an appointment with Dr. Wilson. our dermatologist. He burned a pre-cancer spot off the end of my nose. He did this about 1 1/2 years ago. I told him he should have done that before Christmas so I could have been Rudolph! He also found a spot that concerned him in the middle of my back. He did a biopsy of that spot. Eventually the results came back and the spot on my back was negative. Hallelujah!
Wednesday, January 4th, I had an appointment with to Dr. Hollen, our dentist, for my cleaning and x-rays. It went quickly and all was well. I left the office and went outside to send Claude a text. He dropped me off at the dentist and then went to Lowe's for some things. I sent him a text telling him I was finished and would walk across the street and get us a table at Applebee's for lunch. I looked at the tree outside Dr. Hollen's office and saw a beautiful robin. It was a windy but good day for me.
While cleaning out my eMail's, I reread the announcements in the Ward Bulletin from Sunday. I am happy I did because I learned it was our weekend to clean the church! I quickly told Claude and sent an eMail to find when was the best time for the other two families in our clean-up crew. We determined Saturday at 10am was best.
Friday, January 6th, The Marx family, well, most of them, were on the move to visit Maryland. You see, Michael's sweet Gramma, Bea, was celebrating her 100th birthday. There would be a party for Bea with her family on Saturday. Sunday, that party would extend to other people and Charlie, Bea's brother, would join her as he was turning 95 years old. All of Michael's family would be there. They would drive over on Friday and back home on Monday.
The hitch in this is that Hayden had worked real hard and auditioned for the District Band. He made it. He was to be in Shelbyville Friday and Saturday to practice with other kids in their District who made this band. This would be followed by a performance on Saturday evening for family and friends. Andie and Michael didn't want Hayden to miss this. They bought him a plane ticket for early Sunday morning. Claude and I would attend his Saturday evening performance. Then we would spend the night in LaGrange and I would take Hayden to the airport on Sunday morning so he didn't have to leave a car in that parking lot. That was the plan. Didn't quite go like we all thought.
Friday, I received a call from Andie. They were, I believe, in Nitro, West Virginia. Andie received a call from Mr. Centers, Hayden's band teacher. It seems Hayden was sick and in the nurses office. They were watching him. If was okay, he could return to practice. If not, Hayden would need to be picked up at Martha Layne Collins High School in Shelbyville. If he missed practices, he would miss out on this experience. His car was at Oldham County High School in LaGrange. They had school busses taking them back and forth to Shelbyville that day. We would be ready if needed. I sent Hayden a text telling him we were at home all day and to let us know if we needed to come quickly.
I told Claude we might go ahead and pack and then just stay with Hayden if we needed to get him from school. Claude agreed. Sure enough, I got word from Hayden to come and pick him up. He had hurled. He was fine and was sure it was car sickness from the bus ride over. However, the school had to release him as they were not sure if he had a bug. We finished packing, loaded our car, and headed to Shelbyville. Now, we still had to figure out about cleaning the church on Saturday.
When we got to the car, I turned to Hayden and asked if he could tell I had a skin cancer burned off the end of my nose. Hayden's unfiltered response, "Well, it's a little hard to miss!" Love this boy. Claude was laughing so hard I thought he might have to pull the car to the side of the road! Hayden assured us he was fine and we should go back so we could clean the church on Saturday. We left Hayden getting his car and headed back to Georgetown.
Andie posted these fun pictures of Bea's birthday party with just her family on Saturday. The theme was "Hat's Off to Bea". Michael had a bucket hat made with Bea's face imprinted on it. 
Andie came across this picture of Michael and his siblings when they were little. She had them recreate the picture. (Michael, Brian and Jennifer).
Katelyn posted these pictures of her Mr. Potato. He was working on naming his colors with the bottles. He has blue down pat. That is because we have some serious University of Michigan fans in this family.
These last two are Bea with her grandchildren. Then Bea with all her kids, grandkids and great grandkids.
Claude was thinking we needed to add a few more Christmas light around our front door. We did add a holly garland with lights. We decided we should add a solar powered lantern to the shepherd's hook. This will be there through the winter. In the summer we will have the hummingbird feeder hanging on the shepherd's hook. Cool!
We also went to Kohl's so Claude could buy new socks. He came out amazed that they had not one pair of dress socks. You know, the kind men would wear with dress shoes that are thinner. Not one pair. Not sure if that his a supply issue or a sign of how we are dressing nowadays.
Saturday, January 7th, we were at the church at 10am. The Friley family joined us and we made a quick job of cleaning the church. In the afternoon, we got our showers and reloaded the car. We were off to LaGrange to pick up Hayden. We would have dinner with Hayden at Cracker Barrel. The kid ate like I have never seen him eat. They brought us biscuits and cornbread, one of each of each of us. Hayden took his biscuit and slathered it in butter and then put two kinds of jelly on it. He scarfed that down followed by his cornbread. His dinner was two pancakes that were like cheesecake pancakes with bacon and eggs on the side. He downed one of the pancakes and the bacon and eggs. He took the other pancake home and ate it later in the evening.
Sunday, January 8th, Hayden and I were up at O'dark 30 to get Hayden to the airport. Hayden had flown before with their family to Italy. This was his first solo flight. Michael had gone through the things he needed to do. As he had no luggage, his parents took that in the car, he only had to go through security and find the gate. He had his boarding pass on his cellphone. I went through the steps again with him. Then I told him I would drop him off at the curb, then park in the cellphone parking lot. He would text me when he got to the gate and then I would head back to LaGrange to get Claude. That way I was close if he needed anything but he still had his independence to get himself to the gate alone. He did fine. I received the text when he was at the gate. Then I received another text when he was on the plane. Michael was at the Baltimore airport when he arrived. Claude and I would head back to Georgetown after Claude finished his conference call.
This day, Bea and Charlie would share a birthday party. Bea is the older sister and Charlie is her younger brother. They live in the same Assisted Living Community. They have lunch together every day and are very close. Charlie was turning 95 and Bea was turning 100. These are pictures of Charlie and Bea.
This is Michael with his family around his grandmother. (Standing: Bailey, Andie, Michael, Hayden. Seated: Bea) I am so happy they were able to be there for this big occasion and be with all of Michael's family.
Tuesday, January 10th, Claude and I would go to the Louisville Temple. We had four family names each for which we did initiatory. Then we each took one of those names through an endowment session. It was really nice to be there and do these family names.
Wednesday, January 11th, I wanted to get the yarn for a baby afghan for our 5th great grandmonster which should be born in April. I mentioned this to Claude and suggested I go to Lexington on Wednesday and pick the yarn out. He said he would like to drive me and had a couple of things he could do while there. Off we went. Claude dropped me at Michael's to find yarn. He went to Best Buy and found an HDMI splitter box for our television. This is the yarn and a picture of the frog afghan I will make.
When we got home, I said goodbye to our Christmas tree and decorations for this year. I really left the tree up much longer than usual. I was really enjoying the lit tree this year. Evenings in this room with the tree lit were so peaceful. Nights when I had a hard time sleeping, I would come out and sit in its light. We all want a little more peace in our lives. I will take it when it comes.
Now, the boxes are still sitting in our dining room. The weather turned rainy, snowy, a bit of ice. Not conducive to trudging out to the shed up and down stepping stones. One of the beauties of it just being Claude and me is that we don't come unglued if these things have to wait a bit before being done. They will go to the shed this week...sometime...
I love that my hubby serves others.
This day was also Nissa and Todd's 11th wedding anniversary. I posted this picture and comment on our family Facebook page. "Let's start 2023 by wishing Nissa & Todd a Happy Anniversary! Married in 2012. This was the first time we met Todd. Happy Anniversary!! Love ya bunches!!"
Thursday, January 12th, I put my fat little foot down! I had the opportunity to be home for three days. Nothing on my calendar. I had crafting supplies in hand. Bad weather was here. I saw soup and rolls and indoors with crafting on my schedule for three days. The first day would be to work on a cross-stitch piece I wanted to complete. I got it all done except the outlining of the features in the pieces. I put that away for a bit.
I took this video of the rain and our little windmill blowing in the wind. There would be three tornados touch down in various places in Kentucky during this storm.
This evening Claude received a call from Simone in the Owingsville Ward. She had an opportunity to help with JustServe and wanted Claude to know about it and come participate the next day if he could. Claude would go. I was staying home for two more days.
Friday, January 13th, was my second day home. The frog baby afghan needed 96 motifs that were white in the middle and blue crocheted around them. Let me just state that 96 is a lot of motifs. I was able to get the white centers of these 96 motifs finished this day. My right had is in a bad way. But, I shall forge on.
Claude's day was spent in Hazel Green, Kentucky with Mercy Chefs. These are his pictures from his experience and this is what he posted on the Lexington Kentucky North Stake Facebook page of his experience. "This is Dr. Ryan Quarles, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner (on the left) and myself. Dr. Quarles met with our Area Seventy, Elder Nathan Craig a few days ago. As a result of that meeting Stake Communication leaders visited Hazel Green, Kentucky on Saturday to assess the food distribution event taking place there and see how we might be of assistance using our JustServe app. It is a 3-week, 7 county effort. Yesterday, 4500 hot meals were prepared and served by Mercy Chefs. In addition, as you can see in the photos, several thousand Kentuckians were able to pick-up a variety of foodstuffs, along with a hot meal. We invite one and all to make themselves available to help. It is a well organized, well run operation and deserves steady support for the next 3 weeks. Tuesdays and Thursdays tend to be the lightest staffed in a given week. One other noteworthy fact, most of the volunteers yesterday were "home grown", that is people serving their neighbors, including HS students from Wolfe County High School. Dr. Quarles made a special effort to talk with, and thank, them. It was a bit nippy out but our hearts were warm..."
Saturday, January 14th, was my third and final day at home. I would fix my sewing machine. It gave out when trying to sew Claude pajamas for Christmas. After more cleaning and oiling, it worked like new. Hallelujah! I wasn't sure who to call to get it repaired.
Then I set to work to finish Claude's pjs. This was his only request for a Christmas present. The fabric was purchased well ahead. I had plenty of time. I was working on them before Christmas and my sewing machine froze up. It had to wait until I had time to try to fix it. When completed Saturday afternoon, I marched into the kitchen where our resident chef was making us soup and home-baked bread and said, "Merry Christmas!!" Whew. He is cute in his Christmas PJ's!
Sunday, January 15th, has been a nice day. I was asked to attend Ward Council for Jessie Rayburn, our Primary president, this morning. It was at 8am. I was happy to help Jessie in this way. Sacrament meeting was really good. Sean and Amber Marcum spoke and gave wonderful talks about Waiting on the Lord and Constancy Amid Change. Three of the ladies in our congregation sang a musical number. It was very moving. I played the piano in Primary. Then we had a presidency meeting while the teachers taught their lessons. Claude and I got salads from Zaxby's for lunch. He took a nap while I caught up on my picture labeling and blogging. A good Sabbath day.
During this week, I also scheduled our free day in Queenstown, New Zealand. A lot of the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed in this area. I have us booked for a 9-hour tour by 4-wheeldrive vehicle to these sites. For Claude and me, this will fill a great big item on our bucket lists.
I also booked a visit to a Fiji Culture Village while we are in Fiji. This promises to be one great trip! Boy to we love to travel and learn about other places. We live in a marvelous, diverse world.
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