Moments I want to remember from November 2013...
Item #1:
During this month I finished typing Mimi and Papa's journals. Now to scan a few pictures that were contained in them.
Item #2:
Claude and I attend the welcoming reception for Dr. Green at the Cordome Center Thursday, November 14th. Dr. Green is the new president of Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. This was my first time to be inside the Cardome Center. The reception was held in the old chapel. The windows are amazing. The pianist playing background music really, really needed a light on the piano. I wanted to head back out to the Jeep and get a flashlight and hold it to help her see. At minimum, Georgetown College should contribute to glasses for her and the young lady that followed her. I'm just positive that dim lighting may have damaged their vision to some degree. It was a lovely reception.
Item #3:
I was able to take baptism preparation materials to two young ladies who turned seven years old. When I got to Brinley's home, she was anxiously sitting on the front steps waiting for me. It just made me feel so happy. When I came home I told Claude about how cute she was. Claude simply said, "You got a pay back." It was a grand reward for serving as Primary president.
Item #4:
We attended the funeral of Tommy Jones on Saturday, November 16th. Tommy was very good friends with Bobbie Bruner, the Police Chief for Sadieville. Tommy was also a police officer and helped with a school in Lexington. Tommy created a webpage for Sadieville at no charge and maintained it for us. It was a tender funeral. Once again I saw the value of hugs. One cannot under estimate the value of a good, appropriate hug.
Item #5:
Sunday, November 17th, we attended the Eagle Court of Honor for Wesley Holt. The cutest moment came when Wesley asked his younger brother, Austin, to come up and stand with him. Austin is 11 years old and is in Scouts also. Austin lead the flag ceremony at the beginning of the Court of Honor. Austin stood by Wesley. Wesley put his arm around Austin and gave him some encourgement in scouting. Then Wesley took his scarf from his neck and gave it to Austin and put it around Austin's neck. Before the Court of Honor was over, Rex Holt, the father, had Austin come back up and reciprocate and give Wesley a new scarf for his neck. The boys hugged each other. They genuinely love and care for each other. Nice moment.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Ladies and Blankets...
Wednesday, November 6th, was Countryside Homemakers meeting. This time I was the hostess.
Being the hostess means I get to prepare and serve the entree for our lunch. What to do? What to do? Since I spent several days cleaning out and putting in order my three binders full of recipes, I determined I would cook something myself. I have been known to ask Claude to smoke a brisket. However, this time I opted to prepare Chicken Divan. I love this recipe and figured I could prepare some of it the night prior and finish it up the day of the meeting. It all worked out perfectly. The ladies loved it.
This meeting was also the time for us be sure we had our four items to donate to the membership auction in December. We had two items made and donated by the ladies and we needed to make two more. Detta Wilson suggested at the October meeting that we make tied fleece Christmas throws. We all agreed to that great idea. I purchased the fabric on sale. And we ended our meeting by tying the fleece blankets.
We are a crafty bunch of ladies. Pretty happy group as well. Others helped but had to leave before we finished up. Left to right are Detta Wilson, JoCarol Wilson, Janet Preston and Elaine Rutledge.
Being the hostess means I get to prepare and serve the entree for our lunch. What to do? What to do? Since I spent several days cleaning out and putting in order my three binders full of recipes, I determined I would cook something myself. I have been known to ask Claude to smoke a brisket. However, this time I opted to prepare Chicken Divan. I love this recipe and figured I could prepare some of it the night prior and finish it up the day of the meeting. It all worked out perfectly. The ladies loved it.
This meeting was also the time for us be sure we had our four items to donate to the membership auction in December. We had two items made and donated by the ladies and we needed to make two more. Detta Wilson suggested at the October meeting that we make tied fleece Christmas throws. We all agreed to that great idea. I purchased the fabric on sale. And we ended our meeting by tying the fleece blankets.
Down on the Farm...
Bailey was to have had a school field trip to a farm. The rain was so bad the day before that the fields at the farm would not support the weight of a school bus driving on them. So the field trip was postponed. I was to have gone on this field trip with Bailey.
When the trip was rescheduled, Andie let me know and it worked out that I could still go on the field trip to the farm with Bailey. I went to LaGrange the night before and stayed with the Mini's. The next morning the family headed out to work and school and I got ready for the field trip. In Oldham County the adults drive themselves to the field trip site instead of riding the bus with the kids. The farm was about 45 minutes from the Marx home. I arrived early and was able to begin reading the 2nd book in the '39 Clues' series that Hayden loaned me.
The kids eventually arrived on their buses and we all headed down to the barn building area. There were three first grade classes. Each class was its own group. They rotated through three different activities on the farm. Then they all met to eat their sack lunches together.
The first activity for Bailey's group was learning about farm animals and petting the ones you were allowed to pet. The second activity was the horse barn and riding and learning about the horses. The third activity for Bailey's group was the hayride. This ended in the corn field and a guide explained the process of raising corn.
Here are some pictures of our day at the farm. Bailey is in a pink coat and is usually the first in line or at or near the end of lines.
When the trip was rescheduled, Andie let me know and it worked out that I could still go on the field trip to the farm with Bailey. I went to LaGrange the night before and stayed with the Mini's. The next morning the family headed out to work and school and I got ready for the field trip. In Oldham County the adults drive themselves to the field trip site instead of riding the bus with the kids. The farm was about 45 minutes from the Marx home. I arrived early and was able to begin reading the 2nd book in the '39 Clues' series that Hayden loaned me.
The kids eventually arrived on their buses and we all headed down to the barn building area. There were three first grade classes. Each class was its own group. They rotated through three different activities on the farm. Then they all met to eat their sack lunches together.
The first activity for Bailey's group was learning about farm animals and petting the ones you were allowed to pet. The second activity was the horse barn and riding and learning about the horses. The third activity for Bailey's group was the hayride. This ended in the corn field and a guide explained the process of raising corn.
Here are some pictures of our day at the farm. Bailey is in a pink coat and is usually the first in line or at or near the end of lines.
It was a beautiful day and the kids had a wonderful time. Bailey road the bus back to school and I headed back to LaGrange. I would pick the kids up from Bear Care about 5pm. This gave me a few hours to myself. Treasured time. I stopped and bought me a soda and headed to the park. I parked in the parking lot, rolled down my windows for fresh air and curled up with the book Hayden loaned me. I would finish reading it before he got home from school.
After picking up the kids, I cut Bailey's bangs and listened while Hayden read his part for the program he would be in the next day. Michael got home and we looked at the pictures from Bailey's field trip. Then I headed back to Sadieville.
On the drive to LaGrange the night before and on the drive home, there was a very bright object in the sky below the moon. It stayed there the entire hour and a half I drove over and then back home. Michael and I thought it might be the ISS (International Space Station). I sent Jake an eMail as he is very knowledgable about all things space related. Jake told me I was seeing the planet Venus. Amazing!!
Birthday Playdate with Pa and Ma...
Hayden would turn 9 years old in November. We would not be with him on his birthday. So we headed over the weekend before to have a little playtime with the Mini's in celebration of Hayden's birthday.
Hayden wanted us to see "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 2". So we plotted our day around that. A trip to McDonald's to appease appetites. A romp in a local park to expend energy. A quick opening of presents in the car. A movie to share things kids enjoy with their grandparents. It would fill that day and make for a fun birthday celebration with Hayden.
I only took pictures of the outing at the park. This is a lovely park and, fortunately, it was warm enough to enjoy. There is a beautiful stream running through the park, a nice bridge over the stream, and lots of leaves and sticks in the stream to occupy little imaginations.
Look closely and you see Andie and Claude on the bridge. Look at the right side of the base of the bridge and you see Bailey putting leaves and little twigs in the stream to float down the stream. Look under and beyond the bridge a bit and you see Hayden catching the leaves and twigs sent by Bailey.
This picture of Andie and her Dad I love...just 'cause.
Miss Bailey was all about pulling limbs out of the stream. Since we had the bad storm with lots and lots of wind about a week before, she had lots of material with which to work.
I found great beauty in the ending moments of fall colors.
It was a lovely day. Hayden was so happy with his birthday gifts. He loved sharing a movie he loves with us. It's always a treat to sit in a theater and hear the kids laughing at funny things. Can't believe our little man is now 9 years old. Where does the time fly?
Hayden wanted us to see "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 2". So we plotted our day around that. A trip to McDonald's to appease appetites. A romp in a local park to expend energy. A quick opening of presents in the car. A movie to share things kids enjoy with their grandparents. It would fill that day and make for a fun birthday celebration with Hayden.
I only took pictures of the outing at the park. This is a lovely park and, fortunately, it was warm enough to enjoy. There is a beautiful stream running through the park, a nice bridge over the stream, and lots of leaves and sticks in the stream to occupy little imaginations.
Look closely and you see Andie and Claude on the bridge. Look at the right side of the base of the bridge and you see Bailey putting leaves and little twigs in the stream to float down the stream. Look under and beyond the bridge a bit and you see Hayden catching the leaves and twigs sent by Bailey.
It was a lovely day. Hayden was so happy with his birthday gifts. He loved sharing a movie he loves with us. It's always a treat to sit in a theater and hear the kids laughing at funny things. Can't believe our little man is now 9 years old. Where does the time fly?
October Extras...
These are a few random items from the month of October 2013.
Sunday, October 20th, Claude asked me to speak with him at the Beaumont Ward Spanish Sacrament Meeting. Claude is a High Councilor at Church. He is asked to speak in the different wards (congregations) on the third Sunday of the month several times during a year. He is to ask someone to speak with him. In September I spoke in the Singles Branch with him. This time we would speak to the Spanish speaking members of our church. However, we do not speak Spanish ourselves. Hmmm...
I had already been to an 8am meeting at our ward (congregation). Then stayed for the 3 hour block of meetings. Then hurried over to our building on Sir Barton in Lexington, Kentucky to speak in their meeting.
As I walked the halls, I had the warmest feeling. There are little windows in the classroom doors. Inside each room was a teacher with a class of people listening and participating. Then I reflected on all the teaching and participating that had happened from the 8am meeting through our three hour blocks of meetings. Then I thought about Claude and me preparing our talks to teach again.
It felt so good to know we are all striving so hard to be sure the word of the Lord is taught and shared and experienced by so many people.
Since Claude and I do not speak Spanish, we each prepared our talks and typed them up. Claude forwarded them via eMail to the person who would translate for us. When we gave our talks we read a bit and then the translator would say in Spanish what we read. He had diligently printed our talks and made notes to help him with translating some portions. Now, I do know some things in Spanish. In my talk I had the word 'work' in there several times. I know the Spanish word for 'work' is 'trabajo'. I kept listening for 'trabajo' and not hearing it. I finally paused in my talk and turned to the man and told him I knew the word 'trabajo' means work and I was not hearing it. He assured me there is another word for 'work' and he was using it. We both grinned.
It was a sweet experience to top that good feeling I had as I walked through the hallways and realized all the effort going on in this world-wide Church to teach and train. Then to realized it really doesn't matter what language, the words can be heard and the truth and be felt in all languages. Just a neat moment in time for me.
Saturday, October 26th, was the Stake Primary Special Needs Activity. This is held twice a year and provides a chance for the families with special needs childen to be strengthened and have voice to their concerns and their joys. The first hour the parents meet as a group to have a group session. A person leads and directs the discussion so it stays productive and all are invited and encouraged to share their questions and experiences so that each comes away with tools to help them. The leaders of the Primary axillary were invited to send a representative to gather information to help them in their callings with the special needs children. I'm sure this will be expanded to now include the Young Men/Young Women auxiliaries as well as many of the children this activity was originally organized to support are now entering their teen years and transitioning to the YM/YW programs. While the parents are in this session, volunteers are helping the special needs children enjoy games and activities. The second hour is lunch for the parents in one area and lunch for the children with their auxiliary leaders in another area.
This was a most productive activity and well worth the time to attend and the time used to prepare and execute the event by the stake Primary leaders.
Wednesday, October 30th, Claude and I went to the Scott County Library for free training on using our Kindle Fire's. Love that free training. It was a good time and we learned a few things we did not know. We have an excellent library here. They gave me the advertisement for training going on in Sadieville for computers during November that would be free for the public. I was able to come home and add that to the City of Sadieville and the Friends of Sadieville Facebook pages I maintain.
Halloween was to have been Thursday, October 31st. Alas, we had the forecast for bad storms that evening with exceptionally high winds, potential for hail, etc. The exit began when I heard from Andie that Louisville was looking at postponing trick-or-treating until Friday so no one was out in the storm. She let me know they canceled it for Oldham County as well, which is where they live. Then Claude started getting phone calls as the Mayor of Sadieville. It seems Georgetown had postponed trick-or-treating until Friday for the very same reason. What would Sadieville do? Well, we postponed it also. The Fayette Mall in Lexington stayed open and all the stores did trick-or-treating on Halloween. The Kentucky Horse Park was also open on Halloween so the kids could go there and be indoors to enjoy Halloween festivities. The end result was we did have wind and rain. Then Friday we had the most trick-or-treaters ever on Eagle Bend. I cracked up at my friend who moved here from Michigan. She was appalled at the postponing. She exclaimed, "We did trick-or-treating in blizzards in Michigan. What is a little rain?" It was the first time in my 63 years I have ever heard of postponing trick-or-treating. My belief, shared with my dear hubby, is it all comes down to our litigious society. Someone was sure to sue the city, any city, because their child got hurt because they went trick-or-treating in a storm. Not their fault for choosing to take them out in a storm. Andie voiced the opinion that we just didn't need to be that greedy about getting all that candy for our children. Goodness. I reflected back to my kids and buying them each a bag of their favorite candy then hiding in the basement Halloween night and watching movies together and eating our own candy that was safe. That was great fun and we totally enjoyed it. It was an interesting feeling for Halloween this year.
Sunday, October 20th, Claude asked me to speak with him at the Beaumont Ward Spanish Sacrament Meeting. Claude is a High Councilor at Church. He is asked to speak in the different wards (congregations) on the third Sunday of the month several times during a year. He is to ask someone to speak with him. In September I spoke in the Singles Branch with him. This time we would speak to the Spanish speaking members of our church. However, we do not speak Spanish ourselves. Hmmm...
I had already been to an 8am meeting at our ward (congregation). Then stayed for the 3 hour block of meetings. Then hurried over to our building on Sir Barton in Lexington, Kentucky to speak in their meeting.
As I walked the halls, I had the warmest feeling. There are little windows in the classroom doors. Inside each room was a teacher with a class of people listening and participating. Then I reflected on all the teaching and participating that had happened from the 8am meeting through our three hour blocks of meetings. Then I thought about Claude and me preparing our talks to teach again.
It felt so good to know we are all striving so hard to be sure the word of the Lord is taught and shared and experienced by so many people.
Since Claude and I do not speak Spanish, we each prepared our talks and typed them up. Claude forwarded them via eMail to the person who would translate for us. When we gave our talks we read a bit and then the translator would say in Spanish what we read. He had diligently printed our talks and made notes to help him with translating some portions. Now, I do know some things in Spanish. In my talk I had the word 'work' in there several times. I know the Spanish word for 'work' is 'trabajo'. I kept listening for 'trabajo' and not hearing it. I finally paused in my talk and turned to the man and told him I knew the word 'trabajo' means work and I was not hearing it. He assured me there is another word for 'work' and he was using it. We both grinned.
It was a sweet experience to top that good feeling I had as I walked through the hallways and realized all the effort going on in this world-wide Church to teach and train. Then to realized it really doesn't matter what language, the words can be heard and the truth and be felt in all languages. Just a neat moment in time for me.
Saturday, October 26th, was the Stake Primary Special Needs Activity. This is held twice a year and provides a chance for the families with special needs childen to be strengthened and have voice to their concerns and their joys. The first hour the parents meet as a group to have a group session. A person leads and directs the discussion so it stays productive and all are invited and encouraged to share their questions and experiences so that each comes away with tools to help them. The leaders of the Primary axillary were invited to send a representative to gather information to help them in their callings with the special needs children. I'm sure this will be expanded to now include the Young Men/Young Women auxiliaries as well as many of the children this activity was originally organized to support are now entering their teen years and transitioning to the YM/YW programs. While the parents are in this session, volunteers are helping the special needs children enjoy games and activities. The second hour is lunch for the parents in one area and lunch for the children with their auxiliary leaders in another area.
This was a most productive activity and well worth the time to attend and the time used to prepare and execute the event by the stake Primary leaders.
Wednesday, October 30th, Claude and I went to the Scott County Library for free training on using our Kindle Fire's. Love that free training. It was a good time and we learned a few things we did not know. We have an excellent library here. They gave me the advertisement for training going on in Sadieville for computers during November that would be free for the public. I was able to come home and add that to the City of Sadieville and the Friends of Sadieville Facebook pages I maintain.
Halloween was to have been Thursday, October 31st. Alas, we had the forecast for bad storms that evening with exceptionally high winds, potential for hail, etc. The exit began when I heard from Andie that Louisville was looking at postponing trick-or-treating until Friday so no one was out in the storm. She let me know they canceled it for Oldham County as well, which is where they live. Then Claude started getting phone calls as the Mayor of Sadieville. It seems Georgetown had postponed trick-or-treating until Friday for the very same reason. What would Sadieville do? Well, we postponed it also. The Fayette Mall in Lexington stayed open and all the stores did trick-or-treating on Halloween. The Kentucky Horse Park was also open on Halloween so the kids could go there and be indoors to enjoy Halloween festivities. The end result was we did have wind and rain. Then Friday we had the most trick-or-treaters ever on Eagle Bend. I cracked up at my friend who moved here from Michigan. She was appalled at the postponing. She exclaimed, "We did trick-or-treating in blizzards in Michigan. What is a little rain?" It was the first time in my 63 years I have ever heard of postponing trick-or-treating. My belief, shared with my dear hubby, is it all comes down to our litigious society. Someone was sure to sue the city, any city, because their child got hurt because they went trick-or-treating in a storm. Not their fault for choosing to take them out in a storm. Andie voiced the opinion that we just didn't need to be that greedy about getting all that candy for our children. Goodness. I reflected back to my kids and buying them each a bag of their favorite candy then hiding in the basement Halloween night and watching movies together and eating our own candy that was safe. That was great fun and we totally enjoyed it. It was an interesting feeling for Halloween this year.
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