Good morning! There are some
days when I wouldn’t really like to lay in bed but I would like to just sit
around and do pretty much nothing. You know, I like breathing and all but other
than that it would really be nice to maybe just sit on the couch and read for a
bit. Paul wakes up around 7:00, reads in bed for up to an hour, and then gets
up and showers and eats. He doesn’t really have to be to work until 10:00 since
he works usually until at least 6:00. Wouldn’t it be nice?
The past few days have been
somewhat busy. I’ve meant to write several mornings but as you can see, nothing
happened. Friday morning when I called the hospital, there were two women going
in to be induced so I kind of took my time and left right before the bus picked
the boys up. Both were very slow labors and one wasn’t interested in having a
doula so I spent a lot of time doing very little. I did get rooms ready and I
did take a book. Friday evening Paul and I went out to eat at SS Lobster.
Saturday and Sunday were General
Conference. We watched all the sessions which I hadn’t done for a while.
Saturday morning Cedric was busy making a slideshow book trailer. Basically, a
book trailer is a little blurb about any chosen book in order to get other
people excited enough about it to go read it. His was a book he’d read at school
about Martin Luther King, Jr. Here is the youtube link if you’d like to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0op-9JREDo.
If you’d rather search for it on youtube, just search for MLK by Cedric. When I
just looked, it had been viewed 22 times and had one like. Anyway, because he
was busy with that, I didn’t really have time on the computer to write a post.
Saturday afternoon Joseph got to
go to the Ecotarium with Jameson. He had a lot of fun and is ready to go again
partly because they didn’t get to see the beavers. Amena spent the night at
Jayden Mederios’ house; her mom was Cedric’s 3rd grade teacher. They
only live a couple of miles away from us.
Sunday morning I made cinnamon
rolls and picked Amena up. That was pretty exciting.
Yesterday I called the eye
doctor to make appointments for Cedric and Amena. They said I had to call their
doctor to make sure they’d had physicals within the last year before I made
their appointments because they would need a referral. I hope this isn’t
something we have to do every time I make appointments for them. Anyway, I
called the doctor and they both had physicals in July and are both scheduled
for August this year. Then I called the eye doctor back and made appointments.
Cedric’s is in a couple of weeks but Amena’s isn’t until next month because I wanted
it to be after she gets home from school. So what happened is that it took a
good fifteen minutes to accomplish something that should have only taken about
two. Good grief.
That was the first thing on my
list.
I also finished writing the
essays I needed to for my application to the Midwives College of Utah. Now I
just need some money to finish because I need to pay for a couple of
transcripts and the application fee. Also as a part of the process I need to
find a local midwife willing to be a preceptor with whom I can work. To that
end, I wrote letters to three midwives and I will need to follow up with phone
calls next week. That part was pretty fun, actually.
Since I was writing letters and
getting them ready to send, I also took care of the electric bill. I had to ‘borrow’
four stamps from Joanna because I used up the last six I had last week sending
letters to some people who have moved in hopes of obtaining new addresses. Only
one has come back thus far and it says “NOT DELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED/UNABLE TO
FORWARD”. Not much help but at least I know she isn’t at the address I have.
I also folded about four loads
of clothes. That’s always exciting. I really wish the boys would have put all
their clothes away yesterday; it’s really annoying when they stay on the couch for
days on end. I made Seth take his up
before the bus came and Joseph took almost all the rest of his up so we’re
looking pretty good right now.
Other than that, I took some
pictures of three bars of Amena’s Baby Bars (won’t it be funny when she has a
baby and uses it?) to send to someone in Houston because I’ve donated three for
an auction to raise money for the Improving Birth Houston rally. Pretty
awesomely cool, I think. I actually emailed gift certificates and then it’s up
to the people who win them to actually order the soap but it’s a free bar of
soap with free shipping to three people. What could be better?
The only other thing that was on
my list was working on doula homework and I did lots of that. If you’d like to
read about it, you can check out my other blogspot blog (unless you are
Grandma, in which case I can email it) once I post it there.
Seth had a bit of homework to do
after school. I know he did it and hope he remembered to take it with him this
morning. Joseph didn’t have any homework because he said he had one or two
tests. I hope that is really the case. I do know he didn’t have any in his
backpack. Cedric said he had one side of a paper to do and I have no idea if he
ever did it or not.
I do know that Seth took forever
to bring in a load of wood (I never actually got a fire built because he took
so long and it really wasn’t that cold) and Cedric spray painted part of his
bike black after I specifically told him not to. Not a happy mother about that
one. I don’t know what he was thinking; the smell of paint was very strong when
I opened the basement door to go downstairs and the can of black was missing
from the counter where it had been.
In other news, I emailed Cedric’s
teacher the link to his book trailer and she responded:
“Pam,
“Thank you so much! This is
wonderful! I can't wait to talk to Cedric about this tomorrow! My class has
really embraced this topic!
“Jackie”
Of course, I like that! Cedric
told me when he got home yesterday that she really liked it and now some of his
classmates want to do something similar. I know he wants to do another one. He’s
reading a book about the Vietnam War and wanted to do it to Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2. At first I
thought it might not really work because the song is anti-war but after giving
it more thought, there were many people who were not in favor of the Vietnam
War so it might be appropriate. We’ll see what happens.
And that’s all for now. Emily
West is coming over today for sewing so I need to get a shower taken and the
floor swept for Adelaide. I also have an IEP meeting for Cedric at 1:00 this
afternoon. And there are many other things I would like to get done as well.
Have a fantastic day!
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