Saturday, January 3, 2015

From Mom January 2, 2015

1/2/2015

Dear Riley,

I have just a few minutes.  But I am thinking of you and missing you and wanted you to know that.

Dad, Cambry and I went to watch Unbroken last night.  We sat dumbfounded as the movie concluded as Louie embraced his mother after arriving home from the war.  WHAT???!!!  The whole point of the story is that he was BROKEN as a man, though he survived the horrors of the war, until the power of God rescued him from the burden of hatred.  And after the power of God was in him, he was unbroken.

I spent yesterday almost entirely in the girls’ room: the bi-annual gutting.  We offloaded a lot of stuff so perhaps it will stay nice a little while.  Maybe not.  However, Dad got the shelves up in the garage from the window to the door and we have them half loaded already.  Wahoo!

New Year’s Eve we went to the Y’s party.  We played a game called Qwirkle which was really fun.  Though I didn’t want to leave the house, I’m glad I did.

The cold weather froze the apples still in the garage as well as the onions and the 10 lbs of mandarin oranges I’d just bought.   The oranges are still yummy to eat as long as they stay frozen.  But they do give you a cold headache.

Parker got a portable speaker for Christmas and it was broken as he fell at the big New Year’s Eve dance.  It still plays, but the case is cracked.  His cell phone battery, the better one, was also a casualty in the fall.  He slipped on deliberately spilled pop. 

I have to corral Josie and get her and Aleah out the door or I won’t make it.

I love you,
Mom


PS – Elise completed the Book of Mormon for her challenge and as at the retreat with the YW.  She was so pleased.

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