Sunday, December 6, 2015
Dear Riley,
I don’t trust that your pday is moved… I’m writing.
Josie had us in stitches this week. EW sent us home with a bottle of Lindor truffles which I put on the entry table. Josie was very comfortable helping herself and did so frequently, perhaps nine times. When C came home with Cambry Monday evening, Josie shared one of last ones with him. The next day Josie was talking about that and said that whenever she shares a treat with C he always asks her if she’d like a bite. Then Josie said, “I think C may have a crush on me.” She defended her position when I challenged it saying, “Well, I am pretty cute and lots of people really like me.” This went on a while back and forth until I caused her to consider that C may just love her the way YOU love her. After a couple times saying it, I think she accepted it (pretty sure).
We’ve been playing Christmas music around the house and Josie’s been singing Feliz Navidad but she sings, “Elise Knotty-knot.”
Last night Cambry came home from school alone because C had a choral concert and she was sick. She was sitting with Josie who declared, “It would be much more pleasant with C here.”
Then to Elise this week she said, “Elise, your hair’s getting really long. If you don’t cut that, you’re going to be Mexican.” We’re pretty sure the only introduction to the word Mexican Josie has had has come with the introduction of C to our family.
Cambry (and really all of us) had a terrible headache today and there is this linear relationship in Josie where the more tired her audience, the louder and more intense she becomes. So today Cambry said, “Josie, you don’t always have to be the loudest thing in the room.” Josie responded, “Exactly, I do!”
Last Sunday I told you already that we did advent with the W. While there the ACT came up and the result was that Parker was enlisted in the W ACT boot camp this week. R sat down with him for a couple hours and when he retook the test as a practice Saturday, he jumped 10 points on the math section. Um, wow! They will work with him a couple more times this coming week and hope to get the score up into contention for BYU. I can’t express how grateful I am for their assistance and that we were in their house for them to offer because we all know that if I’d suggested it, he never could accept the suggestion.
Friday was the worst for me. I had things stacked tight and had a long list of stuff to get done like I had to get the laundry started before heading to work. When I got to work I was so excited because the server had been worked through and I was sure that this was the first time in like six months that all I had to do at work was the work I’d gone there to do. Except I didn’t knock on wood at that moment. I spent three hours trying to print and log into quickbooks and every other little thing. Some of it got fixed while I was there, but the bulk of it had to happen after. Ugh.
Then I had to make a couple stops on the way home where I found Cambry worse than she’d been and we’d been treating her for a couple days. I suddenly realized she could have strep and spent an hour helping her get everything together to get to a doctor since she has always gone to our pediatrician.
Then I had to leave her to her own devices because I had to cook for a book group friend who helped put up service from the Cavalry Baptist Choir for her Stake Christmas event. She needed help originally with dessert for the masses but opted to feed the choir on late notice and I was to make clam chowder and come help put things together. It took all evening, but I’m glad I did it. I enjoyed the worship very much.
We have illness in the house again. Everyone except Dad and Aleah stayed home from church. I did run in to cover singing time, but I feel like I’m encased in lead, all my limbs are heavy. Plus I feel weak like one of those string-laced dolls on a platform which collapse when you release the tension on the strings. We all feel that way; Elise couldn’t pass the pan of green beans at the dinner table tonight. And I’m pretty sure Cambry has developed an allergy to amoxicillin as she’s breaking out in rash on her trunk and says it’s kind of hard to breathe.
Never a dull moment.
Josie was very disappointed to miss the ward party last night because she’s been ill. She has been working her confidence up to meet with Santa and confidently tell him that she wants a Belle dress up for Christmas. Last week she wanted a Cinderella one. I’m thinking I’ve been trained over the years to save shopping until the last week before Christmas.
Well, I guess I’ll hear from you some day soon. I love you. I am praying your packages make it to you without difficulty. I love you so much.
Love,
MomFHE gingerbread house fun. I made gingerbread men for treat that night and icing to pipe on them. You can see that Josie had a little fun with that.
And I told you I'd send it when I had it, but here you can hear Elise and Aleah playing "Lullaby" in Sacrament Meeting.
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