This has been quite a week. Not terribly bad or anything, just long and full of adventures. Lets see all that we've done.
Sunday: Sacrament meeting without Matt is very rarely a good experience. This week was no exception. Matt had to work and so it was just to two of us. Usually it is Keldrie throwing a tantrum that has us running for the door but this week it was me. At 35 weeks pregnant, two and a half hours of sitting on metal chairs had done me in. We snuck out after the youth speaker and escaped to my mom's house.
Monday: Monday wasn't too bad or too unusual. Matt had the morning off and we were able to get some cleaning around the house done. It was a good morning. Matt went to work and after her nap, Kel and I went back to my mom's house. Matt got home late because he had to do some serious grocery shopping after work. I think it is one of the longest lists I have ever sent him with. For Family Home Evening, we decided to drive around our neighborhood and look at Christmas lights. Keldrie loved it until she fell asleep. Luckily, I had foreseen this event and already changed her into her p.j.s for the night.
Tuesday: This was Matt's first day off for the week and since he's out of school, it really was a full day off. We also woke up to a surprise snow storm. It didn't accumulate to much, but it did snow almost all day. We also spent the afternoon and evening making our neighbor gifts. It was messy and fun and tiring. Our sink had been acting up, so Matt took Kel to the store and bought some Liquid Plumber or Drano or something and a few other items. Well, whatever product it was, it did no good. The sink kept backing up, only getting worse.
Wednesday: Matt again had the morning off. I called my dad and asked him if he could come look at the sink. Before he came, Matt hung my under-cabinet radio my parents had given us for Christmas LAST year. But I'm glad to have it done and working now. Out came my dad with his snake and my grandpa came over too. I've written before about the experience of watching my grandpa and dad work together and this was no exception. Well, as they worked on it, Kel, Matt and I headed to my doctor's appointment. Russell seems to be doing just fine and from the ultrasound, my doctor guesses he is about 4 lbs. She also said he is curled up in quite the tight ball, making it hard to get individual measurements of his body parts, but since we aren't worried about anything, it's not a big deal. As soon as we were home from the doctor, Matt had to go to work and I had my cub scouts meeting. My dad and grandpa kept working on the pipes while I did scouts. Both of these activites wrapped up at the same time. My dad and grandpa said they would be back in the morning to try again.
This left me without a sink, and since I had no sink, I decided it would be a good night for take out. Did you know that the Chick-fil-a on Riverdale Road has family night on Wednesday? I think you have to go inside and maybe the others do it too, but my brother works at this one and told me about it. So the deal is that for every adult meal you buy, you can get one kids meal free. Pretty sweet deal, huh?
Thursday: Back before the whole sink episode, Matt and I had planned what we assume will be our last visit to the temple together until after the baby. We asked Elaine, my sweet mother in law, to watch Kel for us. She is always willing to watch Kel and doubly so if we are going to the temple. When we got out of our session, we called my dad and discovered that the clog in our drain had been too much for him and my grandpa, and they had called a plumber. Well the plumber got us unclogged and up and going again in about 20 minutes. So when we got home, all of our pipes were back where they belonged and the sink was no longer backed up. Hooray! Besides that, my dad and grandpa hung my pantry doors back up. We took them out when my dad tiled the kitchen for us back before we moved in. So nice to have them back up and to be able to hide my unorganized shelves in the pantry. Matt had some home-teaching to do in the afternoon, so Kel watched some Dora the Explorer while I put the kitchen back together.
Friday: This is a day Matt and I had both been waiting for for a long time! We loved Sherlock Holmes and on Friday, the sequel came out. I had arranged for my mom to watch Keldrie while Matt and I went to the first show of the morning. 10:00 AM in fact. At that time of day, there are no annoying teenagers and not very many people in general. It was a good movie. But if you go, know that you will need some serious brain power to follow everything. During the summer I read the original Sherlock Holmes books, and so I had a little more knowledge about the bad guy, since he is in the stories. Also, the ending wasn't so shocking to me, since it is similar to the book. But overall, it was a very good movie.
After the movie, we had to go home so Matt could go to work.
As we were picking up Kel from my mom, she gave me her copy of The Hunger Games! I was so excited. I'd been trying to get my hands on a copy for a while. Matt went to work and Kel went down for a nap and I curled up on the couch and read, and read, and read. I didn't even realize how long Keldrie had napped until she woke up at 4: 15. But by then I was more than half way through the book and had no intention of slowing down. Kel woke up hungry and so I gave her a snack and her color wonder markers and ran back to the couch. Lucky for me, Keldrie was in a mood to play by herself. Eventually I pulled myself away to make dinner and talk to my husband and eat dinner. But once Matt and Keldrie started playing a video game together, I was right back to the couch. I had to stop again when it was Kel's bedtime and we needed to say family prayer. By this time, I only had 50 pages left. So Matt played his game and I finished the book. Yikes! Now the only problem is that my housework is backed up and all I can think about is how I can encourage my mom to read the second book quicker so I can borrow that one next.
Saturday: And this brings us to Saturday, today. What a busy day. What was I thinking going to the New Gate Mall on a day like today? I actually didn't spend much, but I did get the battery in my watch replaced only to discover my wrist has swollen too much from the pregnancy and it doesn't fit. Bummer. Keldrie got spoiled by my mom today, too. First it was riding the train in the mall, next it was french fries from Chick-fil-a and last was riding the merry-go-round in the food court. Man, that girl doesn't know how good she has got it.
Quite the weekly re-cap, huh? Well, I'm sure next week will be just as exciting. Are you all ready for Christmas? I am! All but a gift card in the mail and a few presents left to wrap. Hooray!
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