Tag: Mickey
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Off track
The entire evening today was out of whack. Stephanie asked to meet with Laura and I to get some answers to questions. That took the first hour after I got home. I spent the next couple of hours dealing with an angry Ezra. Then, instead of doing dinner I shoveled the driveway from the 4…
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New Nanny
After three days of waiting there was a part of me that feared that Chandler would have a change of heart and not show up today. She showed up promptly at 7:15. Emma wanted nothing to do with her but eventually she warmed up to Chandler. She saw how the morning operated and filled out…
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Savannah’s blessing
Today Savannah received her patriarchal blessing. Marsh brought Laura up for it. President Smith (former Stake President) was the patriarch. When he saw Marsha’s last name on her name tag he asked if she was related to Francis Gibbons. When she said yes he had a few stories to tell because he grew up in…
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One step at a time
The day started with Alyssa doing Saturday school to rescue a failing grade. It continued with getting the house cleaned up to make a tolerable impression on a candidate for our nanny position. I enjoyed the decent house though the nanny interview got pushed to Monday (when I now have three in succession). In the…
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Family meetings
Today was marked by a series of family meetings. I had individual meetings with each of the four oldest kids to discuss solutions to problems that they identified. It went very smoothly with Savannah and Mariah (unsurprisingly) but not quite so smoothly with Isaac and Alyssa. Of I had guessed I would probably have guessed…
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22 November 2009
Today was our first “normal” Sunday (meaning new normal) since I was set apart. We are still working on the timing of getting everyone to church, but we’ll get there. Abby Moore spoke in Sacrament meeting – another good talk from a past Sunday School student. Spencer Nelson taught Gospel Doctrine – last week I…
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30 October 2009
I had a good talk with Laura this morning again and had a very nice time at the temple this morning as well. Work was work. At the end of the workday Laura called with frustration over the fact that Alyssa and Mariah took until 3:00pm to get their chores done and would not work…
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27 September 2009
I can tell that I have some of the sickness that Laura is feeling and that everyone else has had to varying degrees. That’s not a fun thought as I am covering for Scott this week. We got a slow start today and I was the only one to go to Sacrament meeting for our…
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Journal 22 July 2003
It has been an extremely busy four months. I finally got me graduation application signed for August graduation. That’s next week. In my last entry I said I was going to apply to three schools. I decided not to apply to Lehigh partly because of the high tuition of private schools. I decided at the…