David Journal

Tag: Noah

  • Success despite obstacles

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    I managed to have a successful day despite everything planned and unplanned that I had to work through. I worked from home to be able to do lunch with Noah and meet with school officials regarding Ezra. That was all fine but we had to throw in Addie getting sick so that she couldn’t come…

  • End of fall soccer

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    Today amidst all the work of clearing Alyssa’s room and moving the bunny cages outside again to enjoy whatever is left of fall weather (and with Savannah at a ballroom thing in Idaho) we played our last three soccer games if the season. Ezra scored his first goal of the season and Noah played well…

  • Grandpa dropped by

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    In church Suzie Driggs, the new primary president, arranged for Enoch and Noah to go to their regular classes while I dealt with a non-compliant Ezra. She also suggested the goal to have those older two back in their regular classes by the end of the year and then I could go as an extra…

  • Child spree

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    I took Mariah, Isaac, Enoch, Noah, and extra to Kohl’s in Layton before 7am for the David School District child spree where they each got $150 of clothes for school plus a new backpack. It too much longer than expected for some of them (especially Isaac) to get out of the store but I was…

  • Making progress

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    I consider it progress that the boys wanted to stay at church for class and behaved through sacrament meeting to be allowed the privilege. Ezra went home with Laura partway through sharing time but Enoch and Noah stayed until shortly into our class time. When they persisted in being disruptive I took both of them…

  • New beginnings

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    I got a haircut and learned a lot about the particulars of my hair so that I can be confident in my style. I also applied for two jobs at Willis Towers Watson. Laura and I set up a schedule of chores etc. for each day so we feel good about or direction going forward.…

  • Adventure over

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    I woke up at 1:00 AM (Mountain Time) to a text from Alyssa which began my morning of monitoring her chances at getting the flight. About an hour before the flight was to leave I determined that she was very unlikely to get a seat. I immediately began searching for a flight to buy a…

  • Each small escape

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    I don’t know whether to be thrilled it disappointed by each narrowly avoided disaster. The last was Isaac’s team avoiding a loss by one last second goal. It should have been an easy win but to often they had mental mistakes, and even worse, widespread incidence of taking mental brakes on both offence and defence.…

  • Progress?

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    With day 2 of our obedience tracking I decided to keep a record of past performance so that we would be able to spot trends. I had to make the day 1 record from memory but I know that 6 of the 8 numbers are correct and the other 2 are in the right ballpark…

  • Lame day

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    After the failure that was my visit with Laura last night I decided that the was no reason to go over today just to go over. I would go over if the was a reason, otherwise I would tend to things at home. People were fractious all evening. Enoch and Isaac kept after each other…