My kids crack me up. I am continually amazed at how they choose to describe their world. Alan and I went to the movies last night-Inception, it was incredible!- anyway, so Jacob was kind enough to babysit for us. Sarah usually gets scared right around bedtime and she will call in the middle of the movie with her little emergency and need us to come home immediately. We of course tell her no, her brothers are there and she has nothing to be afraid of and usually she is asleep by the time we get home.
Last night there was a slight departure from the routine. When we got home we went upstairs to find Jacob sitting on a stool in the hall outside Sarah's room, reading a book and all the lights were on up there. Sarah's door was open and she was asleep. We asked him what he was doing and he told us Sarah had asked him to guard her door for her so she wasn't scared of any bad people. So he did! I have no idea how long he had been sitting there but he loved his little sister enough to sit there and guard her door so she wouldn't be scared -until we got home. He really is a wonderful big brother!
When we turned our attention to Daniel he was still awake and very irritated about the "lady next door". We have a new neighbor as of a week ago and she is a lovely single woman that seems to be a wonderful neighbor. Well, Daniel started railing about how much noise the "lady next door" was making and he couldn't get to sleep because of all her carrying on. Alan and I couldn't believe this nice woman was such a partier! So we listened some more to Daniel's account of the disruptions only to discover he was talking about Sarah! She lives in the room "next door" to him. After we stopped laughing, we kissed him good night and went to bed ourselves.
This week has been so busy. I am the chair person for "Surplus for Shannon". Myself and others in our community are trying to raise money to help a family in our ward with their daughters medical bills from cancer treatment. We have had so much support and are excited to finally be able to have a program get off the ground. We tried doing a bake sale earlier this summer but the county shut us down before we could even get started. Our new idea was to collect surplus garden produce from neighbors and sell it at the local farmer's market and give the money to the family! We have had very positive response and hope the momentum will continue and we will be able to raise $1000 for the Johnson family.
Daniel and Sarah started school recently but we are withdrawing Daniel tomorrow and I am going to enroll him in an online public school and work with him at home. He needs some help that he just can't seem to get in the public schools because so many other students have greater needs. He has been asking me for a while if I would homeschool him so we finally decided to try it. If he is asking then he obviously feels he needs more than he is getting in school. So we'll see how it goes. It sounds like a pretty good program. The biggest draw back for me is that I will have to stop working in the temple. But, that gig was going to end in a few months anyway when they close the temple for remodeling. So I am on to a new adventure!
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