Off we go

Last Sunday AJ had a talk in primary. We prepared him a few days before. I remembered he had the talk this time. Priesthood got out early so Aaron was lucky he got there. He wouldn't have remembered otherwise. AJ did a nice job. He talked about Jesus walking on the water and Peter coming to him. He then bore his testimony. The primary counselor asked if he'll give that talk in the program in November. The same day they asked if Geremy would sing a song with 2 other girls. I guess we'll be busy at that program.
Tuesday night I had a presidency meeting and then a RS meeting. We worked on the decorations for our Girl's Night Out coming up. I had spent 3 hours making stuff at Aaron's school on Monday and then we painted it on Tuesday. I love these sisters. They are so much fun. Sometimes I think they are keeping me young. The next oldest one there is 32. They don't treat me older, just one of them. We had so much fun on Tuesday, and since we didn't get it all done, we met again Wednesday night. I definitely have another big night coming up.
Wednesday Tanner started Kindergarten. He was so excited. He knew what he wanted to wear a few days in advance. He feels so big going to school. He made a hand print the first day and brought it home for me to not feel homesick while he's gone. He did a great job drawing it. I had to make one to send back. I put Aaron and my pictures on it with a picture of McQueen. He noticed the McQueen first of course. His teacher said that he's doing great. He's not antsy like the other kids in his class. He acts like he's been there for a month. He sits at table one and is very proud of that.
Geremy started his last year of preschool Wednesday as well. He loves school and was so happy to go back. I was very happy that Geremy and Tanner started on the same day. That made things a little easier. I spent my first hour with no children driving around town. I had forgotten to get Geremy's money for school from the ATM. The only ATM that I could get the money from (because it was Biolife money) was out in Santa Clara. I couldn't believe it. I even had time to think about how many donations it took to pay for a whole year of preschool. 30 1/2. Incredible. But it's all paid for now. What a relief.
Geremy had a really hard time on Thursday. He came down stairs and said he was ready to go to Kindergarten. He didn't get why he didn't get to go too. He was not happy to go to Biolife instead of school. He kept saying that he would rather hang out with me. That is what we did after Biolife and on Friday. Just Geremy and me. I think he's really going to enjoy us time once he realizes how all of it works. Tomorrow he has school again. He too is getting big really fast.
Today we had ward conference. It was really nice to be able to sustain our leaders. They messed up on the Relief Society Presidency and sustained us twice to fix it. I was conducting in RS. The stake gave the lesson. They did a really nice job. I got up and tied all of it together as I closed the meeting. Of course I had everybody in tears when they left. Aaron figured it had been some meeting. The choir sang 2 songs today. We were asked to sit on the stand. Because Mattina Ann sings as well, we asked our neighbors to watch Tanner and Geremy. Why are they always good when with someone else?
Mattina Ann and I worked some more on our Personal Progress today. I realized that we have 8 values and 6 years to do it in. Okay then. Here we go. We have a really good start going, so we'll keep it up and get it together. That will be a neat experience.
9 years ago this coming October Aaron was in a play in Brigham City. It was called Little Shop of Horrors. When they finished the show he had to help tear down the set. He knelt down on "something". It bled and hurt. It bothered him for a while and then he didn't say much. Every now and then, throughout the years, he'd complain that it hurt. He said he felt like he was kneeling on something. He didn't complain too much. Just every now and then. He always had a mark on his leg where it bothered him. In the past month he had been picking at it, squishing it, and getting it to bleed and puss up. I kept telling him to leave it alone. He just wouldn't. Thursday night he was messing with it again. He said that the day before it had changed from a round sore to a straight line gash type sore.

He was messing with it and he felt like something solid was in there. He asked me to find the tweezers. (He had tried using the clippers, but they didn't work.) I watched him take the tweezers and pull out a good size of glass. We both couldn't believe it. He has had that glass in his leg for the past 9 years. He is so blessed that nothing more happened. He said it didn't even hurt to pull it out. Of course it didn't. Everything in his leg right there has got to be dead. Just incredible.
Aaron starts his class this week. He'll be gone every Wednesday now until the end of the school year. He'll be gone a lot, but it'll be a good thing. This week I have to finish getting ready for the Relief Society night. I sure get busy when I have these things. It's a good thing though. I like my calling.