Well I broke my phone last week and lost some of the information stored on it, and I was reallllly worried I might have lost my "journal," which is what I call the spot I write down funny things that people say. LUCKILY it wasn't lost, but it made me want to put it here so that it will be more permanent.
We are talking in Sunday School about Mary Ann Young's trials and hardships when Brigham was on missions, talking about how gratitude is not an emotion but a choice, and how we should be grateful for even hard circumstances and difficulties because they elevate us. Brett leans over and says to me, "Thanks for all the difficulties you bring to my life."
Hazel kept flexing her muscles while trying on wedding dresses. She's a lot like Talmage.
Ethne: Get in butts, we're going swimming!
Everyone (Jethro, Maria, Hazel, RJ), confused: Why did you say butts?
Ethne: Oh, I thought it was a swear word! (Really it's just "losers")
So, remember how Hazel's eye got hit by the badminton birdie? Well, it got better after some time, but then she realized she was really straining her eyes to read. Like she could see fine with either eye individually, it when she tried to read it was blurry.
So she went in to a vision therapy place today, and after a lot of testing, they realized that her right eye (the one that got hit) is actually at a much lower prescription than it used to be. It used to be -3.75 and now they're trying her at -2.25.
It's so curious! The accident was the cure? Very weird.
Having some YM come over for a song practice turned into lots of arm wrestling, leg wrestling, stick pulling, wrestling in general, and loudness.
Hazel: Also, I just realized. Once I get married, I’ll be taller than both my sisters-in-law
Me: So altitudinous!
Hazel: I know, with my great stature of 5’2”
Me: Such loft!
Conversation between RJ and Navy:
Navy: It’s unfair, I don’t have anyone to hang out with. Jethro and Hazel can hang out because they’re close in age, Ethne and Talmage can, and Orrin and Wyatt can. I have no one.
RJ: Well, I can hang out with you when I’m here.
Navy: You and Hazel should get married so you’re here more.
Eli: “Aunt Kayli is a lot like you.”
Andrea: “How so?”
Eli: “She gets people to do what they don’t want to do.”😂😂😂😂
Me: WHAT?!! I deny that!! What I do is get people to do what THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW they WANTED to do!!
I went downstairs where Wyatt was supposed to be doing his Saturday's work of cleaning the bathroom, and I opened the door and he was just looking at himself in the mirror and dancing to his new songs. 😆
And then I told Brett that, and he's like, Yeah that's like Talmage last night watching the movie, but actually just checking out his biceps half the time.
Orrin told Navy before I dropped them off to go trick-or-treating, "Okay, military jog from house to house." And I said, "don't be mean." And he said, "I'm not--mean would be Olympic sprint from house to house."
Wyatt was playing with my wedding band today in church and telling me he was Sauron and then that his finger got cut off and shriveled, all complete with *quiet sound effects.
Talmage: Today when I was working, a girl came up to me and said, "My sister thinks you're cute. Do you want her number?"
Wyatt: (Slaps him on the shoulder, gives him a big thumbs up) Good job! Your biceps must have been bulging clipping on those lights!
So stake conference was tonight. I was supposed to be there at 6:30 to go over the songs. Well, I was there on time-- at the tabernacle. The conference was at the Mendon Stake center. 😑
So I get there after they had practiced, but at least not late to the meeting, then I see on the program that Ethne is sharing a testimony-- I had thought she was doing that in tomorrow morning's session, and she is NOT there, and I didn't know how close she was from being back from Provo. 😬 She snuck in a little late.
Did an excellent job on her testimony, every following speaker had to talk straight to her and chat and say how awesome she is 💅. The mission president and his wife who are from the Netherlands said she'll be their neighbors when she's in Germany!
My friend from Pittsburgh just texted me this:
Davey Kaminski just bore his testimony and he shared how 10 years ago Brett came to give him a blessing because he couldn’t walk, and he was skeptical and not in a great place of believing, but how the next day he could walk again without his medicine. And basically that and other things have built his faith and kept him strong in the church.
I was trying to login to my account on JW Pepper which is a music store that I have bought tons of sheet music from over the the last couple years, but whenever I hit login, the website crashes and says something about proxy firewall something something. I try a bunch of times and it never works. So then I go upstairs and beg Brett to come down and fix it, and then when I hit the login button it goes to the login just fine. Like it hadn't just acted up on me fifty billion times. 😑 Technology and teenagers, man. Why does it respect Brett and not me??
Brett: Wyatt, do you know anyone who is being bullied?
Wyatt: Yes, me. By Talmage.
Talmage: It's lerve.
The sandwich that Talmage "accidentally" threw on the ground/wall/window, because he and Ethne were fighting g over sandwich toppings, and when he asked for the tomatoes, Ethne grabbed it so that it couldn't be passed to him. So he bounced her other hand that was holding her plate, and he said he didn't realize just how far the sandwich would catapult. Tsk tsk tsk.
I see Orrin reading Mrs. Mike-- "Oh, you're reading the best book in the world!!" Go over and read over his shoulder for 3/4 of a page and start crying.
Wyatt to Talmage: You know in heaven I'm going to get angelically ripped, and beat you.
Tonight I said, "remember when we used to hold hands when we said family prayer" so then we did that, but I should have known there would be trouble. Wyatt wouldn't turn around at first, but then he had to pray so he turned around, and he started to pray, but he said a word really weird, like he had a big southern drawl or something, he said, "have a good rayest (instead of rest)" so then I couldn't swallow a tiny giggle, so then a couple other people started to laugh a little, then I looked over and Jethro was bowed down laughing, so then I was a goner, and then basically everyone was breaking, and Wyatt said, "please bless these people to have a better attitude" but he was laughing too. It was a disaster.
Then I told Jethro and Maria about how last week Wyatt's pants fell down (I think I already told that story?) and we were all laughing, but Wyatt got all mad at me and told me to do 10 pushups, because he was upset that I told his story.
Maybe I didn't tell the story-- we were all sitting downstairs watching The Chosen, and we paused it for a minute for something, so Wyatt ran to his room to get a piece of gum, and when he came back, he kind of jumped in front of the couch before he would turn around to sit, and his pants fell right down to the ground and we all burst out laughing SOOOOOO hard.
He said that his pants are NOT too big, and it's fine to wear pants that big it's just that he wasn't wearing his belt.
Wyatt and Ethne fighting in the van, Ethne is on the floor, and he's on the seat behind her, and she says "I'm going to kick you," and he says, "you can't kick me" and she says, "where's your head?" and kicks her flexible leg and kicks him in the head. Ethne and I laughed so hard.
See? We have to believe everything Kami said because I make it a life rule to trust absolutely anything Kami says about girdles and corsets.
Kami: Twice now I’ve had to pay more in shippping to the fed ex guy when he’s delivered packages. I told Leo it was probably the new tariffs, and Leo asked the guy if anyone else had this happen. And he said “no, just you guys.” And I was like just give me my package from Pakistan.
