General Conference

We made it through an entire week without anyone getting sick!  And everyone's appetites are slowly returning so I actually cooked a few meals this week.  Last weekend we listened to General Conference.  For the last 3 conferences I have tried doing a General Conference Store and it works pretty well!  For each talk I have Asher write down one thing either he learned or something to remember.  I ask the girls a question relating to the topic of the talk.  Then I give them one penny and they can spend it at the store!  Basically everything is from the dollar store so it's not amazing stuff, but it's fun and it gives them something to work towards.  Asher also broke out a lego set he's had since Christmas and worked on that.  

The actual weekend of Conference is not relaxing for me because I'm trying to hard to help my kids get something out of it, and then I read all the talks later and actually get something out of it for myself!  It was nice this time that for each talk I was able to have a mini conversation with Asher about it.  I was able to talk to him about many different aspects of the gospel that maybe wouldn't have come up in our regular lives, so it felt good to have that opportunity.

After the last session of Conference the girls and I went on a walk in our neighborhood.  I really love going on walks and it's fun to go with my kids.  Mia really wanted me to take a picture of her with this stick she found.

 David asked me if I was used to being a stay at home mom yet (I think he meant am I used to having all the kids in school) but I told him we haven't had a normal week yet, so it's kind of hard to get used to anything.  Every week it's either been a holiday or somebody is sick or, like this week, the kids didn't have school yesterday and today for teacher in-service.  It's actually been kind of fun having them home!  When everyone is feeling well then they usually all play together really well.  

But I have been reminded how much harder it is to get things done with them all around.  I mowed the lawn yesterday and it took me about twice as long because every 10 minutes someone would need me for something.  I was finally able to get my yard projects done (yay!) and the kids were all out there with me.  I could've finished it much faster, but they all wanted to help so it took longer but they all seemed to be having fun.  Ava especially loved it and was very sad when I said we were done.  She said she wanted to do it again the next day!

Not the most exciting week, but I'll take that over the last few weeks we've been having!