My own luxurious room!

This is the very new and very modern hotel room I stayed at this weekend. It is located near Chicago O'Hare Airport. The bathroom was so cool. And the bed aaaahhhh it was wonderful!

I am one of the VP's of our trade association and I was there for a board meeting. Our meeting on Saturday went from 7:30am to 6pm! I am new on the board and so it was all very interesting to me. Jeff was President of this organization in 1994, so I guess its my turn! It was interesting to kiss him goodbye in Austin and ME head to the meeting!

I am the only woman on the board, which makes it kind of fun! The board has members from Quebec, Oregon, Washington, Mississippi, Kansas, Ohio, Vermont, Florida, and Minnesota.

TRUE LOVE!!

As I was looking out my kitchen window I saw a male cardinal in the flower pot/bird feeder.
Then he flew up to a branch in the tree and there was his mate. And he fed her. He did this many times, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. After she was full then he fed himself.
What a MAN! He was keeping her up 'on a pedestal' out of harms way. He was providing and protecting and taking care of her!

The Rosa Saga, part 2

Ok, so yesterday, in Primary Sharing Time, the music leader asked my little Rosa something...and I blurted out "Her name is not Rosa its Yajaira (pronounced a-hide-a). And mind you, I had previously had her write down her name for me so I would know for sure what to call her, and she wrote YAJAIRA!
And the Music Leader said, "Really, I thought it was Rosa." to which Yajaira said, "My name is Rosa"!
So again I have been calling that little girl by the wrong name!!
I told my mother and she had this story:
When my mom, Pauline, was 7 she moved with her family from small town Ticonderoga, New York to big city Albany, New York. She was painfully shy, really, really shy and when she started at the new school somehow the teacher got her name mixed up and the teacher called her Virginia. Pauline was too shy to correct the teacher and so everyone called her Virginia. When it came time to turn in her work she always got disciplined for not writing her name on the top of the paper, but this poor little 7 year old did not know how to spell Virginia!
After several weeks she finally told her mother, who told the teacher her real name. What a relief for my poor little mom, until she heard one girl in the class say "I liked the name Virginia better!"
I feel so bad for shy children, they are at the mercy of us adults!

Her first Day at the 'New School.' All Schools in her area require the children to wear uniforms: Kaki jumpers, pants, skirts or shorts. Don't you just love kindergartners!

Hilarious AND Precious!

Today in Primary one of my 5 year olds told us about her dad giving her a Father's Blessing at the start of the school year, and as she is telling us, her eyes start to water and two big beautiful tears slowly rolled down her angelic face.

These children are incredible and I can barely stand to wait until the next Sunday to see them.

Thses kids are hilarious!!

I teach Primary to the 5 year olds at my church, and they are hilarious with some of the things they say!
Here are a few of the things that they said that make me chuckle in the middle of the night!

Event #1:
Me: Who would like to give the opening prayer?
P: I will! Heavenly Father, thank you for the.....then he proceeded to list about 10 xbox games, (I don't even know if what I just said was right..xbox??) Anyway back to the story... and Heavenly Father thank you that I am better at the games than B. (Now mind you, little B was sitting 2 seats down from him and I yanked open my eyes to look at B and he was looking pretty sad!) and Heavenly Father I am thankful that B's older brother likes me better. Amen.

Event #2:
Me: Class, how can we get Rosa to talk? (Rosa is a beautiful little Hispanic Girl, who is very shy and just smiles at me but won't answer any questions or talk!)
J: Maybe if you called her by her name and not Rosa, then she would answer you!
Yup, the poor kid, I called her by the wrong name for months!!

Event #3:
Me: Class, what are some ways you can prepare to be ready for baptism?
C: We can Pray!
Me: Very good C, yes we can pray is an excellent answer.
C: I pray alot because I really want to swear alot!