05/06/2012

1.  Mosey's been having stomach-aches recently.  I'm not sure what they're about, they seem to happen kind of randomly.  Last night his stomach was hurting and he said he didn't think he'd be able to go to church.  But this morning he was feeling fine.  Toward the end of Sacrament meeting, I reminded Mosey that he was supposed to play prelude music for primary (he just finished learning "The Army of Helaman").  Suddenly he was feeling very sick and had to go home.  Right after the closing prayer, he jumped up, ran to find Sister Reed, the primary president, and told her that he was sick and had to go home.  Umm, okay!  I didn't think he was sick (and still don't), but wasn't sure what to do at that point.  So Ben took him home and they read Ensign articles and watched some church videos until the rest of us got home.  By which time he was feeling just fine, and was fine for the rest of the day.  :-)

2.  Sunday afternoon naps are really nice.  That is one nice benefit of having older kids.  This afternoon I went on the back porch, turned the fan on full-blast, and slept for about an hour on the recliner we have out there (where our grimy old couch used to be).  It's getting hot outside, but in the shade with the fan on full-blast, it was very pleasant.

3.  Joseph was really bored by the late afternoon.  I guess Sunday afternoons can seem long when there's no swimming, no computer games, and he doesn't want to play any board games with his brother because "Brigham always wins."  (I played him in checkers and he was well on the way to beating me when we had to break for dinner.)  So he made chocolate chip cookies.  He did a great job, too, except accidentally put in one tablespoon of baking soda, instead of a teaspoon.  Oops.  Luckily he caught his mistake before we baked the cookies, so we made another batch, sans baking soda, combined the two, and now we have 80 or so chocolate chip cookies sitting on the cupboard, calling my name.  :-)

4.  Over dinner, after talking a bit about France's recent election (which seems to me to spell the doom of France as any sort of productive country), Ben and the boys had an interesting conversation about the relative merits and weaknesses of various forms of government, especially the parliamentary system.  Brigham was particularly interested.  He's my little political junkie.