Education Week, Family Time and Another good Weekend

 Here are some highlights of a very good weekend. 

On Friday, we went to the last day of Education Week at BYU in Provo, Utah. Charly and I had looked forward to attending this event since last year, and it did not disappoint. We left our house about 7 a.m. and got to the BYU campus shortly after 8 a.m. We attended classes in retirement finance, marriage, relationship skills, the history of the Christian Reformation and the U.S. Constitution. We enjoyed a delicious lunch at The Creamery on Ninth (a favorite campus eatery) between classes.  Our daughter Tiffany invited us to come to her home for dinner, so we enjoyed seeing and eating with our daughter and her family before returning to the BYU campus for evening classes.  After a full day of learning and enjoying family time, we got home about 9:30 p.m..

Saturday, we were tired from attending the final day of Education Week, so we slept in just a bit later than usual. When we got up, we walked at the mall, then we went back to Utah County to go to an open house at this property.  From the pictures on Zillow, it seemed promising, but after going through it, we knew this was not the house for us.  

Since we were just a few miles away, we decided to go back to the BYU Campus and have lunch at The Creamery on 9th - again.  

Their cheeseburgers and onion rings are the best.  (Their fries are pretty good too!)  We enjoy being at the BYU campus, 

Saturday night, I went to the Taylorsville Temple.  It was nice to experience the peace of worship there, but when I got back home, I had a terrible headache that got worse as the night went on.  I did some chores, then took the car to get gas and ran it through the car wash.  After the car wash, we vacuumed and cleaned the inside of the car.  Charly was with me and helped.  I do like a nice, clean car - inside and out. 

Sunday morning, I was up by a little after 6:30 a.m..  I went through my usual morning routine.  I ate breakfast, and while I ate, I wrote a gratitude list in my journal.  I then read scriptures.  This Sunday, I finished the book of Joshua, so on Monday, I will start the book of Judges in the Old Testament.  After eating, I did my morning workout in the family room while listening to a podcast. 

Sunday morning was cloudy.  The temperatures were cooler than they had been for some time, but it was quite humid due to the rain and thunderstorms in our forecast over the next couple of days.  I sure hope that we got the predicted rain because we have had a very dry summer, and really need the moisture. 

Sunday afternoon, I relaxed and took a nap.   I got dinner  (One Pan Baked Chicken, Potatoes, and Green Beans) ready and in the oven. 

Here's what our Sunday meal looked like when it was ready.  It was all delicious - a real winner of a chicken dinner!

After dinner, I went for a walk around our neighborhood while listening to a Christian podcast.  

While I was out walking around our neighborhood, Josh called me and asked if I wanted to go with him and walk at our favorite walking trail, so as soon as I got home from one walk, Josh and I left to do another.  We had a nice walk and some good mother-son conversation. 

It was a nice weekend in every way! As soon as I post this, I will read until bedtime.  I am hoping to finish at least two more books before the end of August. 

Weekend Gratitude:

• Having a great experience at Education Week. 
• Going to our daughter's home for dinner and time with her and her family. 
• Enjoying time with Charly. 
• Traveling safely to all the places we went this weekend.
• Worshipping at the temple and our Sunday church service.
• Walking with Josh.
• Reading.
• Napping. 

That's all for this weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a good week!

Until next time,

😊Deb💖

Best of the Week

Here are some of the best things about this week in my world. To look at the positive and give thanks, I am joining once again with Susanne and friends over at Living to Tell the Story for Friday's Fave Five. 

                                 

😊Monday morning, I got an email that I was being transferred to another school for several weeks.  It is another Leave it to Beaver era junior high school in a working-class, low-income area. About 65-70% of the students are considered "economically disadvantaged." Apparently, another newly hired teacher walked out three days into the school year. I know the principal of the school, who was an assistant principal at the high school where I taught, and he is a good guy, so I was rather pleased with the assignment, although it has had it's challenges.  Ironically, this is the same school and subject that my husband was teaching when he retired in 2020, so I am literally teaching in my husband's old classroom. Some of the students in my classes have some behavior issues, but most are quite nice.  I am grateful for this assignment at a school I am somewhat familiar with.  

😊 I haven't been up to the rec center to walk for a while.  During summer break from school,  I prefer to walk at the mall before the stores open.  I also like to walk outside better than at the rec center, but a couple of days this week the temps soared into triple digits and it was just too warm to walk outside, even in the evening.   On the days when the temperatures of either too hot (or too cold in the winter) to walk outside, I am grateful to have a place like the rec center to go and exercise. 

😊 The top rack of our two-year-old dishwasher broke and we couldn't pull it out more than about three inches, which made it difficult to load and unload.  We had called a repair tech, but the day before the tech was to come out, Charly was unloading the dishwasher and figured out what the problem was.  He quickly fixed it, saving us at least $150, which was the minimum charge the repair tech was going to charge. I am grateful that Charly was able to fix the dishwasher and save us quite a bit of money.  

😊 We have been growing corn in our garden this year, and I have been so pleased to see that we had quite a few ears of corn.   One night this week, when I went out to look over my garden, I noticed that something was eating the corn.  I suspect mice or maybe a rat, but whatever it is, three or four ears of corn were consumed.  I decided to harvest all the rest of the corn, and this is what I brought in.  We had the corn for dinner a couple of nights this past week and it was nice to eat sweet, tender corn from our own garden.  I am grateful I was able to harvest so many ears before whatever critter that was eating it got to it. 

😊 My renewed passport arrived in the mail this week.  Despite hearing horror stories about how long it took to get a passport renewed, it actually took less than two weeks from the day I mailed in the renewal application until I received my new passport.  I am grateful that this process was much quicker and easier than I thought it would be.  

😊 Charly and I watched a Netflix series about the movie industry called Titans The Rise of Hollywood last week, and this week,  This week, we watched another interesting and well-done series by the same producer called Titans The Rise of Wall Street.  Charly and I both enjoy history and I am always grateful when we can find a well-done and interesting history series to watch and learn from. 

😊 Friday, I am taking a personal day and Charly and I are attending the final day of BYU Education Week at the BYU Campus in Provo, Utah.  Education goes from Monday through Friday, but because of my limited personal time off, we have only been attending the final day every year.  Education Week offers classes on many subjects from marriage, relationships, families, and mental health, to religion, theology, apologetics. When I am retired, we will be able to attend the entire week, which I am really looking forward to. Thursday night, we sat down and went through the program guide and selected the classes we want to attend. I am grateful that Charly and I get to attend and learn at Education Week.  Two weeks from now, on September 4 & 5, we are attending yet another religion and theology conference.  I am grateful for all of these opportunities to learn about things that are important to us. 

That's all for now.  I hope you have had a wonderful week.  Now, have a good weekend! 

Until next time, 

😊Deb💖

There are so many

beautiful reasons to be 

thankful. 

~anon.