Catching Up

We've been up to a lot of things lately.

Book Of Mormon Reading:

We finished our Book Of Mormon challenge found here http://lds.org/friend/2008/01/i-will-read-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng (the magazine actually had a picture of an arch and cut out keystones to place in the arch when a section is read).

We started a new Book of Mormon challenge, which is reading all the pages! We read one page a day. We printed a little booklet to check off each page read. This will probably take us a couple years to complete.


New Sports Classes:

Michael started a Sports class (every week is a different sport) at the YMCA. He hated it, but we'll try it for longer and see if he changes his mind. Hopefully he will!

Raphael is starting Soccer in February. He's enrolled and ready to go!

Julianna is still in dance and every week she loves it more.


My Projects:

Marco is out of town and I've been trying to distract myself so time will go quickly. :-( I miss him.
So my plans are:
-Seal all the grout in my house (I have a lot of tiled areas that were never sealed).
-Read "I Capture the Castle" by Dotie Smith (bookclub book of the month).
-Sell some books on ebay (have listed them already, hope they'll sell).
-Lose some weight (ugh I hate this one, but have to face it eventually)
-Take a nap (ha! This one is impossible)

I'm tired now. The kids have just gone off to bed. Today I drove them to their enrichment classes, Preschool, Library, Costco, Eye Glasses store, and after feeding them dinner, we read, and I studied science with Julianna. Jack is still up. He just ate two jars of baby food and I think he now wants a bottle and to go to bed. Off I go!

Important for record (since this is my journal and I print it off regularly): Today I fixed the time in my posts. It was set up in a different time zone before (2 hours earlier). Now it's correct.

Arrivederci Beloved Piano

Today I sold my old piano. Although it was as old as me and not as good as my new one, I feel sad! I loved playing it for 13 years and it was a gift from my parents. In this piano I learned how to play some of my favorite songs, composed my own pieces, and improved my skills... and it was my kids' first piano...  Julianna is especially sad. I remember my fist piano in Brazil. It was a German older upright of the brand Fritz Dobbert. It had real ivory keys and the wood work was fully refinished before we bought it. It was a beauty! We left it behind with my sister when we moved to the United States, and she later sold it.
I'm sad to lose this piano, but happy that a great family bought it. :-) I hope it will bring this family as much joy as it brought me.