He's in the Army Now!

Boo Hoo ... my baby leaves for Fort Jackson, South Carolina in about 17 minutes! He called me from the airport at 5:30 this morning to tell us he loved us. He was really excited, but scared. He said that they are going to 'kick his butt', because he's overweight. I think I need someone to kick my butt too to get me in shape! Hey ... since I'm not working, perhaps I ought to join Boot Camp!

This is his pretty girl friend, Laura. Hope that things work out for them when he returns home. We really love her and she's such a terrific gal!

The Mama and the Pops telling our baby good-bye!


If he passes his basic training he'll go on to advanced training at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

Tell me ... where does the time go? How did I get everything done when I worked full-time? I'm getting in a bad habit too ... I need to take a little nappy around 3:00 every day. Shame on me!

I'll tell you --- I had another funeral yesterday to attend to. An elderly gentleman in our ward passed away in his sleep. My Compassionate Service Leader and I attended to their home during the funeral. The Sisters in the ward brought lovely food over to the home for a luncheon afterwards. The kitchen was so small I wasn't sure where we were going to put all of the food. We ended up having to put the rolls in the oven because we didn't have enough counter or table space. I've had 5 funerals since last August. I have the most amazing funeral committee and Compassionate Service leader in the world. They take care of everything. I just show up and help out wherever I can. We have a sister in the ward who is legally blind and volunteers to provide the freshly baked rolls for every funeral! Isn't that amazing. And two of the sisters on the funeral committee have twins ... the one has TWO sets of twins! They're just young girls with young families and they are amazing. We have so much love and compassion in our neighborhood. It's amazing!

I've got some voice recordings to do so I'd best get busy. I'm meeting Jaron, Lori, Christa, Candy, and Lori B. for lunch this afternoon. I can't wait to see them. I've missed laughing with them! I'll have to take pics and post them on my blog.

Hey, I've been thinking about publishing a demonstrator cookbook. What do you all think? I would collect recipes from demonstrators all over the world and put them into one book. The recipes would be geared for the busy demonstrator, fairly easy and quick to put together and delish, of course! I would love to feature each demo with a small photo of her on the recipe page and a small bio. Would any one be interested? We did a recipe swap exchange about a year ago. I ended up stamping (50) 6 x 6 recipe pages and then exchanged them and placed them in page protectors and a binder. That was really neat, but I'm thinking on a larger scale here so the stamped recipes would be too hard to collate and send out. Let me know your thoughts, and get it out there so see if there is an interest.

Well, I'm off to the races. Have a marvelous day!