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Monday, November 10, 2008

My busy day/week

I am on our ward's activity committee, and this is a busy time for us. We are in the process of planning and preparing for our Christmas party. In recent years we have had a family that sang and had large puppets and ward breakfasts with visits from Santa. This year we really felt like we should have a more spiritual theme. We looked and looked and finally found an idea that we really liked called "A Night in Bethlehem."
I got the script from another website, and have used it as a basis for our program. We decided to use more musical numbers from groups and individuals. We also changed some of the songs to fit what we felt would better suit the program. We had to change the location from a local farm to the church building because so many people in our ward have asthma that the dust from the farm was going to prevent many people from attending.
This week the committee will be meeting almost every day. We met today to figure out exactly what needed to be done and to plan when we could do it. Tomorrow we're going to start making the signs for the "city" of Bethlehem, and for the bags to hold the "money" for each family. Thursday we're going to sew the bags, and hopefully assemble them. Then on Friday... well I can't even remember.
On Wednesday the other committee members are meeting. I cannot meet that day because I'm serving in my other calling at the cannery. I'm not canning anything for myself, but because I am the canning specialist I have to be there. I don't know what I'm going to do as this is the first time I will have gone since being put in this calling and with the new FDA regulations in place. I have no idea what to expect. Everyone has to can their own items, and no one can leave until it's all done. I guess I'll bring a book?? Am I allowed to do that? I have no idea. I guess I'll find out on Wednesday.
Well I need to take a break. I haven't eaten dinner yet because I spent the last 2 1/2 hours cleaning up the mess Natalie, Drew and their friends made today. I should have taken pictures, but it was so messy I couldn't make myself leave until I was done. I could barely get into Natalie's room because it was SO messy.
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Every single item of clothing was taken out of her closet, and at least 2/3 of those no longer on the hangers! Underwear and her dress up clothes were scattered throughout the room as well. As we got that all picked up I saw that all of her regular shoes and Disney Princess dress up shoes (about 8 pairs) were scattered throughout her bedroom and closet. I don't know how she was even able to find her dance clothes in all that mess! Once all the clothes were picked up we were able to get the blankets and pillows put back on her bed, and then start picking up the toys. We made several trips to the game room to put the toys away. We also got toys from Drew's room to take back there. While we were there I found that there were about 30 children's books on the ground. Oh my!

After we got the toys put back and the bedrooms decluttered I had to put the books back. I decided that I needed to do some reorganizing because the 2 bottom shelves were in complete disarray. It's finally done, and I hope this new system will make it less prone to mess.
I sure hope so because this is how I feel right now.
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...And hungry... Time for dinner!

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