I don’t have any fun April Fool’s Jokes to play this year. Sorry. With April 1st being on a Sunday and General Conference, it just kind of slipped my mind and we didn’t fool anyone. But you could try this new wireless system.
We had a wonderful weekend listening to conference. There were a lot of messages on forgiveness, repentance and being kind to one another. I’m not a big grudge holder, but I still have a few things I need to let go of. I especially liked Elder Holland’s talk on speaking kindly. That’s one I really need to work on. I’m thrilled about the Tabernacle Rededication and excited about the upcoming events to celebrate that event. This weekend is the Tabernacle Choir concert, and I will be involved in that a tiny bit, and the Bell Choir spring concert in the Tabernacle will be May 17 and 18th. If you are interested in tickets for that event, they go “on sale” Tuesday morning at 10:00.
On Saturday I got a little project done; one that had been hanging over my head for quite some time. I sewed a new cover for our little playground. I get to do this about every two years, since I’m just using regular fabric instead of cool specialized playground canopy fabrics. But then I can change the look every time I do it, too, and it doesn’t cost much to make one. Here’s Megan and Ryan putting it up.
So, here’s the finished project:
Another thing I finished and got up on the wall is a Family Home Evening chart. How many years have we been having FHE? About 13. Have I ever had a FHE thing? No. I guess I didn’t want one that didn’t have everyone on it, and the ones I saw only had 5 or maybe 6 spaces. Well, I finally found one that would work for me, ordered it, painted it, put the lettering on it, and got it done.
Everyone is excited about their assignments, and I think it will help us a lot to know who’s doing what. Then maybe it won’t all be Mom’s job. For John’s activity, we’re going to color eggs.
I loved that conference talk, too. It really made me do some thinking. Love the FHE board – very, very cute. We finally got one last year and David added the “benefit” of, whoever is conducting that week also gets to choose who gives meal and evening family prayers all week long. It has been a huge hit.
Elder Holland’s was one of my favorite talks this weekend. I LOVED it!
Your little playground cover is amazing! And so is your new FHE chart. One of these years I will get around to the latter … maybe when we are done having kids 🙂 !!
Such a domestic wonder you are!