Sunday I taught sharing time in Primary for my second week in a row. I'm not going to lie, teaching sharing time SCARES me and with little kids, you often wonder if you're getting ANYthing through to them. Apparently I succeeded in some small measure though. Here's how it happened. The sharing time was on how reading scriptures strengthens your family, and at the end of teaching the Juniors I encouraged each of them to go home and read their scriptures on their own or with their family that day. I didn't think I said it all TOO forcefully, but Pamela, an adorable little 3 and a half year old girl, took it to heart and here's the conversation that ensued at home.
Pamela: Mummy we need to read out scriptures.
Lindsay: We will, after dinnertime.
Pamela: But mommy, we need to read our scriptures, Holly said so.
Lindsay: We'll read them, Pamela. We always read them after dinner!
Pamela: But mommy, Holly said we NEED to read our scriptures!!
TOO CUTE. Just when you think you're not getting through to anyone! I have another couple sharing times left to teach this month, and at first I was anxious about teaching every sunday in the month every 3 months rather than teaching one Sunday a month every month, but I think it might be better this way, because then I feel like there's more time to practice and actually get good at it.
Monday I worked for Matthew doing data-entry for his magnet website, and I slept. Then in the evening we had family home evening, and rented a movie. The Nicholas Cage one, called Knowing. It had a cool concept but not very good delivery. Sort of cheesy in the end. I'd rate it 6/10, though the whole end-of-the-world thing is intriguing to me.
Tuesday I did laundry, went to the big city with a friend and their kids, went to Once Upon a Child for the first time (coolest store EVER by the way!), went to Matt's parent's for dinner, and picked up Jen to go see a movie at the cinema. We were going to see the Proposal, but when we got there it was SOLD OUT. I was dumbfounded. I mean, sure it was Tuesday and all, but it had been out for weeks and was probably never a big box office hit like Transformers and whatnot. I suspect it was because there were people already lined up and camping for the midnight showing of Harry Potter 6, and so there were people killing time by watching movies while others saved their place in line. So Jen and I left and rented the movie New in Town instead. It was cute, and pretty clean, so yay to that!
So Wednesday comes around and I made Matt PROMISE that he'd go see Harry Potter on opening day with me. There was no way I would last through a midnight showing, but I figured there'd still be people lined up for the morning shows, so I made Matt drive there 2 hours early, totally expecting a line-up, and it was deserted. The box office didn't even open for another hour and a half! I felt pretty foolish. I guess all the true fanatics went to midnight showing, rather than the 11:30 am showing.
Matthew was very graceful about me blowing his workday, and we shopped around before going in, but even then, the theatre wasn't even half full! I guess my plan to go mid-day was a good one because most people are at work. The evening shows were probably completely swamped, but oh well, we enjoyed our little mid-day extravaganza! As for the movie? It was incredible!! I loved it. I'm addicted to it. I want more of it. I can't wait for the next movie. Even the changes they made to the storyline were acceptable, unlike Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban!! I couldn't stand that movie at first. But anyway, YES I would recommend going to see HP6!!
So that was Wednesday during the day. Then we had our photography class at night, which is getting pretty boring, but I've learned lots so I can't complain.
Thursday...yesterday...I guess I didn't really do a whole lot yesterday. I mostly read, went grocery shopping and made dinner. Then I went visiting teaching in the evening, which I feel so good about! I'm kinda terrible at remembering to do VT'ing, but I went and had a great time. Those sisters are just awesome and I'm glad to be able to help others even if it's in a little way.
So that pretty much wraps it up! I know that might have been boring for some, but this blog is really about what's going on in Matthew's and my lives right now, and sometimes, well, MOST of the time, this is all that there is! I also wanted to post something that's non-pregnancy related because that's not what the whole POINT of this blog was. Oh! I forgot that I was going to rant about my university's idiotic scheduling system for the linguistics program, but I'll save it for another day. This post is long enough, so I'll just wrap it up now!
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