We celebrated March family birthdays this past Sunday. Our goal is to make of our monthly local family get-togethers a time of celebration and also a time of learning together and growing in unity. We organized a more structured family Sunday this time, which included a Family Home Evening lesson, birthday celebration, songs, a game and scripture chase for the kiddos. I'm hoping that we can make our time together memorable for the children. I wish we were a family that expressed more outward emotion and feeling, but, to a person, we seem not to be. I don't know how to create more openness since I'm not good at it either. But there is plenty of love to share, and good times.
I went to a luncheon with fellow high school girls yesterday. It is surprising to me how many of them I don't know. We had a big class. But it was fun to visit and get acquainted with girls that I went to school with but didn't know well at the time. Seeing them brings to mind how quickly a lifetime passes by. It seems such a short time ago that we were girls with big dreams for the future. Isn't it interesting how often dreams must be altered as we go along. If nothing else, life on earth teaches the value of being adaptable and light on our feet. I think of that more often now that we are giving up our dream house and moving, once again, into the unknown. Of course I am also keeping in mind that this change may take awhile...
Daughter Jessica turned 43 March 6th. |
My March birthday boys: James turns 14 on the 28th; Ben will be 35 on the 24th. |
Here I am with the train monument unveiled on Mission Ave. in Fremont. It was created and paid for by friend Lila Bringhurst. |
Our week was filled with other activities as well; dinner for missionaries, dinner with neighbors and friends Ernie and Bev Trutner, another trip to Ben and Jessica's to help organize their new home, an unveiling of a train monument, placed in Fremont by friend Lila Bringhurst, hiking and tennis with daughter Audrey...and so it goes. Minutes, hours and days are filled with a collection of activities and events that are mostly pleasing and mind-expanding. I'm grateful for that.
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