Wednesday's Calm

We planned our menu, assembled recipes, checked sale prices, drove to Metro (the Costco wannabe), went to the center for a few hours where I tried out the dessert recipe (it worked great...it will be fun to do it tomorrow), walked to another local grocery store where we got smaller amounts of needed items and have spent the last little while here in the apartment doing homework and getting things ready for tomorrow.

This chocolate bar really was as big as it looks!!!! But we didn't buy it.

I am hoping that the meals will get progressively easier, but I suspect they will not.  What will be getting better is the ease with which we will shop and prepare and serve.  Didn't Heber J. Grant say something about that?  Ah yes..."“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”  I am waiting for that to happen!

Metro - as well as most grocery stores are getting easier to negotiate our way through, because we are beginning to know the territory and the ingredients of products, and prices!  We found some fun things today and some crazy low prices on a few items that will come in very handy for the center.

We think Winter is here now to stay.  After more than a week of snow and wind and cold plus a forecast that doesn't see the end in sight, we are resigned to it.  I still like it.  And SK hasn't noticed yet just how cold it is.  He has a scarf, hat and gloves that he has been known to wear, but left to his own devices, he will go out to scrape off the car without a hat or gloves or scarf OR zipping up his jacket!  What is he thinking????

I am beginning to get used to the silence in our lives.  For many years when I was home alone, I listened to the radio, the news, music, talk shows, whatever.  Since being on our mission, I am less inclined to listen to most everything except soft and soothing music, and even to that only once in awhile.  We never have anything playing in the car while we travel.  We watched some Christmas DVD's on our television, but haven't had it on in weeks.

I love sitting up in the loft with the blinds open in the morning.  It is a cozy place to read and study and ponder.  Distractions from all the goings-on outside are the only problem, and even those are pleasant. I look forward to my quiet alone time while the day is still young.

In the months that we have been on our mission, I am learning a lot, and learning a lot about myself. What a blessing this has been already!

This is SK's drawing of a pig flying over a city during the activity during Family Home Evening at the center.  No comment needed.