Hope's Birthday

My baby girl turned six yesterday. Where has the time gone? It makes me so sad that she is growing so fast. She loves kindergarten so much. Loves going to school each day. I am glad it is only half a day and she is home by 11:30. She gets pretty grouchy in the afternoons, it is rough getting up at 6:45. She is in bed by 8:00 p.m. but I may need to push her bedtime to 7:30.
She had a good birthday. It was pretty quiet, I sent cookies for her to school but she forgot to hand them out, it is probably a good thing. When she brought them home they were all smashed. Rich informed me she stood on them the night before when she was standing on her backpack, silly girl. We got her some lego blocks, she can build with blocks for hours and hours. I also got her some play-doh and clothes. Autumn, and Tymber got her a slinky and a shirt, and Ryan got her some fart putty, she loves it. She really wanted a zu-zu pet and I ordered her one online but it did not get here in time. I was pretty ticked off, I ordered it the end of August. My parents decided to come down and they brought her one. She loves it. Hers of course showed up today, I really think I am going to just put it up for Christmas. We ordered Chinese and I got her a cake. I had to go to young womens last night so there was not a lot of time to celebrate.
I was asked last week to be a Beehive adviser. I can't say I am surprised. I have known it was coming for a while now. My Patriarchal Blessing tells me I am supposed to work with the youth of the Church, specificaly the women. I knew when they started to release some of the leaders it was coming, then it did not and they called other women to the position. It kind of ticked me off because I KNEW I was supposed to be there. About 2 months went by and they called me. I am pretty scared, I have never had a church calling before, this one is pretty big. I really do know without a doubt this is where I need to be and Sister Ulrich confirmed it today as she was bringing me everything I needed. They are just going to have to be patient with me I have a lot to learn and there will be many weekends I have to work but I will be able to go to Mutual each Tuesday.
I finished my first two classes last Sunday. I got a 96 in both classes, I worked hard and I am excited for the grade I received. Now I am taking finance and communications. I really think communications will be tough. It is reviewing a lot of verbs, fragments and such right now. The sad thing is that I have forgotten most of it over 21 years.

skimop

Hope is a true nut. She is determined everything has a website. If you just go to …..com and look it up it will be there. I was mopping the kitchen floor and she just had to get in on the action. After I finished I cleaned the mop and let her have at it. At first she is ridding it like a stick horse with the mop end on the floor, then she starts skating across the floor saying “go to www.skimop.com you will get all of the information you need to ski-mop your floor. But kids ask your parents before using the internet.” I am now laughing as she is giving this huge commentary and sliding across the floor behind the mop. I am in the laundry room and here a crash “I’m okay” then she is saying “kids do not go to ski-mop.com it is dangerous and should not be tried at home” Now she is dancing around the room with the mop and singing all sorts of crazy songs. Then she grabs the mop holds it up and starts singing to the tune of Mama Mia “Mopa Mia, Mopa Mia” You just have to love a child’s imagination, even if she does watch too much TV and quotes shows and thing she hears.