Richins

School started this week. Both in person and online. Our family chose in person. It has been a big change but good.  Lilly started Monday. Lucy, Daryl and Ruth started Tuesday. Beth was so jealous and could hardly wait for music class, so she had something to go too.  Some blessings and favorite things from this week are- Going to school in person. -All the kids said this was the best. I really like it too. Seeing friends and class mates, we haven’t seen for months.  Virtual back to school night for the Elementary where we heard from the good principal and great teachers. They are doing so much to make school happen and the kids are too.  Rewards for perfect piano practice. I am more involved with this than I had planned right now. Daryl and Ruth are doing so good though.  Music class for Beth. I choose not to take photographic evidence  of  the fits she threw  because she just wanted to go to class and it wasn’t soon enough in the day.  Voll...

Here is a round up of the best things about our last week of summer. Lillian-  spending two days learning 2 dances from Thayne Jasperson for the MDT review in January. Glow stick cousin swim party sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa Richins with Lucy and no other siblings. Lucy- Glow stick cousin swim party Tryouts for the high school organized middle school volleyball team where she made the highest team!  Swimming with friends at a birthday party sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa Richins with Lilly and no other siblings. Daryl- Glow stick cousin swim party Moving the mountain of hay cubes Grandpa Egbert dropped off for us. Back to school shopping Ruth- Glow stick cousin swim party Watching Sleeping Beauty Back to school shopping and getting a new back pack Beth- Glow stick cousin swim party Finally going to Let’s Play Music class!  Helping move hay cubes Glen- Super busy week at work Changing the brakes on the suburban His wonderful wife and father-in -law delivering the ...

This week has been a lot of the same- Glen working, the kids and I in Herriman with Evelyn, swimming, tidying the house, laundry, helping Grandma and Grandpa Richins on Tuesday night, Glen and I walking to his work in the morning. Lots of our normal summer stuff that will be coming to an end after this coming week. We have had a good thing going.  A few of the high lights of the week that were not so normal-  Ruth spending most of Monday, plus the night and Tuesday with Grandma and Grandpa Richins. Sometimes she just needs some time away from her siblings and to pretend she is an only child.  Lilly attending a dance workshop for her MDT class with Thayne Jasperson  He happens to be in Hamilton on Broadway and is the only original cast member still doing the show.( He is from Utah and quarantining with his family.) He is Samuel Seabury in the Disney+ recording. She kind of geeked out a bit but tried to be cool. Visiting with Grandma Richins about the picture Paige pos...

We have moved in to August. August is usually pretty routine for us with a new school year starting. This year it feels like we are headed in to the unknown. As things stand now the kids will start school in person with masks and other restrictions on August 24 or 25.  We are kind of getting ready for that but will all the protests and rallies and guidelines changing what seems like every few days things, I am not convinced it will happen. In person is the route all of my kids have chosen for school this year out of the options they had. They want to be in the classroom with people their age and a teacher.  Since we are trying to be cautiously optimistic we are trying to soak up the last weeks of summer and kind of get ready for school and work and do all the regular life stuff too.  Here are some random happenings from our week, some of them pictured some not. Tuesday Larry, Janene, my friend Beth and I went to see Mary Poppins at Hale Center Theater. It was okay but lon...

This week was busy or maybe just emotionally draining/ stressful. It was something and it’s good to have it in the rear view mirror. Here are blessings I want to remember from the week that came along with the hard. Antibiotics- Evelyn was showing symptoms of a UTI the end of last week and definitely Monday and Tuesday of this week. Her great nurse was able to talk to her doctor and get a prescription to help us and her out. She is doing much better that way. Evelyn’s sense of humor- She is a tease and often twists my words or my sisters words around to her advantage. Like when I have her a bath on Tuesday I talked to her about having two options- 1) she could  take the antibiotic or 2) she could wear a brief to help us with the problem that was happening. She quickly replied she would take both options no pills and no brief and then laughed.  She has taken the pills, even though she doesn’t like too. My mom’s high school friend Ann coming by. My mom is burnt out from taking c...

We have gotten right back in to regular life since our Lake Powell trip. Glen had his assigned week to be in the office. I had work with Evelyn and quilts to quilt. Lilly had a retreat for her Music Dance Theater class. Lucy had volleyball clinics and a grass tournament. Daryl, Ruth, Beth didn’t have anything. We are trying to fix that. They need something else to do but it’s hard to find extra curricular activities right now. I have some random pictures from the last two weeks below. Some of the best thing didn’t get photographic evidence taken of them. Those items are two dates with Glen, one to the play Bright Star, it made me cry and I fell in love with the music, and a wedding reception in Pleasant Grove for a young man in our ward who Glen taught, after which we decided third time was the charm and we would actually find M’Li’s house since we were in the neighborhood. We caught her filming and Paige and Azya coming back from a walk. We had an excellent visit on the grass of M’Li’...