Life is Sweet: Milestones.

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Milestones.

Bill and I finally took our seminary class their supplies that had been left in our closet in mid-March as we adjourned for Spring Break, not knowing we would never gather together again. It sat in the church building for a couple of months before we were told we could retrieve it (back on May 14). It felt weird to be back at the church, and even weirder to be in our deserted seminary room.

I am terrible at remembering to take "before" pictures, so, once again, you just get an "after."

We wanted to personally drop off each student's supplies with a little treat and a gift, but we waited FOREVER for the "gift" part to arrive in the mail, so our bags sat idle for another month +.

Finally, after an email to Emily Belle Freeman (from Don't Miss This), to check on the status of my order (which I had received an email a month earlier saying it was ready to be shipped), and the discovery that it had apparently been lost in transit to the USPS, we received the MMLX bracelets we had ordered. I made a little card to go with the bracelet, knocked out some giant rice krispie treats, and the bags were ready.

We made a couple trips around the area to drop them off (knocked on the wrong door and had a half-dressed Asian man who didn't speak English answer... oops, wrong house). We met parents we had never met before (very enlightening), and saw firsthand where our students call home. It gave me new insight into some of them, so I may attempt to visit my students' homes early in the school year this year. (Bill and I have been asked to teach another year... this will make 4 years for me. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.)

We were also dropping off a few grad gifts along the way.

I made these for the girls:

And these for the boys:

I didn't do gifts for all the grads that sent us announcements, just those in our ward and close by, everyone else got a gift card sent in the mail :)

We also dropped off a baby gift for a young sister in our ward, who had had a baby shower A YEAR AGO. I intended to go, but didn't make it, so needed to drop off the gift, but instead it sat in my closet, then in my front room, forever. Yes, I feel sheepish. I had told her I had it for her(on several occasions), and that I would drop it by. Luckily it was only baby shampoo, a bath toy, and a hooded towel. I think her 1-year-old can still use it hahahaha.

It was immediately following our drop off of this gift (after a long day of dropping off seminary gift bags), that we realized that our odometer was about to reach a milestone. We decided to drive to the high school nearby as it did.