Parentheticals

 We missed three weeks this time, so I am going to try and remember the things that happened throughout pretty much all of October. One thing that we have been doing is struggling to keep up in our family "A Night in the Lonesome October" reading. We do it pretty much every year, but a chapter a night is sometimes a hard pace to keep up with.  Alison has been sick for quite a while, but she is finally feeling better. She has gotten horrible colds every winter ever since high school, but when we started masking during Covid, she stopped getting them! She's been very happy about that, but apparently it stopped working, because she got the exact same symptoms she always does. She was in bed for almost a week, and felt pretty bad for another week, but she's mostly better now. She is blaming the fact that the kids no longer wear their masks. They were quite upset with how sick she was, so maybe they will be more willing to mask again. The kids had fall break while Alison w...

Grandma Julie's weekend last weekend Grandma Julie came over to Utah and invited us to see a horse parade in Sandy. They had events and food trucks and the Rogers came as well. It was very fun.  At the same time Grandma Julie invited all of the kids over for a two-day sleepover. They had a fun time playing with Grandpa Craig and with the cousins, and Mike and Alison went out on a date so everyone enjoyed it. With Rea and Sara participating in a play we have been driving around a lot to get them to where they need to go. That combined with public school means that we have not been able to buy groceries for most of 2 weeks. Fortunately the Waters have been giving us large amounts of potatoes so we're okay. It's like Mike's prophecy from high school was fulfilled. We watched general conference for the last 2 days. On Saturday we did it at our own house and on Sunday we went to the Brown's house. The kids are getting much better at paying attention, so we were able to a...