Parentheticals

This week we have been waiting for the baby to come. (He still hasn't.) Last Sunday I gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting. Alison wrote it for me since she hadn't given a talk in so long (not since we moved in to the ward; I've spoken six times since then). It seemed to be well received, although I had to cut out two thirds of the talk because the other speakers took so long. On Wednesday we had some young women from the ward clean out our goat shed. They had asked for work that they could do to earn money for Girls Camp. (We offered the job to the young men first, to earn money for Camp Helaman, and they weren't interested. The girls were willing to do it, though.) It is pretty clean right now. On Thursday Alison, Rea, and Sara went to Amy's house so the girls could play with Logan. They had lots of fun together. Sara especially loved helping take care of baby Dustin; she loves babies. Hopefully that will continue when we have one. We went to a food storage t...

I have been working on my card game a lot recently. I am attempting to get it ready for a printing (as I have said before). I think that I will send in my print order on July 2nd (that will give me one more chance to playtest it with my family at a family dinner), and hopefully still get the physical copy before my birthday ("It's my birthday gift to me! I'm so happy!"). Andrea has been doing well, although she has started to tell us (sometimes) that she is mad, and that she is screaming. She doesn't actually scream, but she says that she is. We think that it must be something that she picked up from nursery. We were recently given a bunch of clothes for Andrea. She decided that they would be great fun to play with, and dressed her self up. She is not entirely able to get a shirt on her head, but she is close. She is, however able to take her clothes off, and we once discovered her running around the house naked. Her clothes were nowhere to be seen, but...