I must write briefly about two more tender mercies that I recognized for this week. I had the grand opportunity to go over-night with my mother, Renee' Williams White and my sister, Kortny Cym White Arbon. Oh, the joy that fills my heart when I get to spend time with these two!
This was kind of a toss up celebrating both my mom's and my sister's birthdays. It is in the middle of the two. Kortny had requested it, because her birthday is Memorial Day Weekend, and Tad is always busy going to horse shows that time of year, so she wanted to celebrate it earlier. My mom's is the end of February.
It's become a trend of ours, that for my mother's birthday, we usually stay in a motel in Idaho Falls. My sweet Mom pays for the motel, even though it's her birthday. We usually stay in one by the river, across from the temple, but this time she wanted to try a Hampton Inn, I believe, out on Hitt Road, by the mall and the newer stores out there. The motel was really nice. I really liked it.
We met at 12 noon on Friday. I had gone to Madison Memorial on Friday morning, at 8:30, because my friend Mikelle Barr, who is their Quality Person had arranged for me to meet with my friend, who goes to the Epidemiologist's meeting in Idaho Falls, LuAnn Dixon. Well, when I get up very early Friday, bid my family good-bye for the two days, and made sure I was out in Rexburg and at the hospital by 8:30, the one lady said to me, "Oh, you must not have got the message." They had left a message on my hospital phone, at work, after I had left for the day on Thursday, saying that LuAnn, who I needed to teach me how to use the NHSN website, was not going to be at work on Friday, because she had already worked too many hours. Well, I obviously didn't get the message, so there I was. Mikelle was nice and let me go to their Huddle, where their leaders all meet togehter, but theirs is much more constructive and helpful than ours is. Then she spend about an hour and shared as much info as she knew about the NHSN reporting project, but mostly other things that were good to know. At the end of that, she apologized again, and then I left. So, I was done with my "meeting" by 9:30.
I had a grand day, anyway. I got a breakfast smoothie in Rexburg -oh, those are so good, went to Real Deals, which is a home decor place, looking for a clock since the one we love has "given out" and won't keep accurate time. They had a coupon for 15% off, since it's going to be Daylight Savings this week-end, dropped something off to Derek and took him a breakfast smoothie on campus - close to where he works.
Then I went to Idaho Falls, went to Real Deals there - found a clock I liked. I tried to go to the Scout office, to get Carl a bandalow thing to put his Scouting awards on - found out they've been in that office 50 years, but they moved, and I did not know, so I missed that.
Then I finally got to meet my mom and sister. We went to lunch at a Mexican Restaurant that's like Cafe Rio, but not. I can't remember it's name. They got their first. We all ordered sweet pork salad, even without knowing what each other were ordering.
We just had a blast with each other the whole time we were together. We love each other, we're all kind, good, fun people. We love to be together. We went to the brand new Tai Pan home decor store. We all loved it. We looked and looked. Hancock Fabric was going out of business and had 40% off. After taking an hour to pick out about 8 colors of Minkee for a girl and a boy baby (someday for Heather's baby), I found out that I had to buy 2 yards of each (I only needed 1/3 yard), so I put it all back. I did find beautiful mint green flowered cotton and tulle for a spring dress Elizabeth wants to sew. We were worn out by then, so we went to the motel, checked in, talked for a while, then decided we were ready for dinner. Kortny took us to a fairly new old fashioned 50's style diner out by the mall. It was so good - old fashioned food at very good prices. I think Blaine would have liked it.
We went back to the motel, the hot tub and pool were full of teenagers, so we skipped that. We just talked until we went to sleep. Ahhhhh, it was great.
The next morning, we had a free breakfast with the room, which turned out to be delicious - a great buffet. We didn't stop then. We went to another fabric store, Porter's. They were having a 25 % off Minkee sale, so I ended up getting the 16 pieces of Minkee for Heather's two boy or girl baby puff quilts idea for 25% off, so I thought that was great. These pieces were already cut into 1/3 yards and rolled and marked, so I didn't have to wait in line - just had Kortny help me choose and wala. So, I accoomplished my two sewing goals of Heather and Elizabeth's projects - Yay!. We went to a book store, a used book store I've always wanted to go in, by Hancock Fabric. I found the next sequel to the book Eve in Eden I've been reading, and one Mormon people's favorite poetry book, so I was thrilled. We also went to a Ben Franklin type store way out past the airport on Broadway, that Kortny showed us. We just had a blast. We ate at a Chinese place out there, by my old Bernina store. We talked and talked there for a long time. Finally, they drove me clear back out to my car at the hotel. I had to split up and head towards Rexburg, they go together towards their homes. Oh, it was a precious tender mercy couple of days.
I stilll need to write about the Horses story, but that will have to be tomorrow, I hope.
I just wanted to say that I love being a Homemaker/Mother/Wife. This week-end, I got to be mostly home, and I've just loved it. I did laundry - I like to make my own laundry soap. I like to keep the clothes nice and on hangers as soon as they dry. Blaine and I took Carl and Elizabeth out to the temple Friday evening. We had a miracle and got into the 6 pm session, even though we were only about 15 minutes before 6. I was handed a "ticket", told the man at the desk that my husband was coming soon - he had taken Carl and Lizzie to the baptistry to get them in and going. The man gave the last two tikcets to two ladies that came in next. He said that was all the tickets for that session. The next people that came in got the 6:45 time. I asked him if my husband would have to go to the next session. He smiled and held up one more ticket, he said it was for my husband, he said he wasn't supposed to do that. I squeezed his hand and thanked him.
Derek picked up Elizabeth and Carl until we finsihed our session, when they were done. Carl was baptized for some of Aunt Tammie's or Ken's distant relatives.
We got to eat dinner with Derek and a girl he is dating, A......
Today, Saturday, I've been able to sleep in til 8 (which was Heavenly), do some housekeeping, make plans for our Las Vegas trip that is coming up on Thursday, during our spring break, look at some Easter recipes, think about what we will do to celebrate and remember the last week of the Savior's life, how we will enjoy Easter, even though we're going to be on the road, thought about how we will get ready for General Conference, which is coming up, made a fruit pizza for Nikole's early birthday celebration, we went to Rexburg to see the new Divergent movie - called Allegiant - which wasn't really good and ate at the same Mexican Restaurant - I had the shrimp tacos, which are delicious - when we returned, we had a surprise of Bishop Moulton bringing us fish he had caught - like he used to, Blaine and I went for a walk to Trupp's and back - it was blessedly warm today here - only needed a light jacket, then Elizabeth and I sorted out the new pattern we have for her spring dress, together. It was just so fun for me to do normal house and family things - I get so much joy from that. I got to talk to my mother on the phone. Life is bliss.
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