Last night we got home a little past 9pm due to my night class, and yet Andre decided we would have our first "real" Family Home Evening - like with a theme and scriptures and a treat and an activity and everything. I thought this was quite cute. He pulled up the scripture story about David and how his friend's dad, the king, wanted to kill him, but his friend hid him to protect him cause he was his best friend. I hadn't heard that story before, but his point was the importance of friends and how happy he is we're best friends : )
We then had hot dogs and popcorn for our treat (aka dinner). I sure hope Jamie Oliver isn't reading this.... I really do want us to start cooking more and being more healthy. The popcorn isn't THAT bad though - it's my very favorite kind.
Then for our activity, we watched animal bff videos here.
This weekend was one of the two special weekends a year when everyone in the whole world has the opportunity to hear from the prophet and his apostles on the things we need to hear today in our time. While I admit I wasn't as prepared as many others and I had to work on Saturday, so I only got to watch to Sunday's sessions live, between what I was able to watch and what I was able to hear from my institute class yesterday, I thought I'd jot down some of my favorite stories and takeaways.
1. The Stupid Cow story. Short version - there were cows grazing in a pasture with a fence to keep them out of the wheat (bc if they ate the wheat their bellies would expand and they'd die) well one cow liked the wheat, busted out of the fence, ate a bunch of wheat, bloated up like a balloon, and died before they were able to help rescue him. Moral of the story - fences are there for a reason, to protect us. If you do things you ought not to you will face the consequences (ouch).
2. The Farm story. Short version - A farmer had his kids count all their sheep and chickens etc, which was a lot of work, but they were able to see how much they have and feel good because they worked to see their blessings. Moral of the story - we are so blessed and have so much to be grateful for so look around and say thanks : )
3. The message to slow down. I didn't actually hear this talk, but the gist I got was that we so easily get caught up in ourselves and the "go go go" "i need everything and i need it right now" mentality, but sometimes we just need to take a step back, slow down, and think about what really matters most. This made me think of one of my favorite songs by Jack Johnson
Well, one of the many things that attracted me to my little Andre Joseph in the first place was his rating of awesome in the smartness category. A couple weekends ago on the 18th of September after a whole week of sleep deprivation and exams and stress he took THE GRE. That dreaded exam to help decide the fate of grad school. He may not admit it, but he was pretty nervous. HOWEVER, not only did he finish way early, he got 100% of the math part right!!!! Yeah.... ALL of it. In addition to doing pretty dang well on the other parts. Obviously I am beyond proud and love to embarrass him by telling everyone I know, but before we told the world we had a *little* celebration at our apartment by playing dress up and drinking fancy drinks : )
