alright here I am

Ok I promised weekly creation posts so sorry that didn't happen the last two weeks.  I have been working this week at the BYU Bookstore again doing inventory (yes  I love it, my need to organize things and count are being fulfilled and who doesn't like using a scanner!) and last week Josh was sick and home much of the week so nothing got done on the creative front. I have been cross stitching a Pooh Bear bookmark for Kira hopefully gets done this weekend.

These last few weeks have been full with the good and the bad

• Sharon's Birthday- although she lives thousands of miles away from me.  I LOVE Sharon's birthday. Yes it helps that its Valentine's Day. I love a day to think about my sister and all the happiness she has provided me over the year.  
• I was asked by the Custom Specialty Orders Department if I might want a regular part time job helping with sewing and filling orders.  I said yes and the lady asked me to come talk to her about it after my shift (on Wednesday) and she would tell me the details. I went to her office she wasn't there, I looked for her on Thursday and left a phone message and she hasn't called back. So I have no idea what will happen but it would sure be cool if it worked out.
• Kira is  now reading at a 3rd grade level, she never ceases to amaze me.
• ok I know it shouldn't matter but I have had a really hard time with the resignation of Jerry Sloan. I knew at the age of 69 and coaching the Jazz for 23 years it would come sooner than later. I don't however like how it happened. I don't like that Greg Miller no longer had Sloan's back and that he put the players above the coach, especially a HOF coach who put the Jazz on the map.  This is not to say I'm not excited to see what Coach Corbin can do. I am but it doesn't rest well for me of how it happened.  Jazz are a small market team and cannot afford to cater  their franchise to a star player. Look what happened with Cleveland and Lebron, it never ends well.  I am grateful for a husband who didn't laugh at me when I had to talk endlessly about the situation, who just held me when I cried hard for a good five minutes to let it all out.  I am grateful for Lou who understands that Sloan leaving was more to me than just a coach leaving a team but represented another constant from childhood changed/gone in my grownup life. I am grateful for friends who called/emailed me to see how I was doing when they heard the news.  Its silly but it shows me my friends really do accept me for me and know me oh so well.
• We had a party with the kids in our Sunday School class last Saturday it was so fun, they came to our house and played Rock Band for hours, they are such good kids. They do think its cool that I have met Jimmer quite a few times (who am I kidding I think I'm cool for having met Jimmer)
• Most of the week I worked (we were in partners) with a lady name Mariann. she is my Mom's age and is super nice (we worked ecommerce together this Christmas). I loved talking to her and hearing about her kids/grandkids.  Today however we did things a little different. One of my partners was a student recently returned from his mission.  We had been working for awhile and he said you live up in Edgemont right?  Surprised I said yes, how do you know. He said he remembered seeing me at the ward building, he goes to the single ward where we go to church.  I asked him if he graduated from Timpview he said yeah a long time ago in 2007. that made me giggle.  He asked what highschool I went to I said Cottonwood. he asked what year I graduated that made me laugh. I said well i've been married nearly 10 years so its been awhile. He looked shocked that I have been married so long.  He said well I know you're older than this because I saw your kids with you at Church.  But honestly when I saw you I thought you were maybe 23 at the oldest but that didn't make sense with your kids. That made me feel great.   I also had a weird moment at work when I realized that another boy I was working with who was a Freshman at the age of 18 was closer to my Kira's age than to me. ugh I'm getting old.

So the good and the bad a recap of my last couple of weeks :)