What I Learned This Week

I am still doing some learning with the new iPhone this week. I learned that I could listen to General Conference live while cheering on my son's soccer game. It was a bit less effective but I got something out of it. I also listened to Conference while driving to pick up my husband from the airport. I learned that I might not be as dedicated to taking the kids to the church building to watch Conference like we usually do when my husband is out of town and I have the handy iPhone.

Sorry about the iPhone comments, but I learned that it's really hard to keep those things clean. I have mine in an Otter Box and it collects so much fuzz and crumbs it was gross, and I never can seem to keep that screen smudge free.

I learned that my saying "Everyone get in the car, please" more than five times before church may send certain people over the edge. Even if it's a polite request, and important, don't nag.

My mom moved a Uhaul load from her house in ABQ into Marina's house this week. She has added to her family two grand pianos, an electric piano, and a huge organ. My mom bequeathed upon me her cello and many more violins, including an electric one. I'm hoping to trade the violins for a cello for Riis. My mom is going on a Mission soon and doesn't want to put these things in storage. Can't blame her and I'm just glad we only have room for violins and not pianos and organs! I asked to keep family history items to copy while she's away. My mom "gave" me copies on disc of all my Grandpa's slides. I hope to reconfigure those so they are viewable on DVD and labeled. Also a small little book with writing and original photographs of my Grandmother. I plan to make enlarged copies. (I wish I had more.)

When I was a kid the Gardners in Star Valley used to hold huge family reunions. Back in 1978 at one of these reunions ALL of the living family members were preseted with a copy of family history information and given a book full of copied old photographs. This was quite a big deal because it was a big family. My Grandfather Wallace Gardner had ten kids in his family. Even though I was only about 3 1/2, there was a copy for me and my two siblings and my brother who wasn't even born yet. Well, my mom just barely gave me those copies this week. Which just goes to show that if they hadn't done all that work then, I and my siblings and cousins would've likely never been in possession of copies of those pictures and information. I am so grateful to them.

Oh, and Evelyn is getting good at soccer and still loves it.