With All My Love

Dear Children

When in church a few months ago, I was so pleasantly surprised to see a sister holding her phone up, transmitting the lesson live, to a home bound sister. Imagine my surprise Sunday to find this same home bound sister, transmitting live from her bed, teaching the RS lesson!?! She did a beautiful job. I can just imagine a whole room of sisters holding up phones to share meetings with others. Technology can be a beautiful thing. Home bound Primary children would love it! as well as their class.

Monday your siblings had no school, and a half a day of school on Friday preceding this. Staff training or something. But it is nice to have Mondays off when this happens. We did lots of piano lessons, a bit of cleaning and yard work, and an afternoon of playing with friends. One new family in the ward lives literally on the bank of a canal that branches off of Lake Granbury. It was like having their own private swimming pool. Boats, kayaks and jet skis were enjoyed by all. It was hard to go back to school Tuesday morning. I enjoyed the time at home alone. I'm still packing up Cooper's room, cleaning, and making it into a permanent guest room. I don't care if someone wants to sleep there, but I'm not moving one of the bodies currently at home with their belongings in there.

You boys make my day when you call me and share your exploits. Porter will be contemplating the benefits of eating banana skin. Hunter sharing his leftover work related dinner with Porter. Tanner's messages of love from the confines of the basement. And Cooper? The quietest freshmen I've ever had. Thank goodness for InstaGram.

[Although this letter was never finished - it will always end the same!]

Love,

Mom