Our Life Lessons: Week 44

On Monday I went to celebrate Lisa Miller's birthday in Colorado Springs. We had a wonderful birthday lunch and were able to reconnect. I learned that one of Lisa's college roommates lived in my neighborhood. I took her with me to Lisa's lunch as a surprise.
Our chiropractic office changed insurances and no longer carries our insurance. I found a new chiropractor and went to visit him for the first time this week. It was good to be readjusted.

Hurricane took the cookies in from last week's fiasco. He brought cookies for his class each an individual bags. He was so happy that he could share his cookies.

On Tuesday the root canal is finished that happened almost a month ago. There was still infection in the lining of my mouth. It was cleaned out completely and patched with a filling. Now hopefully recovery will happen, and I can move forward with life.

Sweetheart wants to make our home as efficient as possible. Our electrical company will come do an energy audit on our home to tell us where we need to improve to have the best efficiency. The auditor who came said that the one thing he could do is to add some caulk around the window panels that are loose and to add insulation in our basement on the ceiling. Beyond that he has done most everything that he could.

Sweetheart helped the boys make Viking helmets. They decided they wanted to be the Awkward Avoidance Vikings for Halloween. They had a lot of fun creating their helmets.

I volunteered to be Hurricane's room parent. A Halloween party was planned for the entire grade. We had a treat room with veggies, apples, and homemade caramel, the game room with bingo using candy corn's as the placeholders on the bingo cards, and to wrap the mummy room.

I made the carmel the night before putting it into Dixie cups because I couldn't find the condiment cups with lids. The party turned out to be fun.

Since Underfoot is in middle school now, there is no class party. In place of the party, I bought donuts for his class. There is a donut shop here in that does gluten-free and dairy free donuts. That was a lifesaver since there are students who need gluten-free and dairy free.

For Halloween, I wasn't feeling well to take the boys around trick-or-treating since it was 20° outside and my mouth was still hurting from the root canal the previous day.

Sweetheart took the boys around and I made for him a birthday pie. He had found a recipe for pots de creme to be cooked in a sous vide. When they arrived home, the pie was almost done. It was quite the birthday surprise.

We didn't eat the cake/pie until the next morning for breakfast

Sweetheart for his birthday wanted a sous vide cooking bin. The bin arrived on his birthday and he was so excited to make something in it.

I have a small obsession with Trader Joe's advent calendars. I have called three times that week to see if their advent calendars were out. After visiting the temple, I went to Trader Joe's and bought lunch. I also bought peppermint Jojo's which are a favorite around here.

Saturday was the beginning of our Pie Party preparations. Sweetheart organized and clean the garage. We even bleach the floor to get the spilled grape juice off the concrete that had stain the floor. We cleaned in the house and created our plan for the next week.

Earlier that morning the men went to move chairs for the stake conference the next day. After the stake conference they helped one family moved to a new house and then help to move the dining room table to another house. They provided a lot of service that day that morning.

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