My weekend ...then Monday.....

I live for the weekends! Sad to wish your life away in that fashion but I do it all too often! I work in a small office. Just two of us. My manager Nancy, and myself. There are others who work with us but for the most part, they are in the Boise office. Occasionally (if Nancy or myself are out) one of them will work here in Nampa. Nancy was off last Thursday and Friday. Spring break with her kids. I worked with Sally from the Boise office on those two days. Friday night I was anxious to get my weekend started! Tony and I have been glued to NCIS lately and so we pretty much planted ourselves in front of the tube that evening and finished off Season Two! It was sooooo good! Can't wait to get Three, Four and Five! Saturday, we worked in the yard. We have a very messy willow tree and she likes to shed....DAILY! We got all the flower beds cleaned out, weeded, patio swept, branches picked up from the yard, grass mowed and edges trimmed. It looked so nice when we were finished. By the time we were done, it was time to clean up for Blake's Baptism. We went to the Stake house, met with lots of family and enjoyed the baptisms. 2 little girls from our ward, were also baptized so it was a very nice evening.
Sunday we went to Nate and Melissa's Ward for Sacrament meeting because Blake was confirmed. Again we met up with lots of family and Blake bore his testimony as well as both of his parents. Afterwards we went back to our own building and finished up the block. After church we had a yummy EASY meal. Bacon, egg, cheese muffins. I'm lazy on Sunday when it comes to cooking. We snoozed and rested. In the evening we went to the Haverfields and visited with them, Mom Norton, Sister Buckway and the Grosbecks from Missoula. (A family I knew growing up in Montana) When we got home, I felt like watching a movie. I had purchased "CHARLOTTE'S WEB" when Jill and the kids were living with us and we never got around to watching it. To be perfectly honest with you, I hadn't even read the story up to this point! I had heard enough about it to know the jest but not entirely! Pathetic, I know! We have the version with the real animals. We sat down and got cozy and proceeded to laugh at all the barnyard humor! It has the voices of Julia Roberts, Robert Redford, Steve Bucemi, Opra Winfrey and more and it was so dang cute! I thoroughly enjoyed it and CRIED at the end! I know, I know, PATHETIC again! Anyway, a good show!
Tony is still out of work but luckily I'm still employed. I got up this morning and went to work at 7:30AM. Nancy came in at 9:30 and told me how tired she was. Her son's girlfriend is in the hospital with gallstones and she is 7 months pregnant and they spent all day Sunday in the emergency room. She then left to pick up time cards. She was back at 10:30 and just starting on payroll when she got a call from her mother. Her father had collapsed and wasn't breathing. She immediately called 911 and put me to work calling her family and our boss. She left and said she would stay in touch. She called me an hour later to inform me her father had died of a heart attack. I told her not to worry about work, we would be OK and proceeded to call Boise so Suzanne could do our payroll and to make sure Sally comes over the rest of the week to help me out.

It's gonna be a long day. I opened and will close but I'm grateful I'm not in her shoes. I'm also grateful I know what I know about death. It is so comforting to have the gospel and to know this life is not the end. We are so blessed!