The Legacy of Polly Q

When shown a photo of President Hinckley, Thomas said “Hey, that’s Mr. Hinkel!”

Today we are celebrating his life and wondering what the last day has been like for him.   We are sure he is very, very happy.

Following April’s last entry, here’s what I’m up to these days:

What I’m reading:

Confession: I got about half way through this book last year before putting it down for several months.  Now I have to start over.  It’s very dense with tons of footnotes, endnotes, geneologies, etc.  Hopefully I’ll make it through this time. 

What I’m listening to:

What I’m working on (being as cool as this guy):

Actually, I was contacted this week about the possibility of working with a Chinese developer on some proejcts in California and Shanghai, so I hope something pans out.  Right now, however, I’m just looking forward to a relaxing weekend.

 Ben

I heard somewhere that you can pay to have your blog recorded on disk. I plan to look into this because I have been using this blog as a kind of journal. We are told that journal keeping is important and I really do want to have a record of our family as we grow.   Here is what my life is like today:

Reading:

Listening to:

Working on:

Here’s what Thomas is doing:

Reading:

Listening to:

Working on:

What are you doing these days? I want to hear from everyone. I’ll even try to get the elusive Benjamin to post.

April

Tonight for family Home Evening we pulled out some old slides and I took these snapshots of the screen.  Dad

 Hawaii 2008

Imagine yourself here… and here…

and doing this…

and this…

THE PLANNING STARTED-LET’S GO!!!! (check your emails)

 Today was like this:

I spent some hours working at my bench as the morning sun came through the window.  I was mellow, content, creative, thoughtful and grateful.

I was thinking today that I have a slight tendency to talk a lot about my jewelry on Etsy and I have never even mentioned the other FABULOUS artisans that have Etsy shops. Here are some of my favs:

graciedesigns.etsy.com

myjennywren.etsy.com

shescrafty.etsy.com

treehouse28.etsy.com

benben.etsy.com

chetanddot.etsy.com

I highly recommend spending some time shopping around on Etsy. It is really amazing what some of the artist are doing. I am excited right now because my good friend Shawn Record is helping me to develop a solid logo for my business. He and his brother are starting a graphic design firm and want to build their portfolio, so I lucked out! I am working on a bunch of new pieces. My goal for 2008 is to double my sales from last year. I am not sure that I will be able to actually keep up with all that work but I am willing to try.  Thank heavens Thomas goes to preschool three days a week.

Speaking of preschool, this week, Thomas is learning about arctic animals. Today, they put their hands in a tub of lard that was floating in a bowl of ice water to feel how blubber keeps animals warm in the cold. They also learned to write upper and lower case letter “I” by fingerpainting it in “snow” (shaving cream).  All I can say is, I’m so glad Thomas has such a fun school, and I’m soooo glad the projects happen there and not in my house.

Today, after my workout, I sat in the backyard and let the sunshine soak into my skin. Fin and  Thomas played on the grass and Thomas’s giggle was infectious. It’s going to be a good day.

We had the missionaries over for dinner last night.  Thomas went into “showoff” over drive and became extremely obnoxious, so much so, that we had to send him to his room.  After dinner the missionaries (there were three of them with the combined personality of a grapefruit) wanted to share  a spiritual thought with us, so we were all sitting around the family room when here comes my  little angel down the stairs with a box of maxi pads. He marched right over to me and said, “Here Mom, you need these.” 

I knew it was only a matter of time before Thomas did something like this.  The missionaries all turned bright red and I had to tell them to go ahead and laugh, because after all, it was kind of funny. Some days I could really beat that child.

Sweet, Sweet Treasure O’ Mine

As you can tell by these shots from our front door, we got a lot of snow.  It took me 3 hours and 3 tanks of gas in the snowblower to dig us out.  It’s very quite and beautiful.  The skiing’s going to be great.

 Dad