Whoa

Last Tuesday as Shelby and I were leaving gymnastics I got a call from the Bishop asking if he could stop by the house.  I automatically assumed he was stopping by to speak to Jeremy because he is the Deacon's Quorum advisor and they recently made some changes in YM.  I quickly called Jeremy and asked him to make sure the living room had been straightened up and got home as fast as I could.  I literally had no time to even dwell on the possibilities of why he was coming over, so when he started talking, I was startled when I realized he was talking to me, and he was talking about YW.  "Ok", I thought.  "He's going to ask me to be an advisor or the secretary, or MAYBE a counselor."  So I was completely in shock when the words "Young Women's President" came out of his mouth. 

I am so excited to be working in YW again.  While I have served as YW president before, I was only 21 then so I feel like I (hopefully) have grown since then and can maybe offer more to the girls than I could then.  Of course, this ward is MUCH larger than our tiny ward in Natchitoches, so I feel a bit more pressure there.

I was up until almost 2 last night putting together a calendar that has everything on it- gym schedule (we share a building), teaching schedule, dances, mutual- including who's in charge of what activities, etc.  With work and the girls, life is already so busy, so I was having a bit of a panic attack.  I am starting to feel a bit more organized now though, and will feel lots better after we get through mutual on Wednesday and our first presidency meeting later this week.

So that's what has been on my mind all week.  Other than that, things are good.  Turns out I do have plantar fasciitis.  I have to stretch my feet in the morning and wear these super hard inserts in my shoes.  I am not supposed to be barefoot at all, or wear flip flops.  I haven't been great at following the last two rules.  But I have gotten used to running with the inserts in my shoes, and that has helped a lot.  The worst pain is when I am in the shower and when I am cooking.  I really need to get a good pair of slippers that I can wear around the house with my inserts in them.  Also, in other medical news, my mole biopsy came back negative.  I wasn't worried about it at all, he only wanted to do a biopsy because that one mole was darker than any other moley-freckle thing on my back.  BUT, I will say that it definitely made me not care that my legs are pasty white. 

Shelby got her "report card" today and did very well.  Last time she got a few W's (working on) for things like listening and waiting her turn to talk.  She's definitely the class clown and a social butterfly.  This time she only needs to work on tying her shoes  She almost has it down.  The other school related thing that has been on my mind a lot for Shelby is the bilingual program.  When I went to register her for Kindergarten they asked if we wanted her in the bilingual program.  I am just not sure how I feel about it.  She takes a Spanish class in preschool now, and really enjoys it, but I don't understand how a teacher can teach a class of half Spanish only speaking kids and half English only speaking kids how to read (in both English and Spanish) and not have them fall behind.  I just need more info on it, and of course, both mandatory meetings are on Wednesday nights (when Jeremy and I have to both be at mutual). 

That's about it for us right now- kids, church, work.  I keep waiting for things to settle down but they only seem to get busier and busier!