Happy Mother's Day!!

Things are always better when your Mom comes!  I was lucky enough to have my Mom come to visit two days ago.  Hooray!  Mom and LaMar met us at the Battalion when it opened.  Darling Sister Dunaway from Texas led our tour.  Both Craig and I agreed she did a great job and taught us how it should be done!  We both plan on adopting some of the ways she does things.  LaMar was the one in our group who dressed up.  He was a good sport and made a darn cute soldier.

After our Battalion tour, we went to a late breakfast.  We almost went to breakfast first, but Craig remembered we have school tours scheduled every school day morning in May. As well behaved as they school kids are, and they are, you don’t really want to be surrounded by 25 or 30 10 year olds on your tour.  Breakfast was good.  It is hard to believe, but we talked a mile a minute since we didn’t have much time together.  Boo.  They had an appointment at noon so they had to go.  I was so glad to see Mom with my own eyes after her hospital scare.  She looks great.

Monday Craig and I celebrated our 37^th anniversary at a fancy restaurant with personalized menus and, not one, but two fancy desserts!  They also took a picture of us and put it in a frame for us.  We all know the first 37 years are the hardest!

 

This week we were invited to go to the Sisters’ weekly training meeting.  The son of our Director spoke about his experience swimming the English channel.  He attempted it with his brother in 2005.  His brother was able to complete the swim, but he was not.  He tried it again the next year and made it.  Very interesting to hear about all about it.

Here is your bit of trivia about the Mormon Battalion for today.  Once the Battalion made it to Santa Fe, many of them were ill.  The standard treatment of the time was calomel, later found out to be toxic. Three sick detachments, plus most of the women and children, were sent to winter in Pueblo.  There the saints learned desert farming and irrigation methods.  They arrived in Salt Lake not long after the first companies and were able to put their new knowledge to use.  The saints had some crops before winter.

It is a busy day today.  All of the Sisters will be calling home and are excited that they can skype or facetime.  The computers at the Battalion will be in constant use and many of the Sisters will be using computers of ward members and one will be using Craig’s ipad.  I am pretty sure the Moms are more excited than the Sisters, if possible!