After three months in our new ward and almost being sad about not having a calling, I was asked to be the Primary Music Leader and lead the children in Singing Time. What a new experience this has been for me! Besides substituting in Primary a couple times, I haven't spent time in Primary since I was kid myself.
I'm having to relearn the old Primary songs, quickly catch up on new ones and all of the coordinating hand movement, learn all the kids names and figure out how to control and entertain each of them. It is exhausting but so fun at the same time. Good thing they are so forgiving for my mistakes. Any suggestions would be wonderful :)
I find it challenging enough just to stop myself from laughing at all of the funny things that the kids say. Luckily my mom has been a huge help since she has had the same calling for the last three years. Each week she helps me come up with an idea of what to do during Singing Time.
I am having the hardest time connecting with some of the older kids but that's probably because I am the last person they see before church is over. I'm good but I don't know that I am better than their home and food.
Along with my time in Primary, I have also been helping to put together and lead a ward choir for Christmas and Matt and I were asked to co-chair the Ward Christmas Party. On top of that, the bishopric asked me Sunday if I would help put together and direct the upcoming Road Show skit for our youth.
What a joy it is to be busy with some meaningful causes again - even if it does make my Sundays quite long and busy now. The best part about all of this has been getting to know more and more people in our ward and making new friends.
Thanksgiving
We spent Thanksgiving with my (Keri's) family in Fairfield. Since we usually travel far to visit family for holidays, we were so happy about being able to stay in the Bay Area.
We started the celebration with the annual Adams Family Thanksgiving soccer game with my cousins, brothers, aunt and my mom playing. For the first time ever, we played indoor soccer this year due to the rain. We have played in water and puddles before but never while it was actually raining. So I talked my dad into letting us into their church building to play.
We were asked to bring rolls for the feast and since I have never been able to get homemade rolls to turn out, I decided to tackle the challenge again. The last time I tried, I had bought a box of Lion House Rolls mix and after a day in the kitchen with only dense pucks of rolls to show for it, I was ready to be done. But my Grandma Goss heard the story and encouraged me not to give up.
Since Matt loves baked bread so much, I've been buying him frozen rolls. On the instructions for these, I learned a new trick for getting my bread to rise which is always where I go wrong. A - I have no patience and don't wait long enough before cooking them and B - I do everything they say to but still can't get my bread to rise the second time. The tip listed on this packaging was to turn the oven on the lowest setting for five minutes, then turn it off and put your dough in.
With this new knowledge, I decided to try a roll recipe of Matt's great-grandmother that Kathy had emailed to me. I made the dough the day before and then I took it up to Fairfield and used my brother, Josh's, oven to help my dough rise.
In a true Thanksgiving miracle, my rolls turned out wonderfully. My bread manic husband was SO happy!
I also had a fun time putting together some table decorations for our feast, along with my mom and my niece, Jayla's, help. I was able to use my little paper turkeys for Primary singing time on Sunday which made the time I put into creating them more worth it.
We stuffed our faces, we played some games, Matt watched lots of football and enjoyed our time with family.
We started the celebration with the annual Adams Family Thanksgiving soccer game with my cousins, brothers, aunt and my mom playing. For the first time ever, we played indoor soccer this year due to the rain. We have played in water and puddles before but never while it was actually raining. So I talked my dad into letting us into their church building to play.
We were asked to bring rolls for the feast and since I have never been able to get homemade rolls to turn out, I decided to tackle the challenge again. The last time I tried, I had bought a box of Lion House Rolls mix and after a day in the kitchen with only dense pucks of rolls to show for it, I was ready to be done. But my Grandma Goss heard the story and encouraged me not to give up.
Since Matt loves baked bread so much, I've been buying him frozen rolls. On the instructions for these, I learned a new trick for getting my bread to rise which is always where I go wrong. A - I have no patience and don't wait long enough before cooking them and B - I do everything they say to but still can't get my bread to rise the second time. The tip listed on this packaging was to turn the oven on the lowest setting for five minutes, then turn it off and put your dough in.
With this new knowledge, I decided to try a roll recipe of Matt's great-grandmother that Kathy had emailed to me. I made the dough the day before and then I took it up to Fairfield and used my brother, Josh's, oven to help my dough rise.
In a true Thanksgiving miracle, my rolls turned out wonderfully. My bread manic husband was SO happy!
I also had a fun time putting together some table decorations for our feast, along with my mom and my niece, Jayla's, help. I was able to use my little paper turkeys for Primary singing time on Sunday which made the time I put into creating them more worth it.
We stuffed our faces, we played some games, Matt watched lots of football and enjoyed our time with family.
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| Not a feast without the bubbly |
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| Paper turkey place cards I made for everyone the night before. Jayla helped me draw in the eyes and legs and write everyone's names. |
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