Ambiguity

Sunday I went to Sacrament Meeting because Don said the choir was going to sing. It was a new song, And the Father Will Dance. Both Don & Don-Mike sing in the choir. Since Don & I are the ward librarians, we spend class time in the library & I always take something to do in the library, because it gets boring sometimes.

Sunday I had grabbed a notepad to make some notes for next year's DUP. I am the captain for the next 2 years & I want to send a letter to all of the members of our camp. The first speaker was Abbey Child. Abbey is a senior in high school & the youngest child of Robert & Karen Child. I have known Karen since she was a baby. I remember her dad getting up in Fast & Testimony meeting telling about her being born. She says she is sure it was her younger brother Forrest, because I would only have been 5 when she was born. But Karen has been our visiting teacher & now we are Karen's visiting teachers.

Anyway, Abbey was talking about things her mother has taught her. She said her mother has taught her the four CTR's.

1. Choose the Right
2. Choose the Redeemer
3. Choose to Read
4. Choose to Remember

I thought how profound they were & had to write them down. So, I wasn't prepared to take notes. I did have a notepad in my lap, but needed to find a pen or pencil, anything to write it down with, barring sticking my finger with the safety pin in the handle of my purse & writing it in blood. After I found the writing utensil, I hurriedly wrote 3 things down, but didn't get the fourth R written before I had forgotten it. I listened to the rest of her talk, then after she sat down, I wrote a note to Don, "What was the fourth R?"

He thought a minute, then grinned & said, "Remember." Argh!! He was right! It WAS remember! I could have taken his answer as telling me to think & remember what it was, rather than, "Here is the answer, 'Remember.'"

It reminded me of  a joke I heard recently of a blonde trying to find out what the texting acronym IDK stood for. She asked everyone & always got the same answer, "I Don't Know." Rather than understanding that was the answer, she reached a breaking point & cried, "That does it! Nobody knows."

Another time I had read a trivia question that I wanted to share. I KNEW Don would know it. I take things very literally - sometimes. I asked Don, "What is the #1 quoted line in movie history?" Again, he thought a minute, grinned & said, "This could be taken two ways, but, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.'"

Glimpse of autism

I found another blog to follow & added the button at the bottom of the side bar on the left right. I found the blog through an article shared on Facebook by my friend Terri.

The article, A heart shattered by a glimpse into autism by Rob Giorski, is a heart breaker. It's too late to check it out further, so ... true to the Scarlett O'Hara Syndrome ... here it is for another day.

Nick was a little concerned this morning when he read Tax Day was yesterday, April 15. He wanted to make sure I had sent his grocery credit off. I told him I had another day, which relieved him, but tomorrow I will have run out of time & I will not have another day.

Catching up

Here it is April 10 & I still have shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day on this blog; a Valentine's Day mailbox on my personal web site AND a picture of The Book of Mormon & the Bible with "Reading The Book of Mormon for Lent." Would you say I'm a little behind?? Ya, so would I. But tomorrow's another day, a la Scarlett O'Hara.

Today would have been Don's mother's 83rd birthday. We went for a ride out north of town today. He had remembered today was his mom's birthday. My brother Eldon was born March 12 & died March 24, 1949. He was 12 days old.