I should have sent you a copy of what I sent to my President. She read some of it, but not all of it, I think and then emailed me back. If she had read all of it, she would have realized that I told her that it wasn't how long you fast, really, but it was the spirit in which you fast and what you are fasting for. She wrote me back and told me that it didn't really matter how long you fasted, if you were fasting for the right thing in the right way the Lord would accept your fast. We are both right--right? Sometimes, I wish I could be a little more back downish, but I felt like she was attacking my beliefs and she was questioning my upbringing. In fact I labeled the email as "mel's upbringing."
The children are off to school. Howard is going to take Mikaela out to lunch while I go to a funeral at the church. I was just going to take her with and let her play in one of the classrooms, as I didn't think that it would be a really long funeral. Howard doesn't think that I should take her, and volunteered to watch her. I decided that would be a really fun thing for the both of them. They don't get the opportunity to do things together like the other children have had.
It's too bad that you and Dad and Howard and I couldn't take a week off in February. Howard found some really cheap tickets to Ireland for $99 to $124 dollars one way. That would mean that we could go to Ireland for $200/person. Wouldn't that be fun? It would be dang cold though! I think that we should hold out for some place warm, like Italy.
Siovhan should be getting her Driver's license really soon, but she hasn't taken Driver's Ed. yet. All she has to do is find some time that she can take it, and book the course. She hasn't even made the call. She does still need a lot of practice on parking. She is like I was at that age: no depth perception. Cars hung up on other cars keep coming to my mind. What a hard thing to teach! I never thought that I would ever get the parallel parking thing down. Now I have to park that way all the time.. It is a good thing that we practiced in that huge boat of a station wagon. It makes it seem easy to park the mini-van.
I love you! I hope that you are having a good week.
Melanie
