Playing House

I'm having a fun time playing house right now. I recall being surprised at the cleaning success I was having in Jan of 2022. Maybe January is just a good time to clean the house? I've been doing a lot and enjoying it. K dancing in my clean room. It's been clean for 1 week, yay!

Hoping to keep going. Yesterday I just cleaned and cleaned as I listened to General Conference and talked with Nicole. This morning the kitchen was clean as I set out my books for some study time.

And my socks are on the table there too to keep my toes warm. I didn't clean as much today, cause I ran errands: 

1. To Mom's to help her with her computer draft font size but prob was the zoom
2. Deseret Book for conference magazines and new Saints book (going to pay the girls $25 for each book they read)
3. TJ Maxx since I was in the area! I got some amazing smelling hand soap that I'm in love with - Michel Design Works Sweet Floral Melody, wow!
4. Walmart for rice milk and to see if they have a small fan for Abi, but nope, only heaters
5. Costco in case there's trouble at the Inauguration. I got 3 packs of TP. I usually try to have 8 in storage, and it had dwindled down to 4. I got 3 and made a throne for Katharine

She is holding Scout from Leap Frog, which was an impulse buy for her since she was with me at TJ Maxx. I was walking up to a display of toys and saw some big barbies that I thought she's want, so I tried to hurry by, she looked at the display, but only saw Scout. I hadn't noticed him, but she does love watching the Leap Frog videos with the "green puppy" in them (Numbers Ahoy and Alphabet Amuzement Park). I pushed her around like she was the town royalty on a float in a parade. She got lots of smiles from fellow customers. "Ooh! Look! A Princess!" 

I also liked how I used boxes of raisins for her armrests.

So that was fun. Then since I'd put in such a good day of work yesterday and today, I rewarded myself with a bike ride up the canyon. The temp was 40 when I started so I was hoping it would be nice, and it was! I made it all the way to the ruins.

I did techy too. It was so pretty. I had a full heart moment on Techy - I was going slow and just looking around me as I listened to the Piano Guys "Someone You Loved" and I got choked up. As I soaked up the beauty of the untouched snow around me Isaiah 1:18 came into my mind "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow..."

And I also thought of how Christ covers us. The word for Atonement in Hebrew is Kaphar. "The Hebrew word kāp̄ar (כָּפַר) is a verb that means 'to make an atonement' or 'to cover'" - like all the snow covering the ground all around me. Christ sends snow and lets it fall for hours and hours until all my sins are covered deep under his perfect whiteness. He covers me! He is my rock and my salvation. I love being in nature, I love these mountains and this beautiful world God has made for us!

As I was riding down the trail back home, the sun was starting to set. <3 I should have brought hand warmers, it got super cold on the descent. It was appropriate that I was listening to Human by the Killers "my hands are cold..." haha. so other than freezing hands, I was and am still feeling so happy and grateful. I'm back home in our nice warm house.

Thank you Lord! Then climbing at 8:00 pm, top rope with Corey in Millcreek. We just did 3 climbs cause Corey wasn't feeling it. That is ok cause my arms were super tired too! I'm grateful we're climbing again, it's fun.