First Day of School

Today was the first day of school for the elementary boys. 

I took the traditional pic on the stairs, but didn't walk them to the bus. I would have if they asked, but they didn't, so I just stayed with Katharine. We didn't do any back to school shopping, but hope to do that soon. They're good on backpacks and clothes, but they could use some new shoes. It's cute that Peter still wants to wear the cowboy boots from Wesley everywhere. Tonight I made dinner around 4 (potato salad) and put it in the fridge, then I went on a ride to the ruins. I was back at 6 and then I set the table (!!!) and we had a sit down dinner. It's been a while since we did that. I was pleased to see the kids eating a healthy dinner - some spring greens with the potato salad on top and a drizzle of a vegetarian dressing. 

The plan we made yesterday was: dinner at 6, FHE at 7, leaving for FHE at 6:45 - we went to Waterford and played soccer. We invited Ethan and Bella to join us. They are staying with Wayne for a few days. They joined us and invited some of Ethan's friends from the DR to come. I thought soccer would be an easy activity that everyone would like, but they weren't into soccer. So we had a game of kids vs. parents, and then when they showed up we visited and had some ice cream sandwiches. Katharine guarding the sandwiches until I gave the OK - 

When I gave the green light, they all ate them, and I bought too much and so they each had three and most of them felt sick afterwards. 

So better to have too many than too little? Maybe not, next time I'll just have two boxes, not three. 

So they weren't interested in soccer, but Corey talked to them about climbing and they thought that that sounded fun, so we took them to the Temple Quarry first to walk around there and learn some of the history of the area, and then we went to Momentum. I'm glad that they wanted to do that, cause that got us another month of membership. Corey was wanting to cancel, but then we renewed for another month after they expressed interest in it. 

A butterfly update - I found lots of eggs last week. I gave half of them away, but of the ones I kept, I was worried they were duds - but then when I checked this morning I had 13 that had hatched, fun!

I have some big ones and at various caterpillar stages and should have a few of them change to chrysalides this week. I didn't keep any of the eggs I found in July, cause we were busy at reunions, but I've kept some since we got back from Park City. It's fun, I'm not going crazy, but have been keeping track of the eggs I found. The first ones I found were on July 10 (16 eggs). Here's how many I found on each day: 

• July 10 - 16
• July 11 - 1
• July 13 - 3
• July 14 - 8
• July 15 - 3
• July 16 - 4 before we left for Bear Lake (cause Owen saw a monarch flying around the plants by the AC - Terry came over while we were gone and found 31!)
• July 23 - 1 egg
• July 25 - 1
• July 26 - 7 
• Then park City
• Aug 2 - back from PC, found 21 eggs and 2 babies
• Aug 4 - 4
• Aug 8 - 1
• Aug 10 - 18 eggs
• Aug 14 - 30 eggs 
• Aug 16 - 3 eggs, gave 16 eggs 4 babies 3 big to Alisha
• Aug 18 - one baby
• Aug 19 - 1 baby

I'll put those numbers here for now to compile stats later, if I feel like it. 

One other note about current events, today I was listening to a podcast about Epstein called "The Palm Beach Predator". I came across it on Saturday when I was doing some googling about his ranch. I didn't know he had a ranch. There are 5 parts on ABC on YouTube that are the same clips and people interviewed. Horrible things that people do to other people. I pray for healing for all of the survivors. I did use to think it was weird that one person accused him and then lots of people jump in and do the same, but now I understand why that happened. It's really horrible that Epstein and Maxwell could do that to people and feel invincible because of their money, and that the victims would feel so powerless also because of Epstein's money. And that so many powerful friends and businesses would be on Epstein's side because of his money. I think money and seeking safety from money is the mark of the beast - the only other time the 666 number is mentioned in the Bible is in 1 Kings 10:14 where it notes Solomon received 666 talents of gold. I think that's what John the Revelator was pointing to when he used that number in the Book of Revelation 13:8. So yeah, that's going on in the world today, and I think it's horrible Trump is not being transparent about the files. My 2 cents.