Tuesday

It's Tuesday morning.  I'm home alone for another 30 minutes.  Should I clean house.  Do the things on my TO DO list.  Should I take a shower.  Ummmm, laundry!!!!  Nah, I'm going to blog (then get to those other things.)

I still CAN NOT believe William is going to FRANCE.  The past two missionaries to leave from our ward went to Washington state and New York.  Two of the kids friends went to Montana.  Another also went to New York.  Our nephew is going to Los Angeles.  There are a few kids from our stake in Mexico, central, and south America.....but NO ONE from around here gets called to FRANCE!  PARIS FRANCE.  And it's still so funny to me that I guessed it, that I had a feeling that's where he would be going.

When I was in high school I took French class.  I did not learn A THING.  When Melanee was in high school, she also took French.  I remembered my experience and thought, you are never going to use this for ANYTHING, but let her take the class anyway.  She did not learn A THING.  In fact, when she went to SVU she had an option of testing out of foreign language or taking 2 years of foreign language....she opted for the two years....she took SPANISH!  haha.  When William registered for high school classes, he also took FRENCH.  French, what an odd language for someone is CALIFORNIA to take??!!!????  Right?  Well, I think he will be glad now that he know a little about the country, the language, the culture....because he will be living there for TWO YEARS.  Two years!  THAT is a long time.  It's not like a vacation....two years....he will have to do everything in French...including TEACHING French people!  It will not be like the Hmong missionaries here in Chico, who speak English for at least half of their dealings with people.....EVERYTHING will be done there in French---church, conferences, meetings, everyday life.

I cant wait to get his letters and hopefully pictures.  I've never been to France.  (I have never been out of the country, unless you count the time we walked into Mexico so Scott could try to barter to get a cheap blanket.)  

This whole William going on a mission thing is something he has been getting ready for all of his life, but WOW it seems to have snuck up on me FAST.  I'm glad he got to go to that semester at SVU first.  It would be hard for him to just go away on his mission straight from high school, well, hard for ME, he would have done fine!

Soccer season starts tomorrow.  I am coaching Andrew's team.  We are the Sharks.  Isn't that a cool team name!!????  haha!  It's my second time coaching the Sharks, do you think the league pres KNOWS that I am a HUGE Sharks fan, yes?  Andrew is still in basketball and scouts.  Bradley is also playing soccer.  He will have soccer, scouts, and church basketball, too.  Busy kids!  Busy mom!!!

The wedding planning is coming along.  Melanee keeps wanting to move up the date....but it's really going to be March 24th because the invitations are printed and the temple has been reserved.  Visitors are coming from all over the nation, so we really need to begin cleaning our house!!!!!  Come on over with a dumpster and paint brush if you want to help!!!!

The San Jose Sharks are driving me batty.  I can not understand why they cant just win EVERY game.  That's not asking too much is it?