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Around here, you never really know what you're going to get.   One day you wake up and find, you are suddenly a pretend Grandma:

The Boy is taking a class at school called Teen Living.  It is designed to help them see what a terrific life they live NOW and how hard it is to be a grown up.  It is  more drawn out than Reality Town, where they just get a reality check.  This is Kami, his flour-sack "baby".  He was given her last week, and she is to be taken with him everywhere he goes.  If he leaves her hone, he has to pay for a babysitter.  Real money, to care for a fake baby. Oh, and he is required to get up at 2 AM each night and "walk the baby" for 15 minutes each night.  The point the teacher is making here is that babies take a lot of effort.

The Boy has made a LOT of effort for this baby project.  Just wish he'd translate that effort to Geography or Geometry or English.  But there are no fun projects like this, apparently, in those classes.


Another day you might be reading your scriptures, preparing for a Sunday school lesson, when The Girl comes home looking like this:

The Girl showed up looking like this after a long afternoon with the other juniors and seniors on the Youth Court.  The YC kids were "victims" for the city's CERT training.  CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team, and the city was holding CERT Training with the "real victims" to help the CERT folks really have a sense of  the what if--scenarios.  So, don't worry; it's fake.


Other times you just get a little reminder to slow down and enjoy what life offers you:

Friday night we rounded the northern end of Deer Creek reservoir on our way to Midway with a couple of cars of Young Women and YW leaders for an overnight Camp Committee leadership training and planning retreat.  This was the view.  In person, it was even more beautiful.  Pink skies, snow capped mountains, and a calm lake surface surrounded by fall fields...it was lovely sight.

Sometimes, you just never know.