# Chateau de la Tobler

## Sunday, January 04, 2009

### ramblings

I just thought I would sit here and post a rambling commentary on my day. It's Sunday. So it's a rather unusual day all around. It's Benjamin's first fast Sunday as a deacon. So today he did fast offerings with Jeff. It was also the first Sunday we required him to fast two meals with us, and he found this rather difficult, but he survived.
Friday, Erica's new teacher called and asked me to sub for her class today, she had another commitment. So I prepared the lesson, including a picture to color and a badge for each child to wear throughout the class. Both of which needed to be photocopied so I arrived to church a half hour early so I could finish preparing, cutting out and taping and such, before sacrament started only to discover upon entering the library that the copier had just stopped working less then ten minutes earlier. Thankfully, I still had enough time to send Jeff home to make the copies on the machine in our office and come back, but that did mean that I was cutting and taping and writing during opening exercises, feeling like a horrible, unprepared teacher!
Then there was the madness that is the first Sunday in January and teachers and kids don't really know where they are going or what to do. I managed to get my kids all off to class, I did designate Jeff to help Benjamin find his Sunday School class. I wished I could have pitched in more, but with a new Primary Presidency I didn't want to step on any toes. CTR 6, the class I was subbing in, was split into thirds, with each class having between 7 and 9 kids. I, class A, had only two of my kids show up, Erica and Kimber Lee. (Yes, her parents actually named her that!) Class B had four kids, and two brothers for teachers. And Class C had five kids, and no teachers at all. I ended up with Class C mixed into mine. That really was fine. I had taught a pretty good percentage of these kids when they were Sunbeams, so my class was really surprisingly well behaved.
What really surprised me was the amount of people who stopped and asked me if I had been "stuck" back in primary. Four people asked me this! I could kind of understand it. I've only been released for about eight weeks. It would have been surprising if they had turned around and given me the exact same calling as before. Not that I would have minded, I enjoyed being a teacher.
Lillian did really well during her first church as a Sunbeam. She wore underwear and stayed dry! During sacrament, she requested to go twice and then proceeded to strip naked in the women's room before going. Oh, well, it was better then having to take her home and change her. Then, even though I was in the room, she sat on her chair and sucked her thumb all during singing and sharing time, a real little angel.
Jacob was invited to the "It's great to be 8" fireside in two weeks. He is so excited to be going with just Mom and Dad that he could just burst.
Benjamin has his very first baptisms for the dead on Wednesday. He had his bishopric interview today after church and I will be dropping him off at 4:15 at the church to go! He is not terribly excited, probably because he doesn't quite understand the importance yet, but I am thrilled!
It rained all through out church, we are having such odd weather!
On the extremely bright side, everyone goes back to school tomorrow!

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