We're all a little Nutty

I fully intended to report on our weekend hike right away, but I'm only just now recovering from the exhaustion -- mentally and physically. It's not that the hike did me in, but preparing for and recovering from ANY trip, always takes a lot out of me. So in a nutshell, here are the details: We started about 9am each morning and hiked for 7-10 hours each day, stopping whenever we needed to eat or get warm or dry out socks. OK. Sometimes it was raining or snowing and all the above reasons for stopping had to be ignored. Mostly we just had fun laughing and walking and enjoying the view and walking some more. We hiked 16 miles the first day, 14 miles on day two (in the hail and snow and rain), and 10 miles on day 3. (Those earning the hiking merit badge hiked an additional 9 miles on day one.) Fortunately, my sister-in-law saved us by shuttling our van with supplies to a campsite each night so that we only had to carry daypacks. It took us all the way from the Kolob Cany...

Tonight, during Family Home Evening, we were going through calendar items and it seemed like no one was listening. This annoys me because as thorough as I try to be, inevitably someone is "surprised" by something we have going on in the week and irritated that it affects them somehow and they "knew nothing about it." (That someone is usually Dad but we forgive him as he has much he does each day and can't be expected to also be the amazing administrative assistant that I am.) So, just as I was grilling the kids on whether they'd heard what events they had and where they needed to be, I hear, "You look good with a horn." Of course, everyone turns at this off topic comment to find Lee with a wooden cylindrical block placed on Mckay's forehead like a unicorn. So much for me convincing myself that I was imagining they weren't listening. As a second witness to the "not listening" theory, Sam then proceeded to teach the EXACT sa...