Lately Brett has been staying busy with school so I've been trying to be helpful by learning to be a little more handy. (trying being the key word) My dad is pretty much the definition of handy man and I've always admired that. Plus, if medical residency makes me a widow like most people say it will, I'd like to be able to take care of a few things.
One night Brett took a break from studying in the office and came to find me with my head about an inch from our shower drain. I was trying to figure out how to take it apart to clean it out. With Brett's help I was successful! small victories right?
The next day, I tried this weird idea on Pinterest of cleaning the headlights of our car with toothpaste... there's a small difference if you look closely though I don't think I'll try that one again. After that I changed out our license plate. It feels kind of boring to have a Texas license plate like everyone else now, but we're keeping the old one as a keepsake :)
We went to visit my family in Houston last weekend for a bunch of birthdays and my nephew Isaac's baptism. While I was there I commandeered my mom's sewing machine since I don't have one here in Temple. I was able to fix one of Ellie's toys and I made this baby door thing. Seems kind of trivial, but I LOVE being able to just close her door and not have to take great care to slowly and quietly turn the doorknob.
Now I'm just trying to fix up this dresser we bought on craigslist into a TV stand. While we were in Houston, my dad cut us some wood to use for turning the top three drawers into one continuous shelf. (have I mentioned that it's nice to live close to family...)
I'm still loving the Temple Symphony Chorale each week. For some reason I think I connect a lot more with the 60-70 year olds in the choir rather than the 18-25 year old college students... not sure what that says about me. If you're going to be in Temple on Saturday December 6th it should be a good show ;) We're singing Robert Shaw's Many Moods of Christmas which basically just means a really long meadly of all the Christmas songs you know and maybe a few you don't. Plus it's performed with the Temple Symphony so that's cool.
This is the project taking up most of my time though -
This is Sarah Jane Featherer, my great great great grandmother. I've been working to gather information on her mother's, Elizabeth Aborn's, family. Ellie's full name is Elizabeth and we named her after 4 Elizabeths. One from each of our parents' lines; this is the one from my dad's line. Brett can attest to how addicted I've become haha. The familysearch.org website just makes it so simple! It's like, the information is right there... how can I not attach it and fix it and keep going. This weekend was probably one of the first times that I listened to a general conference talk about doing genealogy and didn't feel guilty, and I love it!
