ms. minchen's having a baby!

well the fact is, today was the best day of my weekend. yesterday was just a bleak left over of the hospital endurance test. (see edith's blog ) i didn't get up until oneish, and i felt tired and stiff and bleak. to make matters worse i had my primary lesson hanging over me. i don't know why i get this way. i felt really reluctant to do it and kept suggesting to myself to just not go to church. but myself didn't like that option because myself wanted spiritual nourishment and uplifting that i get from going to church. i knew if i didn't go, i'd feel yucky. so i wrote about it in my journal, and said a prayer about it. i told heavenly father how reluctant i was and my bad attitude about my calling, and how it was my first sunday without elicia and heather etc etc, and i came to the conclusion that i needed to do it even if it was hard. and i read a scripture which said if you ask in faith for something that is good, it will be given you. so i asked for help with my class and to make it through this feeling that i didn't want to go to church. and now i'm back from church and so glad that i went. it was a good sacrament meeting. it was ward conference and the bishop and president walker both gave good talks, but my favourite part was the musical number by amelia and jacinta. they sang abide with me and i felt the spirit and was touched. music is special. i missed hearing elicia sing beside me but i tried not to think about it.

i got another kid in my class. his name is aaron and he's also spanish speaking. best of all norma showed up. she's the other teacher for my class and can speak spanish. it was so great to have her there and have the two spanish speaking boys participating. my lesson was on the apostacy and i did the whole build the church with cups thing, which they liked but couldn't keep their hands off. class was still wild, but i felt like something was taught. i felt much better. i feel much better.

last night i watched the entire our mutual friend movie, which is a four parter. it's dickens and it's good. he's such a good story teller and he always has so much going on--sub stories and plots and outlandish characters. and he's always saying something about something. like about materialism and greed etc. he's so good the way he does it! dickens is a guy i dig.

so last saturday when i wasn't helping elicia pack away all of her earthly belongings, i was hanging out with one swelling green bean in an electric blue coat at ma and pop beet's. it was snowing. we spent a lot of time going through pictures and adding them to mom's digital picture frame. well bethany was doing it and i was giving my two cents. mom gave me some hearty soup in a humungeous bowl. i was all sure, i'll have some soup, as i was going about making my chicken breast and spinach sandwich. mom got my soup ready and i didn't pay much attention until i went into the fridge and saw the jar that the soup was in and how more than half of it was gone. it was one of those huge jars mom has. sure enough there on the table was sitting a ginormous bowl of soup. so i ate it.

bethany and i decided to go on a walk in the snow and do a little photo shoot. here are some of the pics we took:
the hated and yet much coveted furry boot that bethany dared to wear on christmas eve, knowing full well that her role was not to wear furry boots but to wear high heeled strappy sandal shoes. inappropriate shoe is her role. not so appropriate she's more appropriate than you. that's just rude. doesn't she know her place??

this happens to be one of my favourites of her. note that she's wearing amy's christmas toque. we felt that it deserved some time out this winter even if it had to miss christmas eve.

slug mouth. it must be shown to the world.
i like this one too. what a cute sister i have.

a typical gbean look. a pair of eyes that pop.

bethany took this of my ribbon of exposed pink flesh. i'm wearing elicia's gumboots that she gave me. i got so tired of wet jeans and water marks on my jeans during christmas that i rolled up my pants quite severely.







whenever i would run in the deep snow, bethany would fall in beside me, back straight, knees bouncing up to chest level, arms pumping. then we would laugh.