Ward Nativity, Icicles, Glasses, Bball

Ruby the Shephard, Adelia as Anna the Prophetess, Ollie an angel, Ivan and Lincoln as wisemen.

Whirlwind December just keeps going and going. We had our ward party. The Primary was in charge of the majority of the program and they did the nativity story. They asked Lincoln and Ivan to be wisemen, and Adelia to the Anna the Prophetess. The younger primary kids were told that they could choose to be either and angel or a shephard. Ruby chose to be a shephard, and was the only girl shephard. Ollie chose to be an angel, and was the only boy angel. While we were in the primary room getting kids dressed, an older boy came up to Ollie, who was standing next to me, and kind of pushed him on the shoulder and said, "Hey Angel, you're supposed to be over there...with all the girls! Because angels are girls!" And he laughed. Now, I'm not usually one to go all psycho on other people's kids, but I can't stand bullies, and my sweet Ollie had done zero to provoke this kid. So, I said to the kid, "Girl angels? Hmmm? You mean like the angel Gabriel?" And the kid was like, "Well, uh, no. Not him." And I said, "So then you must be talking about the angel Moroni. He was a girl?" Kid, "No." Me, turning to Ollie, "Actually all the angels they reference in the scriptures are boys. So Ollie, if any other kids give you crap about being an angel because angels are girls, you look them right in the eye balls and tell them you are the angel Moroni, and that they have no idea what they are talking about." The big kid sort of skulked away. I was probably too hard on him, but for the love. The nativity proceeded smoothly after that, and the kids all did a fantastic job. Haha! But about 2/3rds of the way through Ruby got bored of sitting on the stage, and started to pull the decorative lights off the floor of the stage and saying very loudly that she was bored, so they had her get down and come running to find me. It was kind of funny.

It's been snowing off and on, and really cold. The kids have been knocking down some really big icicles from off the back deck roof.

I finally got new glasses! Yay! I'm really happy with them. The reason it took so long is because I'm also trying out contacts for the very first time, and I keep having to try out different kinds to see which ones allow me to see, and be comfortable enough to wear. I have an astigmatism, and apparently it tilts at a 30 degree angel, or something like that, which my doc tells me is not a normal tilt. I guess most people's tilt is either straight vertical or straight horizontal? I don't really understand it all, but for that reason it's taken almost a month's worth of trial contacts to find some that will work for me. So I got them ordered, and got my new glasses ordered. And I can see again. That's good news.

And it's basketball season for Ivan. He's doing junior Jazz in Spanish Fork. I wish there was a better program closer to us, but Salem Rec sort of looked like a joke. And I couldn't find a 4th grade Bantam team in Salem Hills High School boundaries, so off to Spanish Fork Recreation we go. At least it's a shorter drive than going all the way to Springville.