Miscellaneous Things I am discovering along the way

I've been the Young Men's president for a while. I've learned a few things from that. One is that no matter how bad for you the food is, if it has sugar or fat or both, the young men will eat it. We were putting icing on cookies one Christmas so we could deliver them to some of the house bound members of the ward. Because it was all guys, one of the leaders bought the icing in tubes like a large toothpaste tube or tube of caulking. As we finished icing the cookies, I noticed one boy squirting the tube directly into his mouth until the entire tube was empty. I looked at him as he finished the tube, and he smiled at me and then squeezed the last bit into his mouth. Try eating a bowl of icing and tell me how you like it.

Sydney made a sheetcake for the young men on one occasion. Even if we only had four or five boys, they could eat all of it - it only took four or five pieces per boy to do that. The same thing with donuts. The unwritten rule with donuts is they must be eaten. All of them.

Catherine Anna Tanner stayed with us for a few days while her parents (Michael and Lori) were out of town. Sydney calls her a little angel, but she is more like a wood sprite except when she is in the bathtub when she is a water sprite. Playing, running, dancing a jig while she waits for something to start or to stop. She is an echo chamber as well - I'll say, "we're going to eat dinner" She'll say, "We're going to eat dinner?" "Let's read a book." "Read a book?" "Would you like some cheese?" "Some cheese?" She is also a little drama queen when she wants. One evening after a full day, Sydney bathed her then read to her until she finally settled in to sleep. About fifteen minutes later, I peeked into her room to make sure she was ok for the night (not sleeping perched on the edge of the bed ready to fall out), and in the slight illumination from outside her room I saw her slowly turn her head toward me and say, "I am soooooooo tired," before turning back and closing her eyes. From exactly what gene does this stuff come from to a two and a half year old?

I was watching the PGA Golf Tournament this week and was impressed by the level of play. I saw some of the pros hit balls in the water, and in the sand, and in the trees, and I thought to my self, "I can play like that." So I grabbed my clubs and went to the golf course and played just like that. I hit the ball into the trees and into the sand and into the weeds. If the pros can do it, so can I.