First grade jitters, a stress fracture and Rock Center on Mormons

Today was meet the teacher day at school. Maylin was super excited to see her teacher. She loves her. When we were sealed to Maylin in our LDS Temple 6 months after we brought her home, a first grade teacher at my kids' school worked at the temple. She saw we were coming in to be sealed and switched her schedule so she could be working that day in the nursery. In the nursery they help the kids get ready in white and they take them up to the sealing room to be with their parents. The kids were thrilled to have someone they know help them and ever since then, Mrs McNamara has taken a great liking to Maylin. They have been friends from that time on. So Maylin was thrilled to have her as a teacher. I think we both (me and Mrs. McNamara) requested each other for school!

Maylin was thrilled to be in her class today. She picked out her desk. It is on the front row next to a little boy James. He is about a head and a half shorter than Maylin. He was cute and they talked for a nano second. In her class she measured her feet and her hands and how tall she was so they could monitor her growth throughout the year. She also saw her cubby. 

I did find a couple of things interesting: first, when we walked into the school Maylin wanted to be carried. In her classroom she did okay, but I didn't. I thought I was ready for her to go to school all day, but I actually shed tears while she was in her class. Big tears. Second: She is very nervous about PE. She was fine with her art class, her science class and her choir class, but she was VERY nervous about her PE class. The teacher even picked up on it. Maylin has known this teacher, Ms. Patch for years, but she is nervous about the whole game/tag/exercise thing. Who knew? She wanted to either be held or hold my hand the whole time we were looking around at school. I will go to the first day with her, per her request. I just hope she settles down and is okay with it all.

Here is Alex with my dad. Alex has grown into a size 13 shoe. Nice. Hopefully we don't get any bigger! Also, while running for a touch down during a football game, Alex crumbled. His hip just gave out.....he only could go 20 yards and then the touch down dream came to an end. I took him to the doctor and he has a stress fracture in the growth plate of his hip. It just happens to kids between 9 and 18. It is when they grow faster than what their bones can handle. He is out of football and running, jumping, biking.....anything but light walking for 2 to 4 weeks. He is bummed. It has been a week. He is still limping, but he says it doesn't hurt as bad.

Here is a cute picture of my baby...just for fun!

Also, watched Rock Center with Brian Williams tonight. Just a few comments: over all it was okay. There were a few things I think were a bit misleading or inappropriate, but I guess I didn't expect perfection. Overall, it actually was better than I thought it would be. I felt bad when they kept saying we are a secretive religion. We really aren't. We just have a fear to say too much because when info gets out there and something is different than what the world views as normal, it is usually made fun of or distorted, so we stay quiet to protect the gospel we love so much. Also, because we view many things to be sacred and special, we don't like to talk about them so they can stay special.

First, I really wish they had interviewed more families that were main stream Mormon rather than just the one family.....the Jacksons and the owner of JetBlue. The Jacksons go to my kids' school by the way. I felt like the others  they interviewed were exceptions to the rule. Basically, they were people who had left the church for one reason or another. I am glad they interviewed them of course! Their opinions were needed, but more mainstream people would have been truer to the religion. At least in my opinion.

Second, it seemed to me the show implied Joseph Smith started our religion after seeing the Angel Moroni. I could have heard wrong, but if not, let me clarify. Joseph Smith started the religion after seeing a vision of God the Father and His son Jesus Christ. After that, the Angel Moroni appeared and gave him direction to the plates that were translated into the Book of Mormon.

Third: Showing the garments on TV was very offensive to me. I would never ask Brian Williams to let me see his underwear. They are private no matter what kind of underwear you wear. It is not that I am ashamed of them or want to hide my garments, but they are sacred to me. I wear my garments always. Only to swim, exercise and intimate moments do they come off. They are a reminder to me of the promises I have made to my Heavenly Father to be good, virtuous, faithful, kind, and charitable. They help me choose the right because the are on my person every moment and are an awesome reminder of the Savior and of the person I want to be. I consider them to be very special and sacred. I don't put them on my floor when I change them. They are too sacred to be dropped there. I do not alter them to fit my clothes. My clothes are changed to fit them. That made me sad to have them on display. I guess if the world sees that they aren't weird or secret or anything, but plain, white underwear then okay, but to me it was putting my sacred items on public view. Couldn't they be left sacred?

There were a few other things I disagreed with, but this is all I will cover here, but overall it was good. Just to clarify, yes our storehouses take care of our own, but the storehouses also send out millions and millions and millions of dollars worth of aid each year to those not of our faith. They really didn't say that clearly.

Anyway, that is enough. Overall it was great. I could see in the young man who was in the Book of Mormon musical, that he loved his mission even though he isn't a member now. You could see how he was emotional when he spoke of the memories fondly.

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