The Six of Us

Yesterday it was announced that the church had received a $35 million Book of Mormon.  It was stated that generous donors had paid for the book and then donated it to the church.  Here is my issue.  Despite the fact that non profit organizations are required to have open books so people know where money is going the Church doesn't.  The are exempt just like every other church.  Although several churches have open books and notify both their members and the public where the money they receive goes. The LDS church has decided not to. The LDS church also claims that they have non paid clergy which isn't totally true.  The 15 top leaders of the church are all paid stipends in addition to Mission Presidents having extremely generous benefit packages.  So were these the generous donors???  The stipend for one of the members of the twelve is more then Lee and I make to support a family of six.  I would consider it more then enough. We will probably never know where the money cam

Besides getting Andrew out the door  Andrew is not a morning person and drop offs at school have not been going super great so we decided to have him ride the bus.  Lee took him to the bus today and while drop off didn't go super well Andrew made it on the bus and  to school and his teacher he has the first half of the week said he was doing well when she saw him this morning.  I dropped Jake off at school and then went to Target for snacks for preschool.  Luke went right into to preschool and gave his teacher a hug.  Then I went to the elementary school to spend an hour in the kindergarten class.  I love being at the school and may start subbing there next year. Then I went and got Duke and spend the day at work.  Which has been great.  The intern told me she  switched shifts so that she could work with me instead of the other social worker and told me how much she loved working with me.  The new social worker told me he would switch shifts with me so I could go to the kids

We went to Oceanside for a week in August and it was amazing.  The extended family is fabulous and we had a great location right near the beach.  The older kids could run back and forth to the condo.  I love going and wish I could talk Lee into going every year.  Walking on the beach and playing board games and just hanging out with nowhere to be.  Perfect weather.  Next time I want to hit up Sea World. We got back from the beach on a Saturday and then the kids and I  left for Kamiah on Sunday.  I didn't really want to go.    But the kids had a great time playing with their cousins and swimming in the river.  I do wish they could spend more time with their cousins.  The following week the older kids started school.  Victoria seems to be doing okay but it seems to have been a slight bumpy start for Jake.  They are both doing well in cross county and now Victoria is talking about doing winter cross country.  Jake hasn't decided what he wants to do just yet this winter. I am e