I was called today to be a counselor in the Primary presidency in our new ward. I was surprised because the Bishop and the Primary president hadn't even met me yet--Scary!
So today was my first day in Primary. At first I thought it was going to be super easy-- just sing some songs and play with little kids. But after chasing a 4-year-old around the room in my high heels and then chasing her down the hall and trying to coax her out of a locked bathroom stall, begging a bunch of 5-year-olds to put their shoes on and making really complicated finger puppets of Joseph Smith without any instructions I realized it's going to be no vacation!
Don't get me wrong, I am excited. Little kids are so much fun and the Primary in my ward has the cutest little kids! I just feel totally like I have no idea what I'm doing. And apparently we have meetings once a week on top of all the activities to plan and execute. I am looking forward to this calling but part of me feels totally overwhelmed! I'm sure it's the same for anyone when they have any new calling. At least I'll get to be with Tyler when he starts nursery (which is part of primary) in 4 months! That's a huge blessing.
Also, I was invited to Girl's Night last night in my new ward. We have such cool ladies! We had a pajama party and it was actually really fun. It made me miss everyone from NE Tacoma but it was super fun. We played a couple games and acted like teenagers--some of them even stayed until 3:30am! (I went home at midnight). I loved getting to know everyone and it turns out our ward has really great girls around my age, there were like 15 of them. I'm even going jogging with Christina three days a week at 6am starting tomorrow and Liz is going to run 10 miles with me on Saturday. Yay! (By the way I ran 8 miles yesterday all by myself and I actually enjoyed it. It was really hard but I'm not even sore today!)
So there's your update!
So today was my first day in Primary. At first I thought it was going to be super easy-- just sing some songs and play with little kids. But after chasing a 4-year-old around the room in my high heels and then chasing her down the hall and trying to coax her out of a locked bathroom stall, begging a bunch of 5-year-olds to put their shoes on and making really complicated finger puppets of Joseph Smith without any instructions I realized it's going to be no vacation!
Don't get me wrong, I am excited. Little kids are so much fun and the Primary in my ward has the cutest little kids! I just feel totally like I have no idea what I'm doing. And apparently we have meetings once a week on top of all the activities to plan and execute. I am looking forward to this calling but part of me feels totally overwhelmed! I'm sure it's the same for anyone when they have any new calling. At least I'll get to be with Tyler when he starts nursery (which is part of primary) in 4 months! That's a huge blessing.
Also, I was invited to Girl's Night last night in my new ward. We have such cool ladies! We had a pajama party and it was actually really fun. It made me miss everyone from NE Tacoma but it was super fun. We played a couple games and acted like teenagers--some of them even stayed until 3:30am! (I went home at midnight). I loved getting to know everyone and it turns out our ward has really great girls around my age, there were like 15 of them. I'm even going jogging with Christina three days a week at 6am starting tomorrow and Liz is going to run 10 miles with me on Saturday. Yay! (By the way I ran 8 miles yesterday all by myself and I actually enjoyed it. It was really hard but I'm not even sore today!)
So there's your update!
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glad you are having fun...don't have too much fun without us!
awesome job on running. hopefully this summer i'll be able to say that too!
THANKYOU for running\walking with me! I was sore the next day so I know I got a great work out. I appreciate you being willing to "drag" me along! hahaha!!!
and I LOVE yoru background too! :)
ok...so my varification word to post this comment is "thinest!" is that a sign or what!
And, great job running! Remember when you said you couldn't run a mile and we made you? You've come a long way.