Someday I'll stop complaining about my busy life. I promise. But that someday is not here yet so bear with me. And I know others have more on their plate than I do but they can get their own blog and whine all they want to.
I'm still getting used to being in Primary after 8 months of being 1st counselor in the presidency. I thought a Primary calling would be a piece of cake after spending the past five years in YW. I thought "oh this will be great. No more weekly activities, no more dances, no more marathon Sundays with tons of meetings" etc. Well, let me tell you something -- one Primary quarterly activity is worth at least three months of Wednesday nights. AT LEAST! I love kids. Truly. They are fun, they make me laugh and they are so stinkin smart but holy cow they wear a girl out.
Our activity today turned out great. We had so many kids that we ran out of stuff for them to make (bad but also a good thing, kind of.) We had kids there who had never been to Primary before and kids there who hadn't been to Primary in a really long time. Plus the wonderful regulars were all there and we had enough helpers too. All in all, a huge success.
But seriously - I am wiped out. This is what I've done after the activity ended around 1 PM today: made up two more brownie-in-a-jar kits, printed 8 more recipe cards because some didn't get one to tie on their jar, divided the pictures to hand out tomorrow after driving down to Sam's Club to pick them up (after I spent well over an hour selecting and downloading the best pictures of each of the 46 children who were there today.) Oh and I returned some of the extra brownie ingredients to Albertsons too. I also went to a fabulous baptism this afternoon. I led the music while we were waiting for the kids to dry off and I basically sang a solo because nobody knew any of the Primary songs we were trying to get them to sing. Good times, good times.
And before 1 PM tomorrow, I have to figure out what I'm doing for Sharing Time and also go to an emergency camp meeting because one of our level leaders had to drop out suddenly. Camp Kick-off (of which I'm pretty much in charge of putting together) is in two weeks and I've barely thought about it.
Oh and today I got asked to be an emergency contact person in our ward in case we have a natural disaster. If that happens, I'm apparently supposed to go check on people. Nice, huh? Hopefully this effort doesn't require me to attend any meetings.
Have I mentioned recently that I'm kind of coveting the assistant librarian calling? I certainly wouldn't want to be the ward librarian -- too much of a headache. But assistant? Running copies, checking out TVs and handing out scissors that don't really cut? That would be nirvana.
I love, love, love to serve. LOVE IT! But I'm just a teensy, tiny bit tired.
Sigh. I feel better now.
4 comments:
Wow. I am exhausted just reading that! How did you find my blog by the way? I am always just curious.
I am also a counselor in the primary and over the quarterly primary activities. We had a nice easy one last time though. It was an Easter egg hunt for Easter so we just had to hide eggs. Then the lunch was a potluck so there was minimal preparation. It was great.
Goodness, you did so much more than me and I went home, thought I'd take a little nap and woke up 3 hours later! Hello!
Jeanelle you are amazing!
I too, want to be the assistant librarian. We could hand out paper together and discuss what we thought of everyone that came in.
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