Sleep and Search

We've been rather busy for the past month.  The most important announcement is that we have successfully sleep-trained Henry!  He is sleeping in his own bed for approximately 12 hours every night!  We put him down at 6:30 or 7:00 PM (because he is actually tired by then, not because we want to torture him) and he doesn't get up til after 6:00 AM.  Finally!  We have our bed to ourselves and we even have a little time in the evening to do what we want...as long as it's something quiet.  Typically we either watch Doctor Who (we are completely hooked on this show!) or Kevin studies while I do some family history.

About a month or two ago I had a powerful spiritual impression to start doing family history.  So I got a little help from our ward family history consultant, and I've had some exciting success!  Right now I'm focusing on Grandpa Shaha's line, and I'm checking what we already have to find anyone who's missing or correct anything.  So far I've found about six people.  I even found in Family Tree on the church website a connection with another family line; they're our ancestors, but the work has already been done.  I had to correct a few things (they had Shaka instead of Shaha), but it's nice to know that our ancestors have been served.  Hopefully we can have a family temple day sometime so we can get the work done for these folks!  It's incredible how close I feel to them while I research to learn about their lives.

The relief society president asked me to be in charge of this year's ward Halloween party.  I have a small group of ladies to help me out, and I'm pretty excited about the plans we've made so far.  I manage to appear calm and collected, but the awful pain in my back, daily headaches, and the constant craving for chocolate and Dr. Pepper show me that I'm actually pretty darn stressed about the whole thing.  It doesn't help that we just found out that they will be forming two new wards in our stake, and this activity is the week before the ward boundary change.  Hopefully it can be a good memory for everyone before they start going to church with other people.