The Bishop and his wife gave Nick a really nice journal set for turning 12. Nick, the belligerent, almost teen that he is, didn’t seem too understand why a journal is so important. Either he was joking, or he really doesn’t understand the importance. You never can tell with pre-teens or full teens for that matter. Anyway, Becky gave a really good lesson on journal writing that night so our goal is to write at least once a week. So I’m going to try and do something here more often.
So, now to the real story. The kids, again, being the pre-teens that they are, have taken up the funny (depending on who you ask) task of changing the emphasis of words to make them sound different. Now don’t act like you never did this or something similar when you were younger. I remember Justin, Will, often one of the Williams, and I would go through the hymn book during Sacrament meeting adding “in the toilet” to every title. See what I mean by funny depending on who you ask? Anyway, we were reading the scriptures the other night, and Ashlee got stuck on “hitherto”. Nick, ever eager to assist, told her that it’s, “hit her toe.” In these situations where the decision is to either maintain seriousness or break out and laugh, I tend to go with laughing. Which is what I did this time. Laughing some more as I write this.