Just Stopping By

     I have a good friend who blogs and I challenged us both to update our blogs this weekend. Well, Robin already did, so I gotta come through.I just don`t seem to have much to say!

      To catch up on what has happened since I last blogged. Four of my kids live in Utah. Wow!!! Gary`s dad passed away in July. We were all able to gather for his funeral, really more of a celebration of a great man`s life.Everyone was able to be there but Megan and Taylor who were serving missions and Andy who I believe had to work. It was a wonderful family time. Whenever Chelsons are together there is going to be lots of singing. And lots of children. And lots of food.


     School started. So we took Nathan down to Provo to start his feshman year at BYU. He lives in brand new dorms that were built on the site of the dorms I lived in a hundred years ago. Good old Deseret Towers. They were obviously torn down to make way for these wonderful new buildings. From his living room you can see Y Mountain. I think his apartment is nicer than our house! Porter got a job working with the BYU athletic department, he was kind of in charge of anything Cosmo. I think! Hannah is working for the LDS Business College, she gets to meet important people. I think! Bear works some kind of cement or construction jobs while deciding where he might like to attend school. I think! I really do talk to them all quite frequently, contrary to what this paragraph might make it seem. I am done with elementary school!!! Wahoo! Brigham and Nat are at the junior high and Emily is at the high school.



   I get to teach the Laurels in our ward. I love it, I love them. I love our Young Women`s president Chris Erickson. She is amazing and I learn from her every week. Seriously, I LOVE teaching the Laurels.


   We all are aware of the unspeakable, evil act committed last Friday. As I watched the news updates come in and the news went from the vague-there was a school shooting- to the specific horrors of 20 little babies and 6 adults killed I couldn`t help but weep. That some twisted man would perpetrate such a crime. That those innocent children had to endure those final minutes of fear, that the brave and valiant caretakers died. There is such pain in life. Those who have passed on are safe, safe from fear or pain. But their loved ones and to some extent the country must live on.I am going to try to be kinder to those around me, those I come in contact with. I don`t know what else to do.Because at one time that killer was an innocent 6 year child himself. And I wonder what happened to him to make him lose any sense of human-ness he must at one time had possessed? Sometimes it is just too much to take in. So I turn to the Savior and Heavenly Father, for They promised us peace, not as the world gives but as They give.


     Today I wore a skirt to church. Apparently some women in the church were planning to wear pants today as some kind of protest or call for equality. I speak only for myself, but I am happy to be a woman. I AM EQUAL TO MY HUSBAND. But I am not exactly like him. Thank goodness for that.Anyone who knows me would probably tell you I am not meek nor submissive. Gary respects me, lets me be me and we lead our family together. I have never felt less than because of my gender. And we have raised STRONG,opinionated sons AND daughters. I feel  for the women who don`t enjoy the same feelings I enjoy. But today I wore a skirt because it is my best and I want to show my reverence as I attended church today for the primary purpose to renew my sacred covenants with my Savior and Father in Heaven.


  One of my goals this year is to learn how to put pictures on this blog, because apparently that is what makes blogs cool.


  And there you have it. I came, I blogged I caught you all up.