My New Favorite Things

Lately, I have discovered a few things that I just love:



* Grocery Shopping. Strange, but true. I think I get this from my dad, who did ALL of the grocery shopping and cooking while I was growing up. I didn't even know that it was traditionally a woman's role to do such things until I was in late junior high. Yeah, weird. Anyway, I find grocery shopping to be a stress-releaser. I like to just roam up and down the aisles and look at everything. This new found obsession does have its downfall in that I tend to spend way too much money on groceries. Devin and I are rarely even home to prepare meals, so we are mostly just grabbing food and going, but I just tell myself (and Devin) that I am spending so much money because the food is for our food storage. :)



*Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley's book, "Letters". If you have not read this book, it is the next thing you should buy and start reading immediately. I actually bought it for my sister for her birthday, but found out that she already had it, so I got to keep it. I think I love it so much beacause it just shows how human Sister Hinckley was. I mean, I think I just had this image in my mind of every member of the Quorom of the Twelve and First Presidency and their wives being super-human. For example, in one letter, Sister Hinckley says that it is her new year's goal to read one chapter from each standard work everyday. She then says, "It has been four days, and I have only failed three times!" I think that is so great. Makes me not feel so bad about my own shortcomings. There is also a section of letters that she wrote while she traveled with her husband throughout the world. It is never a problem for her to mention President Hinckley's problems with "gomboo". That makes me laugh so hard. Good book, though.


*Smoothies. I love making smoothies out of fruit, yogurt, and juice. They are so good and I tell myself that they are cheaper and healthier than Jamba but just as good. Something so easy shouldn't be so good.


*familysearchindexing.org. I know I sound more and more like Molly Mormon every day, but I LOVE this site and doing the indexing. I feel like I am helping in the geneology project with the little time that I have on my hands. I try to do one or two pages every Sunday and that keeps me occupied. I think its sorta fun to look at names from back then and to think about what that family may have been like. The challenge comes when you can't read the person's handwritting, then I feel bad that I am mis-recording some person's identity forever. Yikes. Oh well. It is a good project.

Well that is it for now. I just thought I would share some of the things that are keeping me sane these days. Happy Sunday!