And how is your Saturday?

It's cleaning day for the boys. DW got back from school Thursday night and seemed to be getting along with her school work OK. After a day of recovery and searching for bonnets (more on that later) she is ready to literally dig into the boys' room. The cracker jack prize is the missing frog. I suppose I will know when it is found by the cry of disgust and/or surprise. DW has sent the boys outside to play feeling that it would be much easier to clean (read: through away) the toys and related crud from their room. I can remember mom cleaning my room and many prized items mysteriously disappearing, not to be seen again. Moms really have little sense of value when it comes to what is important to little boys. It may seem like a amorphous lump of metal and wood but in fact it may well be a highly prized work of art.

The two older ones are going to Martin's c0ve this coming Monday with the stake. It was originally going to be just for the girls but it was decided that all youth should go. Hol is going as her great-great-great-grandmother Lucy and they were going to have Linc go as his great-great-great-grandfather Jim, but Linc thought that was just too weird so he will get to portray someone else. I think he will regret it latter that he didn't portray one of his ancestors but that's the mind of a teenager. DW would go also but she will be at school. She does however get all the fun of planning and coordinating the little jaunt. It seems that bonnets are a rather intense item of clothing. Many girls are quite reluctant to wear them and it seems that there are few bonnet stores around these days. Mom to the rescue (so to speak), she made a pattern for her two granddaughters who are going (Ash is going too) and made them bonnets. She also helped them make their skirts and shirts. I think she would have made the handcart too if there wasn't some all ready there. I have been getting desperate calls from mothers and leaders about where they could get patterns for bonnets. It seems that this item has been neglected until the last minute in the hopes that it will be too late to acquire one. Hopefully all this madness will be over Monday when they take off.

Speaking of clothing that isn't necessarily the height of fashion. I was given some shorts that mom found on her trip to I.F.. They fit fine but I suspect they were meant to be warn by a much younger and skinnier person. The conclusion that I came to is that they were meant for a person who is around twenty is in a nefarious youth group and has a propensity for people of a similar gender. By the way the shirt is mine, I bought it some years ago. The back of the shorts has a S and a P on the back pockets which are lower down the leg and has added to my suspicion that the manufacture of this item really didn't have a 40+ year old father in mind when they were designing this particular garment.