Single Night

Tonight I felt like a single woman. It was so wonderful, not to be without a husband but to get away to be "myself" and not just a mother. I am so grateful to Ruth for watching both girls and being there for me in every way, I don't know how to repay her. I was going to go to the Bountiful Temple and drop off the girls at her work just for an hour or so. Of course with the luck that I am having lately it didn't turn out that way. It said..."Closed until August 1st".

I was able to go to the Ogden temple and do 15 out of the about ninety names that I had available to do. I was quite surprised that I went under the water with ease being 6 mos pregnant. I was glad that I got to experience that again. I remember going there as a young teenager with the Young Womens group. It is definetly a different but good experience each time that you go.

I drove Ruths car to the temple and while getting in I had inserted the key and thought that I had turned it on and so put the car into reverse. Then it would not go. I continuously tried to start the car again and thought that the battery must have died, the lights were on and every time that I attempted to turn it over the went out and nothing worked. After about five minutes of quietly panicking I looked at the console with the "shifter"(she has an automatic) It said reverse, so I put it into park and the car started right up. I am such a cluts, I have been driving manuals for so long that I don't know how an automatic works that sounds so silly!

Right on a corner of 21st street in Ogden less than a 1/4 a mile where I was, was "Farr better Ice Cream"! I was able to go in, and was in luck! An ice cream cone for less than two dollars! I only had two dollars in cash on me so I thought, I couldn't seem to find my debit card. MMM I got a scoop of the burnt almond fudge, It was to die for. I only took less than five minutes, I was in a hurry to get back to the girls. I remember going to the Farr Ice Cream shop when I was a child with my dad, Great times!
Yay I found a pic of the store, a picture of the inside of the shop with people that I don't know. But its a picture!

Even Driving back I felt so relieved, I had had over two hours without my children, not much stress. No why's, or "No"! I was so extremly calm. It was so "WONDERFUL!" I am so very grateful to Ruth I don't think that I am able to truly express how grateful that I am.