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Every year around Christmas we try to visit Temple Square. It's just a fun tradition we do and the kids admitted to me this time how much they really enjoy going.
And every year I watch the weather; well because I always watch the weather and plan my life around the weather . . . shopping, running, errands, trips out of town, gardening. I really should have been a weather man. All that money wasted on a business degree and my heart really loves weather because frankly it affects every person's life in some way or another.
Okay, that was a bit of a tangent. So last week I was watching the weather and seeing very warm numbers on the screen followed by very cold numbers. Tyler and I made a quick judgment call and decided to hit Temple Square last Sunday. We've been before in freezing cold weather and unquestionably, it just isn't that enjoyable. I don't think we've ever visited on a Sunday and I thought it would kind of quiet. Um, I think I'm not the only weather watcher out there. Anyway, the warm weather made for a very pleasant evening and I'm relishing in those memories at this moment as I write this post and it's a balmy 10 degrees outside only a week later :)
This year we especially loved the luminaries and different nativities. Kiersten especially loved the sign language luminary.
I love this picture. My kids can be such goofballs. But they are my goofballs and I sure do love them.
SEOP. Honestly I'm not even sure I know what those letters stand for . . . Student Education something Plan. Maybe Occupation? Anyway, Kiersten and I met with her counselor today to discuss her future.
That seems !crazy! close.
She took some kind of a pre-ACT test and her scores projected that she could get between a 29 and a 33 on the actual test. Her counselor tried to steer her in the direction of a medical career; she told him she likes writing and music. He didn't say anything, but I could tell he was thinking, "That won't make you a lot of money."
And who cares. No one wants to spend a lifetime doing something they don't enjoy just to get up the next day and do it all over again.
It looks like we've got some planning ahead of us.
And what about Erik? He's only a year behind.
Well, tonight Kiersten was attempting to use reverse psychology on Alex to get him to do something, and that led to a discussion of psychologists/psychiatrists.
Erik pipes up from the other room and in all seriousness tells us that he might want to be a reverse psychologist.
Now that would be an interesting field of work.
