I survived

I survived giving my first talk in church in the last 5 years. Jeff and I were asked a couple weeks ago to speak on July 11th. Of course, I wanted to run and hide and make vacation plans for the next 6 months to avoid giving a talk - maybe they would forget about us.....alas no plans were made and the talk was given. I did okay, until we go to church this morning. I wanted to bolt for the bathroom and I swear the chapel doors closing for the sacrament was the same sound of a prison door shutting on me. I was stuck and had no choice......I DID NOT inherit the public speaking gene that my dad has - apparently everyone else in my family took it and I got the leftovers which happens to be: crying mixed with some audible speaking....

I chose to take Abbey with me - mostly to give myself a distraction from standing in front of my peers. Also I wasn't sure if she would freak out that I was up there and she was still in her seat. So I held her the whole time, she was so good - didn't touch the microphone once. Although it wasn't a distraction for me, I still cried like a blubbering whale (and that was before I even got started.......). I hope she was at least a distraction for the congregation........maybe. :)

We spoke about "work and responsibility" - a good subject for us as we've been through a lot of changes in those areas - excessive work hours, unemployment, new job, work/life balance, etc.

As a side note, our "Enrichment" committee has been released and I am no longer in charge of that. Apparently, our ward and RS our now small enough there is no need for a committee to exsist. Sounds good to me. :) But I did get a new calling - it was a busy Sunday.....teaching CTR6B - which I think is Lea's class. Happy to do it - I love Primary except when we get to be in charge of sharing time......ugh. :)