Moran Family Fun

This Saturday was our Stake's annual Day to Serve and, like last year, all the volunteers met at nearby Serenity Farm  to harvest food that would be donated to local families. There were a ton of people there to help -  approximately 840 men, women, and children.  We harvested potatoes, tomatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, weeded cabbage, painted fences, stained a barn, and planted flowers. After all was said and done 150 local families in need were given fresh produce. When we arrived early in the morning it was foggy and cool but by mid-morning the sun was shining and the skies were a perfect blue. We got ourselves signed in, donned our Mormon Helping Hands vests, and were given some instructions. Madison headed off to complete her assignment of assembling the 900+ lunches for the volunteers while Samantha, her friend Anna, and I climbed into a wagon for a hay ride out to the potato fields. Our job in the potato field was the gather the potatoes in small bags and ...

It's Madison's senior year and she has a sweet school schedule. Half days every day baby! It's great for her to be able to get her required classes out of the way and then hit the road instead of filling the rest of her day with electives she's doesn't need or even want to take. Her schedule does require me to pick her up at lunch time every day because she can't yet drive on her own and we still need to buy her a car. But once those two things fall into place she'll really be living the life. I know Madison loves her schedule, and surprisingly enough, I love it as well.  It's really fun to have her around every afternoon.  We run errands, watch TV, take naps, and talk about life.  She's my afternoon sidekick and it reminds me so much of when she was a toddler and she and I spent our days together running errands, watching TV, taking naps, and talking about life.  Post-run selfie with my new running buddy Madison. Our not very lofty goal is...