sanguinely /adv./ cheerfully optimistically. assuredly. buoyantly. confidently and enthusiastically. expectantly. lively. hopefully. also with reddish or ruddy color, floridly.
sanguinely /adv./ 1. I think perhaps I had a hard time with this word this week, because the word itself doesn't sound sanguine to me at all. The middle syllable in particular sounds like you opened a box of something distasteful and reminds me of dissecting frogs in 7th grade. And so the week did not go sanguinely, at least for me. There were moments spent in the exact opposite way in fact. But we woke to rain this morning, sanguinely pattering on the roof and skylights, dark clouds covering everything, and so I am sanguinely publishing this post and hoping for days and days of rain and turkey and games around our kitchen table.
sanguinely /adv./ 2. Olivia was delighted at her viola lesson this week to be invited to play at the big Christmas recital. Her teacher has been astounded at her progress and believes she's ready to perform. Olivia, of course, sanguinely accepted the invitation, beamed all the way home, and has been madly practicing the can-can ever since.
sanguinely /adv./ 3. Savannah had her second grade "Johnny Appleseed" play this last week. She wanted to memorize her part and spent a good part of the week pacing the house reciting lines about John Chapman's life. She narrated beautifully and did her own share of sanguinely beaming. The highlight of the play, though, came when David cancelled a meeting and surprised her by showing up. He said when he walked up he had never seen such a grin on her face. I am including a video of her part for her grandparents whom, I'm sure, will sanguinely applaud me for doing so. Please notice the scenery that I helped create. David was duly impressed of course.
sanguinely /adv./ 4. Caleb and I spent more hours than I care to think about working on his aerospace project this week. He and his team are sanguinely predicting a big win at the competition next week, but I am nervously worrying about all the "black holes" in our research and plans. But there is little we can do now. We have built and rebuilt and typed and retyped and thought and rethought, plus glued and sawed, and drilled, and mod-podged, and watercolored, and scale drawinged, and made a gazillion trips to Home Depot. All that's left is the bibliography (which is substantial) and securing the solar panels (which are sadly skewampus). Truth be told, I would find an "honorable mention" downright miraculous. I keep telling the boys that this is just a learning experience, but their enthusiasm will not be dampened.
This was the state of my feet on Monday night after a day of helping 11-year-old boys spray paint. They came clean, but my garage floor will never be the same.
sanguinely /adv./ 5. On Saturday we drove down to Tucson to visit Daniel (my cousin) and Carol (his wife) and their lovely girls. We went to watch the BYU vs. Utah game (we don't have any kind of cable) on their large theatre screen and have dinner. The girls disappeared shortly after our arrival, emerged for dinner, and shed a few tears at our leaving. When I announced that it was time to go, they said, "What?!" with utter shock and consternation. BYU lost horribly to their big rivals, but David took it okay. In fact, when we left to drive down he rather un-sanguinely said, "I have a bad feeling about this." (Meaning the game, not the car ride.) They live in near some gorgeous mountains covered in saguaros, and this gorgeous specimen is right in front of their house.
sanguinely /adv./ 6. On Sunday night, David and I attended "Priesthood Preview" with Caleb who will turn 12 this year and receive the Aaronic priesthood. This was, of course, one of those moments that kind of stops in your tracks and you wonder "What just happened here?" In the middle of the meeting they asked the boys to stand together and sing "Called to Serve." Caleb sanguinely belted out his part, regardless of the other quiet, tentative, 11-year-old voices around him. When the other boys looked at the floor or blushed shamefully at each other, Caleb stood up tall, looked straight at us and sang out his testimony. I was busting. I love that he knows who he is.