A Nicer Week

What a much nicer week this week than last…very uneventful, which makes for a nice change! We still have water in the basement, but there are dry spots and really the only standing water is in the shop and the back corners of the playroom. Most of the rest is still damp, but we are making progress. I have only done a couple of loads of laundry in the past week and a half, out of necessity, but I really need to get down there and do more. It is just not pleasant to be down there with everything being damp.

We babysat for Emma twice this week, once on Tuesday as normal and she is here again today. (She is napping right now.) We also had Braden both of those days and today we went and picked him up from preschool since his grandma and grandpa are going out of town.

Adam has had a very busy week this week. He is now taking two classes at Bethel, Written Communication II which is Monday evening and Psychology which is Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Logan is taking the writing class too, but he is on his own in the other class. I guess it is good for him so he can get more used to going there on his own next year. Yes, I am pretty sure he is going to go to Bethel next year. He has been accepted and even has been offered a scholarship from Bethel, which he has a chance to increase if he attends a scholarship day at Bethel. We haven't actually turned in the acceptance letter and paid the fee yet, but that is definitely the way we are leaning. Adam also had a Nat's Honor Society meeting this week as well as a busy week with work. This week was the deadline for the 4-H scholarships, so that was kinda crazy trying to get those finished and turned in….then we forgot to sign them and he had to drop of new signature papers the next day.

Yesterday we had Joel L. here for a couple of hours while Julie had a dentist appt. and lunch date with Jay, and then last night I had worship team practice. Tonight after Braden gets picked up, we are going to meet the Hembrees for dinner at Rulli's to go over plans for tomorrow night and have our monthly meeting. Tomorrow evening we have WOL Parent's Game night. We will have a short parent meeting and then play games. Lori is making a giant Trouble game where the kids and parents will be the "markers". We are also going to play the brand new WOL Quiz Blitz…parents against kids. It ought to be a lot of fun.

Tomorrow morning we were supposed to go to church and do follow up for the Jesus Film Project. http://www.jesusfilm.org/ It is a great movie that was distributed in part by our church around our church neighborhood and tomorrow we were going to go out and ask if people had watched it and get feedback. Unfortunately, it is supposed to be well below 0 wind chill tomorrow and we are also under a lake effect snow advisory. Right now the sun is shining, but it is very cold! (Wind chill currently is 17, but is supposed to drop throughout the day.)

One month from this weekend, is our annual scrapbook retreat at Potato Creek and I am all ready very excited about it. Same ladies as always are going, but this year since the weekend we are going falls over President's Day, we are staying through Sunday night as well. I need to get busy and start pulling together page kits because as long as it takes me, I will need the whole month to get it done. I think what I may do is start working on some of Adam's baby photos and younger years' photos, so I will have some of them done for when his graduation open house comes around.