A little catching up.

This week has been very busy and productive. Raegan has had a great week at pre-school. She has earned smiley faces every day for the past two weeks and on Friday she said her memory verse "Peter said, You are the Christ, Son of the living God...Matthew 16:16" and received a treat from the treat box. Her mommy-itis is slowly diminishing. She is the youngest child in the program. Most of the children in her class are about 9 months older than her. She is hanging in there and making us proud. She woke up Friday with a raspy voice and a runny nose but other than that everything is well with her.

School is keeping me very busy. I am teaching a new class this time and it requires more time and work for preparation. I have had to stay late just to keep up with everything. Thursday I was at school for 14 hours because I had to work a ball game after my usual work day was over. Trust me I was really ready for the weekend. Just as I was ready to rest.... my mom requested a haircut and my brother wanted to bring his girlfriend over. So I began cleaning the house and cut her hair. Then we decided to just meet for dinner since things were so hectic. All the while I have a pretty bad ear infection and heel spurs that are bothering me. Somehow this week I managed to squeeze in a doctor's appointment and get some meds for the meantime. I will probably go see an ENT soon to deal with the ear since I have had so many surgeries in the past. The heal spur can be treated with injections and steroids.

Scott has finished the decking project with help from his dad and a little from my brother and dad. It looks really great. We finally got the rails and the gates up so that the pool is closed off. Now we have yard clean up ahead and a fence to put up around the back yard. The flexibility of Scott's schedule has allowed him time to work on the many projects around the house. I am thankful for his skills and his willingness to help out with them. In the coming weeks he will be working with firefighter rookies on his days off to do the physical tests for the new rookie school.

I can't believe another summer has come and passed. I can't believe the changes that have happened and yet there are still so many things left unchanged. I pray that in our busy daily lives that we remember that time is precious and to keep the ones we love close. This time of year I am especially missing some people who were once an integral part of our lives but circumstances have changed and some of them have gone on before us while others are still here. "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." Leviticus 19:18