Tuesday

It is another hot and humid day, but I'm not complaining because I hate the cold much more than I dislike the heat. Wallace and John are under the apple tree trying to beat the heat by reading in the shade.

We had a rather busy weekend, Michael worked Friday night which was not a normally scheduled shift. The guys on his unit had switched the day for another, they had all played in a Memorial Golf Tournament in memory of a local officer that was killed in the line of duty about 11 years ago. They have a trust fund for a scholarship for officer's kids who go on to university to study some form of law. You never know maybe one of boys would benefit from it some day. Although I'd never encourage a career in Policing for so many reasons.

On Saturday afternoon we went into the city with a couple of families form our church to go to a Mexican Restaurant and see a play called Cinderellie- A western take on the classic Cinderella. We had so much fun, the restaurant gave us a room off to the side which was probably a good thing as with 20 people, 7 adults and 13 children we made a lot of noise. The play was part of a festival called Shakespeare by the Sea, it was in a park right on the coast, it was a beautiful place for it. The actors were great and interacted with the kids who were all sitting on blankets at the front. All the kids except one, who is too little for school anyway, are homeschooled kids so we were joking that this was a class in art appreciation at summer school.

On Sunday we had church as usually and then I had a leaders meeting for VBS after the morning service, which went longer than I thought it would. VBS is next week and we are coming down to the crunch. We raced home so we could grab a bite to eat and then Michael and Wallace had to go to Wallace's golfing lesson. On the first day of golf Wallace met a little girl who when she discovered that we went to church, (It came up because Wallace said that he couldn't play a whole round after the lesson because he had to go to church.) she promptly invited herself by saying, "I've always wanted to go to church can I go with you?". She is going to come with us to VBS but on Sunday afternoon she showed up at our door ready to go with us. I wonder what God has in store for that little life, we sure are praying for her. We took her to church, and then afterward our pastor's family had a wiener roast at their home, so we didn't get home until after 10pm which is very late for my 4 year old.

Yesterday, we had to get up early and drive into the city by 8 a.m. to get the oil changed at the dealership . Originally Michael was going to go by himself and come home afterward but with the price of gas I didn't want to have to make any unnecessary trips, so the boys and I went with him. I am the craft leader for VBS this year, which I took on instead of teaching, I don't know what I was thinking, crafting is so not my strong suit. Thankfully the teachers book has all the ideas, I just had to find the materials needed. I had 6 or 7 ideas and so we went to 3 different stores twice first to see which crafts I could get everything I needed and then to go back an purchase the 3 that we would be doing. It was quite the chore and I am so thankful that Michael was with me. He kept my very distractable mind on track and kept the boys in line, although it was probably as much fun for them as it was for us.

Today I have to catch up on house work and laundry and do a sample of each of the crafts, wish me luck. I pray they all come together as I envision. Wallace also has a soccer game but thankfully it is right here in the village so we don't have to travel very far.