5 more days

Dh was just talking about this last night. I think getting up early this yr to take R to seminary has been a lot of work for dh. He knows it's a good program which is why he continues to do it, but getting up at 5:30 is not easy for him. He's a night owl. But he's done good and R has learned a lot of scriptures. This Fri they're having their annual "Scripture Bowl". This is where other seminary classes come together and they have a contest to see how quickly each team can find scriptures. Obviously the team that does the best wins. I've tried to tell ds that if he doesn't do as well, that ok. This is his first yr and most of the others have had at least 1 more yr on him. He'll do fine.

Well I think spring has finally won the battle over winter. We've had some really nice temp lately and our park day the other day was beautiful. They had ben predicting thunder showers on us, but they passed just to the south of us. I'm glad because we really don't need anymore moisture right now. Most fields and pastures are flooded. We need some good warm days to help evaporate the moisure from the ground.

Last week ds came down with a headache and a cold. This past weekend S came down with a cold and a very small fever. And just a few days ago dh says he's feeling stuffed nose and sore throat. Well I wake up this morning and my throat is a bit sore. So I guess ds decided to share with us. Thanks, but no thanks. Guess I need to talk to him about WHAT to share lol.

Ds's book collection is slowly accumulating. He did well with our neighborhood. Did almost as well at church, and then at the park on Wed, one of our school friends gve him a small box with books. We just have one more friend who has books and apparently she has 6 to 10 boxes. I've asked her to go through it so we won't get a lot of unneeded boxes. She says she will. He's done very well.

Speaking of ds, next weekend is his monthly campout. We're hoping the weather will cooperate better this time. Last month they had thunderstorms and so they ended up doing most of their meeting at the church, then over to a member's home to sleep in the basement. They then went to a police academy where their scoutmaster works. Afterwards, they come to our home, had lunch, then off to help Robert with his project. I've been very happy with how helpful the scouts have been to him. As one mother said, "if each boy decides not to help another, no one will help him." Makes sense to me. In 2 Tues he will be taking the books and such to the library to donate. Then comes time to update and edit his report. He will then send it on to dh to have him check it out. Then on to the Eagle committee. One thing R has over a lot of the boys is he's been keeping his report up to date so he doesn't have to try and remember what has occured. This is especially nice since he started this project last summer. Good thing he has kept really good notes.

OT here. I'm hoping sometime this yr or early next yr that we will be able to afford a second vehicle. We've gone 18yrs with just one car. We've done fine, but we're realizing lately that because the kids are getting older, they're starting to do more activities and that means having the car more. I try and limit what we do, but sometimes it just can't be helped. Dh says we're doing well, and if it continues hopefully soon we'll have a second one. It will be soooo nice. :)

Karie
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