Update ........

It's been a bit busy here and crazy temperatures.

This morning it was 32 when I dropped children off at school and when I picked them up after school it was 84 degrees!  So needless to say - everyone has the sniffles or cough.

We had my nephew; Asher visit for four days.....  What a character!

Patrick has been working on his Pinewood Derby Car for the Cub Scouts Derby Race which is this weekend.  :)   It's been fun to watch him work on it; sand, paint - use a drimmel tool and hammer.  

He's also been doing a beautiful job with guitar practicing and his dad has been playing with him every now and then - Patrick loves that ...(so does momma) 

Career Day 09.....  Rachel wants to be an artist and Patrick still wants to be a GI Joe - actually his Uncle D.  introduced him to the idea of West point and that's been a couple of years now and while he's only 9 - who knows.... I told him to keep his grades up and we'll see.  

I've been a bit busy too!  Last Thursday we had the stamping ladies meet here and I had breakfast and lunch for everyone. 

Then Sunday our new church has begun with a Sunday night Bible study - and hope to start worship services before the Fall. 

Tuesday I had the book club meet at my house and there were six women who showed up to discuss Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet .  Talk about fun - we've all voted we are glad we don't live in the 12th Century.  We talked for almost 2 hours about this book!  There are so many characters, the good vs evil is in the smallest of  places to the largest ending with Thomas Beckett's assassination  - so the fiction mixed with truth beckons us to look closer.  Such beauty (12th Century cathedrals)  came from  the the rough hands of a man who drew his renderings on reeds tied together with straw and  drawn with chalk or charcoal. The only real tool he had and most important was his angle thingy to make sure the blocks they cut from quarries were straight so the cathedrals could stand all these thousands of years. :) 

Then today our normal stamping home fell through again so I had the stamping ladies over again  today and  fixed a yummy potato soup with all the toppings of a baked potato  - it was wonderful.  :)  AND I was able to scrap book two pages.  :)