Another family has been checked off the list

Yesterday, one family was successfully matched with a 4 month old little boy. This leaves us with only 12 families in front of us. We are out of the teens! Hopefully we will soon be celebrating single digit numbers.

Back to the Daily Grind

With fall comes many changes. . .

• April goes back to school teaching 2nd grade. I have a class of 19 busy yet, most importantly, obedient students. I'm adjusting to the new weekly and daily schedules and look forward to the humor, triumphs, struggles and blessings that each one brings my way. I usually have a good story to share with Eric when I get home. However, I've learned the need to save the throw up stories until after supper. Yep, that already happened this year.
• Eric begins his class at Ship. It is a hard Managerial Economics class that he/we chose to take all by itself. It has lots of calculus, which has me stretching my brain to refresh myself enough to help him when he gets stuck. He always brings the "business" side of the class to our tutor sessions and I try to piece together the "math" side. Talk about stretching your marriage and communication skills. :)
• The leaves on our Dogwood tree are already changing and look lovely; a nice fire red color.
  
• The garden will soon (hopefully) be done. We still have tomato plants with tons of small tomatoes and sweet potatoes that are waiting for the first frost before they are dug up. Eric is looking forward to them. Mmmmm. . . . Senator Russel's sweet potato casserole, baked sweet potatoes, and sweet potato pie.
  
• We are planting two bushes in memory of sweet, little Alivia; a small pink rose bush and a hydrangea bush. They are gifts from two of Eric's very thoughtful cousins. We are still trying to find the perfect place to plant them. . .
  
• We are also in the process of leasing-to-purchase some land near Eric's work. We found ourselves needing a new focus for our dreams of the future. We'll see what the Lord brings.
• Oh, yeah . . . and I turned a year older.