Still busy

I know, I know. I haven't been on recently. The good thing about that though is that I usually find out who has actually been reading it because I then receive a phone call from someone checking in to make sure we are all ok.

Our schedule hasn't slowed down any but it also doesn't seem much to write about. Mark is putting in long hours at Camp and Cruise because this is their busy time of year. Being their finance guy now along with being the office manager is wearing him to a frazzle.

I spend lots of time working my Avon business. It has been tough figuring out a balance between managing my recruits and building my customer base. Every now and then something manages to fall through the cracks and then I have a mess to clean up.

There are also our church commitments. 2 weekends ago we had a candidate for the position of Pastor of Student Ministries and Outreach come. Mark had a Pastor's Prayer Partners breakfast with all the men from the church Saturday morning and then since I am on the C.E. Committee, we had a picnic at Pastor Tom's house that afternoon. It was a wonderful time as we then had him speak for a teacher inservice on Sunday as well as the 2 services but also very tiring. The vote was just this Sunday morning and it was 172-0 in favor of calling him.

We have been working at training a new person to take over in the kindergarten class that I have been teaching this year. He has started out in the pre-k class under a teacher of 20+ years. This week, he is moving to my class and we will team teach for a while. By fall, I hope to hand the reigns completely to him and possibly have another person in training. By doing this, hopefully, I can do more supervising and less teaching myself which is what my position is.

Rachel and Stephen are busy getting ready for a school program next week called "We Haz Jazz". Rachel has a special part and even has to stay after school for 3 days for extra practices.

I received a call from another mom out at the kids' school. She was looking for childcare for the summer. At first, I was ready to tell her no because we have had too many disappointments with the daycare and were ready to give it up but I reconsidered. So I will be taking her daughter (the same grade as Rachel) and her son (the same grade as Stephen) just 2 days a week through the summer. It will then be afterschool care during the school year. Being just 2 days, it shouldn't be too overwhelming and most of my Avon is going to have to happen in the evening anyway so I'm not taking all 3 of my own to do it. Also being only 2 days a week, it will keep my kids occupied without it being too much time together.

Well, I have to run. Lots of stuff piling up and time is flying. I'll try to be on more.

By the way, congratulations to my brother, Mark that has just been accepted as a pastor to a church in Wooster, OH. Hey family, when we going to have 1 last fling in Alliance? I vote 4th of July weekend or Labor Day. What do you guys think?