It was the second full week of school!

My internship (my job) ended at the end of July and now with Beth and Ben at school most of the day, I have a lot of time on my hands! I’m still doing homework, but the rest of my time I’ve been painting our kitchen cabinets sky blue! This is not a quick project! Two coats of primer before the paint and all those little ridges combine to make it very slow going. Still, I like how it’s looking and I do get to listen to books while I paint!

Bethany enjoyed school again this week! It’s really a beautiful miracle. She also tried out for the school play. She felt like she did really well and is looking forward to the fun that she’ll have! She was hoping for a speaking part and is disappointed that she only made ensemble, but it will still be fun, we hope. Beth also went to the football game on Friday night and the school dance afterward. Way to engage in the high school experience, right? She had a good time!

Ben’s feeling ok about school. He’s also practicing with the cross country team everyday afterschool and managed karate on Tuesday. He had another race Saturday morning. He didn’t do as well as the week before, but Kevin says he’s still running faster than Kevin’s ever managed to run that distance! Mariah is his assistant coach and so that makes it extra worthwhile to participate. He’s doing all the things but I’m not sure he’s really enjoying them. We will keep working on it!

Savannah got pretty sick this week and missed a lot of work. Poor kid! She was pretty miserable. She’s feeling better now and even worked the overtime day on Saturday. This coming week she needs to be there an hour earlier everyday—5:30am. Yikes!

Kevin bought a four-wheeler for our family this week! He decided that our anniversary 4-wheeling trip was so much fun that maybe we should own one ourselves! Now we do! Saturday afternoon, he and I went up in the mountains and we went for another ride. So so pretty!

It’s been a good week!