Friday we had a Dutch cook-out for school. We're doing early settlers, and we've already done Jamestown, the Swedes and Finns, Quakers, and Dutch, and we're moving on to Puritans and then Pilgrims for the next few weeks. We've had fun sewing costumes for the kids. We cooked in dutch ovens over an open fire, but I got the fire a little too hot and burned the peach cobbler to charcoal.
Yesterday after church we went to an anniversary party for some old friends. Their oldest daughter is my age. We used to be in 4-H together, and were always in fierce competition with each other. She was the 4-H Rabbit Queen one year and I was runner up, and then we went to the State Fair together and I placed above her. I have a lot of fun memories. She's married now and just had her first baby. Her mother homeschools now, although my friend wasn't homeschooled.
After the party, my husband had to go to a funeral at church--the mother of another girl my age. They joined the homeschool group right after my husband I left it, so I didn't know her growing up, but she has gone to our church for the past several years. She's always taken such good care of her mother, and now she's left with her mother's medical bills.
I had a casting to go to, so I didn't attend the funeral. I went to my mom's house so we could cast parts for the Thanksgiving play we are putting on. Most of the girls have boys' parts, though. There were only two girls' part in the whole play. Sarah is going to be Miles Standish, Jay is going to be William Bradford, Joy is going to be Squanto, and Abby is going to be a sailor who has one line: "All hands on deck!" They have quite a few lines, but my kids are pretty good at memorizing.
After the casting, we had a Vision Team meeting. Then we taught Financial Peace University in the evening. That was all one day! This next week is going to almost as busy, but at least there is only one major things on each day.
I have drama practice tonight, then tomorrow is election day. Wednesday is church, Thursday is choir and then drama practice again. On Friday and Saturday we are going to go to a 2-day Vision Team retreat. My mother-in-law is going to keep the kids overnight. This will be the first time we have ever left the kids overnight with someone. I'm excited. We are going to probably stay with my sister-in-law and her husband overnight, since they live in the same town. We don't want to spend the money on a hotel--we're still saving every extra dollar we can for a downpayment on a house.
I'm loving having so much time to be able to do things again. Life is so wonderful now that Erick is done with school and I'm not working anymore.
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