Monday, July 14, 2008 - Life is full of so many opportunities, but we can't do it all (but (I'm ignoring that!)
Ahhh – the first chunk of our busy schedule is over – only part of it, mind you! On Friday and Saturday, we had our annual Agricultural Show; which is what you Americans would call ‘the Fair’, I suppose! The main pavilion has lots of local-made crafts/perishables placed in different categories – including a whole area for kid’s entries! Undoubtedly, us Letchford kids were involved in that! Altogether, the Letchford mob entered 45 items into the kid’s main pavilion!!
Daniel entered 15 projects, and won 7 firsts, seconds, thirds or highly commended!
Naomi won 11 out of thirteen items!
Joshua put in two projects, and received a third for one of the items!
I entered 14 projects and won two Firsts, one Second, two Thirds and two Highly Commended!
So we didn’t do too badly – ;), although a few things didn’t obtain a prize as I expected them to. L For example; I entered four beautiful pictures:
But placed them in the wrong category! Apparently I had placed them in the ‘Wildlife’ category where as they should have been put in the ‘sky, sea or landscape’ category! However, the steward for the kids’ section came up to me and made a deliberate point of telling me how upset the judge was about that, and that she thought they were beautiful. That was so nice of her!
Anyway, I did put in a sunset photo (in the right category…) and was given a Highly Commended for that. As well as…
First for my ‘Take Thyme’ embroidery
Third for coasters I made Mummy for Christmas
First, Second and Third for the scrapbooking pages I did (that has a funny story to it: not only was I the only contributor to the scrapbooking section, but because only Nomi entered a scrapbook page and received a HC for it, I get the ‘overall scrapbooking for kids’ award Mum donated (her being a Creative Memories Scrapbooking consultant and all)! At least, they were supposed to give me the award, but in the end they gave it to someone else. L But my loving Mum has promised to give me an award anyway. J)
Another special thing happened… I had worked extremely hard to finish my Take Thyme and a ‘Love One Another’ quilt, but didn’t receive anything for the latter. Anyway, the Saturday afternoon, I was looking at all of the results, and one of the organizers/steward was getting the awards or something organized, and asked me about it. I told her it was mine, but didn’t receive anything for it. She told me (and I know her, she helps out at Mainly Music and is a Christian) ‘I think it needs at least a HC, and I can do that for you, I have the power!’ and went and gave me one! Thank you!! Some people had mentioned to me, ‘I think second was given to something else by mistake’ or ‘maybe it was left out by accident’ – but it was nice for them to tell me how wonderful it was, even though I hadn’t won anything for it (until the steward gave me the HC!).
Anyway, they all did very well! Imagine – without our 45 items, the kid’s section wouldn’t have done so well!!
Friday:
Morning:
Set Up the Under 18’s Youth Pavilion
Handed over our entries for the Main Pavilion
Afternoon (the show didn’t start till 3:00pm, but we give our stuff and set it all up that morning):
Opened up Youth Pavilion
Saw results from the Main Pavilion
Ate burgers for dinner
Started freezing
Continued freezing
Waited for the 8:00pm fireworks whilst freezing.
Found a stall with HOT CHOCOLATE and gingerbread man.
Kept freezing.
Watched fireworks!
Went home
Defrosted ourselves.
Slept.
Saturday:
Well, basically, we watched the dog show with friends, went through the pavilion I don’t know how many times, walked around looking for freebies with my friends (and learning, for those dismayed mothers and teachers reading this!!), ate lunch and came home. Oh yes, we went on the dodge em cars too! That was loads of fun!
So now you know why I haven’t been blogging or doing much around recently! BUT…
We still have…
To be involved with a week-long kid’s outreach program this coming week.
An afternoon with the homeschoolers with two people from Creation Ministries, who’ve come to town.
Camping next week.
Playing at Church next Sunday
After four days of camping, we have to work on the Library’s Make Your Own Storybook Competition
Well, that’s about it!
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