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I feel like I'm living in a whirlwind the past few weeks. 
Fellowship
We have been attending a Bible study on the book of Colossians on Saturday evenings and have been really enjoying it. This week the pastor is out-of-town so there isn't one and I'm really glad to be able to have the chance to sit down and catch my breath! We also started attending Bible study on Wednesday evening and the group is just finishing up the book of Romans - not sure where they are going next but looking forward to learning with them. We have been churching with another family on Sunday evenings (dh is teaching) and might go to another homechurch on Sunday morning that we just found out about. Dh works on Sunday mornings so it would just be the children and me going - we'll see. We are also planning to attend a Bluegrass Gospel sing on Monday evenings. We visited with some friends of ours who have been going and we got a chance to sing with them and try out their instruments. We had a really good time. Although, my son has now asked for a guitar for Christmas.  But, we are very thankful for the opportunity to fellowship with other believers again!
4-H
Both of the children just joined 4-H and we are waiting on their project books. Dd is going to do a cooking project that looks pretty interesting and ds is doing archery - something he loves doing anyway. We restricted them to one project apiece since this is their first year. We live in town and that limits the kinds of projects they can do - no livestock is allowed here. The children are very excited about being able to attend the fair this year. Normally dh is working and we simply don't go but this year he is on vacation this week (PTL!) so we'll be able to go all week.
Planning
I'm also working on putting together a hymnal for our Sunday evening church group. The home where we are currently meeting doesn't have instruments so we are singing hymns with a CD and so far we were simply printing out the words and giving everyone a sheet of paper with the words on it. I decided to go ahead and make a "hymnal" of all the words to all of the songs on the CD's so we'd have them and could reuse them. Dh decided that he wanted the music score as well as the words to each song so that our children could learn to play them on the piano so my job grew exponentially!  There are 100 songs on the CD's we are using and so far I have over half of them finished and printed out but it has taken hours to get to this point and I'm not even close to being finished yet.
I'm also trying to preview dd's school books for next year. She will be doing AO's Year 7 and the books are more mature in content and there are certain books that we won't be using and others that will need to be read-aloud so I can edit on the fly. Right now I'm reading Joan of Arc by Mark Twain and having a hard time getting into it but since it's a history biography book rather than an additional reading I'm going to need to know what happened or I won't know how well she is narrating. I really should be gathering exam questions while I'm reading but I just don't think I'm going to have the kind of time I would need to do that while previewing all the books and be able to get it done before she needs to start the book. Dh previewed one book for me and I think I'll have to ask him to try out some more or this will not get done. I haven't even started ds's books yet and there's at least one that I know he'll need help understanding the vocabulary. 
Vacation
I'm really looking forward to our vacation in June! I'm in need of a break and I think everyone else could use one as well. We'll be going to the races over the weekend, then camping, to my dad's wedding, and Niagara Falls. Then coming home to relax and do nothing for a couple of days before dh goes back to work.  | 
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