We’ve had such a nice weekend.  Doug was off Friday and Saturday, a very rare treat.

Friday he did some work around the house.  Allen had a friend spend the night.  We pretty much just did school, chores, I ran to Curves and relaxed.

Saturday Doug took Jordan and Isaac bowling while Allen and his friend hung out at home.  Jordan and Isaac also had a sleepover birthday party an hour north of here, so Doug took them and 3 of the other kids to the party.  He got home in time to take Allen and his friend to church for their small group.

We got ready to go dancing while they were at church.  After Doug picked up Allen, he swung by and got me.  We dropped Allen at my Gramma’s house and headed to the place the band was playing to have a late dinner and save some seats.  Friends of our from church were coming to hear the band.

Doug is such a sweetie.  I thought he forgot my birthday last weekend when we were out.  Nobody said anything and he didn’t have the band sing or anything, very unusual because we celebrate everybody’s birthday in the band and their spouses/girlfriends.

Well, he had planned to do it yesterday instead.  That way I wouldn’t be expecting anything he said and our friends from prayer group were there.  After the first set, the band sang to me and they had a cake!  I had NO idea.  It was very nice.  Some of the people we know from dancing gave me cards.  It was a really nice evening.

We had an ice storm early this morning.  I did not chance driving to church and Doug had to be there for both services since he was running sound for video.  So I stayed home and took a nap.

The boys came to church from the birthday party and afterwards, Doug went to get Allen.  He stopped by and picked me up for prayer group.

There are so many needs in our group right now.  We spent quite a while sharing and praying.  We always have dinner together, too.  Pam made lasagna.  It smelled SO good.  I didn’t have any though.  I’m not eating white flour, and as good as it smelled and looked, I know I’d not be happy if I ate it (I didn’t have any cake last night either).  I did take a huge salad and had 2 plateful of that and also some raw almonds and craisins.

After dinner we watched Facing the Giants!  Everybody was bawling by the end.  It was SUCH a great movie!

Jordan and Isaac left prayer during the movie.  Our friends that own the radio station had 4 free tickets to the Newsboys concert, so they went with them.  Doug will need to pick them up later on.

Allen is exhausted and watching a movie on the couch.  Doug is finishing paperwork and then we’re going to play Super Scrabble.  He hates that game but is such a sweetie and will play with me.

It’s back to the grind tomorrow.  I could use a week off.  We’ve only been back to our regular school routine for 2 weeks now and it is exhausting me.  I am seriously considering not doing science any more this year with Isaac.  He is 8^th grade and struggling, and I mean struggling, through Apologia general science.  It is a source of frustration every day and he feel like such a failure.  What would you do?