I thought I would take a few minutes to rest from packing.  As my dear friend Robin says, we are moving as fast as a herd of turtles. 

We are officially taking a "break from school" effective today.  I praise God that He gave me the itch to start our school year back in July. We have already had 125+ school days so I don't have to fret about taking time off.  I am looking forward to starting Konos back up in a few weeks as we do a 3 week study of the character trait of Honor with a sub-unit on Japan.  It will also be a good chance to experiment with a different county's library system.

Conversation overheard on Saturday morning:

Girl4:  Where are we going today?(trying to decide what she should wear)

Girl8:  We have another "Go Away" party to go to.

I had to go into another to laugh myself silly picturing a group of people throwing us a party to tell us to "go away". 

We were indeed blessed as we said goodbye Saturday to the Bible Study BW has led for the last 15 months and then at church yesterday.  We are so grateful for all of the prayers being lifted up on our behalf and are so encouraged with the kind words, gifts and love expressed to us. 

BW took a van load up to the new house and is completing some small errands(putting some shelving in the garage) today.  Tomorrow afternoon will be my last big shopping trip as I attempt to spend some gift cards in stores that we won't have in our new area and BW is watching the kids so I will have an afternoon all to myself:)  Will be a nice break from hanging around cardboard all day:)

Blessings!

-J