Matt has traveled across the world to Moldova for a missions trip with church. He and the rest of the team arrived safely back in the states on Aug. 5th at 10pm after a twenty-four plus hours of travel including two hours sitting on the runway at JKF. We are happy to have him home again!
While he was away, the kids and I traveled to PA for a quick, really quick one night visit. We arrived at my mom's on a Friday afternoon then visited with a friend of Mom's that day. On Saturday, we went to the mall to visit with my friend Devon and her family, then off to see Aunt Molly for a few minutes before the Rocherty Picnic. This picnic is held at a church that my mom's relatives went to for a very long time...three or four generations have attended, if not been members of at one time or another. Due to various reasons, no one attends there now, however, the picnic is a good way for a family reunion when we can all get together. The kids had a great time and it really wore them out! After the picnic, Sammie, Daniel, and I went bowling...it now being 8pm and I probably should have headed home to VA two hours earlier. But I just wasn't ready to say good-bye to my cousins just yet! So we hung with them for an hour before our three plus hour drive home.
The rest of Matt's time away was spent with our lovely friends Heather and Seth Karl. See Scott, the husband and father of the family, was in Moldova with Matt. So it was nice to have some company rather than just sitting at home alone. However, it was rather mutual that by the end of the week we were both missing our husbands! It was nice to have someone who could relate with them being away and we could share those thoughts with each other. Thanks Heather!!
Since then, we've been working on cleaning up the house, slowly but surely! Dealing with sick kids in the house...both had strep at one point. And Swimming lessons...that's right swimming. The past two weeks Sammie has gone to the local rec center (chinn) for daily swim lessons four days a week. She did a great job! I was very impressed with her behavior and her willingness to cooperate! She had a few times where she did need encouragement but they were easily resolved! What a great little fish she is!
This weekend we are working on a church project...a ministry fair. It was our Sunday School class's thoughts and ideas that put this project into motion. We are having our first leadership meeting tomorrow. Please pray that everything will go smoothly and that our works will be to God's glory.
Well, the kids are in bed, and I've gotta get my cleaning time into action! Night, y'all!!
