Spring

I love Spring! I love the fresh air blowing through our house. I love the bright green new leaves on the trees. I love my flowers blooming on the front porch. But what I love most is what's happening right now. I am sitting here typing this blog listening to my boys OUTSIDE playing. It's like a freedom pass. They will play out there on a dirt pile of two hours, with little whining or arguing. It's a beautiful thing. I just open all the windows in the house, so that no matter where they are I can hear them and keep an eye on them. They play hard and wear themselves out and then come in ready for a nap. Is life good or what? :) We didn't have this option when we lived in town. If they went outside, I was out there with them. We lived on a busy road and weirdos are a plenty in this world. But out here, in five acres of woods, there are no car or weirdo worries. We don't have a yard yet, just dirt, but they seem very happy with the dirt. Hopefully in the next month or so we will be seeding the yard, but I don't think the boys are in any hurry for that.

Well, we made it for one day of IHC. We didn't go at all last year, Matt needed to stay home and keep things going at work while Keith was away. As most of you know. We are very good friends with Keith and Rachel who are the owners of Take One Studios (as well as the Saw Mill/Rocking Chair business where Matt works). Well, for years now Keith has been running the sound at IHC and Rachel has been in charge of the Dayton Daily. As you can imagine, it takes a ton of people to accomplish all this. Especially, with IHC adding a web site and audio streaming. So Keith and Rachel take several people from our church to help them get everything done. To be honest, I don't really feel like we "attend" IHC since we rarely have time to attend a service. We pretty much work in a back room from morning till everything is done in the evening. Don't get me wrong we have fun and have some down time to visit with old friends, but IHC is work. We enjoy it though, it's fun working together and I often have opportunities to see old friends and I almost always get to hear the Mass Choir

Well, I suppose I should close. Mondays are the days we go to Josiah's violin lessons. He takes lessons in Carbondale which is an almost 1 1/2 hour drive. By the time we get there have his private lesson and then attend group lessons and then eat supper we are gone most of the day. So if I'm going to get anything done around the house it has to be before lunch. I suppose I'll go get some more laundry done while the dirt piles entertain the boys. :)