The kids are heading out to school, one by one… It just seems odd for school to start so early. Everyone here, well technically not everyone… just Matt and Emelia are very sunburned from the slip n slide Saturday at church. There were so many people there it was crazy! They had almost 200 backpacks loaded with school supplies to give away and they were gone in the first 20 minutes. They served 600 hot dogs. It was a great outreach. The goal next year is to have 500 backpacks ready for the school kids. Matt helped all day and got so much sun, all the kids and teens at church yesterday looked like sore lobsters. I went up there around noon, it was my birthday. I left and had lunch with mom… and we went to JCPenny’s. She’s redoing her kitchen and wanted a new topper for her window. We decided to shop the fabric and make one instead of buying one. That’s the plan for today. It was a nice day.

Sunday morning Matt and Izzy stayed home from church. So I had a fun class with all the jr. high kids. We studied about things that are temporary and things that are eternal. We talked about what we would do if we found out we only had a short time to live… would we run buy a new fancy car to drive for the one day? It was unanimous that a new car would be our last priority and it was a great perspective into what is really important. From class we went to church and had the guest. Nathan Tasker is a singer/songwriter from Australia. He was awesome and his message between songs went right along with what we studied in class. I bought both cd’s afterwards. I have been listening to them a lot. He was so good and so are the words to the songs.

After church I grilled some burgers and corn for lunch… and then went down and colored and cut mom’s hair and trimmed dad’s hair… and made corn casserole for my SIL Terri. Her dad was in the hospital this weekend. They came over for dinner and a little birthday party.

Today I have plans to have lunch with my friend Laura. Her birthday is tomorrow and we always get together for our birthdays. I think we’re going to have German food…

Tonight I’m grilling chicken, a light dinner with some fresh broccoli.

I will grill extra chicken and have grilled chicken salad Tuesday (can you tell I’m on diet mode… after all the birthday goodies?)

Wednesday I’m going to make a batch of black bean burritos.

Thursday is brats and something light on the side.

Friday we’ll grill burgers.

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So much to do this week… hopefully with the kids back in school things will slow down during the day enough to get some projects done. I have a stack of CADs calling my name… and a bed to make, and clothes to fold blah blah blah! Have a great Monday.

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