Wed. Oct. 3

This will be an easy day on which to report. It was a pretty tame, 'normal' day, again. I made some more progress down my computer to-do list (It's been long!), including some church secretary work. I also got to play with my new essential oils! :) I'd earned a $25 'shopping spree' at the health food store, by filling my stamp card finally, a year later! :) [I added it up, and it's a "Spend $500 get $25 free"; very much a deal for the store, since I'm sure lots of people lose their cards or don't care to keep up on it.] Once I had most of my stuff together to do the mixing and measuring I thought it was quite the production, so I took this picture. (Nope, still don't have the new paper towel holder up. Ammmmazing....)

Yesterday while Natasha was doing some reading she came across an activity in an old hand-me-down textbook I've made available for her reading pleasure. It's a 'literature'-type text book for a kid about her age. The pages she read yesterday were about following directions carefully. It says something like, "If you wanted to make this airplane by following these directions you would have to read carefully." She said to me, "Mom, I think we have everything I would need to make this airplane; may I do it tomorrow?" It's a clothespin (colored red with a marker -- instead of painted), buttons, a pipe cleaner, the large size craft stick, and a propeller made from paper, which she's working on in this picture. She did it with only a touch of help from me (about that paper propeller!), following the directions carefully! Hooray! Justus then, needless to say, played with it the rest of the day! ha!

In Bible class we're studying the story of Noah's obedience to God in building the ark, etc. The take-home paper suggested a float-test 'game', which we did this morning. Justus enjoyed it enough to continue testing!
The church meeting this evening was very pleasant, but tiny! It was probably a record-low for attendance since we've been here (same as Sunday!) because there are TONS of people out of town right now! Let's see.... There were 17 there tonight, less than half the usual Wednesday evening attendance! It was echo-ey, almost! We'll be happy when everyone gets back!!