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Sun, 07 Mar 2010

It has been two weeks AGAIN since I've written. This is getting bad. So I got up early before church and will try to write something quick. I haven't taken many pictures either, which is my way of remembering what has gone on in my life. I have a picture of Melody's science project, which reminds me that last weekend I spent judging the tri-county science fair. It was fun. I got to be in a group that judged third grade projects. Melody did not win anything in the seventh grade division. 

Bryan started track for real. They've been having pre-season practices, but on the first day of "real " track, he came home saying he couldn't start until he got a physical. We should have known this, but missed the notice somehow, so we went racing off to see how quickly we could get him a physical. Needless to say, "urgent"care is never really that quick in spite of the name, but we had his physical by 5:00, in time for him to attend the second day of track practice.

We went to Thomas' school to watch him dance the Troika and see the work he's done on researching the Republic of Georgia. They do a big culture unit every year. This year they ate all kinds of unusual things. They even got to taste caviar. Thomas performed a shadow puppet play for us, and did a reading of his radio script. His teacher says he needs to slow down when speaking in public. Imagine that. 

I'm really enjoying my job, in spite of the adjustments in my sleep schedule. A couple of days ago however, our nurses' station ceiling was painted in the middle of the night. I was impressed with what a quick job they made of it, and kept thinking that I've been meaning to paint my kitchen ceiling for quite a while. So yesterday, just before noon, I decided to go for it. How hard could it be? Bryan had come home from track practice, but decided to help me.  Just like any house project I ever do, I was sorry I started. We started with the idea of giving the ceiling a quick coat of paint, but ended up scraping off the "popcorn" ceiling stuff, then had to sand a section that had been patched a while back when we had a pipe leak. That put plaster dust all over everything. Then we finally painted. Then we had a huge mess to clean up. I was so tired last night. But the ceiling does look better that it did. 

Now for the weather report. Yesterday and the day before, we had sunshine and warm weather! It really feels like spring. In fact, when Melody had a friend over yesterday, they rode bikes to the park and played tennis. And the crocuses are blooming. I hope the weather lasts through our spring break which is in a week. We are planning a drive to Colorado to play in the snow. I don't want to have to put chains on to get there. If we hit a storm it's going to be a long drive…