An Overdue Recap

Sorry friends for disappearing! Wish I was telling you that we have an excellent update for the job situation over here, but we are still just waiting for God's plan to unfold and trusting Him to give us our daily bread. He hasn't failed yet. 

But I have just been really busy! So going way back to when things started getting busy: there was a pet blessing for the Feast of St. Francis. 

We got the school pictures of the children (and me) back. My favorite thing is that for the first time ever they made the parish staff a composite picture of us like we are a class. And it makes me laug so much!

Pictures of the children were ordered and are already in the hallway of my parents house in their little frames. My mom has us 3 kids in the stairwell. And small C said once "Well where is MY frame?" So my mom added a frame to the top of the stairs. And that's good because I don't order the actual physical prints. 

The new 100 years of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade book was released and no one was more excited than this kid. 

This kid got a Halloween Mini Magnatiles Set and she was very happy with that. Both of them got things for their favorite holiday!

It was also a school fundraiser at Chick-Fil-A. We have moved to a "no-spending" anything extra mode. But we also wanted to support the school and so we took the kids and got each kid a kid's meal so they could feel like they took part. M won a cow from spinning the wheel. 

We had a Confirmation Retreat. 

And then all 46 of them got confirmed. 

And I am tired. I worked 3 weeks of my work hours in the last 2 weeks! So I do have time coming to me. Unfortunately, there's still more to do and I am not sure when precisely I will be taking that time. 

Last night Husband and I went to String Art Bat class. 

The kids hung out at the library while we were in there. And then we went to Culver's since we have some free scoop tickets. When it's 90 in October... it just seems right. 

The other EXCITING news is that all of his hard work paid off and C made the statewide OPUS choir. We are so proud of him!! He will be in a choir that day with 179 other boys in Iowa who love to sing, and I am so thrilled for him. 

M took the news particularly hard. She also auditioned. Never mind that C has spent the last 3 years auditioning and not making it. She will still get a day out of school for it. 

So we keep on keeping on over here.