2. The kids and I enjoyed the annual free lunch in our town in honor of breast cancer awareness last Tuesday. My kids have lost three grandmas to cancer - one to breast cancer, one to ovarian cancer, and one to lymphoma.
3. Six of us enjoyed a Micah Tyler concert at our church on Friday night. My friend, Cheri, had purchased a ticket and planned to sit with us, but she injured herself that day. We invited Pop Pop to join us since she gave us her ticket. Naturally, Nadia asked me to buy her a Micah Tyler t-shirt, which I set aside and will give her at Christmas.
4. On Saturday morning I was at our church bright and early helping set up for a food packing event. Paul and the kids arrived a couple of hours later. Paul was a food runner which involved carrying fifty-pound bags of rice and lentils. I supervised about forty volunteers. The kids packed meals. In about two hours the three hundred volunteers packed a little over 120,000 meals for people in Uganda, Haiti, and Ecuador.
5. Saturday night I took Nadia to another concert. It was my second date with her this year. Our first date was at Olive Garden in May. Paul will be taking her on her third date to a concert at Lancaster Bible College next month. This time we drove to Penn State to hear Andrew Ripp, Crowder, and MercyMe. She had been wanting to see MercyMe in person for the first time. Crowder was our least favorite of the three groups. She used her own money to buy a MercyMe t-shirt and an Andrew Ripp sweatshirt. We waited in a long line that resulted in Andrew Ripp autographing her sweatshirt and also taking a picture with Nadia.
6. Months ago, I volunteered to help with prep work for the children's classes. Ironically, the first time the children's pastor gave me something to do was last week. I say ironically because I was already signed up to help with other service projects every week this month. Pastor Chris had given me 600 pop it keychains to attach to 600 post cards. They are going to pass them out at a parade to advertise another campus of our church. Thankfully, I received help with the project. I brought them with me to the Sound of Music rehearsal last Thursday, and some other "nuns" helped me complete the project.
7. We had the first meeting of our new co-op at our house on Tuesday. There were ten students in health, speech, and chess club. There were twelve students (two groups of six) in the marine biology lab. Paul and Dave are leading the chess club, and Paul is teaching the biology lab. The lesson this week was on sponges. In future weeks they will be dissecting clams, sea stars, and dogfish sharks. I facilitated two book clubs - three kids discussed the first three chapters of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and four boys discussed the first five chapters of The Prince and the Pauper. Three girls discussed the first act of Much Ado about Nothing. I slipped out during the 90 minutes allotted for chess to get a haircut.
8. At the beginning of this month, we discovered our heat pump/AC wasn't working. The man who installed it four years ago said he isn't doing service calls. Someone came on Tuesday, and he thought we needed a new motor (which would be very expensive if not under warranty). His son came out yesterday and discovered it was something else that was easier to fix.
9. Nadia finished her first college course last week. She earned an A in General Psychology and started a class in U.S. History on Monday.
10. I received a $50 gift certificate to a science company where I had recently ordered specimens for the dissections because I was one of the first 25 people to complete a survey. I used the money to buy additional specimens of clams and sea stars, and I also started buying things we will need for Paul to teach the chemistry lab next year.
11. On Sunday afternoon the five of us began assembling 300 hygiene sets for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. We plan to finish the project tomorrow in preparation for the packing party at our church on October 21.
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