Weekly post

Oct. 2, 2006

Dear friends,

A good weekend -- busy and good. On Friday afternoon, our son went off with six others to a confirmation retreat. I took advantage of the sudden stillness to spend 9 hours Saturday at a table in a back corner of the local Barnes & Noble cafe nursing a large bottle of ... water (what did you think I was going to say?) and doing a comprehensive review of Greek. Oh, and wrote a paper.
Feel much better about Greek for having invested in that review time now.

On Sunday, I was in charge of water games at the dedication of the new playground, which features a huge plastic fish bridge/monkey bars. The kids had a very good time with water relay races, "Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Flood" (like "Duck, Duck, Goose" with water) and at the end, as they expressed a wish to be wetter, my husband and I doused them with the big buckets of water. Mass giggling resulted.

In the afternoon, I took our miniature dachshund to the Blessing of the Animals, then collected our son upon his return from the retreat. He reported having had a good time and enjoyed confirmation class/youth group later that evening.

Meanwhile, four weeks before the midterm elections, the war in Iraq should matter in the elections ... but since it's not going to, one can only hope for a surge of intelligence from the electorate.

Grace and peace,
Beth