I can hardly believe that our Mary is Seventeen Years Old! She has grown into such a lovely young lady. One more year and she graduates from high school. The time is flying by, just like my mother warned me. This morning we did had our traditional wake up call to the family singing "Happy Birthday" later in the morning. Then I made scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfast/brunch. Her funfetti cake is done and frosted and ready for a message. I took her shopping for a new outfit and she will get her other gift later. Brandon will be joining us for dinner. Mary is still trying to decide where we will be going. Cake and ice cream will finish off the night. A few other friends may come for the sweets.
Working backwards in the week, Matthew had his last baseball games yesterday. They won one and lost one. I guess he did pitch, but we got there after he was done. No walks. He got on base a few times and played 2nd base for the rest of the game.
Thursday night was the big choir concert. It was very good. We went to the late show at 8:15 pm. Matt's choir sang several songs and then the show choir did some awesome singing and dancing. Mary did a great job esp with the Quick Step during "The Joint is Jumpin". Later after the show, Mary didn't feel well at all and ran a fever all night. She got better the next day and was cleared at the doctor's office of any strep throat. She has the same kind of cold symptoms that I have had for a while now.
Wednesday I held our last children's choir. We had nice time eating ice cream and played "Name that Tune" with the songs we sang during the past season. We had a lot of fun.
Tomorrow we have church, then we will rake some leaves for a youth fundraiser for a hour or so. Mary has an AP party (for kids in the advanced placement classes) in the afternoon. Jeff and I will be leading worship at the Long Term Care centers in town. Matthew has to work on his paper that he has been working on for a while now. I will be glad when that it finished!
That is all...better go wrap Mary's present.
Grace
