Seasons of Change

The leaves are changing, red, yellow and brown.  The temperatures are fluctuating much cooler the past few weeks, but today we had a little Indian summer, with temps in the 80's.  We are now under a thunderstorm watch till 0100.  We will see how severe they are when they arrive.  Sammy is getting anxious, so they can't be too far away.

I continue to try and keep up with my list of things to do!  Still have to go through the stuff I stored in the "boot room" when we fixed our bedroom, and file papers that stacked up over the last 3-4 months. Whew! My work schedule is 3 days this week, then I am going to only work 2 days a week to try and keep up with house duties and church duties.  There sure is plenty to do! 

Matthew is adjusting to school well. He is no longer working after school and looks forward to working at the high school with the scenic crew for the GHS production of "The Sound of Music".  Mostly, Matthew  can't wait for Thursday to arrive. HE IS FINALLY TAKING HIS ROAD TEST.  Sure hope that the darned parallel parking works out.  That always seems to be the hardest thing to do!

Jeff is keeping busy at church with meetings and preparing services.  He just had a wedding last weekend and was it a lot of fun!  He has another trip to Shaw AFB in October.  He has enjoyed jogging in the afternoon while the weather allows. We are planning some more home improvements in the future.  At least they are planned, not forced upon us!

All is well at the University of  Michigan.  Mary is happy and keeping up with her activities:  classes, working at the graduate and medical libraries, and singing with the University of Michigan Women's Glee Club.  They walked around the Big House and sang Michigan Songs to the tailgaters last Saturday and even met up with the Men's Glee Club and sang all together.  That would have been great to hear!  Her first concert is coming up in November.

Sarah will be 21 years old in just 33 hours!  I can't believe it, my baby is an adult!  She is very excited and will be going out with her friends.  I don't think she will drink too much...or at least I hope she doesn't, it is a school night!  We will be going to Holland on Saturday to watch the big "Pull", a tug of war between the freshman and sophomore class. With Sarah as a Junior she should be rooting for the EVEN year team, but most of her friends are ODD year members.  Matthew wants to watch the pull more than anyone, and then we will take Sarah out for dinner. I can't wait. She already has her birthday present, a printer for her computer.  She is an awesome person and we are so proud of her! (We are proud of all of our kids!)

Finally this week at a glance

• Grace works Wednesday and Friday days.
• Choir on Wednesday
• Sarah's 21st birthday on Thursday
• Matthew takes his Driver's Test
• Friday is GHS Homecoming Football game with parade.  There is also a Pastor's get together that evening.
• Of course, Saturday is Football day...Jeff kept the lead in our College Picks pool. Will he continue to choose the winning teams? Leslie had a great week too!
• Saturday we go to Holland as mentioned above, Matthew has chosen to skip the Homecoming Dance.
• Sunday is church, I think I am playing the clavinova, and another great hour with my awesome Sunday School class. 

Luckily there was a change to my bowling season this past week.  I bowled a 170, 134 and 128 or something like that.  Anyway my average is back to where it belongs!  Jeff did fine too, and brought his average down a little which is good. Hard to bowl over average when it gets too high! Our team took 2 points!

Well, the storms are almost here.  Thunder is audible in a distance.

Gracie