Last Day of CBS!

What a blessing to be studying God’s word each week and doing “life” with our friends.

 

These wonderful ladies are what’s left of my core group this year. We persevered to the end!

 

And my dear friends, Karen & Melissa made for great accountability partners throughout the year. Praise the Lord! We made it, girls!

This morning, we wrapped up another year at Community Bible Study. CBS has been a huge priority in our lives for the last 4 years. It’s probably been the most important thing we do all week! And the Lord has been gracious to bless our commitment to it.

For me, among other things, it’s been a place of refuge and refreshment. It’s the place where I get to rest and yet also, be filled. It’s where I’ve been able to glean wisdom from the more experienced and mature ladies of our valley, while still having the opportunity to encourage the weary or struggling mom. 

And of course, for the girls, it’s been a huge blessing in countless (and eternal) ways. They look forward to it each and every week and will miss it terribly throughout the summer. This year, the girls and I only missed twice. Once, due to sickness and the other because we were on vacation.

They told me today that next year, they wanted to shoot for PERFECT attendance.

What a GREAT goal to have!

Praise Jesus for another blessed and fruitful year at CBS!

Countdown to Summer!

The girls and I attended our last show of this year’s Field Trip Series at the McCallum Theatre yesterday. We got to sit with our friends and enjoy the charming and poignant silent comedy called Snowflake.

 

It’s been another FANTASTIC year at the theatre and we can’t wait for next year’s line up of shows!

 

Our regular activities are all wrapping up this week and that means our SUMMER is right around the corner!

A few things we’re looking forward to about summer…

• Lots of leisurely time spent at our local LIBRARY and Barnes & Noble. In fact, the girls said they wouldn’t mind spending the WHOLE day at either location… I better pack a lunch. :)
• SWIMMING and POOL TIME!! Our sweet friend, Miriam has once again gifted us with the use of her pool all summer long. We hope to enjoy it as often as possible!
• CURSIVE writing. We’ve been putting this off until summer and the girls can’t wait to learn how to write “fancy.”
• CHEA Convention!! The Annual Christian Home Educators Association Convention is coming up at the end of this month. Morgan and I are looking forward to the encouragement and fellowship.
• My brother and his family’s annual summer visit. This year, they’re coming at the beginning of summer instead of at the end. Why? BABY #3 is due to arrive shortly!
• Our church’s first VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL in June. This should be a wonderful outreach opportunity and the girls and I are looking forward to supporting our church by participating and serving all week.
• A few trips to the BEACH and maybe a CAMPING trip, too. Who knows where our summer adventures will take us? That’s the beauty of an unplanned summer. Anything’s a possibility. :)
• READING, READING, & more time for READING!!

It might be crazy to look forward to the blazing months of summer around here but honestly, to me, summer means more than surviving the never ending triple digit days. Summer is a state of mind.  It’s a book with empty pages, waiting for the story to be written.

Lord willing, we’ll not only read some truly great stories this summer, but we’ll live one, too.

Here’s to Summer 2014!