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Last night was our end of the year MOPS banquet. It was fun to be with the MOPS moms one last time this school year, to celebrate all we have been through together this year, and to say thanks, give gifts, laugh laughs, shed tears. I do love MOPS and look forward to being involved again in the fall. I am thankful for the break though! I'm thankful for time to recharge my batteries.

Last week was our last day of homeschool co-op, and our closing program. I was really proud of our two youngest boys. The 3 year old insisted all day that he was not going to go on the platform and sing with the rest of his preschool class. He has been extra clingy for the last couple months, even to the point of hanging onto my leg and crying loudly when I would take him to his Sunday School room at church. So I was not pushing him to participate in the preschool group singing during the closing program. But when it came time for him to go up on stage, he excitedly grabbed my hand and went on up! I knelt behind him the whole time they were singing, and later he said to me in an accusing tone, "you stayed up there the whole time!". Oops.

Our 5 year old son C had taken a recorder class with his older brother G, and he had been comparing his playing to his older brother's playing and insisting that he wasn't good enough and he couldn't do it. I decided to not push him either, and when it came time for their class to go up on stage, he happily went on up and played his recorder VERY well! He was so proud of himself, and I was happy he had conquered his fear.

The work done by my drawing class students was on display and looked wonderful. Just really, really good. I am so proud of them!

I am praying about our co-op involvement for next year. We all love it, but it is getting harder as our kids get older to "give up" that one day a week of regular school work at home. I have been really encouraged to pray earnestly about every little homeschooling decision for this fall, and I am confident that God will direct us.

Our illegal friend and her family were finally reunited last Friday at the airport. Some INS officials escorted her husband from jail to the airport, and some dear friends from church drove the wife and her 4 children there. It was a sweet reunion for this family after 10 weeks of separation! And it was actual physical separation the whole time - during visits they could only see each other through a glass window, and talk through a phone. I am so happy they are all together again. The husband/father just would not let go of his sweet baby boy who was just a week old when he was arrested. They are back in their home country now. If the Lord brings them to mind, please keep this dear family in your prayers. It was so hard to say goodbye, yet we know that God is orchestrating some beautiful design through all this!

Our day today started with a severe bloody nose. Son C had never had a bad one before, and he just stood in the hallway crying "mommy!" while blood dripped allover his clothes and the floor. Now he knows what to do if it ever happens again. :-)