Our school is on spring break this week. We can still be at our sites getting hours but there are no classes. If you can even believe this, I still need to turn in my social justice project proposal. It was my plan to get it finished over break and to work ahead on the power point and cultural identity scrapbook assignment that is due at the end of the month. I decided I’m doing my advocacy project and presentation on homelessness.

Today was technically my most free day. The boys did school in the morning and I read their Bible lesson to them. The other day Ethan said something jokingly to one of those boys saying, “I’m going to need to talk to your math teacher.” He replied, “I am my math teacher”, and it kind of made me sad, wondering what it would’ve been like if we had kept with the Algebra lessons together.

I made the boys eggs and heated up rice. Ethan had to run four miles and then Dad gave him a haircut in preparation for their official engagement pictures. Laura and her mom have already been shopping and filled two carts full of flowers and decorations at JoAnn fabrics. She was buying things to decorate the cross and the outdoor chapel. The colors are going to be shades of pink and coral. They’re storing it all in their basement.

They met each other for lunch and then looked around at wedding bands. Laura’s ring is just a tad too big so they stopped by the place where it was originally purchased and found out they she can get it resized for free. They didn’t buy anything yet. I told him that we can give him money to put toward her wedding ring so he’s going to think about it. He paid for the engagement ring himself.

I left before lunch to shop for Elianna’s birthday. She wanted a bigger dog collar and a dog tag that was etched with Zorro’s name. So I found that and a few other things. While walking through the checkout aisle they had a display of coffee mugs. I looked until I found a pretty spring one that I liked. I looked for jeans and tops as it’s time again to have something a little different to wear. I found a few things that can work for now.

Our pastor had a hemorrhagic stroke while we were gone over the weekend. It was like ten o’clock and his wife called Josh asking if he could come to the hospital. We were still up in Wisconsin so he texted her a bunch of numbers of other pastors in the area. I guess she’d found a replacement for the next day’s Sunday service. He was in the ICU with a feeding tube but thankfully was okay.

So Josh is picking up his Wednesday Lenten services, most of the Sunday services, and Holy Week through Easter. I think they will probably end up ditching the Saturday vigil. Laura was over this afternoon when they came back from shopping. I didn’t know she was coming over so there was some spontaneous cleaning that needed to happen. I took a nap and made supper then left them after the prayer to go into work from 7-11.