Good afternoon! How is your Monday beginning? Ours is nearly finished already! Garry is picking up Larry and Brian from the airport now and we're looking forward to seeing them in a little while!

We had a great start back to school for a new year! This afternoon the boys and I played badminton-- they played a long while and I joined them for a short time. They've just come home "starving", terribly sweaty, and tired! That's a good thing for two young boys!

We had another blessing this week... Kaleb's math course suggests the use of cuisenaire rods, something I don't have here. I've been looking at them online, but the postage is awful! Then yesterday afternoon Garry had the idea of asking our friends on another island if there might be some in the homeschool supplies. And there are! So we should have them at the end of the week. God's little reminder that He knows what's going on and He cares!

This week our sewer problems are getting fixed-- at least we think they are! An engineer and his workers are in our yard, digging a big hole and setting up pipes to drain the rain water off the roof. The ground is so wet that the hole keeps filling up with water and they have to bucket it out. Doesn't smell very good, so I'm thankful that I'm not the one digging in there!