This week was a little busier than the last, but with good things! Thankfully I had some time to rest the last couple of days. I’m sharing some of the highlights with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story.

1. Vacation Bible School. We went to the closing program Friday and enjoyed hearing the kids sing enthusiastically. We have a great leader and crew who organize VBS each year.

2. Ancient Lore Village. This is a place we’ve wanted to explore for a long time, but most of their events are pricey. However, they had a free event this last weekend, so we went. The site is sort of a fairy-tale-styled village. The individual units can be rented. It would be fun to have a family reunion there! For the free event, they had vendors all over the grounds. I would have liked to see inside one of the houses, but I think they were all occupied–they were locked, at any rate.

This was along the floor in the bathroom.

I was glad we finally got a chance to visit this place.

3. Potluck lunch and card discussion with Melanie. Instead of going out to one of our favorite restaurants for lunch, we went potluck style to eat at my house. Then, Melanie wanted some ideas for making cards. So we had a good time pulling out papers and trims and tools.

4. Learning new tricks. I feel quite gratified when I can figure something out, especially something technological, without having to ask my kids. 🙂 In the photos above, I was looking for a way to blur the faces of strangers in the photos. Instead, I found a way to remove them completely.

5. Another impromptu visit. Jason and Mittu’s internet went out during a storm, and he had some work he needed to do online. They asked if they could come over for a couple of hours here so he could have internet access. While he worked in the family room, Mittu, Timothy, and I sat at the dining room table and colored while Jim sat at the counter and talked with us. Timothy did his own drawing, and Mittu and I used coloring books.

That’s our week. How was yours?