It's good to see you back here posting Gina
I miss it here too. I am going to try posting here more often and hopefully we can find more time to talk like we used to around here!
In the past three evenings, I've had three meetings and three reports to write for our exchange students! They all leave soon - on the 28th of June. Before that, we'll need another set of meeitngs and reports with all of them, attending a "thank-you" barbeque they are putting on for their host families and everyone who has helped them along the way, and attending their graduation ceremony at the high school! I will be sad to see them go because they are all such great girls, but really excited to have a summer free of meetings and reports!!! We have been told that there probably won't be any students next year for our town, which is a relief because we were on the fence about if we'd do this again or not.
Oh, for my birthday, Scott let me go to a ceramics shop (this woman actually lives next door to my brother and runs ceramics classes in a shop in her back yard!) and pick out anything I wanted. I took ceramics classes when I was in high school and lived at home. It's something I really miss doing! This time, I won't be taking the classes because we live out of town, but I picked up some peices that have already been cleaned and fired and are ready for painting. I got three little turtle lawn ornaments, a Noah's ark lamp (I am making it as a gift for our neice's baptism next month), and a tortilla and salsa serving set for ourselves! I've decided Wednesdays will be my ceramics night - Scott is away at ball on Wednesdays, and he already set me up in the basement with a table covered in plastic, and put a nice bright light above it. I am so excited to get started!