Getting caught up again

Joshua and I are fine. Since returning from vacation and camp, Joshua has participated in a week-long Spanish Tae Kwon Do Camp where only Spanish was spoken by teacher and students. Hopefully it will be enough to keep him bilingual until school starts up again. We have also been on some "field trips" to the San Diego Zoo, the beach, the Hollywood Bowl and the Natural History Museum in LA.

I have been back to work on PTA planning for the new year culminating in a 2-hour meeting today with about 24 board members. We still have work to do, but it looks like we have a basic plan for the new year and a budget that we might be able to afford. :)

Last week I shared "my story" as a 40 minute talk to a group of women at my church. It was quite a challenging experience to go through the process of preparing for the talk and after writing for weeks, I have to admit I didn't have any desire to "blog." Sorry about that for those of you wondering what happened to us.

I am trying to get all of the PTA planning done in the next week before Jon arrives home for R&R. Yes, he will be here soon, sorry can't tell you when. Once he is here we'll post something on the blog. I do have reservations for us to spend 5 nights in the Navy Lodge on North Island, which is located on Coronado Island in the San Diego harbour. It is a beautiful place and will be a great way for our family to get away and reconnect a bit. We plan to spend our days being tourists at Sea World, the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, Balboa Park and who knows what else. We will also be home for a little over a week and may see some friends and family during that time.

Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement. When Jon heads back, we'll have reached the half-way mark of the deployment.

Sheryl