Fair is a variable....

This week is Fair week. We (Mom and 4 youngest) also took off two days to accompany Dad to a show in Alameda on board the USS Hornet. It is a massive Essex aircraft carrier. Went up and down massive amounts of small ladders and through small doors. Then off to the hotel to swim. Only problem was... no sun, freezing cold, outside pool. The kids swam till they shook from the cold then we went inside. Dad came home, we went to dinner at Applebees after running around a mall for a while. Then Dad picked up a key lime pie at Trader Joes and we went back to the hotel and watched national Geography program on Jaguars while eating desert. The next day found us at the Oakland Zoo. They are remodeling and making the zoo look lots, lots nicer. The kids favorite exhibit was the meerkats. They look so cute and curious but have very sharp claws and teeth. The fruit bat exhibit was awesome too. They are huge bats that were eating and walking around, stretching their huge wings out.... really cool to see close up. Then it was back home and lots of Fair time on the weekend. We worked in the poultry barn *Roger and Raquel both got 1st places on their chickens. Today is Clover Deli work time. Next week is cleanup and catch up on school time.

Time flies when you are busy..... which seems to be the case around here. Kids are off to college, two kids and hubby started college classes here, school for everyone else, home bible study should begin soon, Awana's, swimming practice, and fair is in one week as well. Now the list starts of things forgotten at home and all the things I need to send the kids in their first box...reg. for car with sticker, mail, pills, recipe box, ..... and the list goes on. It has been an interesting summer.....God has had his hand in all of it....and once again he has proven to be faithful, kind, and loving. Always meeting the needs as they arrive - not before nor after letting one drown in the problems. So as I go and rest my head on my pillow, I give thanks to the one who has kept me, loved me, and most of all held me close to him through these last months. It is also great to know that he has my future months in his hands also.