Trees, and trees and more trees! Gorgeous color, and endless views of mountains, and more mountains. I know, the term mountain is relative location, and here in North Georgia, the mountains are covered in trees.
In the distance, in any direction I look, I can see them. When time allows, we love going on an explore to the east, winding over unfamiliar (at this point) roads to places we've never heard of or seen before.
We began the week Sunday afternoon at a small town east of here. A group of people, about four couples and their teen age kids, were putting together a Christmas Light display, for underpriviledged kids to be able to come meet Santa. We helped string lights, and test light bulbs, and they were not finished when we left. I very much enjoyed sitting and talking and laughing with people that were obviously very close to each other, and very comfortable with what they were doing. Just sort of blending in to the community: country music, (yeah, I know, not my favorite) laughter, it was great--in another part of the park there was a huge neighborhood soccer game going on.
Monday night was drama night. With two girls and five boys in the house, the girls were ready to move to Fiji and the boys were offering to pack their bags. In the end, however, all was well...
Tuesday is our 'day off'...great stuff. The girls got their eletronic tablets that day. They are pretty excited about that--of course, they don't have to use them til next semester, but they have them now to get all their music downloaded--I suppose that's why they need them, because that's what they are doing with them.
Wednesday, we were going to grill BBQ chicken...of course it was pouring down rain, so we kept it and fried it instead. Never again. That was crazy!
Today one of our boys wasn't feeling good. They can't just 'stay home' when this happens, they either have to have visible signs of illness (I will not explain that one, use your imagination), a fever or something for a dr. to diagnose. And so, we went to the dr's office this morning...oh yeah: sinus infection...yielded two prescriptions. He's home, resting today, will go back to tomorrow to school.
Soon, they will all be home from school. We are going, as a group to one of the other houses tonight to hear a young man's story, my hope is that it will truly make an impact on the lives of all that hear.
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