Thank you Mr. Robbie Ball for visiting Michael Saturday afternoon! It came at the perfect time since Michael was feeling lonely and under weather with his first cold. Nothing like the first few colds to build up your immunity in a new place with new germs! It is a wonderful thing to hear your name called over the PA system telling you to report to the visitor yard for a visitor. Each camper is searched before and after the visit to ensure no contraband has been received or given to the visitor, but once you are in the visiting area it is nice to be back in contact with the "real" world. Thank you for encouraging Michael and helping turn his day around!
Madison and I had an eventful weekend too, with our washer circuit board breaking and the door knob to our garage breaking, but we overcame! It is nice to know that it really is difficult to break into our house-t0-garage door. We had to take the door completely off the hinges to get the broken retracting piece out of the door. We decided to "choose joy" in everything and sang the "Bob the Builder" theme song as we marched through Home Depot to the door knob aisle. "Bob the Builder ... YES WE CAN! ... Bob the Builder... Can we do it? ... Bob the Builder... YES WE CAN!" We got a few curious looks but most people stay out of the way of a woman in the Home Depot pushing one of those #20 race car carts. Have you seen the turn radius on the those things? Not pretty! Anyway, we have a lovely new door knob that we even rekeyed to match the old key and felt pretty good! And we have plenty of clean clothes to get us to Thursday when the new part for our washer should be in - and plenty of awesome neighbors who have offered their washing machines too! Although I think Madison might enjoy the coin laundry and it is never too soon to start getting ready for college. But I think now they use debit card functions on their ID's instead of coins. I realize that this dates me by reminiscing over coming to college with an old peanut butter jar full of quarters. What a great gift idea wasted by technology!
Our praise for the weekend was Madison and I completing a 5K on Sunday morning. Our church service that day was enjoying the beautiful (though chilly) weather on the first morning of the time change with 2800 other people. What a great day! Our other praise is that Michael has arranged his schedule for the time being to be able to call us around 8am our time and talk for 4-5 minutes each week day! This is a great start to our day and helps us miss him a little less during the day. The best $1.25 we have ever spent a day! Hope you have a great week!
Heidi
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