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I'm not sure why I have not been blogging. Maybe because we have a major project going on at our house (mostly an exterior renovation that is creeping inside:) and my youngest child graduated from high school at the end of May. He also played golf on his school team and their season was in full swing. My daughter was home for a couple of weeks during May during which we spent a weekend with my sister-in-law and our nieces getting to be a part of wedding planning for one of them. It was such fun! Anyway, I've been busy. My husband and I were also having a forty day fast from tv. You would think I would have had lots of time to write. Interestingly I thought I would too, to read and write but it was not so. I realized that just fasting from something doesn't guarantee that your spiritual focus will improve. It is still a matter of discipline of the heart and mind. It was an interesting exercise in many ways.

It is now the beginning of August and we're still in the middle of the project, hoping to be finish by the end of September. Can I just say how much I hate chaos? But it seems that it is part of the process to achieve change, even for the better. That is a hard truth.

Since I started writing and re-writing this entry our daughter found out that she is moving from the campus of the University of Florida to Auburn University with Campus Crusade this fall. She helped lead a summer project team to Miami and all this was just finalized the week she was coming home at the end of June. As soon as she drove in from Miami she and I made plans to drive back to Gainesville to pack her things. Then my mom (who just turned 82 in June) fell and broke her wrist. We had to get her stabilized before our trip. My sweet sister-in-law let us drop off most of my daughter's things at their home just an hour from Auburn. That was so that we could see out our windows and not run the risk of being ticketed when we went to Auburn the next day to find a place for her to live! (Think Beverly Hillbillies packed into our vehicle.) We then came home and I took my mom in for surgery on her wrist the next day. Then a week later my husband, our older son, our daughter and I left for a medical mission trip in Peru. More about the trip later.

Bottom line: this summer has been CRAZY busy (there's that stupid word again!). Now it's almost time to move my daughter into her new apartment this weekend...and then her cousin gets married in a couple of weeks. Maybe once I get her settled, the wedding is over and I begin to get my own house back in order I can get back to the business of blogging!