Well,
I had a nice long post ready to go and yep it is gone. So this is a retry two times over, a restart on blogging and a rewrite of the first blog. :)
Does anyone know of a way to have new blog posts of others sent to your email?? I would love to read the new post but do not know how to make it simpler for myself.
Anyways, this week has been a normal week, busy, but that is the new normal.
Monday was school and work.
Tuesday we had orthro apts. for the boys and Remi was spayed. Tim was with us in the afternoon so he worked late that night. The boys and I enjoyed eating dinner and watching a movie together.
Wed. we had the opportunity to go to a high school basketball game. Our schedule changed about a 100 times but it worked out. :) Tim brought a 7 year old to the game with us. His Mom had called Tim and the boy was scaring and threatening her ?? at 7 years old??
Thurs is our day of activities. Guitar and trumpet lessons, and I work with the Wade kids.
We also were planning on putting bags of food together for the Haitian people.
We had freezing rain yesterday so we didn't get to do any of that.
Today we are finishing up the school week and looking forward to the weekend.
Tim has had several things going on at the Wade this week. Some sad and some good.
We had a young man arrested that was involved at the Wade, his brother was also.
Tim had hoped that the brother would have a chance at life outside of drugs and jail bars. He seemed to have a hope. They are both behind bars now for a long time.
The Wade is opening a daycare. This daycare if primarily for young girls that have had a child when they are in middle/high school. The grand opening/shower is happening this Sat.
They are in need of several things but I am waiting to see what they get before I make/buy anything. Interested??? Call me.
We are also having our 2nd all church potluck this Sunday. This can be quite hectic so please pray that relationships grow and are gained as we do this.
Tonight we are looking forward to dinner at some young staffers house. These are two young men that Tim has been mentoring this year.
So that is our life this week.
Because of HIM,
Michele
In this picture Remi has just knocked Ben into a small lake.
By the 17th of May, we had torn down the deck. The yard looked rather empty for a while....
Ben swinging the sledge hammer, getting the deck down. 
Aaron taking his turn. Good to have hard working boys. 
This first photo is Jim and Mike working on the post-holes
This second photo is the first day's (May 18th) work.
This is Aaron and a friend shucking corn last fall. They are sitting on the original deck. The deck did have a swimming pool in the space you see in front of the boys, but it had already been demolished when we bought the house.
