Routines and Variations...

Aloha this final week of February. Although classes are the same, the workload is greater due to assignments to check, tests to grade [done], and days to prepare for: religion has the new family search to get acquainted with, and financial management has productive assignments/discussions to outline.

My harp has been in need of repair for some time. I've missed playing it SOOOO much! Irene Tukuafu, my harp maker, is to be on island to make those repairs this week. I look forward to having my instrument back in good shape.

My "day off" today will be a busy one, with a trip to Wahiawa in the morning and tending the boys late afternoon/evening. They will come here for awhile since you may have read about their toy lesson. Until they arrive I'll be busy enough. Reading logs and organization projects and goal updates are in the folders to check for Mgmt. class. I'll get to the updated drafts of personal histories and quizzes for Religion class after Thursday.

Friday morning will include more assignment checking, then my afternoon at the Family History Center. Then, weekend is here!! I don't know what it is like for each of you, but the routines seem to make the week go by quickly.

Sunday we have Megan's hour-long concert at Kahala Mall...we'll probably stand out wearing our church clothes there that day as we watch her in the center court. That will be a nice change from our usual Sunday. Megan only has about 7-8 weeks left in orchestra, with the final concert on April 20. I have a feeling her trumpet will be turned in for good on April 21. ..we'll see if she ends her band experience then and skips the final spring concert.

I know you each are busy but I DO appreciate your blog entries. This is wonderful, and I'm so glad Megan has joined us, too. My life just seems not as exciting as all of yours, but it is fun to keep you, and me, up on my life.

The changes at BYUH and leaders visiting this week from the executive committee[Elders Nelson, Ballard, Sister Beck and others] confirmed to me that this school is led by inspiration rather than by either desperation or results of secular research...that its leaders come to us not by choice, but by divine design [good name for an HGTV show :D] it has great things in store if we heed the guidance and counsel given to us and progress "in the world but not of the world. " We were all counseled at the Monday meeting to "get on board" and assist in meeting the needs of an ever-growing, expanding church. The items in " " are my phrasing, not exact quotes from the meeting.

Wishing you all a very happy day. Until we blog again!!