Weekend activities

We've had a productive few days.

John was in Atlanta, Georgia for a Lego Convention from Wednesday thru Sunday. They had a carnival for their closing night activity so he came home with some fun toys for K and N. Kristina really likes her doggie collar bracelet which lights up and Nik had some sticky stuff that eventually was beaten by the kitchen ceiling and is now banned :)

Saturday Nik participated in a 25 mile bike ride down in Leipers Fork. This was for one of his scout badges. 21 miles into it his tire blew out on a piece of glass :( He has a 50 mile ride still to complete which he is not looking forward too.

Also on Saturday I dragged Kristina to a Preparedness Fair at church and let her pick which classes we went to. For spiritual she chose the musical presentation based on the book "The Ten Virgins" by Emily Freeman and Simon Dewey. (I was good friends with Simon's mother when I lived in London and knew him during the time he was dating his to be wife.)

Then we went to Prepare Every Needful Thing. It was amusing. Some of it was about what NOT to do with food storage. Came away with some useful web sites to follow up on and room temperature information.

Finally we went to Gardening Made Simple. Great presentation and we learned a lot. We came home with some more Iris and some seeds to plant (Bachelor Buttons, Forget-Me-Not, Carrots and Radish). Every gardening area is different so we were given a calander specific to our part of middle Tennessee. Looks like we might have planted our tomatoes too early.

There is an Online Quilt Festival running for the next few days so every so often I have been looking in on it and leaving comments. It's been interesting to see so many varieties of quilts and a lot of the stories have been worth taking the time to read. I'm in there too with the wall hanging I made for Juliet as a Christmas present :)

Juliet and Elisabeth have been taking their end of semester exams. J gets home this Saturday. E is staying for spring semester. They both have to pack up and move this week. E is purging her belongings and I have no doubt will be down to the bare minimum come the weekend :)

Nik has TCAP's this week which is basically Tennessee wide end of school exams. He made chocolate chip cookies this morning before heading out to school. They went with him as his contribution to the snacks.

Kris took the Gateway Algebra test last week. I really hope she does well in it. She went in with her project on Henry Ford this morning. It took her a while to complete since I have to help her read all the resources. Her end of year exams are not for a few more weeks yet.

Saturday coming is going to be way over the top for some people. We have the Music City Marathon in down town Nashville which John volunteers at AND a major Day of Service which we are all involved in. I'm helping to get the quilting session at our church building organised. And most impotantly for us Juliet flies in on Saturday night :)