Donna's Journey

Here comes the sun! I woke at 5 said my prayers and went back to sleep for another 45 minutes. I woke James up so he could go with the other 11 year olds and join the Deacons for basketball.

I studied the Book of Jarom this morning. My oldest grandson was named Jarom Matthew Goff. His debut in this world was brief, but he lives in a better sphere.
Wow! It worked. My husband was able to sleep through the night, for the first time in days! Usually his allergies wake him up and he comes out to the couch. He drank zija which helps the broncheals, and works quickly, before going to bed. It only helps for a few hours and its best thing to help him relax his breathing enough to sleep. The pantothenic acid or B5 in a 500 mg should hold him all night. I read last night that he will need to take it 3 times a day through allergy season. He was struggling to breathe before dinking the zija. I also had the air purifier going in our room for a few hours before we retired. They all worked to his benefit for a good night’s sleep.

While I read my scripture, Jeremy got up and made breakfast for the family.

We studied Joshua 8-10 this morning.  The story of the hail was so vivid to me, for I had once experienced God’s hand with hail.  It was a March about 14 years ago.  We had been having what I called a “Teaching Correct Principles” session. It was a Sunday and we had assigned the family the topic “keeping the Sabbath Day holy.”  They could use any resource we had in our home.  Then at a specified time we would all come together and return and report on what we had garnered from our learning.  My then 9 yearold daughter just read to us from the scriptures that if we would keep the Sabbath Day holy that God would fight our battles for us, and he would protect our crops.  That instant we heard an awful caucophony upstairs.  WIth baby in arms I was the last to come up the stairs.  As I did I came to the suddenly came to the realization that it was hailing.  My next thought was the garden, the peas were up.  I began a fervent but silent prayer, that God would bless us and drive the lesson of the scripture just said, into our hearts, and please protect the peas!”  I arrived at the double doors to see my children with their faces pressed to the glass.  Then I heard my son, if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would have not believed it.”  I hurried to discover my pryaers were answered.  One child was confused and asked, “what is happening?”  Dad nodded his head and said,”mom must have prayed.”  Before our eyes was an intersting site.  We had a garden with a large raised bed the ran along the North side of our back yard with 4 raised beds running southward from it; kind of like a E with four instead of three horizontal lines.  Hail fell to the north, the south, the east, the west, and in the paths between the rows, almost as if a canopy was stretched over each bed.  The only hail in the garden beds was those that bounced off the ground.  Our harvest was bountiful and the snow peas were prolific.  I can very much see God using his power to destroy a city with hail, just as much as I can see him use that same power to orotect an odd shaped piece of garden.  If our garden was a normal plot, I could have believed it was the edge of the storm, but hail does not fall in a prefect geometric pattern.

I read the chapter in Gulliver’s Travel at the end of the book where Gulliver added his disclaimer through a chastising letter to his cousin, for taking liberties with his text.  We just have the afterword to wrap it up.

I walked with Candace for an hour.  I did tolerably well today, still winded but OK.  We saw a neighbour whose car was in the drive for the second day.  We thought he might be ill and stopped and found out his father in law had just passed on.  We then ran into another friend that had moved to another city.  He does custom kitchens and baths, he had been the foreman on the BY Academy Square Library, and he had been the one that remodeled my kitchen.  He is doing a job in the neighbourhood.  i told him what we were doing and he said he was about to start a show room and said he would like some of my stuff in it.

All that before 10:30!  Made me think of starting a Neo-georgic League:)

Time to read…. The children have been studying.  But first, I need to check in on each of them, so that they know it is important to me.  I need to see they have what they need.
More later…

I awoke to a door bell. It was 7:44…whats up Donna? How on earth will I keep on track if I allow myself to arise late like this? It is tough catching the flow, and my default seems to be a bit faulty in kicking in after the month long siege. Perhaps I need a kick start:) The person at the door was the assistant 11 year old scout leader. He had two tickets in hand for the Home Expo next weekend. He suggested that we consider Home Shows. I smiled and through my glazed stupor told him we had a booth, we just need to get business ready to launch next weekend. I thanked him kindly and he said I could keep the tickets. After closing the door, I looked in the mirror, I was standing there in my white V neck T and black yoga pants, hair uncombed, and a crease down my cheek from my pillow. Then a thought tutored me…”some people think homeschoolers sleep in.” Yikes! I am contributing to the stereotype. Maybe I do need a kick start!

I called my walking partner and trotted over her way. OK, toooo much Gulliver’s Travels here, after reading that, who wants to be a yahoo;) We walked for an hour at her pace, she is 3 inches taller and her legs are longer. I was huffing it. Boy, I am out of shape. I was spent by the time I got home. There are apricot’s in bloom, hyacinths and daffodils. My roses are leafing, and the early buds of the flowering plum are coming forth. No or little sign on my almond trees. The back yard is covered with filbert catkins. The sen was out and the sky was blue and the air was clear. Mt. Timpanogas stood in slendor wearing her new cape of snow. The birds were rejoicing in the day, my what a chatter. Our cottonwood is ready to burst forth with its catkins. The march goes on…
I have read The Book of Enos today. He is such an example to me.

I checked my email. I found that I had not quite got the html code on my “Called to Liber” and “Going Neo-Georgic” so it was either pulling up microsoft or blogger html instructions. It took me a few minutes but I got it right. Maybe I can learn html afterall.

We had a shipment of tempered glass tile that arrived today!!! My husband is loading software so we can begin our experimentation. As things develop, I will post this to my Going Neo-Georgic blog.
I got the last document to be able to file the taxes for my father’s estate… it has now been over a year.

I am reading both Understanding the Times and Alas Babylon. My comments on this will be posted on my Called to Liber blog.

Ok. Laughing myself Silly. My daughter has a blue T with the superman insignia (with CTR for choose the right instead of an S) on the front…she grabbed some red fabric from my stash and made it into a cape. She just went roller blading with her little 7 year old sister. The older one is 16 and enjoying spring…sigh. She has never done anything this goofy before…Well, at least, that I can recall. Old Timers is setting in…That is what I get for teaching my kids to sing “Stay on the Sunnyside.”
OOp! Looks like my 7 yearold crashed and burned. Sis says she skidded and it left her shaking from the observation. Sis is nursing her little sister’s wounds, tenderly cleaning her knee and scraped cheek, with colloidal silver. Little sister is saying, “please don’t hurt me.” They are laughing and making a mess. LOL I just noted that the 7 year old has her Ghandi shirt on; the one that says “you must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Some friends have now nicknamed her Ghandi. She says she does not like it because Ghandi is a guy and she is a girl and its like saying she is a guy. Then she says,” Ghandi is an awesome guy (with a twinkle and a smile),” then says “but I still don”t like it. Looks like I will have to find a profound quote by a woman to put on a shirt for her. After all, we have the technology!

We read Joshua 5-7 today.

Off to make dinner…and steal away a few moments to read Alas Babylon.  And that is all I got.  I had started with reading Understanding the Times and did not even crack Alas, Babylon.

I created a new recipe and it worked.  I made Sweet Orange Rosemary Pork Medalions, Wild Rice Pilaf, tossed salad, and corn.

During dinner we discussed further both the release of Jill Carroll, and also the study about gifted children’s brains peaking around 12. 
After dinner my husband and I went to a Nutrition store to buy Pantothenic acid.  I read years ago about this and hit helps with allergies.  I also had my daughter bring the air purifier into our room and set it up.  My kids want a family cookbook with a section on doctor mom.
On the way home I stopped at Deseret book and picked up two books; Mary, Martha, and Me: Seeking the One thing That is needful by Camille Fronk Olson, and Modesty, Makeovers, and physical Beauty: What Mothers and Daughters Need to Know by Jeffery R. Holland and Susan W. Tanner.   The second book is two talks from last General Conference.
More later…

It has been a misty, moisty, morning.

I got up and finished reading The book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon.

I sent an email to my friend, Candace, to see if she wanted to walk. We did a brisk jaunt through my hillside neighbourhood. We watched as clouds rolled over the mountains and over the western shore of Utah lake, and then finally they hit us! As we walked through the streets we noticed that the apricots are budding into blooms! The march of spring has begun! Candace is an author and screenwriter. As entreprenuers we delight in bouncing ideas off each other, but we also talk about everything else.
Candace and her husband drove me home, as they wanted to see what we were doing. The energy in the kitchen was amazing as ideas flowed.  By the time our discussion with Candace and her husband was over, it was almost time for my husband and daughter to go to the chiropractor. We had not had breakfast. Jeremy provided us with brunch!
Last night I was so concerned about my heat press, as the weather was rainy and we had not been able to get the equipment into the house and was protected by a tarp. My husband called two friends and one brought his son on the HS football team. They got it in the house and down into the hall outside my studio. Now the wheels could dry.

One of the friends that helped is an entreprenuer and has his own music studio. After helping he stayed and reminiced of when he started his studio and shared some wisdom. I sat there amazed, I wanted to get all my friends that are entreprenuers together. There are several very close.

At dinner we had an interesting conversation. My husband had been at the temple and had a personal tutorial on the events of Sunday night. He asked the kids whether they thought he was more concerned about what President Hall thought, or how they felt. He admitted he had thought about it at the temple, and that when it happened he was more concerned about what President Hall thought. He apologized to the kids, and said that he needed to treat them the way he would trat President Hall.

For current events today, I read from the April 18, 2006 issue of Family Circle an article called “There is No Place Like Home;” an article on home education. We discussed the article. It is interesting that the tone of articles are slowly changing.

Now off to read Alas Babylon for my adult scholar class on Friday night. I have never read it before.  I am still in Understanding the Times.  I was told Saturday that I do not need to read every word.  However, it has all facinated me.  After reading what I have read, there is no such thing as a non religious world view.  Humanism and Marxism are religions as well.  So someone really can’t have a nonreligious discussion on theology, philosphy, science, law, ethics, sociology, psychology, politics, economics, or history!  So now I need to articulate my world view.  Will it be consistent?

More later, stay tuned…

I slept until 8:10, I guess my body is recovering from the long weekend. I know better than this…when I am up late it sets off the entire day. To complicate matters, today is also a seminary day, meaning that I have a shorter school day. We will probably dovetail a lot throughout the day. Yesterday I also caught up on the weekend blog posts.
I started a new blog last night to specifically follow my neo-georgic journey. It is not meant to be a daily like this one. I will discuss various aspects of the going neo-georgic as I come to understand the zeitgeist and generall walk of the neo-geogic. I see them as self-reliant both temporally and spiritually. Meaning they do not lean on the arm of flesh, their own or others. But rely on their God and work to do his will There is so much that I know I have not discovered it all yet. Some comes through the experience of applying that zeitgeist to one’s daily walk.

I started another blog today where I will post the essays on my readings.  This one is about my call to be Liber.  It takes me a while to study a book, so I do not imagine daily posts on Called to Liber .
We studied Joshua 1-4 this morning. I was struck by the memorial Joshua had the tribes of Israel set up. Our Scriptures serve the same purpose, to keep us in constant reminder of the love, miracles, and concern, of a loving Heavenly Father. I also saw the beauty of the date mentioned in Joshua 4:19 , probably mostly the devout Jews would understand the date was the first day of Passover. If we live in rememberance of Him and have the blood of the Lamb (figuretively) upon our door post, the destroying angel will pass us by and have no power over us. I also immediately remembered the story Jane Eyre, and how Charlotte Bronte had used dates throughout the story that were referencing dates in the Book of Common Prayer, and thus associate the content found there, with her story. Probably those who were devout and using their prayer book daily, would be likely to catch her inference. Understanding this piece, one can come to understand that the books Charlotte Bronte mentioned have a spiritual implication to the story. Jane was a Pilgrim traveling to a mature understanding. More on my Going Liber blog that I will start, to post my thoughts and papers or essays, as I finish books. I hope to have it up today, and have a link here, to it.

For Current Events we studied LDS Wards Battle Over Which Has the Most Twins
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635194999,00.html I thought it was a humorous article. I like to throw in the lighter side.

We finished Gulliver’s Travels part IV Chapter 12.

I am so concerned about the equipment.  Roger was unable to get it in the house last night and placed a tarp over it and it is pouring rain.  He has to clear a way to bring it through the workshop into the studio.  The he will have to get a few strong men to help him, as he had a heart attack 7 years ago.  No repeats please!

More later as the day progresses.

I set the time on my alarm last night and forgot to turn oun my alarm. So I woke at 6:30 instead of 5! Go figure, my body was exhausted from the weekend and I relished sleeping in.

The children studied on their own today. I did get part of the last chapter of Gulliver’s Travels read.

On the way to Salt Lake for our meeting today, I read the new TJEd book by Demille, to my husband and we discussed it. I can see this will take, at least, another go through, amd maybe several, to take it all in.

I had to head to Salt Lake for an Imprimis Meeting on issues pertaining to the Red Rock Falls development. Ok. the meeting took 1 hour and 45 minutes. It was interesting to see what happens when all minds work together. I have been praying with my husband since October, every night on this. I prayed on the way today and we started the meeting with prayer. I had felt uncomfortable about somethings, but they were my misunderstandings. As I got more information, I apologized. the meeting turned out to be revelatory, and none of us would have been able to see all the dynamics if we had not gone up and started the discussion. Soon things unfolded that blew us all away. I believe this puts us all in a better position.
On the way home we called our accountant to get our state tax stuff taken care of. Her secretary said it was in the mail and that we should get it today. So, instead of turning north, we turned south and headed home. I read and we discussed more, on the way home. The mail arrived and the articles for our LLC were inclosed but not our tax number. So we hopped in the car and drove to our accountant’s office. She filled out the forms and then sent us down to the State Tax Commision. We got there and they asked for our federal tax ID number. It was then I noticed we did not have the paper. They were going to close in 15 minutes and we could not get through to my accountant. I calle dhome and my daughter located it, and we were able to get the number. I continued to read as my husband drove. We made it to the bank in time and opened our business account! Now we have the city to do tomorrow.

Our heat press arrived today. My husband went over to where he had it delivered and they forklifted it on our truck. The pallet load weight was 460 lbs! So now they are figuring how to get the press on the stand and into the house.

I got a package in the mail today. It was “Education in America” by Jacques Barzun. I had totally forgotten that I had ordered it.

My son and I were making dinner together, then dad called him out to get the press off the truck. Then my daughter came in and asked for my 5 Pillar reading list. DeMille set her heart and mind on fire, with his presentation to the youth on Saturday. Last summer the GWC YFA camp inspired her and she has been moving forward all year, this just took her to another level.

For Family Home Evening tonight we read and discussed Henry B. Eyring’s talk –Spiritual Preparedness: Start Early Be Steady. i love what he said about great faith having a short shelf-life.

I woke up around 530am to the hotel wakeup call. Everyone else was already awake. I must have been exhausted as my dream was really dumb, I dreamt I was dreaming and woke up.

Rori needed to be at the airport by 630. So I drove her up to view the city lights from the capital. It was a stunning view. I had a wonderful visit with Rori.

I came back to the hotel and Debi and I had breakfast together. We gathered her things and headed down to the lobby. While sitting there, Elizabeth Smailes came through and Debi introduced her to me. We exchanged email addresses. Debi and I had a pretty deep debrief on things going on, on Mentoring Our Own. Debi and I had a colloquium in the lobby on the needs and how to better serve Mentoring our Own. There is a huge need to move away from the I “second the emotion” which is when we join in the discussion and add opinion and join in the emotion and not give leadership direction. Lately we had an 82 post thread, where there were a few great leadership posts but, way too much, “seconding the emotion.” I have been working on list rules for a few months. This colloquium was powerful.

When a thread deviated from the purpose of the site, it is difficult to carry out what must be done. One cannot delete some and leave others, especially without posted rules. So, I ended up going home and deleting the entire thread.

I arrived home at 11:30 am. I completed my primary lesson. Showered, put on my face and did my hair. In Sacrament meeting I offered the closing prayer. I attended my teacher devlopment class and then taught my primary class.

After church we went home to the aroma of a Sunday roast. We had a simple supper. We then retired to the livingroom and finished Deuteronomy!

My kids found out that our new home teacher was coming over and decided to celebrate with cheesecake which they started making. They kept on calling down on the intercom to ask questions. One time, my husband hung up the phone/intercom and it rang again. He picked it up and and in a very annoyed voice said, “WHAT!!” It was not the children, but it was our new hometeacher, the Stake President! I laughed so hard I almost split my side. The stake president said, ” I have never had a phone call like that before, I will be over in 20 minutes, and I will tell you what then.” We had a delightful visit and laughed together. He joined us for family prayer and left a gentle but beautiful blessing on our family. Then he was initiated into our family prayer ritual; the hug and the cheer. He left to give a sister a priesthood blessing. We discovered it was the mother of my oldest son’s close friend’s mother. We did not know that she was in the final advanced stages of cancer, and her family had come in from all over the country. I did not even know she was ill or had cancer.
We got to talk to both our older sons long distance. My oldest son had attended the Forum and said he would send his father his set of notes. My husband had not taken notes. So he was hoping my son’s notes would jog his mind and then he could write his impressions.

My wakeup call came at 600am.  I dressed and headed downstairs to set up my table for the Liber Expo. Rori put it all together while I tried to get an internet connection. That was a $120 extra, that the hotel charged for the connection. It was worth it to be able to walk people through MHA and answer their questions.    I had brought my  and from my dining room table so that others could see what it looked like.  I knew that I was there to be available to people.  Except for a few restroom breaks, my presentation, and lunch, I tried not to leave my station.  I met so many wonderful people.  I received a copy of DeMille’s New book as a gift.  Later when DeMille was going from Liber League table to table, I asked for him to autograph the book and he did.  I had not had breakfast so my son bought me an enormous Jamba juice with vitamin B boosts.  It took me all day to down it.  I had only made 30 copies of handouts.  I really did not expect my class to be so large, as it was during the time when DeMille was also speaking.  So I will be emailing out a dozen or so copies of my handout to those who have not recieved theirs.

When my youth arrived with their father in the morning, my 14 yo ds latched on to his 27 year old brother.  My 14 yo wanted to go with his brother to the adult classes.  I told him that the Forum creators forbade that.  So he grumbled and went off with his sister.  This was his first TJEd event and was unsure that this was what he wanted to do.  Throughout the day he would wander back and introduce new friends. He really enjoyed the simulation as well as the speakers and networking with the youth.  In the end, he was inspired.  I was grateful.  He now looks forward to the YFA literature camp this summer, for before, he was going but was not really excited.

Some one came by the table and said she wished she could be a fly on my wall.  I really do not think so, as my children swat flies!  I have a little wooden sign in my kitchen that says, “If Noah had been really wise, he would have swatted those two flies.”  The survival rate fly in our house is not long!

After the Forum, my husband took Debi, Rori, my dd, my ds, and me to dinner at Sizzlers.

After dinner we came back to the hotel and changed for the Family Ball.  My son danced many dances and even asked his sister to dance, twice.  I saw my dd dancing with a nice young man, she said it was Robert from Canada.  I got to dance several dances with my husband.  We mingled with adults and enjoyed several conversations.  We observed several children dancing, even very young ones.  The big Band sound was great!
All in all, we were amazed by the distances people traveled to attend.  Canada, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California,  Wyoming, Montana, and so forth.  I am sure they were richly rewarded for their trip to  the forum.  My husband and son enjoyed DeMille, Janine Bolon, Shannon Brooks, and Peter Brown.  They both learned alot.

After my family left, I went back in to the ballroom to say goodbye to friends.

I went back to my room and chatted with Debi and Rori.  We stayed up talking into the night.  We had so much to share.

I arose early and studied the scriptures.  Roger and I had scritpure study with the kids.  the I headed to Salt Lake to pick Rori up at the airport.  We went straight to the Marriott and checked into the hotel room.  Then we went over to Meier and Frank and I picked up the red blouse I had on hold for my daughter. It was an extra surprize because I got an unexpected 305 discount.

Rori and I drove to Utah County and I took her to my home to meet my children and to sup with us.  I was planning lasagna but cooked chicken scampi instead.  It was not long after we got back to the hotel room that Debi arrived.   After a bit, we took a walk outside and walked over to JB’s and had dinner.  Followed by a walk around temple square.  It was closed because it was after 10:00, so we walked up by the reflection pool on the east of the temple.

Not a cloud in the sky…azure blue; the sun is shining brightly! The snow is now completely gone even from my grow boxes. At 9:30 am the temperature is 47 degrees.

I read II Nepni 28-33 this morning and am moving forward on studying the Book of Mormon.

I answered a comment to my blog under the recipe section.

We studied Deuteronomy 28 today. I read Gulliver’s Travels Part IV Chapter 11 today. For Current Events we studied and discussed Whoops! There goes $6.7 million At Hill AFB: A 5” safety pin shoots down an F-22 engine

The boys worked to finish the books they are reading. Mary practiced writing French and Spanish (her idea not mine). Jennifer worked on math, reading, writing….

I went to the credit union and disputed 4 bank withdrawals that took place in 4 days, that some person in the Philippines removed from my 25 yo son’s debit account; $1,194 in all. I am joint on the account. I had addressed it in November. They lost the papers. I called yesterday and the branch manger called said she would track it down. I had to go in and redo the papers today, and the money was back in his account before I left the credit union.

We have my old computer, that I have been using for running MHA. As all the software arrived this week, it became abundantly clear that we needed a lot more ram and hard drive to use the software and design the murals. So we looked for a new computer today to handle the job. We got an HP Pavilion Media Center computer; my husband been hardware support in Denver, for HP doing on site computer repair for desktops and peripherals, from 1981-88. Then he worked for the HP National and Worldwide Technical support out of Fort Collins until 1993; where he was the end of the line. That means, if the field repair could not fix it, they would call him, if he couldn’t…it was time to replace the computer. Then he would write service orders, addressing common issues that needed to be dealt with. He is busy trying to grasp all the new technology.
I went to my visiting teacher’s home so she could visit and feel she was not completely cut from the community. SHe has had surgery after surgery and is not doing well.

I took Jennifer shopping for a blouse. We found that they did not have her size here, but they did at the ZCMI center in Salt Lake. So its on hold.

Came home and worked on cleaning. Mary came into the living and just got busy. She was very orderly and was working fast. I asked her what she was doing, she said that she figured she made a mess and that I would be glad that she was taking care of it. I looked at her and realized that she was growing up, and the example of her older siblings had brushed off on her.

I worked in the Kitchen with Jennifer. She started talking to me about her math struggles and discoveries. We had devotional.

“Here comes the sun…” Yes, I was singing it. My voices is almost back! The sun spills through the cut glass of my front door and dances across the foyer floor.

OK, the best laid plans of mom and pen!!! Last night after I returned from the caucus, I sat down to write. I had written my talk for Saturday on my lap top, on the way home from our accountant. When I went to save it, I clicked wrong and somehow lost the whole thing. So, while fresh, I thought I would go for it again. Ha! No concentration. So I thought, I will just lay down and rest a while and get up when all is quiet and write. Ha again. My body said no way and I slept all night.

I studied II Nephi 26 and 27 this morning. You know, first things first. For if I do not study the best books first, I may not get around to reading them!
I read from Understanding the Times pages 184-219. I had finished reading the Christian world-view on theology, this morning, and read the secular humanist’s view of ethics. Oh, how convenient for them. If the faithless evolved-creatures can disavow the existence of God, then they can conveniently follow their animalistic desires; whether they be of appetite for material or physical desires. None of the rest of us will be safe. For them, there is no God, but self. What a pathetic world this would be if we let the Secular Humanists win. When will we as a society wake up and see that the Emperor has no clothes? We must not allow ourselves to be soothed by their sophistry and their ability to debate. I do not believe that a democratic republic can survive under such a system as the secular humanist propose. Secular Humanists believe in no absolutes. No one can be safe in a society where the law has no meaning and is reduced to what ever interpretation suits the cause. The secular humanists lack of ethics, becomes a banner for the reprobate mind, because in their view, everything the heart desires is normal and OK. They are an oxymoron; they are the antithesis of the truth they claim to seek. For their belief disallows absolutes, and therefore they could not accept truth if they stumbled upon it. Sounds like Korihor to me; see Alma 30 in the Book of Mormon. To me, I find nothing heroic or great in secular humanism’s ethics.

After that read, I had to refresh myself with a walk in the grass. The rains have melted all the snow in my yard. So, I went out barefoot just to feel the spongy green lawn beneath my feet. Why? Because I can. It is 50 degrees and all of my trees are ready to explode with new leaves and blossoms. I walked around the yard and observed the state of things and where I need to apply my hand. Only my raised beds have snow left in them. Yard work gives time for contemplation and when I am joined by others, it gives space for dialogue.

I am getting ready to go out the door to Visit Teach the last sister. I am listening to two children discuss equity in a job that a neighbor asked them to do. They were both asked to help as Easter Bunny at a local mall and my daughter was also asked to cashier, at times, from 1 April to 15 April. I watch and listen as I see my daughter clearly trying to negotiate a win-win with her brother. Reading 7 Habits with my young scholar group, really was a good idea. She is working to apply what she learned.

Barb, our accountant just called. The LLC papers are done. Boy am I glad I read my scriptures and did my classic reading first! Now I am free to go up and sign papers and be official, today! My scholar class arrives in 20 minutes. We are discussing Pride and Prejudice. All I can say is wow. I get to learn web design as we set up goffworksstudio.com I get to bring my eye for design into yet another arena. Moor house Academy’s front pages are done in wordpress, a blog format. This will be a different experience. Let’s see, can I design what my brain imagines? In an effort to get information out there, too many websites are way too busy. I even checked serval artist’s sites. Oh my. I want my site to show the work, but I do not want it to be a three ring circus. Ah! The heat press does not arrive until Friday. I still have time to work with our site. Can not put it up until I have samples of work to show. So I have time to create.

Oh…logos…business cards…an so on and so forth. All too exciting. I already have the logo etc. for my stained glass portion of the business. When the site is up, I will announce it.