You made my day!

Thanks to all of you who read the adventures of the Creers'. A special thank-you for the lovely ladies who not only read but commented also. Its good to know that I am not entirely boring. We had a good time enjoying the snow on Saturday. After Eddie spent a couple of hours clearing the driveway and sidewalk we delighted in a hearty breakfast, bundled up, and headed out to the slopes for sledding for two hours. We had a blast! The McDaniels' joined us along with others we knew once out at the dike.

Oh Susanna!

We were driving home today from eating out after church and happened to have the radio on. While listening to people who had called in favorite verses we were quite surprised to hear that Susanna Beckman of Lindsborg KS had called in a verse in I John 4 . Now I checked and the Beckman blog says that she is 2. It is truly amazing what home schoolers are accomplishing these days. This 2 year old is at least able to use the telephone and communicate clearly on it, and is possibly reading the Bible regularly enough to have a favorite verse.

Spring Break

On Monday our dad and Joshua immediately set to

work fixing both the upstairs and downstairs sink.
Tuesday we children drove to Topeka to visit

the capitol. Here is Grace sitting in the state

library.
Our dad replaced the fan in the girl's room.
Grace and mommy planting potatoes. We also

planted, radishes, lettuce, spinach, broccoli,

cauliflower, carrots, and onions.
Even though this seems like a lot Saturday was

the big project.

Need I say more?

Grace didn't like our new look at all! So daddy

helped her feel better.

Discipline

I'm just starting to break out of some bad trends in my personal habits. I haven't been having my personal devotions and have missed many family morning devotions as a result of a lack of the discipline of early rising. There is a pattern in my job (I'm not making excuses) that challenge me in this respect. The musical each year causes me to work late which in turn causes difficulty in rising early. Not impossible, difficult. The last 4 days I have risen at the proper time and got myself and my family started with God. I'm looking for many more days like this and also looking forward to victory during the musical next year.

New Fan

I'm so excited! Having not had a fan for about a year, Daddy finally got us one on spring break. It's really nice, it has a pretty feminine globe, a nice bring light bulb, and nice long cords so I can reach them. Michaela likes it too but she doesn't say so.(I don't know why.) Oh well!

Over&Out

GRACE

David Copperfield

If any of you have ever read David Copperfield, I readily commend you. Yet, I would be more impressed if you read it and enjoyed it. Typically, I wouldn't have read David Copperfield. The book itself is rather daunting with 870 pages. But it was a school assignment, so there was no option. I began the book enthusiastically but suddenly discovered that the book was slow. The story seemed to cover every single day in his life. I couldn't believe it! Now many people out there seem to consider this as Charles Dickens greatest work. I am not one of them. I have decided to simply stick to "A Christmas Carol". But I won't discourage you completely. As Michaela said after reading it. "It's a good story, I just wish it was a little shorter." My advice to you is, read the abridged version (if it won't bother your conscience).

Looking Back . . .

Looking back on our Good News Club (which is almost over) brings back good memories. We started out with three regular girls. Then, they became enthusiastic about inviting their friends and now we have eight girls (and no boys). Many positive things have happened six girls have accepted Christ, and they all are beginning to learn more about the Bible. We thank God for each one.

More Spring Break news

Besides a driving permit for Joshua, we also accomplished a few work projects around here. We prepared our garden plot with tilling, seed, and mulch. In addition to that we cleaned out the garage our annual spring project. Eddie also repaired and replaced bathroom faucets and a ceiling fan in the girls room. Our one big project was taking up the carpet in the living room area. Michaela and Joshua also managed to fit in going to the girls' junior college basketball championship game that same evening. All in all it was very encouraging break time that had its beginnings with a get away trip for Eddie and I to the Kansas City area for an enjoyable date time as well as listening to the award winning Harmonic C's at the spring music festival. Any and all who read this please feel free to comment as it would be encouraging for me. In the several times that I have blogged I have yet received any comment or response which makes me think that I am terribly boring or that no one reads these.

My Exciting News

My exciting news about Spring Break is that on Wednesday I got my Learner Permit for driving. I will admit I had not passed it the other two times I had attempted (which is another story), so I was a bit nervous. Fortunately, God assisted me and I passed missing four questions. Now I just have to start driving lessons.

The rest of the story

You know I've found out when I'm nervous or in trouble I pray a lot. This is what I was doing at 6:30 am driving down the road to Topeka on Tuesday. I prayed until my nerves calmed down and then as we were getting close to Topeka I prayed some more because big cities make me jumpy. Anyway I told my mom, "we went right to our exit, right to the capitol, right to a parking space, and right to the correct office." You can't get much better than that. Watching the House of Representatives was my favorite part because I got to see part of how Kansas laws are made. It was quite an honor. Since it was St. Patrick's Day they had a man play the bagpipes at the beginning. Then later two ladies who had different ideas about a bill were able to sit down and talk to each other cordially without any reference to it. The trip went well and God did the driving.