March 18, 2025

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• I tried to take Bentley on a walk this morning, but we made it to the driveway when she stopped. I think that she heard some dogs barking, and she was not going to go one step farther either way. I had to drag her back to the house. 
• I then woke everyone up for school-some of the kids get right up (Whitman) while others don't (Anderson). The kids are slowly plugging through their school work. I'm making Whitman do extra on his language arts this week so he will be finished with that-this will save him (and me) lots of time every day.
• We had finished with most everything school wise by 12:30 when I left with Campbell and Graham. Our main mission was for Graham to take his writing accuplacer test-well, he took it. Last time he just needed one more point so I thought surely he would do it today. Maybe because Campbell was with me or maybe because I was sure he could do it today, I didn't think about writing the grandmas to have them start praying for his score-I should have done that. 
• I know that he was discouraged afterwards-I certainly was. He has until probably July to get the score he needs, but I think that worst case scenario will be that he can take the class that he needs next spring and have more time on the test. 
• We then went to pick up Campbell's glasses. She has been so anxiously awaiting them. Of course she looks cute in them-and she kept talking about how much better she could see. I think that her prescription is pretty similar and possibly even the same. Maybe these are just a lot cleaner.
• When we came home, I finished working with Whitman and urged him to finish his work. I then started to pull things out for Anderson to take on his trip. Anderson left to go to work this afternoon while I was getting ready to leave for my class meeting.
• I left a bit early so I could buy some snacks for Anderson's trip on Friday and for the family that he is riding down there with. I also bought a few things for the Operation Christmas child shoeboxes-my goal is to do them in March each year so I'm steadily working on those (if I spend a little bit of extra money each time I shop, Robby never notices.)
• I then went to class meeting-there were lots of good food there. Our activity tonight was bingo-we had all paid some so there were prizes. I did win the very first prize-paper plates and napkins which will be perfect for our Easter lunch. 
• Robby came home with pizza for the kids to eat, and when I came home Andrew was over visiting with Robby. He had brought us a lemon blueberry pound cake from costco which Robby and I have always wanted to try and have just never bought. 
• Keaton spent a good deal of the evening sewing-her and her friend have sold about 6 or maybe more shirts. She is working on finishing 2 of them tonight and tomorrow. I'm glad that she has a project to do-I haven't started on my next crochet project. I actually haven't even been able to concentrate enough to read lately so I'm getting behind on all of my things.