Update Part 3

Last but not least, my update. :) I keep busy with the homeschooling and my part-time "job" helping language learners, plus keeping up with my high-schoolers. There is a mom's of seniors group that meets a couple of times a month to pray for the seniors and to do a little fun thing for them once a month so I go to that. Plus there are always lots of misc. meetings here and there to go to for the school. I have stopped my Thai tutor sessions for a little while - life was getting too busy; but I still try to read and learn new words at least a couple of times a week. I had a very nice visit with the lady who cut my hair last week - all in Thai and about a broad range of topics. :) It feels good when I can do that and it is getting easier - but I still have a ways to go to be fluent!!

I got to go to a women's retreat last weekend and it was a great time of being with other women (I started to write western women, but there were all kinds of women there which made it even better!), relaxing, and spending time with God. This is a picture from the balcony of my room - a little Thai art - I just thought it was cool! :)

And my final picture, my first hand-pieced quilt block! One of the ladies in our group is an avid quilter and makes a quilt for all of the new babies in our group. But she is home on furlough this year and there is a baby coming in December!! So another friend thought we could do a group project and get this new baby a quilt made. I think there are 4 of us working together (I only had to do one block and I will help quilt it.) It was fun to do! My block is the one on the right. The colors are pretty bright!! I'll try to remember to post a picture of the finished quilt.

It may be another month before I post again -- such is life! :) TTFN!