I successfully finished my first semester back in school! I had forgotten, though, that I usually get sick at the end of a semester... normally my body waits until after exams, but the exam system here is different than it was at Goshen, so this time I got sick as soon as classes were over. Luckily, I didn't get sick on the last day of class, when I had to sing an aria for Italian class!

Now I have about 25 projects on my list for the summer. They range from spring cleaning my house to making long-overdue wedding gifts to some friends and family, to canning and freezing the vegetables Brandon is working on growing in our garden. I have to say that I will look forward to having so many fresh veggies, but I'm glad that he doesn't mind doing the outside work. I'm also determined to de-clutter my storage... I've gotten most of the way through two boxes of memories and old school notes (yes, from middle school and high school even!). There were also about 5 books that I think are my dad's in one box... I'll have to see if he still wants them. I don't remember putting them in. I'm not sure I've ever thought that books on accounting or statistics would be helpful to me - certainly not when I packed up these boxes five (?) years ago... maybe my mom found extra room and put them in when she was packing up the house in Batesville.

I actually did some outside/yard work over the weekend. But that's mostly because I want to get rid of the giant pile of dirt sitting in our driveway. We got the dirt mostly to fill in holes from fence posts (yay, no more ugly fence!!) but there is rather a lot left over. Ten cubic yards goes a long way for our little yard. I'll be very happy when there is grass growing again.

Work now consumes more of my time than I'd thought... but that's okay. I'll get to take off more time in August when all the workshops are over! :) It's nice to be able to leave at 2:30 or so again... I've missed that!